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The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump

Ronald A Fein · Melville House
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"Read this book and learn how best to protect our democracy." --Tom Steyer, founder of NeedToImpeach.org The reasons Donald Trump must be impeached - as per the Founding Fathers - and what you can do to help make that happenThree veteran constitutional attorneys say there's...
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Race and America's Long War

Nikhil Pal Singh · University of California Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

Donald Trump's election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists globally. Yet most of the immediate...
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Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly

Safwan M Masri · Columbia University Press
Pages: 378
Format: Hardcover

The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a functioning democracy. Within four short years, Tunisians passed a progressive constitution,...
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Steering Clear: How to Avoid a Debt Crisis and Secure Our Economic Future

Peter G. Peterson · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

"Despite clear danger and explicit warnings, the United States of America - distracted by short-term challenges and its own political dysfunction - is steaming toward its own collision, one with long-term debt."Philanthropist, businessman, and former secretary of commerce Peter...
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Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods

Rachael A. Woldoff · New York University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early risers dash off to work, elderly residents enjoy a peaceful morning stroll, and flocks of parents usher their children to school. It seems an unlikely...
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Engagement and Access: Innovative Approaches for Museums

Juilee Decker · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book

Engagement and Access Innovative Approaches for Museums addresses how museums forge two-way communication and engaged participation through the use of community curation, social media, collaboration, and inquiry-based learning. Such approaches demonstrate how museums serve as thriving,...
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When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America

David Cahn · Post Hill Press
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

When Millennials Rule offers an optimistic story about how the generation that grew up through 9/11 and the Great Recession will rise above these setbacks to unify around common-sense solutions and take back America's future.China has swallowed our jobs. Social security is going bankrupt....
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Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport

Hannah Palmer · Hub City Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing in her adopted...
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Social Insecurity: 401

James W. Russell · Beacon Press
Format: Print book

How 401(k)s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensionsNamed one of PW's Top 10 for Business & Economics  A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country,...
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Why Wales Never Was: The Failure of Welsh Nationalism

Simon Brooks · University of Wales Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. Simon Brooks mounts a powerful argument that Wales will never be free until modes of thought that have been dominant since the nineteenth...
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

DAVID MCCULLOUGH · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American...
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Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies

Thomas J. Sugrue · Painted Turtle
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In the summer of 1967, Detroit experienced one of the worst racially charged civil disturbances in United States history. Years of frustration generated by entrenched and institutionalized racism boiled over late on a hot July night. In an event that has been called a "riot,"...
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

Milton Mayer · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg." That's Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition...
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Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live

Milton Ezrati · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"This book is a forecast."Over the next three decades, the aging populations in America, Europe, and Japan will begin to threaten our way of life. The ever-increasing pool of retirees will burden relatively diminished workforces, slowing the pace of growth and straining public...
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