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Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
Ana Raquel Minian - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans... |
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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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The Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics
Maureen Dowd - Twelve
Format: Print book
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Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking... |
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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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The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation
Robin Pogrebin - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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"A remarkable work of slowed-down journalism...They are doing their jobs as journalists and writing the first draft of history." - Jill Filipovic, The Washington Post. "...Generous but also damning." - Hanna Rosin, The New York TimesFrom two New York Times reporters,... |
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How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
Edward Jay Epst - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking expos that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important. After details of American government... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO... |
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Rediscovering Americanism : and the tyranny of progressivism
Mark R Levin - Threshold Editions
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From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and "one of the conservative moment's most influential voices" (The Washington Times) Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America's most sacred values.In Rediscovering Americanism,... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely." - New York Times Book Review"Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment." - The Washington PostDonald Trump's presidency... |
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
KAMALA HARRIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth... |
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Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
TO BE CONFIRMED GALLERY. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.Few have been a member of Donald Trump's inner orbit longer than... |
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No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: The Life of General James Mattis
JIM PROSER - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth look at the marine hero who has become one of the most beloved and admired men in America today: Secretary of Defense James Mattis.A devout student of history and erudite reader revered by rank and file soldiers, officers, academics, politicians, and ordinary citizens,... |
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals... |
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
Ethan Michaeli - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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"An extraordinary history ... Deeply researched, elegantly written ... a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten." - Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great... |
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Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul... |
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Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal
Ben Sasse - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent assessment of the existential crisis facing our nation.Our culture has always had tribalism. Different political parties, preferred media outlets, and shifts in positions... |
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WHAT WE DO NOW: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America
Dennis Loy Johnson - Melville House
Format: Print book
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An inspiring handbook for people troubled by the election of Donald Trump, by some of the biggest names in progressive politics. Meant to give people heart and actual strategies about how to advance a variety of causes. |
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The Briefing
SEAN SPICER - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Sean Spicer takes readers behind the scenes of his turbulent tenure as President Trump's press secretary, shedding new light on the headline-grabbing controversies of the Trump administration's first year. |
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Gaza: Preparing for Dawn
DONALD MACINTYRE - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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A coastal civilisation open to the world. A flourishing port on a major international trading route. This was Gaza's past. Can it be its future? Today, Gaza is home to a uniquely imprisoned people, most unable to travel to the West Bank, let alone Israel, where tens of thousands once... |
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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Book
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From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents... |
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Armageddon: THE BATTLE TO STOP OBAMA'S THIRD TERM
Dick Morris - Humanix Pub Llc
Format: Print book
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Timed for the critical presidential election season, New York Times bestselling author and noted political commentator Dick Morris provides a strategy and position on the issues for Republicans to attract crucial new voters to the party in order to win back the White House in 2016... |
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Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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Glenn Beck, #1 bestselling author and radio host, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country.WHY DO WE ACCEPT THE LIES? Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill;... |
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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 Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany
DAVID KING - W W NORTON
Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told story of the scandalous courtroom drama that paved the way for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution.... |
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Dangerous Doctrine: How Obama's Grand Strategy Weakened America
Robert Gordon Kaufman - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Print book
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Much like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, President Barack Obama came to office as a politician who emphasized conviction rather than consensus. During his 2008 presidential campaign, he pledged to transform the role of the United States abroad. His ambitious foreign policy goals included... |
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Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
Nancy F Koehn - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From a brilliant historian at the Harvard Business School, here is a masterful, in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures - Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson - that illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity... |
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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
GREGG JARRETT - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton's deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election.The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama's Justice Department worked... |
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Bridge of Spies
Giles Whittell - Broadway Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin's Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first and most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that exchange on February 10, 1962, when their... |
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Give Me Liberty: Speakers and Speeches that Have Shaped America
Christopher L. Webber - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Sure to become a classic of American oratorical history, ?Give Me Liberty reveals the enduring power of America's quest for a freer and more just society, and the context of the speeches and speakers -- from Daniel Webster and Patrick Henry to Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan -- that... |
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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
ELI SASLOW - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mindDerek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand... |
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals
JEANINE PIRRO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand how narratives take form, whether they are based in truth or not. In her explosive new book, she will write about some of the most egregious lies she's seen, and take on the Liars, Leakers, and Liberals. |
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When the Center Held: Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency
DONALD RUMSFELD - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing political memoir of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld - the New York Times bestselling author, and Ford's former Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant.In the wake of Watergate, it seemed the United... |
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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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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency, from "one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today" (Vanity Fair) . Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race... |
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
BEN RHODES - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From one of Obama's closest aides comes a revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of his presidency - and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive - in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. For nearly ten years,... |
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Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Alisa Roth - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent expos of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisonsAmerica has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons... |
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
Austin Reed - Random House,
Format: Print book
