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Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings

Louis Klarevas - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets...
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When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War

Jeffrey A Engel - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history - the end of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War was the greatest shock to international...
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Spies, Lies, and Citizenship: The Hunt for Nazi Criminals

Mary Barbier - Potomac Books
Format: Hardcover

In the 1970s news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to deport offenders. The subsequent creation...
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Eliza Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating...
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City Gate, Open Up

Beidao - New Directions
Format: Paperback

A magical, impressionistic autobiography by China's legendary poet Bei Dao In 2001, to visit his sick father, the exiled poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over twenty years. The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. "My city that once was had vanished,"...
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Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society

Thomas Frank - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What's the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times -- perfect for this political momentWhat does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years...
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

FRANKLIN FOER - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge...
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The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy Donald Trump

Jason Chaffetz - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Former Congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz explains how we ended up with a federal government that actively works to defend the Democratic party and undermine Trump.The liberal media frequently declares the Obama years were free of scandal. They pretend this is true...
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane

ANONYMOUS. - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book

Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive....
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Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America

Vegas Tenold - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political powerSix years ago, when Vegas Tenold began reporting from the inner circle of three white power groups in America -- the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist...
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West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House

Gautam Raghavan - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The Obama White House staff invites us behind-the-scenes of history for a deeply personal and moving look at the presidency and how a president's staff can change the nationWhen we elect a president, we elect with them an entire team that will join them in the West Wing to help run the country....
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President Carter: The White House Years

Stuart Eizenstat - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments -- drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White...
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The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics

MARK LILLA - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From one of the country's most admired political thinkers, an urgent wake-up call to American liberals to turn from the divisive politics of identity and develop a vision of our future that can persuade all citizens that they share a common destiny. In The Once and Future Liberal, Mark...
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild - New Press
Format: Print book

2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election"This is a smart,...
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Thomas E Ricks - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

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

Keith Jones - Omnigraphics
Format: Print book

This print and online resource provides consumer health information about end-of-life perspectives and the medical management of symptoms that can occur as death draws near.
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Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce

John Bellamy Foster - Monthly Review Press
Format: Paperback

"With a foreword by Robert W. McChesney"--Cover.
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit

Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's...
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Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History

Joe Navarro - Scribner
Format: Print book

An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War, this shocking insider's story shows how a massive giveaway of secret war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation.In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest agents ever...
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A Gift from Darkness

Patience Ibrahim - Other Press
Format: Paperback

The inspirational story of a pregnant young Nigerian woman and the horrors she endured to save her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram.When she was nineteen, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several...
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Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death

LILLIAN FADERMAN - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Harvey Milk - eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck - was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most...
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Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House

Alyssa Mastromonaco - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? is an intimate and admiring portrait of a president, a candid book of advice for young women,...
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Scorched Earth: Restoring the Country after Obama

MICHAEL SAVAGE - Center Street
Format: Paperback

Michael Savage predicted the chaos that is Obama's legacy. Now he tells us whether the destruction can be stopped!Dr. Michael Savage, author and host of The Savage Nation, topped the New York Times bestseller list with Trump's War, which examined President Trump's early appointments...
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since...
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The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight

Adrian Levy - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads....
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Jr Forman - Farrar
Format: Print book

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 Education of Eva Moskowitz: A Memoir

Eva Moskowitz - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes a frank, feisty memoir about the rough-and-tumble battles to reform America's education system.Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows" - if that's...
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The Fighters

C. J. Chivers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through...
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World War II Propaganda: Analyzing the Art of Persuasion during Wartime

David Welch - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover

Shows in illuminating detail how the Allied and Axis forces used visual images and other propaganda material to sway public opinion during World War II.* Gives the reader primary source examples of World War II propaganda, answering the need for the study of images that is necessary in today's...
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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why

Sady Doyle - Melville House
Format: Book

She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From...
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Bethlehem: Biography of a Town

