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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges

James Stone - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: eBook

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,...
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Separate and Unequal

Steven M Gillon - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover

From a New York Times best-selling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality In Separate and Unequal, New York Times best-selling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National...
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The Making of a Dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American

LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights - the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling...
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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Mona Eltahawy - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud...
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The Make-or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time

Emily Krone - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for its "failing schools" In eighth grade, Eric thought he was going places. But by his second semester of freshman...
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

CAROL ANDERSON - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious...
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation

Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost...
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Heavy: An American Memoir

Kiese Laymon - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer....
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America: The Farewell Tour

Chris Hedges - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate.America,...
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

Chip Colwell - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made...
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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

Edward J. Watts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's...
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era

TA-NEHISI COATES - One World
Format: Book

In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power"...

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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

Melinda Gates - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"The Moment of Lift is an urgent call to courage. It changed how I think about myself, my family, my work, and what's possible in the world. Melinda weaves together vulnerable, brave storytelling and compelling data to make this one of those rare books that you carry...
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The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin's Spies Are Winning Control of America and Dismantling the West

Malcolm Nance - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Retired Intelligence officer and New York Times bestselling author of The Plot to Hack America, Malcolm Nance, offers a provocative, comprehensive analysis of the Russian Federation's master plan to destroy democracy, the methodologies used in the 2016 election, what will...
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

Eve L Ewing - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools." That's how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about...
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Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party

Terry Golway - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The inspiring story of an unlikely political partnership -- between a to-the-manor-born Protestant and a Lower East Side Catholic -- that transformed the Democratic Party and led to the New DealIn the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Democratic Party was bitterly split between its urban...
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Thomas E Ricks - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill...
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Untitled Louise Lobo

Louise Lobo - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"You have replaced 'advice and consent' with 'search and destroy.'" - BRETT KAVANAUGH In this deeply researched account, one of Washington's top legal reporters reveals the massive funding, sophisticated organization, and fanatical zeal behind the campaign to stop Brett Kavanaugh's...
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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison

Erling Hoh - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Print book

An enthralling true-life story about a daring escape from one of Mao Zedong's prisonsMao Zedong's labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were subject to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought...
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A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State

Meredith Tax - Bellevue Literary Pr
Format: Print book

"This is the book I've been waiting for - only it's richer, deeper, and more intriguing than I could have imagined. A Road Unforeseen is a major contribution to our understanding of feminism and Islam, of women and the world, and gives me fresh hope for change." - Barbara...
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies...
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Obama: An Oral History

Brian Abrams - Little A
Format: Hardcover

The first ever comprehensive oral history of President Obama's administration and the complex political machine that created and powered a landmark American presidency.In this candid oral history of a presidential tenure, author Brian Abrams reveals the behind-the-scenes stories that illuminate...
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The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival

Denise Low - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Print book

"Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end," Denise Low says, "as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible." Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native...
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How the Right Lost Its Mind

Charles J Sykes - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Paperback

"Bracing and immediate." - The Washington PostOnce at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles J. Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes...
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Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office

Susan Hennessey - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidencyThe extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature...
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

John Le Carr - Viking
Format: Print book

"Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur - by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,...
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

JOANNE FREEMAN - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol...
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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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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend

Meryl Gordon - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion.
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The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office--and What We Can Do about It

NICHOLAS CARNES - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about itWhy are Americans governed by the rich? Millionaires make up only three percent of the public but control all three branches of the federal government. How did this...
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Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination

Alexandra Minna Stern - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A critical exploration of the core ideas of the alt-right--necessary reading for all who seek to counter its appeal and expansion.From a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has allowed it to expand significantly...
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The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right

MAX BOOT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion...
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Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy

Tom Baldwin - Hurst
Format: Hardcover

We all know something has gone wrong: people hate politics, loathe the media and are now scared of each other too. Journalist and one-time senior political advisor Tom Baldwin tells the riveting--often terrifying--story of how a tidal wave of information overwhelmed democracy's sandcastle...
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White Lives Matter Most: And Other "Little" White Lies

Matt Meyer - PM Press
Format: Paperback

Modern-day movements to end racism in the U.S. seem sadly doomed to fail. If a more sober analysis of U.S. history is not considered, our efforts will lead to continued fragmentation - or worse. The essays in this book reveal the successful strategies and methods of multigenerational coalitions...
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The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh's Zapponian Utopia