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The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer - recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars - sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript:... |
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Reagan: An American Journey
Bob Spitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents,... |
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The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War
Don Harrison Doyle - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered... |
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Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government and Politics, 2E
Franco Scardino - Alpha Books
Format: Print book
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Do you really know how the U.S. government operates? Most Americans have simply forgotten what they learned in their high school government class. Providing an updated history and comprehensive overview, Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government & Politics, Second Edition, is written to help... |
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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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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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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Elizabeth A. Fenn - Hill and Wang; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis... |
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Black flags : the rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION A Best Book of 2015 "The New York Times, " "The Washington Post, " "People" Magazine, "San Francisco Chronicle, " "Kansas City Star, " and "Kirkus Reviews" ""In... |
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The Road to Camelot: Inside the Kennedy Campaign
Tom Oliphant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read for fans of presidential history." - USA TODAY "Splendid ... a gripping, authoritative campaign history." - The Boston Globe "Terrific ... a tougher and more balanced account of the long campaign than anybody's written yet." - The... |
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The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
Andrew G Ferguson - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the streets, and rows of networked... |
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Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
LUKE HARDING - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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With the recent indictments of Paul Manafort, Richard Gates, and George Papadopoulos, Russia expert Luke Harding lays out the most in-depth look to date at the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia. Beginning with a meeting with Christopher Steele, the man behind the shattering dossier... |
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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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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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Andrew G. McCabe - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President... |
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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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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line
DAVID HOGG - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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From two students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement that arose after the Parkland, Florida, shooting.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister,... |
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Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want
Frances Moore Lappé - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump's victory, What do we do now The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.With our democracy in crisis, many Americans are frightened and uncertain. So, the legendary activist and author... |
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life... |
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
Tom Cotton - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon... |
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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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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
PATRICK J CHARLES - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces... |
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
MITCH LANDRIEU - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate... |
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Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
Ian Bremmer - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author and TIME Magazine columnist Ian Bremmer, a definitive guide to understanding the global wave of populist nationalism.From political upheaval in Europe and the United States to an explosion of anger in the developing world, social and political turmoil has dominated... |
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
D D'SOUZA - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." - RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York... |
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(((Semitism) ) ) : Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
Jonathan Weisman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop: "With eloquence and poignancy Weisman shows how hatred can slowly and quietly chew away at the moral fabric of society. We now live in an age where more than ever bigotry and oppression no longer need to hide in fear of reproach.... |
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Ron Stallworth - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback
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The extraordinary true story and basis for the major motion picture BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs... |
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Idiot's Guides: The U.S. Constitution, 2E
Timothy Harper - Alpha Books
Format: Print book
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One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the U.S. Constitution serves as the foundation for the American government and shapes the lives of Americans every day. Yet, how many of us know its history and the impact it has on guiding our ever... |
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Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
JIM STAVRIDIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired admirals of his generation - and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO - comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial... |
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Bethlehem: Biography of a Town
Nicholas Blincoe - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable history of the beloved little town published in time for the holidays Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it feels like an unreal city even to those who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical... |
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Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
Emily Dufton - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuanaIn the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago,... |
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Man of the world : the further adventures of bill clinton
Joe Conason - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Veteran political journalist Joe Conason takes readers inside the post-presidential exploits of the perpetually fascinating Bill Clinton - and finds his continuing adventures just as colorful, controversial, and significant as his earlier political career.The extraordinary post-presidency... |
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Addicted to Outrage: How Thinking Like a Recovering Addict Can Heal the Country
GLENN BECK - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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A new and sober Glenn Beck - author of thirteen #1 New York Times bestsellers - issues a startling challenge to people on both sides of the aisle to give up our addiction to hating each other.America is addicted to outrage, we're at the height of a twenty-year bender, and we need an intervention.... |
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When Montezuma Met Corts: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
MATTHEW RESTALL - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Corts that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Corts first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital... |
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect... |
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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 Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria
Helon Habila - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Hardcover
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On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by the deadly terrorist group Boko Haram.Fifty-seven of them escaped over the next few months, but most were never heard from again.On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok... |
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Cliff Sims - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's... |
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's First Ladies
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle... |
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Going to Pot: Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana Is Harming America
William J. Bennett - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Bennett was director of the National Drug Control policy under President George H.W. Bush. He offers strong societal and scientific arguments against the legalization of marijuana, in a call-to-action for the 46 states that know better than to support full legalization. Bennett and White... |
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The Gun Debate: An Encyclopedia of Gun Control & Gun Rights
Grey House - Salem Press
Format: Print book
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With public debate of gun violence at an all-time high, this new third edition of The Gun Debate: An Encyclopedia of Gun Control & Gun Rights is a must-have resource for all libraries.* Over 350 entries provide in-depth coverage of both sides of the gun debate.* Updated and expanded... |
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Impeachment: An American History
