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Watergate: A New History

Garrett M. Graff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills entered six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that would change the course of history: The five men - Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Baker, James McCord, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis - arrested...
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Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

Ric Prado - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era.Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro...
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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

Victor Davis Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the "citizen" is historically rare - and was among America's most valued ideals for over two centuries. But without shock treatment, warns historian Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship...
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer - Doubleday
Format: Print book

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower...
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals

JEANINE PIRRO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand how narratives take form, whether they are based in truth or not. In her explosive new book, she will write about some of the most egregious lies she's seen, and take on the Liars, Leakers, and Liberals.
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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

MAGGIE HABERMAN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"This is the book Trump fears most." - AxiosFrom the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York...
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Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America

Glenn Beck - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.THEIR NAMES ARE FAMILIAR.THEIR STORIES ARE NOT.Everyone has heard of a "Ponzi scheme," but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? Credit...
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V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II

Craig Nelson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy"...
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Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 19712017

Simon Reid-Henry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day, Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are.Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo...
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The Campaign Manager: Running and Winning Local Elections

Catherine Shaw - Westview Press; Fifth Edition, Fifth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Successful campaign manager and three-time mayor of Ashland, Oregon, Catherine Shaw presents a clear and concise, must-have handbook for navigating local campaigns. This handbook gives political novices and veterans alike a comprehensive and detailed plan for organizing, funding, publicizing,...
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