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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
JOANNE FREEMAN - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol... |
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Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
Jeffrey Rosen - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty... |
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The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best--and Worst--Chief Executives
Brian Lamb - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership. Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories -- their... |
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The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
Michael Dobbs - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape Nazi Germany, and an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930's and 40's. This book complements the exhibition The Americans and the Holocaust... |
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America Is Better Than This: Trumps War Against Migrant Families
Jeff Merkley - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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An exposé and cry of outrage at the cruelty and chaos the Trump administration has wrought at the border with child separations, border blockades, and a massive gulag of child prisons housing thousands. Jeff Merkley couldnt believe his eyes. He never dreamed the United States could treat... |
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime,... |
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The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington
Alexander Nazaryan - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing look at the Trump cabinet: the scandals, the incompetence, the assault on the federal government, the bungled attempts to impose order on an administration lost in a chaos of its own making.Donald Trump promised a return to national greatness, but each day of his presidency... |
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Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power
John Yoo - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Defender in Chief, celebrated constitutional scholar John Yoo makes a provocative case against Donald Trump's alleged disruption of constitutional rules and norms.Donald Trump isn't shredding the Constitution -- he's its greatest defender.Ask any liberal -- and many moderate... |
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Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 11th edition
Henry M. III Robert - Da Capo Press; 11th Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Robert's Rules of Order is the book on parliamentary procedure for parliamentarians and anyone involved in an organization, association, club, or group and the authoritative guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings and assemblies. This newly revised edition is the only... |
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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
Charles Krauthammer - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical - including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about... |
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
Neil Sheehan - Racehorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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"The WikiLeaks of its day" (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American politics. "The most significant leaks of classified material in American history." -The Washington Post Not Fake News! The basis for the 2018 film The Post by Academy Award-winning director... |
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
Robert F Worth - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later, their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker... |
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The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy
Robert Kuttner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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To save both democracy and a decent economy, here's why it's crucial that Americans elect a truly progressive president.The 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular faith in government -- and win the election -- Democrats need... |
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Don't Lie to Me: And Stop Trying to Steal Our Freedom
Jeanine Pirro - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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It's been nearly four years since President Trump took office, and Judge Jeanine Pirro has had enough of the left's countless lies and false accusations. She is now forced to ask: How could anyone vote against President Trump this November? What more could you possibly want?In Don't... |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill... |
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Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Matt Taibbi
Format: Hardcover
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Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling... |
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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene - Penguin Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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For those who want power, watch power, or want to arm themselves against power, The 48 Laws of Power is "The Rules for suits" (New York Magazine). --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. |
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
Richard J Evans - Viking
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed... |
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All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator
Barry Levine - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Based on groundbreaking original reporting, an extensive new look at Donald Trump's relationships with women, revealing new accusations of sexual misconduct, exploring the roots of his alleged predatory behavior, and illustrating how Trump's presidency has helped catalyze the #MeToo movement... |
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The NRA: The Unauthorized History
Frank Smyth - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, the definitive account of America's most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins. The National Rifle Association is unique in American life. Few other civic organizations are as old or as large. None... |
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In America: Tales from Trump Country
Caitríona Perry - Gill Books / Gill & Macmillan Ltd.
Format: Hardcover
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Washington Correspondent Caitriona Perry has earned a reputation as a reliable source of truth. In her first book, she goes beyond the news reports and delves into the American heartland where she witnessed the rise of Trump at first hand. Bringing to the table the voices of those who voted... |
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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
JOSE ANDRES - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef Jos Andrs arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed and for most people there... |
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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Book
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From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents... |
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Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
Susan Eva Landau - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A cybersecurity expert and former Google privacy analyst's urgent call to protect devices and networks against malicious hackers New technologies have provided both incredible convenience and new threats. The same kinds of digital networks that allow you to hail a ride using your smartphone... |
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The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
Ben Buchanan - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Few national-security threats are as potent -- or as nebulous -- as cyber attacks. Ben Buchanan reveals how hackers are transforming spycraft and statecraft, catching us all in the crossfire, whether we know it or not.Ever since WarGames, we have been bracing for the cyberwar to come, conjuring... |
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The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan
Bangyuan Qi - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth... |
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The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
BRUCE KATZ - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address... |
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MAD About the Trump Era
Various - MAD
Format: Paperback
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As we enter the second half of President Donald Trump's interminable, unimpeachable reign, MAD feels it's high time to commemorate our steady slide into annihilation with a brand new collection of caricature, mockery and ridicule: MAD About the Trump Era!In this sequel to the best-selling... |
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A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism
Carol Berkin - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Today the United States is the dominant power in world affairs, and that status seems assured. Yet in the decade following the ratification of the Constitution, the republic's existence was contingent and fragile, challenged by domestic rebellions, foreign interference, and the always-present... |
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The Abolitionist and the Spy: A Father, a Son, and Their Battle for the Union
