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There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

Fiona Hill - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Growing up in England's coal-mining country, Fiona Hill knew that she was in a forgotten place. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering, and despair was etched in the faces around her. Her father told her to get out - to go to London, or Europe, or America....
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

Douglas Murray - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable...
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A stunning follow up to New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop, a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politicsPresident Barack Obama: "Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison."In 2015 BLM activist Julius Jones...
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Fascism

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace. At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many,...
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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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Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

Michael Wolff - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

"I inhaled Landslide, gobbled it up." -- Slate"Wow. Just wow . . ." -- Evening Standard"Cruel, unforgiving, muckraking, scandalous. I couldn't stop reading it." -- The TelegraphWe all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events...
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The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age

Andrew Whitby - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census, revealing why the true boundaries of today's nations aren't lines on a map, but columns in a census tabulationIn April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization...
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

Heather Cox Richardson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward...
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The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK

JOHN R BOHRER - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother,...
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The Folly and the Glory: Political Warfare from Stalin and Truman to Putin and Trump

Weiner, Tim - HENRY HOLT


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