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Hamilton: An American Biography

Tony Williams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning, smash Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist. In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events...
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Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

AMY CHOZICK · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton's pursuit of the presidency. Chozick's front-row seat, initially covering Clinton's imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to "The Hillary Beat" ahead of the 2016...
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

RONAN FARROW · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership.American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We're...
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Marx and Marxism

GREGORY CLAEYS · Nation Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his workKarl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed...
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It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics

DAVID FARIS · Melville House
Pages: 1
Format: Hardcover

To be published before the 2018 midterm elections, an accessible, actionable blueprint for how Democrats can build a lasting majorityThe American electoral system is clearly failing--more horrifically in the 2016 presidential election than ever before. In It's Time to Fight Dirty, David...
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The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate

Arno Michaelis · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The powerful story of a friendship between two men -- one Sikh and one skinhead -- that resulted in an outpouring of love and a mission to fight against hate.One Sikh. One former Skinhead. Together, an unusual friendship emerged out of a desire to make a difference.When white supremacist...
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Untitled

PIETER WEIZER · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Corruption has created a crisis of confidence in our government. In recent surveys, three out of four Americans believe that there is ''widespread government corruption,'' and only nineteen percent of the American people trust the federal government to do the right thing.New...
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The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

Bernard Regan · Verso
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed the fate of PalestineOn November 2, 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared that they were in favor of "the establishment in Palestine of a national home...
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The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity

Sally Kohn · Algonquin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

At a moment when we are facing an epidemic of incivility and hate - with divisive political speech, online trolling, and hate crimes escalating - popular CNN commentator Sally Kohn sets out to discover why we hate and how can stop it. As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN,...
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Fascism

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace. At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many,...
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