Aimee Groth - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Fearless gonzo journalism - an insider's look at the enigmatic and successful CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, and his quest to create his own version of utopia in the center of Las Vegas.In 2010 Tony Hsieh was introduced to many as a visionary modern business leader. Under Hsieh's leadership,...
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America

Sarah Kendzior - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory."A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability...
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Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House

Donna Brazile - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Explosive... A blistering tell-all."---Washington Post "People should sit up, take notes and change things."---Ace Smith, Los Angeles Times "Brazile most certainly has a story to tell.... Vivid."---The...
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The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma

Delphine Schrank - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

An epic, multigenerational story of courage and sacrifice set in a tropical dictatorship, The Rebel of Rangoon captures a gripping moment of possibility in Burma (Myanmar) Once the shining promise of Southeast Asia, Burma in May 2009 ranks among the world's most repressive and impoverished...
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Hamilton: An American Biography

Tony Williams - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning, smash Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist. In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events...
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Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany

Nathan Stoltzfus - Yale University Press 2016.
Format: Print book

History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to maintain power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the award-winning author of Resistance of Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Germany, challenges this notion, assessing...
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The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents

Corey Lang Brettschneider - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An essential guide to the presidential powers and limits of the Constitution, for anyone voting -- or running -- for our highest office.Can the president launch a nuclear attack without congressional approval? Is it ever a crime to criticize the president? Can states legally resist a president's...
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement

Recorded Books Inc. - The New Press
Format: eBook

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond fifteen days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than eighty thousand people in isolation on any given day. Now sixteen...
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most...
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present

DAVID TREUER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian...
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Food Chained: How a Few Global Giants Got a Stranglehold on Everything We Eat

Mark Schapiro - Hot Books
Format: Print book

Sun. Soil. Water. Seed. These are the primordial ingredients for the most essential activity of all on earth: growing food. All of these elements are being changed dramatically under the pressures of corporate consolidation of the food chain, which has been accelerating just as climate...
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The American Revolution: A World War

David Allison - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

An illustrated collection of essays that explores the international dimensions of the American Revolution and its legacies in both America and around the worldThe American Revolution: A World War argues that contrary to popular opinion, the American Revolution was not just a simple...
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White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War

John Gans - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

"The NSC, part star chamber, part gladiator arena, and part Game of Thrones drama is expertly revealed to us in the pages of Gans' primer on Washington power." -- Kurt Campbell, Chairman of the Asia Group, LLCSince its founding more than seventy years ago, the National Security...
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges

James Martin Stone - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,...
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GIFT OF OUR WOUNDS : an american tragedy, an unlikely friendship, and the power of forgiveness

PARDEEP KALEKA - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The powerful story of a friendship between two men -- one Sikh and one skinhead -- that resulted in an outpouring of love and a mission to fight against hate.One Sikh. One former Skinhead. Together, an unusual friendship emerged out of a desire to make a difference.When white supremacist...
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The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City

Laura Tillman - Scribner
Format: eBook

In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime - the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville, Texas.On March...
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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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The Shortest History of Germany: From Julius Caesar to Angela MerkelA Retelling for Our Times

James Hawes - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

An internationally bestselling, fresh, and entertaining take on the 2,000-year history of Germany - a country at the heart of the West's survival As the West grapples with the rise of populism, some cite Germany as one of the last global powers capable of restoring Europe's fading glory...
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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy

James P P Horn - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in handAlong the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course...
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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

Oona Hathaway - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928 was among the most transformative events in modern history.On a hot summer afternoon in 1928, the leaders of the world assembled in Paris to outlaw war. Within the year,...
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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus

MATT TAIBBI - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book

Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone - plus two original essays - Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western...
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall.Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing...
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Jonathan M. Metzl - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to helpIn the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as Dying of Whiteness...
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The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyismand How Trump Can Drain It

ERIC BOLLING - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again. In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents...
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America

Ai-jen Poo - The New Press, 2015. 2015
Format: Print book

By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders....
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Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

Ian Millhiser - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since its inception, the justices of the Supreme Court have shaped a nation where children toiled in coal mines, where Americans could be forced into camps because...
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The Radical King

Cornel West - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic...
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Fear: Trump in the White House

BOB WOODWARD - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL ITWith authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes...
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of

James Bradley - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's...
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Off Script: An Advance Man's Guide To White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Political Suicide

Josh King - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Being a public figure is no walk in the park - the world focuses on every move that politicians make and highlights their every mistake. "Image collapse" can befall anyone whose carefully cultivated persona is pitted against intermediaries in the broadcast booths of cable news...
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The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

Mo Moulton - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking "Are...
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Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?

