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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA · Arsenal Pulp Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She is also a long-time member of the disability justice movement, which...
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Miranda Kaufmann · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary...
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Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network

DAVID MONTERO · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An investigation into corporate bribery around the world and how it undermines democracy and the free market systemThe World Bank estimates that rich multinational corporations pay hundreds of billions of dollars in bribes every year to officials overseas. The perpetrators are not a handful...
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Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal

Eric Rauchway · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different...
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Reagan: An American Journey

Bob Spitz · Penguin Press
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents,...
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Heavy: An American Memoir

Kiese Laymon · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer....
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Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness

Randal D. Pinkett · HarperCollins Leadership
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

How African-American professionals can combine their personal strengths with the wisdom of others and plant the seeds of a positive and lasting legacy in the workplace.If the name Randal Pinkett sounds familiar, it may be because Pinkett was the first African-American winner on The Apprentice....
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The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

PAUL COLLIER · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties,...
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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

David R. Roediger · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white? David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development...
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How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives

David Priess · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted--successfully and not--to remove unwanted presidentsTo limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove...
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