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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory
Andrew Lichtenstein - West Virginia University Press
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From Wounded Knee to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and from the Upper Big Branch mine disaster to the Trail of Tears, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered presents photographs of significant sites from US history, posing unsettling questions about the contested memory of traumatic episodes from the nation's... |
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The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK
JOHN R BOHRER - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother,... |
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The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
Scott S Greenberger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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When President James Garfield was shot, no one in the United States was more dismayed than his Vice President, Chester Arthur. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and his fellow citizens but by his own conscience.From his promising start, Arthur had become... |
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Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
VANESSA NEUMANN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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International smuggling has exploded, deepening and accelerating the collaboration of transnational organized crime and terrorist groups. Attacks like the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan shootings in Paris, the kidnappings and murders by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the San Bernardino shooting... |
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Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West
James Pogue - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary inside look at America's militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation... |
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The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age
Robert Aquinas McNally - Bison Books
Format: Hardcover
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On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States' conquest of Native... |
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
FRANCISCO CANT - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil... |
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Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education
Glenn Beck - Threshold editions/Mercury Radio Arts, 2014.
Format: Print book
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PUBLIC EDUCATION IS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE CONSTITUTION. WHY? BECAUSE OUR FOUNDERS KNEW THAT IT WAS AN ISSUE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS--NOT THE FEDERAL ONE. It's not a coincidence that the more the federal government has inserted itself into public education over the years, the worse... |
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Book
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When the United States was founded, it was the only attempt at self-government in the world. Today more than half of all countries qualify as democracies, and in the long run that number will continue to grow. Yet nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Using America's long struggle as a template,... |
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Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts
HARLAN ULLMAN - Naval Institute Press
Format: Hardcover
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"This book should be read by all practitioners and serious students of national security as the guide for avoiding failures and miscalculations in using American military power." -- Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.) , Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-1993) and 65th... |
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jason Sokol - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassinationOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing... |
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River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster
Jonathan P. Thompson - Torrey House Press
Format: Paperback
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Award-winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado.... |
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The Detroit Riot of 1967
Hubert G Locke - Wayne State University Press
Format: Paperback
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During the last days of July 1967, Detroit experienced a week of devastating urban collapse-one of the worst civil disorders in twentieth-century America. Forty-three people were killed, over $50 million in property was destroyed, and the city itself was left in a state of panic and confusion,... |
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The Ideas Industry
DANIEL DREZNER - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to literature to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind... |
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Yes We
DAN PFEIFFER - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;... |
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Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition
JEFF BIGGERS - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"Resist we must, resist we will -- and as this volume powerfully reminds us, in so doing we are acting on the deepest American instincts." -- Bill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance Across cities, towns, and campuses, Americans are grappling with overwhelming... |
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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather. "A tonic for our times . . . Rathers writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new generation. In these essays, he gives voice... |
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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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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly... |
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Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf - Arcade
Format: Paperback
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The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape, feminist icon Gloria Steinem said Periods Gone Public, "maybe the beginning of liberation for us all."From eliminating the tampon tax, to enacting new laws ensuring access to affordable, safe... |
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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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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
JEANNE THEOHARIS - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Explodes the fables that have been created about the civil rights movementThe civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered... |
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy... |
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Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago
Roger Biles - University of Illinois Press
Format: Hardcover
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Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral triumph, fueled by overwhelming black support, represented victory over the Chicago Machine and business as usual. Yet the racially charged... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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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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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Charles Campisi - Scribner
Format: Print book
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This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from... |
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The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America
Sarah van Gelder - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Print book
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Discover the Real Revolution Unfolding across AmericaAmerica faces huge challenges - climate change, social injustice, racist violence, economic insecurity. Journalist Sarah van Gelder suspected that there were solutions, and she went looking for them, not in the centers of power, where... |
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In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
DANNY GOLDBERG - Akashic Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Danny Goldberg is a relentless tracker of people. However elusive this Lost Chord may be, Danny G. searches it out and nails it to the tree flesh. Eternity now! 1967 forever!" --Wavy Gravy"Danny Goldberg's deeply personal and political history of 1967 and the hippie... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza - Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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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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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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Our Bodies, Our Shelves: A Collection Of Library Humor
Roz Warren - HumorOutcasts Press
Format: Print book
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There are eight million stories at your local public library -- and not all of them are in the books! Join humorist Roz Warren ("the world's funniest librarian") for a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at library life. What really goes on behind the circulation desk? And in the stacks?... |
