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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Peter Andreas · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review)
The intimate true story of a boy on the run with... |
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world. For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse... |
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Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
Jeff Madrick · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theories—why theyre wrong, and how theyve been harming America and the world. Budget deficits are bad. A strong dollar is good. Controlling inflation is paramount. Pay reflects greater worker skills. A deregulated free... |
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The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
Chuck Todd · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered... |
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Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
STACEY ABRAMS · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Minority Leader is a guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider by Stacey Abrams, slated to become the first black female governor in the U. S. Networking, persistence, and hard work are the crucial ingredients to advancing a career, but for people like Stacey Abrams, and many... |
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Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World
Cole Brown · Thorndike Press Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Library Binding
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Cole has heard it all before--token, bougie, oreo, Blackish--the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy site of his upbringing before he could... |
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Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal
Ben Sasse · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
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... |
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President Carter: The White House Years
Stuart Eizenstat · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 1024
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
MICHAEL V HAYDEN · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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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 important
In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts,... |
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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What really happened in 1969?
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order-their... |
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