Mark Thompson - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

There's a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson...
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

Kurt Andersen - Random House
Format: Hardcover

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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President Carter: The White House Years

Stuart Eizenstat - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments -- drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White...
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The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy

Stephen M Walt - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy -- explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the "forever wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining...
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What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights

JUAN WILLIAMS - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement. Unsympathetic, ambiguous, and openly racist remarks are a hallmark of Donald Trump's public life....
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Last Hope Island : Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war

Lynne Olson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days When the Nazi...
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Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West

WILLIAM DROZDIAK - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world.The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart...
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once...
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War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918

Michael Kazin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

The untold story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of the First World War.This book is about the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in one of history's most destructive wars and then were hounded by the government when they refused to back...
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond - Crown/Archetype
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE GENERAL NON-FICTIONFrom Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond...
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Real American: A Memoir

JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

"Courageous, achingly honest." -- Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"A compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called...
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

DAVID D KIRKPATRICK - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about America's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup that put Sisi in power--from the Middle East correspondent of the New York Times.In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages, and social...
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Churchill's Menagerie: Winston Churchill and the Animal Kingdom

Piers Brendon - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

In this unique narrative, Piers Brendon looks deeply into Churchill's admiration of the animal kingdom -- and how animals played such a large part in his everyday life. Winston Churchill was known for his great love for and admiration of animals. In fact, one of Churchill's key char- acteristics...
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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Alexis Okeowo - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

"Absolutely essential reading, period."---Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo--a vivid...
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Official social security administration answers to 100 frequently asked questions about retirement

Social Security Administration. - Welcome Rain
Format: Print book

For most Americans, Social Security is their largest financial asset, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and indexed against increases in the cost of living. But it is estimated that Americans lose $10 billion a year in unclaimed benefits. This is money that has been earned, that they...
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American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone

Marco Rubio - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

Dear Friends, My parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers,...
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The Runner-Up Presidency: The Elections That Defied America's Popular Will (and How Our Democracy Remains in Danger).

Mark Weston - Lyons Press (R and L)
Format: Hardcover

An entertaining and important account of presidential elections in which the winner of the popular vote lost or came all too close to losing, focusing on the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the disputed elections of 1876 and 2000, the deadlocks of 1800 and 1824 (when the elections were...
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Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal

Eric Rauchway - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different...
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Unfreedom of the Press

Mark R. Levin - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

Six-time New York Times best-selling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin "trounces the news media" (The Washington Times) in this timely and groundbreaking book demonstrating how the great tradition of American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession...
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American." - Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow"l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured." - Amy Tan,...
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Invisible Martyrs: Inside the Secret World of Female Islamic Radicals

Farhana Qazi - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback

Farhana Qazi draws on her background as a pioneering counterterrorism professional and a devout Muslim to offer an insider's view of what drives girls and women to join radical Islamic movements, and identifies what America and the world community can do to keep them from making this...
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Working with Winston: The Unsung Women Behind Britain's Greatest Statesman

Cita Stelzer - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

An original and insightful look at Winston Churchill through the eyes of those who knew him best -- the women who worked with him throughout his life.All politicians adopt a public persona that they believe contributes to electoral success. Though they might reflect the character of the politician,...
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Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House

APRIL RYAN - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration. In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she and other reporters...
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Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II

Mark Simmons - Casemate
Format: Hardcover

This book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr.Ian Fleming and Alan Hillgarth...
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando

PAUL KIX - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur...
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

Andrew Delbanco - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil WarFor decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked...
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The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II

JAMES LACEY - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

A Team of Rivals for World War II - the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, D.C., to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. The Washington War is the story of how the Second...
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Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

Timothy P Carney - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result of economics...
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Hold On with a Bulldog Grip: A Short Study of Ulysses S. Grant

John F. Marszalek - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover

In this new short biography of Ulysses S. Grant, leading scholars provide an accessible introduction to Grant and his legacy. Grant led Federal forces to victory in the Civil War, was the first modern American president, and authored his memoirs, which would eventually become one of the greatest...
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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan

Matt Farwell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly poignant--choice...
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The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations

Constantine Pleshakov - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first...
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Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

