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Barack Obama: The Story

David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the author of First In His Class, the definitive biography of Bill Clinton, and When Pride Still Mattered, the bestselling biography of Vince Lombardi, and They Marched Into Sunlight, the classic saga of the Vietnam era - a stunning new multigenerational biography...
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The Italian Americans: A History

Maria Laurino - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true...
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Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect

Reese Erlich - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

Based on first-hand reporting from Syria and Washington, journalist Reese Erlich unravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian civil war. Through vivid, on-the-ground accounts and interviews with both rebel leaders and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erlich gives the reader a better...
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

Angela J Davis - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

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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Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent

E.J. Dionne - Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-read book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation’s political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr. argues that Americans can’t agree on who we are because we can’t...
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Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund

Arnie Bernstein - St. Martin's Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In the late 1930s, the German-American Bund, led by its popinjay dictator Fritz Kuhn, was a small but powerful national movement in pre-World War II America, determined to conquer the United States government with a fascist dictatorship. They met in private social halls and beer garden...
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American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us

Jesse Ventura - Skyhorse Publishing; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

In this explosive account of wrongful acts and on-going cover-ups, Jesse Ventura takes a systematic look at the wide gap between what the American government knows and what it reveals to the American people. For too long, we the people have sat by and let politicians and bureaucrats from...
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Cold War: An International History

Carole K. Fink - Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Paperback

More than a bipolar conflict between two Superpowers, the decades-long Cold War had implications for the entire world. In this accessible, comprehensive retelling, Carole K. Fink provides new insights and perspectives on key events with an emphasis on people, power, and ideas, along with...
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Wake Up America - Signed/Autographed

Eric Bolling - St. Martin's Press

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. America was built on nine distinct virtues, which shaped the character of our nation and make it great. Grit and individualism, merit and morality, profit and providence, freedom to speak our minds, and above all pride in our country-these qualities define us, and are the reason...
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System

T R REID - PENGUIN Books
Format: Print book

Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest...
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Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World

Robin Wright - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A decade after the attacks this groundbreaking book by a preeminent reporter takes readers deep into the struggle within the Muslim world where a growing movement defies and challenges extremism and repudiates Osama bin Laden his deviant doctrine and his violent disciples Robin Wright...
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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

What was he like? Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. What was he like, this man whose own wife called him that elusive, unforgettable man? In this New York Times bestselling biography, Chris Matthews answers that question with the verve...
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Detroit: An American Autopsy

Charlie LeDuff - Penguin Press; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

An explosive expos of America's lost prosperity - from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family's troubled past. Having led us on the way up, Detroit...
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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa

Stephanie Nolen - Walker & Company; First US Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, making them familiar....
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Going Rogue: An American Life

Sarah Palin - HarperCollins; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Going Rogue is the 1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of Americas most beloved and controversial political figures. Now with new material, Going Rogue offers plain talk from a true American original about her life, her career, and the future of the country she loves.,
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton

Jonathan Allen - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent...
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Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?

Karen Dawisha - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawishas brilliant Putins Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore...
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America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag

Sarah Palin - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivers an intimate and personal look at the woman behind the public servant. In her 1 New York Times bestselling memoir Going Roguethe bestselling nonfiction book of 2009Palin gave readers a look at her upbringing, her dynamic career, and her candidacy...
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor

FLO GROBERG - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A story of valor and the making of a hero - Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.Florent "Flo" Groberg...
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The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril

Eugene Jarecki - Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Deckle Edge]

In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, Eugene Jarecki, the creator of the award-winning documentary Why We Fight, launches a penetrating and revelatory inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully...
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Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to Americas Public Schools

Diane Ravitch - Vintage
Format: Hardcover

From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, an incisive, comprehensive look at todays American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop...
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The Native Americans: The Indigenous People of North America