Jeffrey A. Engel - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked - against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton - and explain what it means today.Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called... |
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The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton
Allan McLane Hamilton - Racehorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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The life of Alexander Hamilton is certainly one of great complexity and controversy and, as a result, has been of great interest to the general public for centuries. In the past two hundred years, there have been many accounts of Hamilton's life - mostly commenting on his political... |
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Asne Seierstad - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded... |
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence - Picador Usa
Format: Print book
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Named a 2016 Best of Book of the Year by The EconomistThe Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it's a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a "nursery for terrorists"; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents,... |
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The U.S. Constitution: Explained--Clause by Clause--for Every American Today
Ray Raphael - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Politicians come and go, but the Constitution stands as the supreme law of the land. Setting forth the workings of our democracy, it is the bedrock document from which we derive our policies on topics as diverse and galvanizing as immigration, gun ownership, voting rights, taxation, policing,... |
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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
JOSE ANDRES - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef Jos Andrs arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed and for most people there... |
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Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
Jonathan Allen - Crown
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"It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation... |
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Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything
Thomas Lake - Melcher Media
Format: Print book
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Unprecedented's second printing features a new cover for the inauguration, with an exclusive portrait of the president-elect.Packed with exclusive photojournalism and new revelations straight from the front lines, Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything chronicles... |
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Jr Forman - Farrar
Format: Print book
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In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that... |
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The girl who escaped ISIS : this is my story
Farida Khalaf - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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"A rare and riveting first-hand account of the terror and torture inflicted by ISIS on young Iraqi Yazidi women, and an inspiring personal story of bravery and resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors. In the early summer of 2014, Farida Khalaf was a typical Yazidi teenager living... |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
ROBERT DALLEK - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents... |
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president." - Salon Michael Eric Dyson dives deep into the true meaning of Barack Obama's historic presidency and its effects on the changing landscape of race... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal... |
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
Miriam Horn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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Now a feature-length documentary on the Discovery channel narrated by Tom Brokaw.. "Lush, gorgeously written ... A profoundly hopeful book." -- Tina Rosenberg, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardA Kirkus Best Book of 2016Many of the men and women doing todays... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement... |
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Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
BEN FOUNTAIN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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"Ben Fountain's BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY BURN AGAIN is the bravest, boldest, most bracing political book of the year." -Bill MoyersIn a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration... |
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Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth
Howard Kurtz - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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With outrageous examples of left-wing media bias and insider scoops on front-page skirmishes between the Trump White House and reporters, Howard Kurtz's new book is an astonishing expos of the media industry that is reminiscent of Bernard Goldberg's game changing New York Times bestseller... |
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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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Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations--an effort that became the blueprint for U.S. efforts to combat threats like ISIS and drug cartels. ISIS boasted $2.4 billion of revenue in 2015, yet for too long... |
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The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook for a Lasting GOP Majority
Hugh Hewitt - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From "the nearly professorial power-baron of conservative media" (Bloomberg) , a handbook for how a united GOP government can solve problems and guarantee political success.. Hugh Hewitt interviewed candidate Trump fifteen times on his nationally syndicated show during the 2016... |
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The Complete Book of US Presidents
Bill Yenne - Zenith Press
Format: Print book
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In this momentous election year, experience the history and personal stories of all 44 U.S. Presidents in this beautifully illustrated edition.From the first president, George Washington, to the most recent, Barack Obama, the United States has seen a host of extraordinary men take office.... |
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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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All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump
Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal bestseller. ALL OUT WAR!. Thats what the media, the Democrats, and the Never-Trump Republicans are waging on the democratically elected president of the United States.. With ferocity not seen since the Civil War, the Washington establishment and the radical Left are joining... |
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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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Where We Go from Here
BERNIE SANDERS - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new book, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive movement and how we go forward as a nation. |
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In Trump We Trust: How He Outsmarted the Politicians, the "Elites," and the Media
Ann Coulter - Sentinel
Format: Print book
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Donald Trump isn't a politician -- he's a one man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution. The three biggest news stories... |
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Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East
Ezgi Başaran - I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades.In 2011 President Erdoan promised to make... |
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Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism
Maajid Nawaz - Lyons Pr, 2014.
Format: Print book
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Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based Islamist group. He quickly rose through... |
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Where You Go: Life Lessons from My Father
Charlotte Pence - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Charlotte Pence offers a touching portrait of her father, Vice President Mike Pence, and the most important lessons he has taught her.Through stories intimately illustrating our vice president's character as a devoted family man, Christian, and public servant, Charlotte Pence both honors... |
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Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary
Geoffrey Cowan - W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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"Cowan has brought to life a fascinating part of TR's story usually left out of the history books. He tells it with verve and suspense, warts and all, his insights deepened by his own impressive background as a democracy activist." -- Adam Hochschild, author of To End All WarsLet... |
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Presidents in Crisis: Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama
Michael K Bohn - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Every American president, when faced with a crisis, longs to take bold and decisive action. When American lives or vital interests are at stake, the publicand especially the news media and political opponentsexpect aggressive leadership. But, contrary to the dramatizations of Hollywood,... |
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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
John P Avlon - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A vivid portrait ... A thoughtful consideration of Washington's wisdom that couldn't be timelier." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) George Washington's Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a "parting friend" to his fellow citizens about the forces... |
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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
MICHAEL V HAYDEN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more importantIn the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence,... |
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The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Luke Harding - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National... |
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does... |
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