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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
MATT TAIBBI · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 314 Format: Print book
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Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone - plus two original essays - Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization's... |
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The Case Against the Supreme Court
Erwin Chemerinsky · Viking; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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A preeminent constitutional scholar offers a hard-hitting analysis of the Supreme Court over the last two hundred years Most Americans share the perception that the Supreme Court is objective, but Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the countrys leading constitutional lawyers, shows that this is nonsense... |
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie · Beacon Press Pages: 288 Format: Paperback
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A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. In recent years there has been increasing awareness of the daily violence at the hands of law enforcement agents... |
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Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist
Lawrence James · Pegasus; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating and often surprising new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire. One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship... |
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Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Sara E. Gorman · Oxford University Press Pages: 328 Format: Hardcover
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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science... |
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West
WILLIAM DROZDIAK · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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An urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world.The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart... |
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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
Wendy Ruderman · HarperCollins Canada, Limited Pages: 242 Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran... |
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Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
JOSHUA ZEITZ · Viking Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform,... |
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The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks
Sam Maggs · Quirk Books Format: Hardcover
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Fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more - it's never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life, a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated... |
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Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education
Jennifer De Leon · University of Nebraska Press Pages: 223 Format: Paperback
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College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are traditionally expected to leave home when they get married. In her essay "Only Daughter," author Sandra Cisneros remarks, "After four years in college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father shakes... |
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.
James Carville · Blue Rider Press Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY Pages: 289 Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952
John Robert Greene · University Press of Kansas Pages: 254 Format: Hardcover
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When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party standard bearers... |
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