Colin F Taylor - Salamander Books
Format: Book

The Native American looks back at the way of life of the first Americans. Divided into nine cultural areas, it draw particular attention - through the medium of 38 superb artifact spreads - to the ways in which some of the early inhabitants adapted to living in widely varying environments,...
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Going Rogue LP: An American Life

Sarah Palin - HarperLuxe; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print]

Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America’s most beloved and controversial political figures. Now with new material, Going Rogue offers plain talk from a true American original about her life, her career, and the future of the country...
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And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East

Richard Engel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard...
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

Richard Reeves - Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Format: Print book

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed...
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The Amateur

Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Think you know the real Barack Obama? You don’t—not until you’ve read The AmateurIn this stunning exposé, bestselling author Edward Klein—a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, former foreign editor of Newsweek, and former editor-in-chief of the New York Times...
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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

David O. Stewart - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nations foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades. In 1805, the United States was not twenty years old, an unformed infant....
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Valkyrie: The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler, by Its Last Member

Philipp Leopold Antonius Hubertus Boeselager Freiherr von - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

When the Second World War broke out, Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, age twenty-five, fought for his country enthusiastically as a cavalry officer. His rearing on the family estate in the Rhineland had instilled in him a strong Catholic faith, a reverence for the fatherland, and a love...
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JFK in the Senate: Pathway to the Presidency

John T. Shaw - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

Before John F. Kennedy became a legendary young president he was the junior senator from Massachusetts. The Senate was where JFK's presidential ambitions were born and first realized. In the first book to deal exclusively with JFK's Senate years, author John T. Shaw looks...
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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

Harlow Giles Unger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751-1831)...
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Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir

Claire McCaskill - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The female senator from Missouri shares her inspiring story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexist slings, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies - and finding joy along the way.Claire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a time that welcomed women...
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The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers

Paul Polak - Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Right now the number of people living on $2 a day or less is more than the entire population of the world in 1950. These 2.7 billion people are not just the world’s greatest challenge—they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. By learning how to serve them ethically...
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The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba

Julia Cooke - Seal Press
Format: Paperback

Change looms in Havana, Cubas capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in clich, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene baby-faced anarchists with...
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1877: America's Year of Living Violently

Michael A. Bellesiles - New Press, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In 1877, a decade after the Civil War, not only was the United States gripped by a deep depression, but the country was also in the throes of nearly unimaginable violence and upheaval marking the end of the brief period known as Reconstruction and a return to white rule across the South....
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True Compass: A Memoir

Edward M Kennedy - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candor about his extraordinary...
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A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him

Michael Takiff - Yale University Press; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated.Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but shockingly, no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clintons life from the cradle to the present day, not even...
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Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control

Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book

Glenn Beck, #1 bestselling author and radio host, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country.WHY DO WE ACCEPT THE LIES? Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill;...
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The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900

Mike Cox - Forge
Format: Book

Texas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers. Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the feared and gruesome Karankawa Indians, a cannibalistic tribe that wandered the Texas...
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A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption, And American Culture

Alexander Cockburn - Verso; First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Book

Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of Mark Twain, H.L. Menchken and Tom Paine. Colossal Wreck, his final work, finished shortly before his death in July 2012, exemplifies the prodigious...
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End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free

Mary Katharine Ham - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

They want to shut you up. But don't let this be the End of Discussion.In this fresh and provocative new book, Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson, dynamic Fox News and Townhall Media duo, expose how the Left exploits fake outrage to silence their political opponents - in public, on social...
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

Dawn Anahid MacKeen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation...
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The Wordy Shipmates

Sarah Vowell - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book

The Wordy Shipmates is New York Times?bestselling author Sarah Vowell?s exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop?s ?city upon a hill??a shining example, a ?city that cannot be hid.? To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation,...
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Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama

David Limbaugh - Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

As Americans, liberty is an inalienable right that is granted to us by God, protected by the Constitution, and upheld by our government. Yet, Barack Obama doesn't seem to share that view. To him, liberty is a threat to the government's power and something to be squashed by any means...
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Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