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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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Social Security For Dummies
Jonathan Peterson - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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Social Security For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293330) was previously published as Social Security For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781118967560) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated... |
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I, Spy: How to Be Your Own Private Investigator
Daniel Ribacoff - St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wanted to be your own private eye? Have you ever wanted to track down long-lost relatives or people who've scammed you? Have you ever wanted to know if your kids really are where they say they are? Or if your significant other is cheating on you? Or how to locate assets... |
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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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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies... |
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Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma
Karlyn Forner - Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback
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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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In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World
Rachel Dolezal - BenBella Books
Format: Print book
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A lot of people have made up their minds about Rachel Doleal. But none of them know her real story. In June 2015, the media "outed" Rachel Doleal as a white woman who had knowingly been "passing" as Black. When asked if she were African American during an interview about... |
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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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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
NAOMI KLEIN - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic... |
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths.... |
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Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Richard Heinberg - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy... |
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Anonymous. - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,... |
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
ANTONIN SCALIA CHRISTOPHER SCALIA - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest... |
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Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper, and More Connected Life
Dr. Dr. Bill Thomas - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most original and innovative thinkers in medicine, this "stirring and splendid book" (Wall Street Journal) offers groundbreaking insight to the postwar generation on facing their second coming of age, a developmental opportunity to reshape their lives and our society.Dr.... |
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Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society
Thomas Frank - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
Joseph J Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history... |
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Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
Ralph Nader - Nation Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and makes a persuasive case that Americans are not powerless. In Unstoppable, he explores the emerging... |
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America: The Farewell Tour
Chris Hedges - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate.America,... |
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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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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Angela J Davis - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the BlackLivesMatter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Contributing authors include Bryan Stevenson... |
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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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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Keisha N Blain - University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late... |
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
BENJAMIN CARTER HETT - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happenWhy did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf... |
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Power Grab: Obama's Dangerous Plan for a One-Party Nation
Dick Morris - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, in their upcoming release by Humanix Books, contend that President Obama is at war with the Constitution and its provisions that provide forchecks and balances. President Obama s style of leadership is proof that he is willing... |
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Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
W Joseph Campbell - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Many of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven myths, and they attribute to the news media and their practitioners far more power and influence than they truly exert. In Getting It Wrong, writer and scholar... |
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Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era
Jorge Ramos - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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"There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country. I am not complaining and it's not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many.... |
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I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Gina Sheridan - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Paperback
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Straight from the library - the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out! From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk.... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
Cathryn Jakobson Ramin - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesnt, what may cause harm,... |
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Format: Print book
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"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from... |
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
David Hugh Bunnell - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling... |
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I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
JOE KENDA - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
David R Boyd - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes,... |
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Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula: Booze & Bootleggers on the Border
Russell M Magnaghi - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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Temperance workers had their work cut out for them in the Upper Peninsula. It was a wild and wooly place where moonshiners, bootleggers and rumrunners thrived. Al Capone and the Purple Gang came north to keep Canadian whiskey passing through Sault Ste. Marie to Chicago and Detroit. Federal... |
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Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
JOSHUA ZEITZ - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform,... |
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A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples
Frederick Hertz - NOLO; Seventeenth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while its an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, its important that you take the proper legal steps... |
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Mitchell Duneier - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto -- a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto... |
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
DAVID MCCULLOUGH - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American... |
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Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War
Jeremy A Rabkin - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such... |
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Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News
BOB SCHIEFFER - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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We are in the midst of a communications revolution. We have access to more information than any people in history. But are we more informed or just overwhelmed by so much information we can't process? In Overload, legendary television journalist Bob Schieffer examines today's journalism... |
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Inequality in America: Race, Poverty, and Fulfilling Democracy's Promise
Stephen M Caliendo - Westview Press
Format: Paperback
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Why does inequality have such a hold on American society and public policy? And what can we, as citizens, do about it? Inequality in America takes an in-depth look at race, class and gender-based inequality, across a wide range of issues from housing and education to crime, employment and health.... |
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Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood?
