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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last 150 years of American history-from the post-Reconstruction... |
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Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation
Jamie Thompson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Standoff is award-winning journalist Jamie Thompson's gripping account of the deadliest attack on law enforcement since 9/11, and the officers behind an audacious plan to stop it.On the evening of July 7, 2016, protesters gathered in cities across the nation after police shot two black... |
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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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The Divine Plan: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Dramatic End of the Cold War
Paul Kengor - Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Format: Hardcover
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"Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan were preserved through this suffering for a high purpose. I don't think you'll understand either one of them without understanding that." - Bishop Robert Barron in The Divine Plan Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, Pope John... |
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We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
Dorothy Sterling - W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Documents the trials and joys of nineteenth-century Black women and suggests new ways of perceiving Black women, their relations with others, and their attitudes toward family, work, and feminism |
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
Joseph J Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history... |
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The Age of Walls
TIM MARSHALL - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Tim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, analyzes the most urgent topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations.The globe has always been a world of walls,... |
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