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It's Up to Us: Ten Little Ways We Can Bring About Big Change

John Kasich - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

A Little Book about Big ChangeWe all want the same things. We want to live a life of purpose and meaning. We want to leave a legacy for our children and grandchildren. We want to leave the world a better place. And yet we spend so much time wringing our hands over what's wrong and not nearly...
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Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It

Erin Brockovich - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

From environmental activist, consumer advocate, renowned crusader, champion fighter-maverick, whose courageous case against Pacific Gas and Electric was dramatized in the Oscar-winning film--a book to inspire change that looks at our present situation with water and reveals the imminent...
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

Susan Burton - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

One woman's remarkable odyssey from tragedy to prison to recovery - and recognition as a leading figure in the national justice reform movementSusan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without...
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The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020

JONATHAN LEMIRE - ?Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A probing and illuminating analysis of current state of American politics, focusing on Donald Trump's lie about election fraud, by the White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too EarlyDonald Trump first tried it out in 2016, at an August rally in Ohio. He said...
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Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White

Patricia Sullivan - Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

History, race, and politics converged in the 1960s in ways that indelibly changed America. In Justice Rising, a landmark reconsideration of Robert Kennedy's life and legacy, Patricia Sullivan draws on government files, personal papers, and oral interviews to reveal how he grasped the moment...
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The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness

Katie Booth
Format: Hardcover

We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even...
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Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times

Nancy F Koehn - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From a brilliant historian at the Harvard Business School, here is a masterful, in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures - Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson - that illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity...
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Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition

Edmund Fawcett - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of power and effectively become the dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, conservatives...
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Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

Wes Moore - One World
Format: Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore When Freddie Gray was arrested...
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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

Julia Sweig - Random House
Format: Hardcover

In the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White House under the worst of circumstances--following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--he had to decide whether to run to win the presidency in his own right. He turned...
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