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John Adams vs Thomas Paine: Rival Plans for the Early Republic

Jett B. Conner · Westholme Publishing
Format: Hardcover

How Paine's Common Sense and Adams's Thoughts on Government shaped our modern political institutions Initially admiring Thomas Paine's efforts for independence, John Adams nevertheless was rattled by the political philosophy of Common Sense and responded to it by publishing...
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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity

Condoleezza Rice · Twelve
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Political risk -- the chance that political action could impact a company's business -- is changing fast. Here are the essential lessons, corrective measures, and counterintuitive insights for executives, entrepreneurs and investors to navigate an uncertain, volatile world.From New York...
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A World to Win: The Life and Thought of Karl Marx

SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN · Verso
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover

Epic new biography of Karl Marx for the 200th anniversary of his birthIn this essential new biography - the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx - Sven-Eric Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent...
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Carceral Capitalism

Jackie Wang · Semiotext
Pages: 359
Format: Paperback

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces,...
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American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family

ROBERT F JR KENNEDY · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

In this moving, thoughtful family history, the son and namesake of Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy shares memories of his turbulent childhood and the lessons that have shaped his enduring values.Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the third of eleven children born to Bobby Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy,...
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

John McCain · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect...
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Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West

James Pogue · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary inside look at America's militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation...
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Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other

Conrad Black · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Conrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, turns his attention to his "friend" President Donald J. Trump and provides the most intriguing and significant analysis yet of Trump's political rise. Ambitious...
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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

MARWAN HISHAM · One World
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A bracingly immediate memoir of the Syrian war from its inception to the present by a young man coming of age and finding his voice as a journalist, whose friends traveled divergent paths through the carnage. An intimate lens into the century's bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation...
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Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right

Angela Nagle · Zero Books
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the alt right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations...
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