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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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Murder, Inc.: The CIA under John F. Kennedy

James H. Johnston · Potomac Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Late in his life, former president Lyndon B. Johnson told a reporter that he didn't believe the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy. Johnson thought Cuban president Fidel Castro was behind it. After all, Johnson said,...
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Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom

Graham A Peck · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. From the country's inception, Americans...
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War

Monte Reel · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between...
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The Winds and Words of War: World War I Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library Collection

Allison Hays Lane · Trinity University Press
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback

Commissioned by the U.S. Committee on Public Information, more than 300 of America's most famous illustrators, cartoonists, designers, and fine artists donated their services to create more than 700 posters in an effort to build patriotism, raise funds for war bonds, encourage enlistment,...
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth

Iain MacGregor · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.

East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early...
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Beyond the Balfour Declaration: 100 Years of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

L A Turnberg · Biteback Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover

Is there any prospect of a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians? This book examines the reasons why innumerable efforts to resolve their differences have always failed, updates the history of these efforts, and assesses whether there is any prospect of ever reaching...
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Obama: An Oral History

Brian Abrams · Little A
Format: Hardcover

The first ever comprehensive oral history of President Obama's administration and the complex political machine that created and powered a landmark American presidency.

In this candid oral history of a presidential tenure, author Brian Abrams reveals the behind-the-scenes stories...

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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation

Douglas Waller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives...
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Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City

Andrew J Diamond · University of California Press
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover

Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth...
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Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago

Linda Gartz · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago's West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz's...
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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

ANDREW C MCCARTHY · Encounter Books
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover

The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.

The media-Democrat "collusion narrative," which paints Donald Trump as cat's paw of Russia, is a studiously...
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Where You Go: Life Lessons from My Father

Charlotte Pence · Center Street
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Charlotte Pence offers a touching portrait of her father, Vice President Mike Pence, and the most important lessons he has taught her.

Through stories intimately illustrating our vice president's character as a devoted family man, Christian, and public servant, Charlotte Pence both...
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Full Disclosure

Stormy Daniels · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.

How...

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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

ELAINE F WEISS · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote.

"Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as...
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