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The Truth About Trump

Michael D'Antonio · Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"Admirably straightforward, even-handed, but nonetheless damning." -- The New York Times Book Review.

For all those who wonder, "Just who is Donald Trump?", The Truth About Trump supplies the answer.

Drawing upon exclusive interviews and exhaustive...

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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

Adam Hochschild · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed

For three crucial years...
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The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

Ian Kershaw · Viking
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years...
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

Brad Meltzer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement...

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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO...

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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s.

The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted...

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The Making of a Dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American

LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights - the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters...

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Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

TO BE CONFIRMED GALLERY. · Gallery Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.

Few have been a member of Donald Trump's inner orbit longer...
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Unfreedom of the Press

Mark R. Levin · Threshold Editions
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith...
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The Death of Truth

MICHIKO KAKUTANI · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason.

Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth,...
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

David Maraniss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.

Elliott...
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

John McCain · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.

In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned...
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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo · Seal Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling...
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Anthony Ray Hinton · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.

In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only...

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A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols

TIM MARSHALL · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, "one of the best books on geopolitics you could imagine," (The Evening Standard) , explains flags and their symbols - how their power is used...
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