Nicholas Blincoe - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

DAVID GARROW - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National...
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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies

MICHAEL V HAYDEN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Teaching the Postsecondary Music Student with Disabilities

Kimberly McCord - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

Teaching the Postsecondary Music Student with Disabilities provides valuable information and practical strategies for teaching the college music student. With rising numbers of students with disabilities in university music schools, professors are being asked to accommodate students in their...
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

JAMES BRIDLE - Verso
Format: Hardcover

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In actual fact, we are lost...
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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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The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya

Frederic Wehrey - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi.The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic...
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE - ALFRED A KNOPF
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise...
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

Benn Steil - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary...
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Anthony Ray Hinton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine...
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No Justice: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart

ROBBIE TOLAN - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

MICHAEL WOLFF - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

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

Daniel Ellsberg - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expos of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking...
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Chokehold: Policing Black Men

Paul Butler - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's...
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge - Bloomsbury Circus
Format: Hardcover

'This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential' Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantA...
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The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyismand How Trump Can Drain It

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

The Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again. In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents...
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

Cliff Sims - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe

Michael Neiberg - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce. Britain was bankrupt, while Germany had been reduced to rubble. In July of 1945, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered...
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

JEREMIAH MOSS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIEROGI."--VANITY FAIRAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing...
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The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

Kenneth Weisbrode - Viking, 2016.
Format: Print book

A vivid account of America at the pivot point of the postwar era, Harry Truman's first full year in office In 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant...
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Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion

HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover

The first book to comprehensively break down the politics and tensions among the countries of the western Pacific, by a foreign correspondent who has witnessed it firsthandIn the sphere of modern international politics, few regions have been as hotly contested as Asia, an area that President...
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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

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 Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics

Maureen Dowd - Twelve
Format: Print book

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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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

ELI SASLOW - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

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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The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism

Brad Snyder - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book

In 1912, a group of ambitious young men, including future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and future journalistic giant Walter Lippmann, became disillusioned by the sluggish progress of change in the Taft Administration. The individuals started to band together informally, joined...
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace

David B Woolner - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American...
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A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland

SETH G JONES - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

In this gripping narrative history, Seth G. Jones reveals the CIA's involvement in a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War. In 1983, while Soviet- backed Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski worked to crush a budding opposition movement through martial law, the CIA launched...
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The Case for Impeachment

ALLAN J LICHTMAN - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." - The Hill"It is still striking to see the full argument unfold and realize that you don't have to be a zealot to imagine some version of it happening ... Lies. Abuse of power. Treason....
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Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback

From the cofounder of MomsRising.org and a speaker at the Women's March on Washington, KEEP MARCHING is an action-oriented, hands-on guide that will give all women the tools, incentive, and information they need to create political change in their communities--and in the country as a whole....
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When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph, and Its Aftermath

Stuart Isacoff - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of The Natural History of the Piano, the captivating story of the 1958 international piano competition in Moscow, where, at the height of Cold War tensions, an American musician showed the potential of art to change the world. April of 1958--the Iron Curtain...
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Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America

Mary Otto - New Press
Format: Print book

"Show me your teeth," the great naturalist Georges Cuvier is credited with saying, "and I will tell you who you are." In this shattering new work, veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America's mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society.Teeth...
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Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis

Charlotte Mcdonald-Gibson - New Press
Format: Print book

In 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees, most fleeing war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, attempted to make the perilous journey into Europe. Around three thousand lost their lives as they crossed the Mediterranean and Aegean in rickety boats provided by unscrupulous...
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The Briefing

SEAN SPICER - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow

MICHAEL IDOV - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men's fashionIn this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside -- and closely observing -- the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer...
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The Pragmatist: Bill de Blasio's Quest to Save the Soul of New York

Joseph P Viteritti - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

When Michael Bloomberg handed over the city to Bill de Blasio, New York and the country were experiencing record levels of income inequality. De Blasio was the first progressive elected to City Hall in twenty years. Invoking Fiorello La Guardia's name, he pledged to improve the lives...
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The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right

