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To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment

Bret Baier - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and Fox News Channel's Chief Political Correspondent, a blockbuster new biography of George Washington, centering on his return from retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and secure the future of the United States.George Washington...
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Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

Elizabeth D. Samet - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Annotated edition
Format: Hardcover

In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American...
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This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America

Jack Shuler - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Hardcover

Every overdose is a policy failure. Such is the guiding element of journalist Jack Shuler's new book, one that explores the current addiction crisis as a human rights problem fostered by poverty and inadequate health care. Tainted drug supplies, inadequate civic responses, and prevailing...
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Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution

Jennifer Block - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the U.S. American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining...
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era

TA-NEHISI COATES - One World
Format: Hardcover

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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Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington.

Sharyl Attkisson - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Seasoned CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today's media.Americans...
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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History

Andrew Morton - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward...
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.

James Carville - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,...
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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

Tracy Kidder - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston's homeless community - by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains"I couldn't put Rough Sleepers down. I am left...
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The Mueller Report

Washington Post - Scribner
Format: Paperback

The Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller "The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype ... the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency." - Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post The only book with exclusive...
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