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Bush at War

Bob Woodward - Simon & Schuster; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author and journalist Bob Woodward turns his attention to the presidency of George W. Bush. Before the acts of terrorism on 11 September, George W. Bush's presidency had been beset by numerous problems. Not only was it in many peoples eyes invalid, very few people took...
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die

Garrett Graff - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The eye-opening true story of the government's secret plans to survive and rebuild after a catastrophic attack on US soil - a narrative that span from the dawn of the nuclear age to today. Every day in Washington, DC, the blue-and-gold 1st Helicopter Squadron, code-named "MUSSEL,"...
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

ALFRED MCCOY - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback

In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power - from the 1890s through the Cold War - and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military...
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War

Monte Reel - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between...
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BLITZ: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win

David Horowitz - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover

BUCKLE UP - 2020 WILL BE THE POLITICAL RIDE OF YOUR LIFE! IN NOVEMBER TRUMP WILL SMASH THE LEFT AND WIN! "If you're interested in debating deranged liberals with facts, you won't want to miss this latest book." - Donald Trump, Jr. "BLITZ is a MUST-read for those...
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Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia

Yelena Lembersky - Cherry Orchard Books
Format: Paperback

Alena is growing up in the newly built neighborhood of Leningrad in the 1970s. Though her life is circumscribed by the deprivation of Communist regime, it is also full: full of her family's love, her friends, her school, the richness of her vivid imagination, and the legacy of her grandfather,...
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Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections

Ian Rosenberg - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Freedom of speech is fiercely defended in America and has been since the First Amendment was written. But how does it work, and what laws shape it? Drawing on parallels between ten seminal Supreme Court cases and current events, Free Speech Handbook lays out the fundamentals of First Amendment...
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His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation

Diana Schaub
Format: Hardcover

Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, believed that our national character was defined by three key moments: the writing of the Constitution, our declaration of independence from England, and the beginning of slavery on the North American continent. His thoughts on these landmarks can be traced...
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White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America's Heartland

Dick Lehr - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly wasn't...
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story

Aaron Bobrow-Strain - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system?When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida's mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona....
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