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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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Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
Robert H Latiff · Knopf
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead. Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous... |
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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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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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John McCain: American Maverick
ELAINE S POVICH · Sterling
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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This lavishly illustrated volume provides a compelling look at the life and career of Senator John McCain from his early years to today, exploring his legacy, his impact, and his place in American history. As of January 3, 2018, John Sidney McCain III, one of the most influential statesmen... |
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Kim Zetter · Broadway Books
Format: Print book
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Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. In January... |
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths.... |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill... |
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What Unites Us
Dan Rather · Algonquin Books
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
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"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what... |
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Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
MICHAEL IDOV · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men's fashionIn this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside -- and closely observing -- the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer... |
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Mike Duncan · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After... |
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Robert D Kaplan · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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A concise and deeply moving portrait of the American landscape from coast to coast, Earning the Rockies offers a detailed and pragmatic framework for our foreign policy by examining the specific geography from which American power springs. As a boy, Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father... |
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