Dee Gordon - Pen & Sword History
Format: Hardcover
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You wont be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all, familiar or not, leave unanswered questions behind them. The range is extensive, as was the research, with its insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries, different countries,... |
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Michael Cannell - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place... |
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What Happened
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton... |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William... |
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In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
Stephen M Ward - University of North Carolina Press
Format: Print book
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James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace... |
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
Michael Chabon - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists,... |
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The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
Paisley Rekdal - University of Georgia Press
Format: Paperback
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The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident -- in which a young homeless man born... |
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Robert D Kaplan - Random House
Format: Print book
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A concise and deeply moving portrait of the American landscape from coast to coast, Earning the Rockies offers a detailed and pragmatic framework for our foreign policy by examining the specific geography from which American power springs. As a boy, Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father... |
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestsellerThe fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save itSenator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's... |
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Real American: A Memoir
JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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"Courageous, achingly honest." -- Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"A compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called... |
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This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
GWEN CARR - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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After the death of her son, Eric Garner, at the hands of New York City police officers on Staten Island went viral, Gwen Carr's life changed forever. The illegal chokehold that took Garner's life has been seared into the public consciousness forever as the large black man struggled to breathe... |
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Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change
Angela Hattery - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect the regulation of African American people in many settings, including the public education system and the criminal... |
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The Purpose-Based Library: Finding Your Path to Survival, Success, and Growth
John J. Huber - Neal-Schuman Publishers
Format: Print book
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In the years since John Huber's trailblazing Lean Library Management was published, budget pressures on libraries have only increased. Yet libraries who have adopted his strategies have turned conventional management thinking that if budgets are reduced, customer service suffers on its head.... |
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Alexander Hamilton: The Illustrated Biography
Richard Sylla - Sterling Pub Co Inc
Format: Print book
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Find out who lived and who died in the incredible story of the founding father who made America modern - and became the toast of Broadway. This richly illustrated biography portrays Alexander Hamilton's fascinating life alongside his key contributions to American history, including his unsung... |
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginningsWhen the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring... |
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Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse , and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
Josh Katz - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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From the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightful exploration of American language Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can reveal where you grew up? In December 2013,... |
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The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City
Ryan Lugalia-Hollon - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoodsFor people of color who live in segregated urban neighborhoods, surviving crime and violence is a generational reality. As violence in cities like... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers's now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro 'Believe It or Not.'" Rogers's little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped... |
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A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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Don't Wait for the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership
Wesley K. Clark - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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With the end of the Cold War came not the end of history, but the end of Americas sense of its strategic purpose in the world. Then, after a decade of drift, the US was violently dragged back into international conflict. Its armed forces responded magnificently but its leaders objectives... |
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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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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
GILBERT KING - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential... |
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
Drew Philp - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it - and his new neighborhood - to its original glory in this "deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen ... A standout" (Kirkus Reviews, starred... |
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The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America
ROBERT WUTHNOW - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing... |
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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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My Life in Progressive Politics: Against the Grain
Joseph D Tydings - Texas A&M University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir,... |
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The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West
MARK LAUSE - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesAlthough later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West.... |
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Supremely Partisan: How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court
James D. Zirin - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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On the eve of a presidential election that may determine the makeup of Supreme Court justices for decades to come, prominent attorney James D. Zirin argues that the Court has become increasingly partisan, rapidly making policy choices right and left on bases that have nothing to do with... |
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