MAX BOOT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion...
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Social Media for Creative Libraries

Phil Bradley - Facet Publishing; 2nd Revised edition edition
Format: Book

Building on his acclaimed work How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library, social media guru Bradley explains exactly how libraries can get the most out of the gamut of social and real-time media technologies available. Chapters describe innovations like social networking, presentations, social...
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era

TA-NEHISI COATES - One World
Format: Book

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

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The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back

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

Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as "The Honeymooners" and "Welcome Back, Kotter" - comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East...
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Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country

Francesco G Duina - Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the American Dream of upward mobility is, for them, largely a myth. So why do these people love their country? Why have they not risen up to demand...
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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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Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

LYNDA SCHUSTER - Melville House Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the world Growing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Schuster felt certain life was happening elsewhere. And as soon as she graduated from high school,...
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Last Hope Island : Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war

Lynne Olson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days When the Nazi...
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A World to Win: The Life and Thought of Karl Marx

SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN - Verso
Format: Hardcover

Epic new biography of Karl Marx for the 200th anniversary of his birthIn this essential new biography - the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx - Sven-Eric Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent...
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

Eileen McNamara - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family's most profound political legacy.While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping...
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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the Worlds Best Writers

Joel Whitney - OR Books
Format: Hardcover

When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of Americas best-loved literary figures - including Peter Matthiessen,...
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The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights

Mikhaʼel Sefarad - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

From renowned human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, an unprecedented exploration of the struggle for human rights in Israel's courtsA farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his olive groves by the construction of Israel's controversial separation wall, asked Israeli...
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Defining Documents in American History: The 1960s

Salem Press - Salem Press
Format: Print book

This important resource provides students and researchers new insights into the 1960s in the U.S., through an in-depth analysis of forty important primary source documents and their lasting effect on American history. An historical timeline and bibliography of supplemental readings will...
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Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

Sekou Odinga - PM Press
Format: Paperback

In 1969, 21 members of the militant New York branch of the Black Panther Party were rounded up and indicted on multiple charges of violent acts and conspiracies. The membership of the NY 21, which includes the mother of Tupac Shakur, is largely forgotten and unknown. Their legacy, however...
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights

Steven Levingston - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth...
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

D D'SOUZA - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"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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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

Heather Mac Donald - Encounter Books
Format: Print book

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson...
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Standard Cataloging for School and Public Libraries

Sheila S. Intner - Libraries Unlimited; 5 edition
Format: Print book

Library cataloging and classification tools are constantly improving, making this concise guide a necessity for any librarian or library student seeking improved understanding of the practical process of cataloging today. With the release of RDA, a new code for description, and a new edition...
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Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma

Karlyn Forner - Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback

In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring about economic justice for African Americans in the Alabama Black Belt. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Forner illustrates how voting...
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Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s

NORMAN MAILER - Library of America
Format: Hardcover

Politics, war, sex, boxing, and the art of writing: an era's most controversial writer at his slashing and provocative bestThe electric and fearless essays of Norman Mailer were essential to the intellectual climate of 1960s America. Here, gathered into one volume for the first time...
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People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

Robert W McChesney - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

The consequence of the technological revolution is about to hit hard: employment opportunities will collapse across the board as new technologies replace labor. Moribund capitalism and talk of market solutions won't answer this crisis. In this brave new world, the power of the people...
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Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable

Erwin Chemerinsky - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well:...
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Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire

Kevin Deutsch - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

In 2015, Baltimore plunged into the worst American riots in recent history. In the chaos, two high school honor-roll students, "Brick" and "Wax, used their smarts, computer skills, ambition and gang connections to change the world of illegal drugs forever. With their gang...
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The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: American Icon

