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Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Darrell M. West - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Paperback


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The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind

Joe Nocera - ?Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

From the collaborators behind the modern business classic All the Devils are Here comes a damning indictment of American capitalism - and the leaders that left us brutally unprepared for a global pandemicIn 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that the U.S. could...
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Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing: Feminism, Misogyny, and Where We Go From Here

David Leser
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, impassioned, unflinching account of the firestorm of #MeToo, how we got there, and where we must now go.In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy,...
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Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

Nicole Hemmer - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s Ronald Reagan has long been lionized for building a conservative coalition sustained by an optimistic vision of Americanexceptionalism, small government, and free markets....
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Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

Amy Klobuchar - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From Standard Oil, and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, to the Progressive Era's trust-busters, Amy Klobuchar, in this large, compelling history, writes of the fight against monopolies in America. She writes of the breakup of Ma Bell, the pricing monopoly of Big Pharma, and the future of the giant...
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Don't Hurt a Sasquatch: And Other Wacky-but-Real Laws in the USA & Canada

Tyler Vendetti - Whalen Book Works
Format: Hardcover


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Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Ann Mcelhinney - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book

Gosnell is the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer.In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree.ABC News correspondent Terry Moran...
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 19172017

Rashid Khalidi - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead,...
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The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind

Ben Terris - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

"No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris ... THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of 'how it works' in this ongoing post-Trump (pre-Trump?) maelstrom. I just imbibed this book." -- Mark Leibovich, author of This Town. In this fascinating investigation...
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Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon

Mia Bloom - Redwood Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In January 2021, thousands descended on the U.S. Capitol to aid President Donald Trump in combating a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Two women died that day. They, like the millions of Americans who believe that a mysterious insider known as "Q" is exposing a vast...
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