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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando

PAUL KIX - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur...
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The Book of Rule: How the World is Governed

DK Publishing - DK Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Providing a clear, comprehensive and colorful guide to how the world is governed both in theory and practice, The Book of Rule examines the governments of all the worlds nations -- from major powers to the newest developing countries, from democracies to dictatorships -- and shows exactly...
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United

Cory Booker - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future. Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford...
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

Paul R Krugman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Audiobook

The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how todays crisis parallels the Great Depression -- and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition. In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman warns that, like diseases that have become...
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915

Jon Grinspan
Format: Hardcover

. Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed in the decades after the Civil War. Shaken by economic and technological disruption, they sought safety in aggressive, tribal partisanship. The results were the loudest, closest, most violent elections in U.S. history, driven...
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True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump

Jeffrey Toobin - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From CNN chief legal analyst and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, a real-life legal thriller about the prosecutors and congressional investigators pursuing the truth about Donald Trump's complicity in several crimes--and why they failed.Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail....
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

Howard Blum - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book

It was an explosion that reverberated across the country - and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night...
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James Baldwin: The FBI File

William J Maxwell - Arcade Publishing
Format: Paperback

Available in book form for the first time, the FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer.Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black...
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Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law

James B. Stewart
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author James Stewart, the definitive story of the war between President Trump and America's principal law enforcement agencies, answering the questions that the Mueller report couldn't - or wouldn'tWhen Trump fired James Comey, he triggered the appointment of Robert...
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Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas

Oscar Goodman - Weinstein Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

In Being Oscar,one of America’s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys recounts the stories and cases of his epic life. The Mafia’s go-to defender, he has tried an estimated 300 criminal cases, and won most of them. His roster of clients reads like a history of organized...
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