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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
WILLIAM TAUBMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost... |
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime,... |
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The... |
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The Death of Truth
MICHIKO KAKUTANI - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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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, she connects... |
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Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
Geena Davis - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, the surprising tale of her "journey to badassery" - from her epically polite childhood to roles that loaned her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood.At three years old, Geena Davis announced she was going... |
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How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir
Rory Stewart - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From a great writer legendary for his expeditions into some of the world's most forbidding places, a wise, honest and sometimes absurdist memoir of a most remarkable journey through British politics at the breaking pointRory Stewart is famously intrepid. After a stint as a British diplomat,... |
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Permanent Record
Arthur King - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013,... |
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Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future
BRANDI COLLINS-DEXTER - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Bad Feminist and The Sum of Us, Black Skinhead sparks a radical conversation about Black America and political identity.In Black Skinhead, Brandi Collins-Dexter, former Senior Campaign Director for Color Of Change, explores the fragile alliance between Black voters and the Democratic... |
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Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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After serving the highest office of American government, five men - Jimmy Carter, the late George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama - became members of the world's most exclusive fraternity. In Team of Five, Kate Andersen Brower goes beyond the White House to uncover... |
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