Del Quentin Wilber - Henry Holt and Co.; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

For the first time a minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan On March President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington DC and was shot by a would-be assassin For years few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying and no one has ever...
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Stronger Together: A Blueprint for Americas Future

Hillary Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has laid out an ambitious agenda to improve the lives of the American people and make our country stronger and safer. Stronger Together presents that agenda in full, relating stories from the American people and outlining the Clinton/Kaine campaigns...
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Daughters of the Earth

Carolyn J Niethammer
Format: Book

She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings.She built houses and ground corn, wove blankets and painted pottery, played field hock
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1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See

Bruce Chadwick - Sourcebooks; First edition
Format: Hardcover

"Highly recommended–a gripping narrative of the critical year of 1858 and the nation's slide toward disunion and war. Chadwick is especially adept at retelling the intense emotions of this critical time, particularly especially in recounting abolitionist opposition to the Fugitive...
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

Thomas Childers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic story of the Third Reich - how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young...
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Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America

Ann Coulter - Crown Forum; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The demon is a mob and the mob is demonic The Democratic Party activates mobs depends on mobs coddles mobs publicizes and celebrates mobsmdashit is the mob Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior...
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The Girl Who Escaped ISIS: This Is My Story

Farida Khalaf - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Named a "Best Book of the Year" by New York Post "Farida Khalaf's story is harrowing but crucial - especially when it comes to understanding what ISIS actually is and does." - Glamour "As gripping as it is appalling ... a compelling testament to the suffering...
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times

Kenneth Whyte - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert Hoover--a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune,...
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Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, a nd Central Asia

Ahmed Rashid - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author provides a shocking analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West. Ahmed Rashid is "Pakistan's best and bravest reporter" (Christopher Hitchens). His unique knowledge of this vast...
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea

Ralph Young - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan...
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The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

Andrew Bacevich - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

From an acclaimed conservative historian and former military officer, a bracing call for a pragmatic confrontation with the nations problems. The Limits of Power identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion...
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The Briefing

SEAN SPICER - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Sean Spicer takes readers behind the scenes of his turbulent tenure as President Trump's press secretary, shedding new light on the headline-grabbing controversies of the Trump administration's first year.
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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

KATY TUR - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Compelling ... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismCalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice"...
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End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free

Mary Katharine Ham - Crown Forum
Format: Paperback

With a new foreword for the paperback edition reflecting Trump's election and the recent uproar surrounding right-leaning speakers on college campuses, this unapologetic conservative duo featured on FOX News, Townhall, The Federalist, and CNN combat the silencing of free speech in America.They're...
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After America: Get Ready for Armageddon

Mark Steyn - Regnery Publishing; First edition
Format: Hardcover

Optimistic About Americas Future?Dont Be. In his giant New York Times bestseller, America Alone The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction. Its not just...
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Rosewater

Maziar Bahari - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Print book

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART | Previously published as Then They Came for MeWhen Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week...
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women

Sarah Helm - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrck, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through the woods...
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Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

Donald J. Trump - Regnery Publishing
Format: Paperback

A New York Times bestseller! For the first time in his own words, President-elect Donald J. Trump explains his plan to make America great again! He wants to "put Americas interests first - and that means doing whats right for our economy, our national security, and our public safety."...
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American Tapestry

Rachel L. Swarns - Amistad; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Print book

A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama's mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself.In this extraordinary feat of genealogical research - in the tradition of The Hemmingses of Monticello...
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience

Kirstin Downey - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Print book

"Kirstin Downey's lively, substantive and - dare I say - inspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates Perkins' career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt's character." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's...
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Pat and Dick: The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of a Marriage

Will Swift - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2015 Plutarch Award for Best Biography, "the most humanizing portrait of the Nixons we're likely to have" (Douglas Brinkley) is a sweeping depiction of the turbulent fifty-three-year marriage of Richard and Pat Nixon.When Americans remember the controversial...
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The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