Chris Christie - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

From the outspoken former governor, presidential candidate, and chair of the Trump transition, a no-holds-barred account of Christie's years atop the national political scene--his rise to power through the bare-knuckle politics of New Jersey, his fifteen-year friendship with Donald Trump,...
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People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

Robert W McChesney - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

The consequence of the technological revolution is about to hit hard: employment opportunities will collapse across the board as new technologies replace labor. Moribund capitalism and talk of market solutions won't answer this crisis. In this brave new world, the power of the people...
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Richard Nixon: The Life

John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book

Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly...
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Adventures in Zambian Politics: A Story in Black and White

Guy Scott - Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

As Miles Larmer writes in the foreword, Adventures in Zambian Politics is unlike any political memoir you have ever read. It is ... A political history of Zambia from colonial times to the present. A revealing insider account of politics and government within a modern African state. A story...
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Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

Alexandra Natapoff - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminalsPunishment 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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Human Rights and the United States, Third Edition

Not Available - Grey House Pub
Format: Hardcover

This two-volume set offers easy to grasp explanations of the basic concepts and laws in the field, with emphasis on human rights in the historical, political, and legal experience of the United States. This indispensable resource surveys the legal protection of human dignity in the United...
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We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America

D. Watkins - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities, while also offering a new framework for how we can improve the conversations occuring about them. While author D. Watkins is pleased about the number...
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Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For

Susan Rice - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice - National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations - reveals her surprising story with unflinching candor. Mother, wife,...
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

George Packer - Vintage
Format: Paperback

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography**Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography**Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy......
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Let Me Be Free: The Nez Perce Tragedy

David Lavender - HarperCollins
Format: Book

A history of the heroic 1,700-mile journey of the Nez Perce across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana toward sanctuary in Canada describes Nez Perce culture, their battles with whites, and the tragic surrender of Chief Joseph. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo.
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Beyond Schizophrenia: Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness

Marjorie L. Baldwin - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: eBook

The experience of living and working with schizophrenia is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. This book is a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in medication and treatment, persons with mental illness fare worse than almost any other disadvantaged...
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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Jon Meacham - Random House, 2015.
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first...
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Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime

Kate Fazzini - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Kingdom of Lies is a brilliant and bold debut, as full of suspense as the best crime thrillers." -- Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author of Blood Oath In the tradition of Michael Lewis and Tom Wolfe, a fascinating and frightening behind-the-scenes...
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Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family’s Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo

Lisa J Shannon - PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Driven by her familys devastating losses Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin embarks with human rights activist Lisa J Shannon on a perilous journey back to her beloved homeland now under the shadow of one of Africas most feared militiasJoseph Konys Lords Resistance Army With gunmen camped...
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Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century

Douglas K. Miller - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover

In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had...
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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Marc N Peyser - Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
Format: Print book

A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide a sweeping look at the twentieth century. When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter...
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

BEN AUSTEN - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most...
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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

Lawrence O'Donnell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it todayThe 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's...
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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings
Format: Paperback


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Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001

Michael Tomasky - Times Books
Format: Hardcover

The president of larger-than-life ambitions and appetites whose term defined America at the close of the twentieth centuryBill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most...
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The Killing of Uncle Sam: The Demise of the United States of America

RODNEY HOWARD-BROWNE - River Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable - including selling out their nations and unsuspected citizens to the most corrupt and destructive "invisible" global leaders on Earth. But how did this happen on American soil? How did the downfall begin and who were...
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Ronald Reagan: The American Presidents Series: The 40th President, 1981-1989

Jacob Weisberg - Times Books
Format: Print book

The conservative icon who reshaped American politics and laid the groundwork for the end of the Cold WarIn the second half of the twentieth century, no American president defined his political era as did Ronald Reagan. He ushered in an age that extolled smaller government, tax cuts, and strong...
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

Stephen Kinzer - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes...
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Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Paul Kahan - Potomac Books
Format: Print book

From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln's secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799-1889) was one of the nineteenth century's most prominent political...
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die

Garrett Graff - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The eye-opening true story of the government's secret plans to survive and rebuild after a catastrophic attack on US soil - a narrative that span from the dawn of the nuclear age to today. Every day in Washington, DC, the blue-and-gold 1st Helicopter Squadron, code-named "MUSSEL,"...
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The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back

Kay S. Hymowitz - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as "The Honeymooners" and "Welcome Back, Kotter" - comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East...
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Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom in the City of the Straits