Antonia Felix - Sterling
Format: Hardcover

On the 25th anniversary of her appointment to the Supreme Court, this unofficial pictorial retrospective celebrates and honors the barrier-breaking achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - the "Notorious RBG." Featuring a foreword by Mimi Leder, award-winning filmmaker and director...
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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission

CASEY SHERMAN - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During an infamous thirteen-day stretch...
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Fear: Trump in the White House

BOB WOODWARD - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL ITWith authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes...
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

Bill Minutaglio - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law.On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius I.Q....
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A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

Ernst Jünger - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

Ernst Jnger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important -- and most controversial -- writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht...
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Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

James Loeffler - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State...
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How Long Will Israel Survive?: The Threat From Within

Gregg Carlstrom - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Israel is surrounded by an array of ever-changing threats. But what if its most serious challenge comes from within? There was once a national consensus in Israeli society: politics was split between left and right, but its people were broadly secular and liberal. Over the past decade,...
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The Sociology Book

Christopher Thorpe - DK Publishing
Format: Print book

The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals? The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their...
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Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

Gary J Dorrien - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

This magisterial follow-up to The New Abolition, a Grawemeyer Award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel's history. The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded...
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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan

Matt Farwell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly poignant--choice...
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The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

Mark K Updegrove - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An historian's revealing and intimate portrait of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush that explores their relationship as presidents and as father and son - the first major biographical treatment of these two consequential presidents and figures in American history.In 2016 the Republican...
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Presidents' Secrets: The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power

Mary Graham - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

How presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy, and gain power Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting - the Constitutional Convention - presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in military affairs and negotiations....
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A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War

DEBORAH CAMPBELL - Picador
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Freedom to Read AwardWinner of the Hubert Evans PrizeIn the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide...
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Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world

Anand Giridharadas - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

An insider's incisive and eye-opening account of the hypocrisies lurking behind the global elite's efforts to "change the world" through philanthropy and free enterprise without confronting their role in creating and perpetuating the very problems they purport to solve. Anand...
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Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything

Thomas Lake - Melcher Media
Format: Print book

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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How to Rig an Election

NIC CHEESEMAN - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to retain control Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace...
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The Case Against Impeaching Trump

ALAN M DERSHOWITZ - Hot Books
Format: Hardcover

"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else." -- PoliticoAlan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the...
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Stalin's Meteorologist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death

Olivier Rolin - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 Prix du Style "Masterful . . . An eloquent addition to a violent episode in the history of science in the twentieth century." -- Nature In 1934, the highly respected head of the Soviet Union's meteorology department, Alexei Feodosievich Wangenheim, was suddenly...
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Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"

Sarah Churchwell - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands forIn Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases--the "American dream"...
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Dinner in Camelot: The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House

JOSEPH A STYRON ROSE ESPOSITO - Foredge
Format: Hardcover

In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted forty-nine Nobel Prize winners--along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers--at a famed White House dinner. Among the guests were J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was officially welcomed back to Washington after a stint...
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Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

David Leach - ECW Press
Format: Paperback

A fascinating, non-partisan exploration of an incendiary regionSay the word "Israel" today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts...
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Immigration and Migration: In Context: 2 volume set

GALE CENGAGE LEARNING. - Gale Research Inc
Format: Hardcover

"Provides students with key data to understand the roots of the issues that make contemporary migration and immigration so contentious around the globe"--
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Secret Plan for America

Nancy Maclean - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right . . ." - The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this...
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals

JEANINE PIRRO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

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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Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War

Philip F Gura - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book

Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness....
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IMPROBABLE WENDELL WILLKIE : the businessman who saved the republican party and his country, and... conceived a new world order

DAVID LEVERING LEWIS - Liveright Pub Corp
Format: Print book

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner comes this surprising portrait of Wendell Willkie, the businessman-turned-presidential candidate who (almost) saved America's dysfunctional political system.In the wake of one of the most tumultuous Republican conventions ever,...
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Impeachment : a citizen's guide