Kenneth Weisbrode - Viking, 2016.
Format: Print book

A vivid account of America at the pivot point of the postwar era, Harry Truman's first full year in office In 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant...
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The Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics

Maureen Dowd - Twelve
Format: Print book

Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking...
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Tyrant

STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny....
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Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

Patrick J. Buchanan - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

America is disintegrating. The "one Nation under God, indivisible" of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unrecognizable to our parents. This is the thrust of Pat Buchanan's Suicide...
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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Marc Peyser - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide a sweeping look at the twentieth century. When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter...
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Social Security: The Inside Story, 2014 Edition: An Expert Explains Your Rights and Benefits

Andy Landis - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book

Social Security and Medicare form the bedrock of your future financial security. You paid for them—now make them work for you! SOCIAL SECURITY: THE INSIDE STORY is detailed. Comprehensive. User-friendly. It’s hailed as the best resource on Social Security and Medicare. This...
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America's Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East

Hugh Wilford - Basic Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From the 911 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitabilityfar from...
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Churchill

Paul Johnson - Viking
Format: Print book

An acclaimed historian presents a revelatory look at the greatest statesman of the twentieth century For eminent historian Paul Johnson, Winston Churchill remains an enigma in need of unraveling. Soldier, parliamentarian, Prime Minister, orator, painter, writer, husband, and leader - all of these...
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Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

Rebecca Alexander - Gotham; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within.Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf...
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If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement

Dorothy Cotton - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Director of the Citizenship Education Program, Dorothy Cotton, recounts the accomplishments of the program and her experiences in the civil rights movement.
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The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered

Laura Auricchio - Vintage
Format: Paperback

The Marquis de Lafayette at age nineteen volunteered to fight under George Washington and became the French hero of the American Revolution. In this major biography Laura Auricchio looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune...
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A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

Bruce Cannon Gibney - Hachette Books
Format: Print book

What happens when a society is run by people who are anti-social? Welcome to Baby Boomer America. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity....
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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

Eliza Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe tenth parallelthe line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equatoris a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the worlds 1.3 billion...
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White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britains White Slaves in America

Don Jordan
Format: Unknown Binding

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britains American colonies.. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from Londons streets to labor...
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Why the right went wrong : conservatism-- from Goldwater to the Tea Party and beyond

E J Dionne - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

"Dionne's expertise is evident in this finely crafted and convincing work." - The Los Angeles Times From one of our most engaging political reporters and the author of Why Americans Hate Politics; the story of conservatism from the Goldwater 1960s to the present...
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The Communist

Paul Kengor - Mercury Ink
Format: Hardcover

“I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people. . . . As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.” —FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, 1947 In his memoir,...
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An End to al-Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden's Jihad and Restoring America's Honor

Malcolm Nance - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Osama Bin Laden is unquestionably the leader of the world’s most deadly terrorist cult. He has perverted the teachings of Islam to create a fringe religious ideology, Bin Ladenism, where only al-Qaeda speaks for God.  In his cult, suicide bombing is the highest form of worship...
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

MICHAEL WOLFF - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

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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New Road to Serfdom, The

Daniel Hannan - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In World War II, American soldiers went overseas to rescue England from the Nazi menace. Now, with America threatened from within by the specter of social democracy, British politician Daniel Hannan returns the favor. The New Road to Serfdom is a must-read rallying cry for Tea Party activists,...
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The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

Moises Naim - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

We know that power is shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups and, slowly but surely, from men to women. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing. It is also decaying....
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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

Richard McGregor - Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor's illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China's political...
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Drone Warrior: An Elite Soldiers Inside Account of the Hunt for Americas Most Dangerous Enemies

Brett Velicovich - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

"A must read for anyone who wants to understand the new American way of war." - General Michael V. Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency A former special operations member takes us inside Americas covert drone war in this...
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The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring

