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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather. "A tonic for our times . . . Rathers writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new generation. In these essays, he gives voice...
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Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

H. R. McMaster - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army, ret., the former National Security Advisor and author of the bestselling classic Dereliction of Duty, comes a bold and provocative re-examination of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States,...
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Svetlana Alexievich - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
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Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism

Sharyl Attkisson - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled and The Smear uncovers how partisan bias and gullibility are destroying American journalism.The news as we once knew it no longer exists. It's become a product molded and shaped...
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Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty

Nikhil Goyal - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

An indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the poorest large city in AmericaKensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most...
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Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda

Sean Hannity - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: eBook

Barack Obama and his radical team of self-professed socialists, fringe activists, and others are trying to remake the American way of life. They have used their new Democratic majority to launch an alarming assault on our capitalist system - while abandoning the war on terror, undermining...
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Trump and Me

Mark Singer - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book

Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race - in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants - he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.It...
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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da'Shaun L. Harrison - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United...
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Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect

Mick West - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

The Earth is flat, the World Trade Center collapse was a controlled demolition, planes are spraying poison to control the weather, and actors faked the Sandy Hook massacre ... .. All these claims are bunk: falsehoods, mistakes, and in some cases, outright lies. But many people passionately...
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The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter's Journey to Reconciliation

Peggy Wallace Kennedy - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate--and illuminates her journey towards redemption.Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the "symbol of racial reconciliation" (Washington...
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