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The Make-or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time
Emily Krone - The New Press
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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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Separate and Unequal
Steven M Gillon - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover
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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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America: The Farewell Tour
Chris Hedges - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
CAROL ANDERSON - Bloomsbury Publishing
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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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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Mona Eltahawy - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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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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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
James Stone - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: eBook
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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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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
Chip Colwell - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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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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Untitled Louise Lobo
Louise Lobo - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Edward J. Watts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Melinda Gates - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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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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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES - One World
Format: Book
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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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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Eve L Ewing - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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"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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A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State
Meredith Tax - Bellevue Literary Pr
Format: Print book
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"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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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
Erling Hoh - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Print book
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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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The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival
Denise Low - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Print book
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"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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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
Meryl Gordon - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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Obama: An Oral History
Brian Abrams - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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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 Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John Le Carr - Viking
Format: Print book
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"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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Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
Tom Baldwin - Hurst
Format: Hardcover
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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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What Unites Us
Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what... |
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The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right
MAX BOOT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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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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How the Right Lost Its Mind
Charles J Sykes - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Paperback
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"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
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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 Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
JOANNE FREEMAN - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office--and What We Can Do about It
NICHOLAS CARNES - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany
Nathan Stoltzfus - Yale University Press 2016.
Format: Print book
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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 View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
Sarah Kendzior - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback
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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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White Lives Matter Most: And Other "Little" White Lies
Matt Meyer - PM Press
Format: Paperback
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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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Hamilton: An American Biography
Tony Williams - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma
Delphine Schrank - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh's Zapponian Utopia
Aimee Groth - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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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 Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents
Corey Lang Brettschneider - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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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Food Chained: How a Few Global Giants Got a Stranglehold on Everything We Eat
Mark Schapiro - Hot Books
Format: Print book
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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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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
James Martin Stone - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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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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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present
DAVID TREUER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
Oona Hathaway - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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The American Revolution: A World War
David Allison - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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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 Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
Laura Tillman - Scribner
Format: eBook
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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
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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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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
James P P Horn - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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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 End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Greg Grandin - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Fear: Trump in the White House
BOB WOODWARD - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
MATT TAIBBI - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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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 Radical King
Cornel West - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
Ai-jen Poo - The New Press, 2015. 2015
Format: Print book
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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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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of
James Bradley - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
DAVID D KIRKPATRICK - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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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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War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918
Michael Kazin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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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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President Carter: The White House Years
Stuart Eizenstat - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West
WILLIAM DROZDIAK - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond - Crown/Archetype
Format: Print book
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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
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"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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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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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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Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Mark Thompson - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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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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What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights
JUAN WILLIAMS - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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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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Unfreedom of the Press
Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Paperback
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Six-time New York Times bestselling 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... |
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Churchill's Menagerie: Winston Churchill and the Animal Kingdom
Piers Brendon - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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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
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"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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Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal
Eric Rauchway - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Invisible Martyrs: Inside the Secret World of Female Islamic Radicals
Farhana Qazi - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback
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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
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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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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II
Mark Simmons - Casemate
Format: Hardcover
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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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American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
Marco Rubio - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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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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Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
APRIL RYAN - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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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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People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
Robert W McChesney - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Hold On with a Bulldog Grip: A Short Study of Ulysses S. Grant
John F. Marszalek - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover
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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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Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
Timothy P Carney - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations
Constantine Pleshakov - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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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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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
Matt Farwell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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 Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book
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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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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Jon Meacham - Random House, 2015.
Format: Print book
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#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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We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
D. Watkins - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Beyond Schizophrenia: Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness
Marjorie L. Baldwin - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: eBook
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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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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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*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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Human Rights and the United States, Third Edition
Not Available - Grey House Pub
Format: Hardcover
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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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Let Me Be Free: The Nez Perce Tragedy
David Lavender - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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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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Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
Kate Fazzini - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Adventures in Zambian Politics: A Story in Black and White
Guy Scott - Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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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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Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
Susan Rice - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Killing of Uncle Sam: The Demise of the United States of America
RODNEY HOWARD-BROWNE - River Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001
Michael Tomasky - Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Ronald Reagan: The American Presidents Series: The 40th President, 1981-1989
Jacob Weisberg - Times Books
Format: Print book
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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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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
BEN AUSTEN - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Marc N Peyser - Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
Format: Print book
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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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Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War
Paul Kahan - Potomac Books
Format: Print book
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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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Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century
Douglas K. Miller - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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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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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Lawrence O'Donnell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Fit for the Presidency?: Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans
Seymour Morris - Potomac Books
Format: Print book
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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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The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation
Michael Breen - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Just a few decades ago, the Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. The nature and values of the Korean people provide the background for a more detailed examination of the complex history of the country, in particular... |
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Mike Duncan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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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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Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Tiya Miles - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back
Kay S. Hymowitz - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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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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Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran
Barry Meier - Farrar
Format: Print book
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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 Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#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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Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolutionand Why America Might Miss It
Susan Crawford - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
Rory McVeigh - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Gordon S Wood - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Caitlyn Collins - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits
David A Morton - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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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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Theodore the Great: Conservative Crusader
Daniel Ruddy - Regnery Publishing, 2015.
Format: Print book
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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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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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 China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
MICHAEL MCFAUL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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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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Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s
NORMAN MAILER - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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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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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
Sarah Chayes - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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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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Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
Amin Saikal - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
NAOMI KLEIN - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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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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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama
Michael D'Antonio - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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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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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Format: Print book
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"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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On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer
Antonin Scalia - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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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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Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech
Cyrus Farivar - Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Age of Walls
TIM MARSHALL - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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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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Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa
LAWRENCE JAMES - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Every Day Is Extra
John Kerry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
MICHAEL WOLFF - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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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 Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
James E Lewis - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To
Dana Loesch - Sentinel
Format: Print book
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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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