Paul Danahar - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book

For the past forty years the story of the Middle East has been simple. The news images flashing across our TV screens from the Middle East provoked anger, outrage and, sometimes military action from the international community. But now the handful of dictators who ruled over hundreds of millions...
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Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way

Jon Krakauer - Anchor; First Printing edition
Format: Paperback

Greg Mortenson, the bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea, is a man who has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and childrens crusader, and hes been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. But, as Jon Krakauer demonstrates in this extensively researched and penetrating book,...
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Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade

George Packer - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of contemporary history. Interesting Times unites brilliant investigative pieces such as “Betrayed,” about Iraqi interpreters,...
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Yalta: The Price of Peace

S. M. Plokhy - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room...
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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames

Kai Bird - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded...
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The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover

On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked...
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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

Russell Shorto - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal...
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A History of the World Since 9/11: Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror

Dominic Streatfeild - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover

To understand why, you'll need to know how … · an Australian metals trader named Garry-with help from the CIA-inadvertently triggered the invasion of Iraq · coalition troops were killed by bombs made with explosives that, according to the White House, never existed...
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Double Down: Game Change 2012

Mark Halperin - Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover

Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times:"Those hungry for political news will read Double Down for the scooplets and insidery glimpses it serves up about the two campaigns, and the clues it offers about the positioning already going on among Republicans and Democrats for 2016 ... The book...
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The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan

Michael Hastings - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

General Stanley McChrystal, the innovative, forward-thinking commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living large. He was better known to some as Big Stan, M4, Stan, and his loyal staff liked to call him a "rock star." During a spring 2010 trip...
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While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era

Russ Feingold - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Former senator Russ Feingold looks at institutional failures, both domestic and abroad, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and proposes steps to be taken - by the government and by individuals - to ensure that the next ten years are focused on solving the international problems that threaten...
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Putin's Master Plan: To Destroy Europe, Divide NATO, and Restore Russian Power and Global Influence

Douglas E Schoen - Encounter Books
Format: Print book

Vladimir Putin has a master plan to destroy Europe, divide NATO, reclaim Russian influence in the world, and most of all to marginalize the United States and the West in order to achieve regional hegemony and global power. Putin's unified strategy and vision for Europe has not been...
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Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi

Fred Burton - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, Libya On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic...
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Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

BOB SCHIEFFER - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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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I Should Be Dead: My Life Surviving Politics, TV, and Addiction

Bob Beckel - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

From popular TV personality Bob Beckel, a deeply moving, redemptive memoir about his life as a political operative and diplomat, his long struggle with alcohol and drugs, and his unlikely journey to finding faith. Growing up poor in an abusive home, Bob Beckel learned to be a survivor:...
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Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman

Harlow Giles Unger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

In a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, author Harlow Giles Unger tells how a fearless young Kentucky lawyer threw open the doors of Congress during the nation's formative years and prevented dissolution of the infant American republic.The only freshman congressman...
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The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

Graeme Wood - Random House
Format: Print book

The author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants" has written the definitive, electrifying account of the strategy, psychology, and theology driving the Islamic StateTens of thousands of men and women have left comfortable, privileged lives to join...
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Obama: From Promise to Power

David Mendell - Amistad; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The biography of America's hottest political superstar—Barack Obama—from a journalist who has been covering Obama and his career since his successful run for U.S. SenateBarack Obama's meteoric rise from Hawaii high schooler to exemplary Harvard Law School student to well-groomed...
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

Cathryn Jakobson Ramin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

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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The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country

Howard Fineman - Random House
Format: Print book

"The Thirteen American Arguments is a thought-provoking, engaging study of the great American debate, and a highly worthwhile read."-RealClearPolitics.com"Insightful and enjoyable . . . . In The Thirteen American Arguments, Howard Fineman lifts readers above the fog of modern...
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The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities

Stephen G Breyer - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Print book

In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private - from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct...
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Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist

Jennet Conant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant - a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War - told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant.James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center...
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Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump

David A Neiwert - Verso
Format: Hardcover

The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United StatesJust as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "alt-right"...
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Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House