Cass R Sunstein - Harvard University Press

As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public's responsibility. One route the Constitution provides for discharging that duty--a route rarely traveled--is impeachment. Cass...
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

NAOMI KLEIN - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback

The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic...
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty

Jonathan Morduch - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book

Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this ideal...
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Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present Book 6)

Barbara Ransby - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

"A powerful - and personal - account of the movement and its players." - The Washington Post. "This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change." - Publishers...
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The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State

Samer - Interlink Pub Group
Format: Hardcover

An incredibly brave account of life inside one of the most isolated and fear ridden cities in the world. The Raqqa Diaries began as a series of short broadcasts on BBC Radio 4's Today Program. Now one of the most isolated and fear ridden cities on earth, no-one is allowed to speak to western...
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(((Semitism) ) ) : Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump

Jonathan Weisman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Partner to Power: The Secret World of Presidents and Their Most Trusted Advisers

K WARD CUMMINGS - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

A former congressional staffer and Capitol Hill veteran recounts the colorful history of presidential advisers, showing how influential these unelected appointees have been.This revealing book examines the relationships between U.S. presidents and their closest advisers from a psychological,...
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Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

Craig Lambert - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound...
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The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory

Brian H. Fishman - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

An incisive narrative history of the Islamic State, from the 2005 master plan to reestablish the Caliphate to its quest for Final Victory in 2020 Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materialized suddenly. In fact, al-Qaeda's...
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musicians Guide to Rebuilding Americas CommunitiesOne Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time

Dar Williams - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishesDubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small...
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Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis

Joe Dolce - Harperwave
Format: Print book

The former editor-in-chief of Details and Star adventures into the fascinating "brave new world" of cannabis, tracing its history and possible future as he investigates the social, medical, legal, and cultural ramifications of this surprisingly versatile plant.Pot. Weed. Grass....
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Called to Rise

DAVID O BROWN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The Dallas police chief who inspired a nation with his compassionate, community-focused response to the killing of five of his officers shares his uplifting personal story and a blueprint for the future of policing.
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

James Kwak - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college...
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Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life

Thomas Bailey - Foredge
Format: Hardcover

Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt's lifelong engagement with books and discusses his writings from childhood journals to his final editorial,...
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Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials

Nilda Flores-González - NYU Press
Format: Paperback

An exploration of how race shapes Latino millennials' notions of national belonging Latino millennials constitute the second largest segment of the millennial population. By sheer numbers they will inevitably have a significant social, economic, and political impact on U.S. society....
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies...
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System

T R REID - PENGUIN Books
Format: Print book

Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest...
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Plunder and deceit : big government's exploitation of young people and the future

Mark R Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book

In each of his astounding #1 New York Times bestsellers, Mark R. Levin's overlying patriotic mission has been to avert a devastating tragedy: The loss of the greatest republic known to mankind. But who stands to lose the most?In modern America, the civil society is being steadily...
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"One of America's most important journalists" (The Washington Monthly) , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump, David Cay Johnston examines the Trump Administration's policies in its first one hundred...
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A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign Relations

Warren I Cohen - Columbia Univ Pr
Format: Hardcover

Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great crimes and ordinary errors, alongside many achievements and triumphs. In this comprehensive account of American foreign relations from the nation's founding...
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Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

JOHN KIRIAKOU - Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book
Format: Hardcover

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on Al Qaeda prisoners.Doing Time Like A Spy is Kiriakou's memoir...
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In America: Tales from Trump Country

Caitríona Perry - Gill Books / Gill & Macmillan Ltd.
Format: Hardcover

Washington Correspondent Caitriona Perry has earned a reputation as a reliable source of truth. In her first book, she goes beyond the news reports and delves into the American heartland where she witnessed the rise of Trump at first hand. Bringing to the table the voices of those who voted...
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The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics

SALENA ZITO - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

CNN contributor Salena Zito and Republican strategist Brad Todd report across five swing states to answer the pressing question: Was Donald Trump's election a fluke, or did it represent a fundamental shift in the electorate that will have repercussions - for Republicans and Democrats - for years...
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The World's Emergency Room: The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers

Michael Vanrooyen - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Print book

Twenty years ago, the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today, it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived...
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All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump

Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto

Jesse Ventura - W W Norton
Format: Print book

In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy on marijuana, and why he's always been in favor of legalization. Now, more than ever before, our country needs to see full legalization of medical/recreational marijuana and hemp.Any way you look at it, for whoever...
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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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Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

Anshel Pfeffer - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A deeply reported biography of the controversial Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel today without first understanding the man who leads itFor many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment, even a precursor to Donald Trump. But he continues...
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Celebrating Life Customs around the World

Victoria Williams - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover

This book documents hundreds of customs and traditions practiced in countries outside of the United States, showcasing the diversity of birth, coming-of-age, and death celebrations worldwide.* Examines cultural events in the general categories of birth and childhood events, teen and early...
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca

John McWhorter - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Print book

"One of our sharpest explainers of linguistics." - Steven Pinker"In Talking Back, Talking Black, John McWhorter, the maestro at communicating linguistics to the public, succeeds in helping the reader to 'actually hear Black English in a new way,' while hipping linguists...
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Ronald Reagan: New Deal Republican

Henry Olsen - Broadside Books
Format: Print book

Preface by Jon MeachamIn this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program's ultimate savior.Conventional...
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Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country

ARNOLD A OFFNER - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

One of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century, rediscovered in an important, definitive biography Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked...
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Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State

Emily Bell - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

Edward Snowden's release of classified NSA documents exposed the widespread government practice of mass surveillance in a democratic society. The publication of these documents, facilitated by three journalists, as well as efforts to criminalize the act of being a whistleblower or source,...
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state...
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Poetry and Power: John F. Kennedy's Vision for America

STEPHEN KENNEDY SMITH - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures - including Senator Elizabeth Warren,...
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

Rosa Brooks - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security....
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There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia

Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just when Colombians were ready to move past the murderous legacy of the country's cartels, a new, bloody chapter unfolded. In the late 1990s, right-wing paramilitary...
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Supreme Power: 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America

Ted Stewart - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating look at how much power the Supreme Court actually has and how far-reaching the consequences of some of their decisions can be. What do bakers' working hours have to do with abortion rights? What role did the Supreme Court play in sanctioning racism, in moving power away...
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Palestine: The Reality: The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration

J M N Jeffries - Olive Branch Pr
Format: Paperback

A comprehensive history and analysis of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, published in the run up to its 100th anniversary.First published by Longman Green, London, this book had a short life; the entire stock and the publisher's premises were destroyed by the German blitz in 1941....
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Rockin' the Free World!: How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World

SEAN KAY - ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Format: Print book

In Rockin' the Free World international relations expert Sean Kay takes readers inside "Bob Dylan's America" and shows how this vision linked the rock and roll revolution to American values of freedom, equality, human rights, and peace while tracing how those values have spread...
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The New Era of the 1920s: Key Themes and Documents

James Stuart Olson - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover

This invaluable resource covers all aspects of 1920s political, artistic, popular, and economic culture in America, supporting the AP U.S. history curriculum through topical and biographical entries, primary documents, sample documents-based essay questions, and period-specific learning...
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Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son

DIMITRI BONTINCK - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Rescued from ISIS is the inspiring and terrifying tale of one man's journey to the Middle East to save his child from radical Islam, and its surprising worldwide repercussions.Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent's worst nightmare. His teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend,...
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The Federalist Papers

ALEXANDER HAMILTON - Race Point Publishing
Format: Flexibound

Written by the iconic American statesman, Alexander Hamilton, the original US chief justice, John Jay, and "Father of the Constitution", James Madison, this compilation of eighty-five articles explains and defends the ideals behind the highest form of law in the United States....
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