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We Shall Bury You!: The Hunt for the Spies Who Changed the World

HOWARD BLUM · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence...
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

Amy Chua · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts...
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What Are We Doing Here?: Essays

Marilynne Robinson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National...
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Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times

Leon Kass · Encounter Books
Pages: 401
Format: Hardcover

Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture...
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Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America

Vegas Tenold · Nation Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political powerSix years ago, when Vegas Tenold began reporting from the inner circle of three white power groups in America -- the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist...
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The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography

David Brody · Broadside Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Based on extensive inside sources, including exclusive interviews with the President and Vice President, The Faith of Donald J. Trump explores his rarely discussed, but deeply important, religious beliefs and relationships with leading Evangelicals.The Chief Political Correspondent for the Christian...
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Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump

Miguel A De La Torre · Orbis Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

"May this book serve as a nurturing, connecting, and sustaining resource as we discuss the many ways faith, resistance, and healing must take shape in the Trump era....We need to live and act in solidarity -- together." From the Foreword by Jim WallisFor many people of faith,...
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

Benn Steil · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary...
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Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act

Joseph A Califano, Jr. · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This authoritative and passionate primer on the three branches of government reveals the changes - political, cultural, constitutional, technological, institutional - that render our government completely dysfunctional, and the urgent need to fix our democracy before it's too late.If...
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The Handy American Government Answer Book: How Washington, Politics and Elections Work

Gina Rene?e Misiroglu · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a complex, interlocking...
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