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Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

Alexandra Natapoff - Basic Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals
Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based...
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Social Insecurity: 401

James W. Russell - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

How 401(k) s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensionsNamed one of PW's Top 10 for Business & Economics A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country,...
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Disaster Preparedness: A Living Free Guide

Rod Brouhard - Alpha Books
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback

Disaster preparedness is a topic that everyone should consider. No matter where people live, the potential for a natural or manmade disaster exists. Disaster Preparedness: a Living Free Guide, is a practical and essential reference to preparing for the worst. This book teaches you the essentials...
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Alexis Coe - Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It's a public service, and it's also a lot of fun." --Irin Carmon, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBG

Alexis Coe takes a closer...
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times

WILLIAM TAUBMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 852
Format: Hardcover

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...

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Gorsuch: The Judge Who Speaks for Himself

John Greenya - Threshold Editions
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Learn all about Neil Gorsuch, the youngest judge to be nominated to the Supreme Court in twenty-five years, with this comprehensive and fascinating biography.

When forty-nine-year-old Neil Gorsuch was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump, he was told by a senator,...
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Addicted to Outrage: How Thinking Like a Recovering Addict Can Heal the Country

GLENN BECK - Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A new and sober Glenn Beck - author of thirteen #1 New York Times bestsellers - issues a startling challenge to people on both sides of the aisle to give up our addiction to hating each other.America is addicted to outrage, we're at the height of a twenty-year bender, and we need an intervention....
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Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary

Jonathan M. Hansen - Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world.

This book will change how you think about Fidel Castro. Until now, biographers have treated Castro's life like prosecutors,...
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Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump

David Rothkopf - Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Donald Trump is unfit in almost every respect for the high office he holds. But what distinguishes him from every other bad leader the U.S. has had is that he has repeatedly, egregiously, betrayed his country. Regardless of how Senate Republicans have let him off the hook, the facts available...
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