Tiya Miles - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart...
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Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran

Barry Meier - Farrar
Format: Print book

In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantnamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help...
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The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation

Michael Breen - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture...
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

Mike Duncan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization....
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Fit for the Presidency?: Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans

Seymour Morris - Potomac Books
Format: Print book

Every four years Americans embark on the ultimate carnival, the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with endless speeches, debates, handshakes, and passion. But what about the candidates themselves In Fit for the Presidency Seymour Morris Jr. applies an executive...
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Theodore the Great: Conservative Crusader

Daniel Ruddy - Regnery Publishing, 2015.
Format: Print book

Theodore Roosevelt has a complicated legacy. To some, he was the quintessential American patriot and hero, a valiant soldier and hawkish leader. Others remember him as the Progressive cultural icon, the trust-buster who split from the Republican Party.So who was the real Teddy Roosevelt?Daniel...
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Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolutionand Why America Might Miss It

Susan Crawford - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts of data we'll be able to send and receive through fiberoptic connections will enable a degree...
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit

Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's...
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The...
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Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism

Deborah Jian Lee - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

An inside look at the young, diverse, progressive Christians who are transforming the evangelical movementDeborah Jian Lee left the evangelical world because she was frustrated by its conservative politics. But over the years she stayed close to those in the movement, and she has come to realize...
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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits

David A Morton - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression and anxiety, and 200 more medical conditions. Learn how to match...
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The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections

Caroline Fredrickson - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

The former special assistant for legislative affairs to President Clinton, president of the American Constitution Society, and author of the "damn fine" (Elle) Under the Bus shows how the left can undo the right's damage and take the country back Despite representing the beliefs...
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The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment

Rory McVeigh - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan's nationalist insurgency burst...
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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947

DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics -- and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out.As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory....
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Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

Caitlyn Collins - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives -- and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress...
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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Gordon S Wood - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much...
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

NAOMI KLEIN - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback

The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic...
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Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s

NORMAN MAILER - Library of America
Format: Hardcover

Politics, war, sex, boxing, and the art of writing: an era's most controversial writer at his slashing and provocative bestThe electric and fearless essays of Norman Mailer were essential to the intellectual climate of 1960s America. Here, gathered into one volume for the first time...
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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama

Michael D'Antonio - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book

Barack Obama was once a most unlikely candidate, but his successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and the Great Recession had discouraged millions of Americans, Obama made a promise...
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On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer

Antonin Scalia - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

On Faith is an inspiring collection of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's reflections on his own faith, on the challenges that religious believers face in modern America, and on the religious freedoms protected by the Constitution. Featuring a personal introduction by Justice...
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China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

Kay Ann Johnson - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book

In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children - mostly girls - have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's approach to population...
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Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic

Amin Saikal - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

On the fortieth anniversary of the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, a definitive political picture of the Islamic RepublicWhen Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would paralyze the country...
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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia

MICHAEL MCFAUL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the presentIn 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely...
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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security

Sarah Chayes - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how government's oldest problem is its greatest destabilizing force.The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls...
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail

Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Format: Print book

"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from...
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My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South

ISSAC J BAILEY - Other Press
Format: Hardcover

A rare first-person account that combines a journalist's skilled reporting with the raw emotion of a younger brother's heartfelt testimony of what his family endured for decades after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey...
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Every Day Is Extra

John Kerry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life - from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and Secretary of State for four years - a revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important...
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

MICHAEL WOLFF - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling...
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The Age of Walls

TIM MARSHALL - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

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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Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To

Dana Loesch - Sentinel
Format: Print book

Blaze TV and top radio host Dana Loesch explains that the biggest political problem today is that the people who run this country have no idea what life is really like for ordinary Americans. In fact, they have contempt for the very people they claim to represent. When the owners of a small...
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime,...
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Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa

LAWRENCE JAMES - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The one hundred year history of how Europe coerced the African continent into its various empires -- and the resulting story of how Africa succeeded in decolonization. In this dramatic (and often tragic) story of an era that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James...
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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 Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis

James E Lewis - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr ConspiracyIn 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which...
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Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech

Cyrus Farivar - ‎Melville House
Format: Hardcover

A book about what the Cambridge Analytica scandal shows: That surveillance and data privacy is every citizens concernAn important look at how 50 years of American privacy law is inadequate for the todays surveillance technology, from acclaimed
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

What really happened in 1969?Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order-their...
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