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Hidden in Plain Sight: America's Slaves of the New Millennium
Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco · Praeger
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover
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Pimp-controlled sex workers, exploited migrants, domestic servants, and sex trafficking of runaway and homeless youth are just a few of the many forms of sex trafficking and labor trafficking going on all around the world -- including in the United States. This book exposes both well-known... |
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Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America
Seth Abramson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election assistance.Looking back at this moment in history, historians will ask if Americans knew they were... |
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A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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How to Rig an Election
NIC CHEESEMAN · Yale University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to retain control Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace... |
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The Trade: My Journey into the Labyrinth of Political Kidnapping
Jere Van Dyk · PublicAffairs
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In 2008, American journalist Jere Van Dyk was kidnapped and held for 45 days. At the time, he had no idea who his kidnappers were. They demanded a ransom and the release of three of their comrades from Guantanamo, yet they hinted at their ties to Pakistan and to the Haqqani network, a uniquely... |
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American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism
Saladin M Ambar · Oxford University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Mario Cuomo was the most important Democratic officeholder during the Reagan era. The three-term governor of New York was also a famously eloquent defender of the Democratic Party's progressive legacy even as conservatives gained political power across the nation. As liberalism's... |
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#1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests
Sheila Pree Bright · Chronicle Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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The fight for equality continues, from 1960 to now. Combining portraits of past and present social justice activists with documentary images from recent protests throughout the United States, #1960Now sheds light on the parallels between the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives... |
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
Sarah Kendzior · Flatiron Books
Pages: 239
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory."A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many... |
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Anarchism in Latin America
Angel J. Cappelletti · AK Press
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
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The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political... |
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Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding
Andrew Shankman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
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Lucid and concise, Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding fully explains the political, economic, and constitutional ideas of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison as their thinking developed from the American Revolution through the early... |
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This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Ken Ilgunas · Plume
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot "No Trespassing" and "Private Property" signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles... |
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
Edward Luce · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce... |
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The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI
Marc Ruskin · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Of all the tools available to law enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the gold standard. This is true in TV shows and in the real world. In the era of electronic surveillance, UC work enforces accountability; it prevents mistakes, and of all the boots on the ground,... |
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