Richard Wolffe - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Revival is the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic success. Over the span of an extraordinary two months in the life of a young presidency,...
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A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson

Candy Carson - Sentinel
Format: Print book

"The life of a neurosurgeon isn't an easy one, and Ben has been required to go above and beyond the call of duty almost constantly. The life of a neurosurgeon's wife isn't much easier. But it's all been worth it. Together, we've been through poverty, tragedy, wealth, and joy, and we've...
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Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s books are events. They stir passionate public debate among political and civic leaders, scholars, and the general public because they compel people to rethink the most powerful conventional wisdoms and stubborn moral problems of the day. Worse Than War gets...
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace

David B Woolner - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American...
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7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century

Andrew F Krepinevich - Bantam Dell
Format: Book

A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.China's growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.Pakistan's collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons.What if the worst that could happen actually happens?...
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A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution

David. A. Nichols - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Fifty years after President Dwight D Eisenhower ordered troops to Little Rock Arkansas to enforce a federal court order desegregating the citys Central High School a leading authority on Eisenhower presents an original and engrossing narrative that places Ike and his civil rights policies...
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The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy

Walid Phares - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover

From Afghanistan and Iraq to Europe and the United States we are engaged in one of the most heated wars of all time. In this incisive new book, the man that has been called--the only one to understand the mind of the jihadist--shows that the most important battle is actually taking...
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Understanding Cerebral Palsy: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Marion Stanton - Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1 edition
Format: Book

An invaluable starting point for anyone encountering cerebral palsy for the first time, this book provides essential background information on causes, types and symptoms, as well as vital advice about the treatments, therapies and sources of support available. Practical tips on everyday...
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United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good

Cory Booker - Ballantine Books
Format: eBook

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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Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

Andrew Bacevich - Metropolitan Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must changeFor the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged:...
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And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation

Agnes Kamara-Umunna - Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna's home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed...
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Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution

Adrian Desmond - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

An astonishing new portrait of a scientific iconIn this remarkable book, Adrian Desmond and James Moore restore the missing moral core of Darwin’s evolutionary universe, providing a completely new account of how he came to his shattering theories about human origins.There has always...
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Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State

Michael R Gordon - Farrar
Format: Print book

A top D.C. journalist tells the inside story of the U.S. war against the Islamic StateWhen the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq in 2011, President Obama took credit for keeping his promise to end one war. As savage violence flared in Syria that very same year, he resisted calls to intervene...
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Gandhi Before India

Ramachandra Guha - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential - and controversial - men in modern history. Ramachandra...
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To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine

Newt Gingrich - Regnery
Format: Hardcover

In his blockbuster new book, To Save America, former Speaker of the House and bestselling author Newt Gingrich issues a dire warning for America. By spending more than we can afford, sacrificing conservative values for the sake of easy answers, and electing the most liberal president ever,...
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Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist

Lawrence James - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating and often surprising new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire. One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship...
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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

Tim Weiner - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover

A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim WeinerBased largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait...
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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

Martin Jacques - Penguin Press HC, The; 5th Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

How Chinas ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake...
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Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor

Matthew Latimer - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Book

From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most deliciously candid memoir ever written about official Washington—a laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest.   Despite...
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Eliza Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

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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Somewhere Inside

Laura Ling - WilliamMr; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling’s capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura’s release by former President Bill Clinton. This riveting true account of the first...
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American Statecraft: The Story of the U.S. Foreign Service

J. Robert Moskin - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"This magisterial work on American diplomacy by a veteran journalist and historian is the first complete history of the U.S. Foreign Service American Statecraft is a fascinating and comprehensive look at the unsung men and women of the U.S. Foreign Service whose dedication and sacrifices...
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Herbert Hoover: The American Presidents Series: The 31st President, 1929-1933

William E Leuchtenburg - Times Books
Format: Print book

The Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great DepressionCatapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover--an engineer by training--exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s....
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Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home

James Carville - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Carville and Matalin...
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa

Dayo Olopade - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book

The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves Africa is a continent on the move. It's often hard to notice, though - the Western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual dynamism and informal social...
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Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power

James McGrath Morris - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America." - Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward...
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Believer: My Forty Years in Politics

David Axelrod - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Book Review"A stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years."A New York Times BestsellerDavid Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a young journalist investigating city corruption, a campaign consultant guiding underdog candidates against...
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Jeanne Theoharis - ‎Beacon Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography / Auto Biography2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks...

