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The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006
Edward W. Said - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously... |
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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden
Peter L. Bergen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen provides the first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating America's long wars with al-Qaeda and its descendants, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his life: as a family man, as a zealot, as a battlefield... |
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
Sarah Kendzior - Flatiron Books
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... |
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United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.
Dinesh D'Souza - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the twenty-first century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can socialism work now when it has never worked before?In this pathbreaking book, bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza argues that the socialism... |
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state... |
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Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
WILLARD STERNE RANDALL - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Willard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through... |
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
Suketu Mehta - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu... |
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Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Roger McNamee - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting... |
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Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
Edward Achorn - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story -- Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans... |
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