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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and di cult for African-Americans... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis
James W. Russell - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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How 401(k) s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions. Named one of PWs Top 10 for Business & Economics A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country, horrified... |
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Kurt Andersen - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest... |
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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
James Risen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book
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War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars,... |
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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
TAMER ELNOURY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the insideIt's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing... |
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