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Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

Christopher Andrew - Knopf; Book Club Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An unprecedented publishing event to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation...
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Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

Thomas Frank - Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, a wonderfully insightful and sardonic look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatismEconomic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for change—or at least...
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And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side

Dana Perino - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerFrom her years as the presidential press secretary to her debates with colleagues on Fox News' The Five, Dana Perino reveals the lessons she's learned that have guided her through life, kept her level-headed,...
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The Ingenious Mr. Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy

Henry Hemming - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare foreverIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds - to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune...
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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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My Country, 'Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future

Keith Ellison - Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing
Format: Hardcover

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes. Keith Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress. In fact, the first nonwhite that Minnesota has ever elected to Congress. That wasn't...
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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History

Sarah Rose - Viking Adult; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China...
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Scalia: A Court of One

Bruce Allen Murphy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative, deeply researched biography of the most controversial and outspoken Supreme Court justice of our time and how he chose to be "right" rather than influential.Antonin Scalia knew only success in the first fifty years of his life. His sterling academic and legal...
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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump

GREGG JARRETT - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton's deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election.The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama's Justice Department worked...
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Eisenhower: The White House Years

Jim Newton - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Newton's contribution is as cogent an inventory of Eisenhower's White House years as I've ever read. He blends masterful writing with historic detail and provides the value-added of Ike as the man and the leader." - Chuck Hagel, Distinguished Professor, Georgetown...
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Death Song: The Last of the Indian Wars

John Edward Weems - Indian Head Books
Format: Hardcover

In a poignant drama of heroism, treachery and violence, John Edwards Weems eloquently recounts yet another chapter of US history: the closing decades of the nineteenth century which marked the last of the Indian wars, those bloody years when Western expansion changed forever the face of the American...
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East

Richard Engel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo...
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The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era

Michael Grunwald - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Drawing on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind one of the most important and least understood laws in U.S. history, President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus. Grunwald’s New York Times...
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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

A C Grayling - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy...
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The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama

Len Colodny - Harper
Format: Print book

In this groundbreaking book, renowned investigative writers Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman chronicle the little-understood evolution of the neoconservative movement - from its birth as a rogue insurgency in the Nixon White House through its ascent to full and controversial control of America's...
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March...
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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

Ted Koppel - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book

In this New York Times bestselling investigation, Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks...
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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

Alan Weisman - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A powerful investigation into the chances for humanitys future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanitys constant pressures....
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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

Mac Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Mac Griswold’s The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England...
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The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953

Robert Dallek - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Robert Dallek brings to this majestic work a profound understanding of history, a deep engagement in foreign policy, and a lifetime of studying leadership. The story of what went wrong during the postwar period…has never been more intelligently explored." —Doris Kearns...
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World Order

Henry Kissinger - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

Walter Isaacson, Time:"Dazzling and instructive... [a] magisterial new book."Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern...
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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy

Sudhir Venkatesh - Penguin Press HC, The; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"[A] fascinating X-ray of the city...Venkatesh's engrossing narrative dissects the intricacies of illegal commerce." --Publishers Weekly (STARRED review) New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute...
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Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir

Wendy Davis - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

Wendy Davis has had her share of tough fights. Raised by a single mother with a ninth-grade education, Davis began working after school at age fourteen to contribute to the family finances. By the time she was nineteen, she was living in a trailer park with a baby daughter and holding down...
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