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Uncivil Warriors: The Lawyers' Civil War
Peter Charles Hoffer - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on whose side's arguments one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed... |
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition... |
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West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
JIM DEFELICE - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK," hails True West: The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of American Sniper brings the Pony Express to life in this rich and rollicking new history"One can hear horse hooves pounding across the prairie and sense the fear and courage and excitement."... |
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies... |
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The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World
Jordan Shapiro - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it.In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research... |
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Colin G Calloway - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping new biography, Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time--Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Little Turtle--and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape,... |
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Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
GEMMA HARTLEY - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A rousing call to arms, packed with surprising insights, that explores how carrying "the mental load" - the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of problems large and small - is adversely affecting women's lives and feeding gender inequality, and shows the way forward... |
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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
ELIZABETH WEIN - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name VerityIn the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat.... |
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We Shall Bury You!: The Hunt for the Spies Who Changed the World
HOWARD BLUM - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence... |
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Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
MICHAEL IDOV - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace
LYNN MESKELL - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)... |
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Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
ALAN RUSBRIDGER - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of our timeTechnology has radically altered the news landscape. Once-powerful newspapers have lost their clout or been purchased by owners with particular agendas.... |
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) . The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity... |
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Capitalism in America: A History
Alan Greenspan - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.From even the start of his fabled... |
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The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
JOSEPH RODOTA - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Residence and This Town, this absorbing history features a remarkable cast of politicians, journalists, socialites, and spies who made the Watergate the most famous - and some say infamous - private address in Washington.Opened in 1965 and located along the Potomac River... |
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
Helen Zia - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution - a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner. . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history... |
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The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
JOHN BRANCH - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping portrait of one family's gamble that rodeo and ranching are the future of the West -- and not just its past.For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders -- some call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now Bill... |
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See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea
Travis Jeppesen - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From ballistic missile tests to stranger-than-fiction stories of purges and assassinations, news from North Korea never fails to dominate the global headlines. But what is life there actually likeIn See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen culls from his experiences living, traveling,... |
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Brazil: A Biography
Lilia M Schwarcz - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil... |
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Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery
ALICE SPARBERG ALEXIOU - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd: "Devil's Mile is a terrific read. Alice Sparberg Alexiou knows her history, and she brings it all brimming to life here in the story of the Bowery, the most notorious street in America."A fascinating cultural history of New York... |
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Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
Luke Barr - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover
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In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970, transports readers to turn-of-the-century London and Paris to discover how celebrated hotelier Csar Ritz and famed chef Auguste Escoffier joined forces at the Savoy... |
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Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond
MARTIN KEMP - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death, the world- renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty- year journey with the work of the world's most famous artistA personal memoir interwoven with original research, Living with Leonardo takes us deep inside Leonardo da Vinci scholar... |
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
PATRICIA FARA - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Patricia Fara unearths the forgotten suffragists of World War I who bravely changed women's roles in the war and paved the way for today's female scientists.Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during... |
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Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
JOSHUA ZEITZ - Viking
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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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
MICHAEL MCFAUL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the presentIn 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely... |
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Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work
Sarah Kessler - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"With deep reporting and graceful storytelling, Sarah Kessler reveals the ground truth of a key part of the American workforce. Her analysis is both astute and nuanced, making GIGGED essential reading for anyone interested in the future of work." -- Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN... |
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NO TURNING BACK : life, loss, and hope in wartime syria
RANIA ABOUZEID - W. W. Norton & Company
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Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some citizens were brimming with a sense of possibility. A privileged young man named Suleiman posted videos... |
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginningsWhen the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring... |
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The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
Virginia Sole-Smith - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture.Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important... |
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Voices from the Rust Belt
ANNE TRUBEK - Picador
Format: Paperback
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The essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ventures, warm refuges for outsiders, and hidden oases of natural beauty.... |
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
CHRIS FELICIANO ARNOLD - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping look at the war over the Amazon -- as activists,locals, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers, drug lords, and corrupt cops and politiciansFollowing doctors and detectives, environmental activists and indigenous tribes, The Third Bank of the River... |
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Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
KEITH O'BRIEN - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s - and won Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multiday events, and cities... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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Speaker Jim Wright: Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics
J Brooks Flippen - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Jim Wright made his mark on virtually every major public policy issue in the later twentieth century - energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations, among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives... |
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The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
MARC AMBINDER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile... |
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The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
Patrick Nunn - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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In The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the science in folk history. He looks at ancient tales and traditions that may be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the Biblical Flood.We all know those stories that have been... |
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Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
JAMES FALLOWS - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A unique, revelatory portrait of the civic and economic renewal already taking place across America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A surprisingly hopeful view of the country between its coasts.For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling... |
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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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Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
Maya Rao - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a twenty-first century American frontier--where the free market reigns supreme as profiteers rush to develop a massive new oilfield.The word was that you could earn $17,000 a month in the Bakken Oilfield of North Dakota. So they flooded in: the profiteers, deadbeats, ex-cons,... |
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Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World
ZAK DYCHTWALD - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou -- the generation born after 1990.A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything... |
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Chris McGreal - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed,... |
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How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations
Marc Freedman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generationIn How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living so much... |
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The New Debtors' Prison: Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom
Christopher B. Maselli - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, as antiquated as leeching, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form. Today more than 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for financial reasons... |
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Richard III: England's Most Controversial King
CHRIS SKIDMORE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare... |
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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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The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
JOHN REEVES - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a "model to men who would be morally great." Douglas Southall Freeman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography of Lee, described his subject as "one of a small company of great... |
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A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
Joshua S. Goldstein - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change. As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries... |
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The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor: My Years at the CDC
William H Foege - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In its seventy years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has evolved from a malaria control program to an institution dedicated to improving health for all people across the world. The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor is a revealing account of the CDC's development... |
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Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army
Eugene L Meyer - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines... |
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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
DAVID CANNADINE - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians.To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science,... |
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Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight
William Hazelgrove - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not -- as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first "flying machine."How could two misanthropic brothers who never left home, were high-school... |
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No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
Samuel I. Schwartz - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present
DAVID TREUER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
DAVID FRYE - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history's greatest manmade barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey... |
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The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare
Iain Ballantyne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of the submarine's evolution from its ancient beginnings to its culmination as the deadliest vessel ever invented.A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat -- originally derided and loathed in equal measure -- evolved into... |
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
Benn Steil - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary... |
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Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810
MICHAEL BROERS - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The second volume in this dynamic three-part life of Napoleon, covering the tumultuous years of 1805 to 1810 -- marking the zenith of Napoleon's power and military might across Europe. The second volume of Michael Broers' three volume life of Napoleon, covering the tumultuous years 1805... |
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A Gift from Darkness
Patience Ibrahim - Other Press
Format: Paperback
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The inspirational story of a pregnant young Nigerian woman and the horrors she endured to save her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram.When she was nineteen, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several... |
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The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath
Garrett Peck - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath -- the Red Scare, race riots, women's suffrage, and Prohibition. The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American... |
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Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
ANDREW SELEE - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A nuanced, story-driven narrative about the deeply intertwined business and cultural relationship between the United States and Mexico, and the need to tear down, rather than fortify, wallsA certain narrative about the relationship between the United States and Mexico has taken shape over... |
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
Daniel Kay Hertz - Belt Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the middle class back from the Chicago suburbs to the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the city's North Side. In place of the old, poorly maintained apartments and dense streetscapes of taverns and butchers, "rehabbers"... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once... |
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1947: Where Now Begins
Elisabeth Åsbrink - Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her personal history.The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats... |
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Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
Anna Beer - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Sir Walter Ralegh's life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to Great Britain's island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh's famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents... |
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The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life
JOYCE LEE MALCOM - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America's most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict... |
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
JAMES BRIDLE - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In actual fact, we are lost... |
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A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
Zach Vertin - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable chronicle of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from euphoric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round -- a triumph for global justice and the end of one of the world's most devastating wars. The Republic's... |
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Eat the Apple
Matt Young - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner) --a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt... |
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Where Did You Get This Number?: A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World
Anthony Salvanto - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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CBS News' Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto takes you behind the scenes of polling to show you how to think about who we are and where we're headed as a nation.As Elections and Surveys Director for CBS News, it's Anthony Salvanto's job to understand you - what you think and how you vote.... |
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