Kenneth P Lizzio - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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An abolitionist and a spy, father and son, in the forgotten Western theater of the Civil War.The abolitionist legacies of Orville Brown and his son, Spencer, live on in this historic and daring 19th-century account. Journeying apart from each other, but with similar passion, Orville and Spencers... |
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO... |
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
NADIA MURAD - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters... |
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On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer
Antonin Scalia - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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On Faith is an inspiring collection of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's reflections on his own faith, on the challenges that religious believers face in modern America, and on the religious freedoms protected by the Constitution. Featuring a personal introduction by Justice... |
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Butch Heroes
Ria Brodell - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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Portraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death... |
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Impeachment: An American History
Jeffrey A. Engel - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked - against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton - and explain what it means today.Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called... |
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A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump
David Plouffe - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A voter's playbook on making a difference in the 2020 election and beyond from the most recognized and most successful political strategist in the countryIf you've asked yourself the question, what more can I do to make sure Donald Trump does not continue to occupy the Oval Office... |
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Angela J Davis - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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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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The Reckonings: Essays
LACY JOHNSON - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side - rooted in her own experience with sexual assault - pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution.In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her "instant... |
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
Tom Cotton - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon... |
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Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era
Michael Mandelbaum - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign-policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply... |
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Convicting the Innocent: Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice
Stanley Cohen - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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"A landmark in the fight against the death penalty. Extensively researched and brilliantly written." Martin Garbus, criminal defense attorneyIn January 2000, Illinois Governor George H. Ryan declared a moratorium on state executions. Three years later, Ryan commuted all Illinois... |
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Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid
Miriam Laugesen - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. Doctors at the frontlines of medical care who manage complex conditions argue that they receive disproportionately lower fees than physicians... |
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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
NELSON MANDELA - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long... |
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ISIS: The State of Terror
Jessica Stern - Ecco
Format: Print book
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The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated... |
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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite... |
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Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America
Adam Cohen - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen, a revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years since the Nixon administrationIn the early 1960s, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren was at the height of its power,... |
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Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump
JEROME R CORSI - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump beat 16 Republican challengers and Hillary Rodham Clinton to win the presidency. Now he must beat the Deep State to keep his presidency. Here's how!#1 New York Times bestselling author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND and THE OBAMA NATION Jerome Corsi uncovers the secret conspiracy... |
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Daughter of the Heartland: My Ode to the Country that Raised Me
Joni Ernst - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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A candid, down-to-earth account of Iowa junior senator and veteran Joni Ernst's journey from farm girl to politician, and how those values inform her current political career in Washington, DC.The daughter of hardworking farmers, Joni Ernst has never been afraid of rolling up her sleeves... |
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The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
Samantha Power - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power is widely known as the moral voice of her generation. A relentless advocate for promoting human rights, she has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy." The Education of an Idealist... |
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The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know
Shira Tarrant - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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We may know pornography when we see it, but the business of pornography is a surprisingly elusive subject. Reliable figures about the industry are difficult to come by and widely disputed, but one matter that is hardly debatable is that pornography is a major and ubiquitous enterprise.... |
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Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History
Eric Foner - I.B.Tauris
Format: Paperback
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For almost four decades, Eric Foner, one of America's most distinguished historians, has introduced readers of his journalism to unknown or forgotten characters in American history, methodically unearthing the hidden history of American radicalism. In this collection of polemical pieces,... |
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Trump vs China: America's Greatest Challenge
Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounds the warning bell that China poses the biggest threat to the United States.Every American needs to understand the threat to America's safety and prosperity posed by China's reemergence as a world power. Unlike our other economic and military... |
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Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace
D. L. Hughley - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In this follow-up to his "hilarious yet soul-shaking" (Black Enterprise) New York Times bestseller How Not to Get Shot, comedy legend D. L. Hughley offers satirical terms for a peace treaty between white America and the rest of humanity.For more than four hundred years, white... |
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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Plunder and deceit : big government's exploitation of young people and the future
Mark R Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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In each of his astounding #1 New York Times bestsellers, Mark R. Levin's overlying patriotic mission has been to avert a devastating tragedy: The loss of the greatest republic known to mankind. But who stands to lose the most?In modern America, the civil society is being steadily... |
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We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution
BRUCE ACKERMAN - Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
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The Civil Rights Revolution carries Bruce Ackerman's sweeping reinterpretation of constitutional history into the era beginning with Brown v. Board of Education. From Rosa Parks's courageous defiance, to Martin Luther King's resounding cadences in "I Have a Dream,"... |
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14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
DW Gibson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump's border wall in San Diego - and the impact on the lives of local residents.In August of 2019, Donald Trump finished building his border wall - at least a portion of it. In San Diego,... |
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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Rethinking Library Technical Services: Redefining Our Profession for the Future
Mary Beth Weber - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book
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Will library technical services exist thirty years from now? If so, what do leading experts see as the direction of the field?In this visionary look at the future of technical services, Mary Beth Weber, Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers and editor of Library Resources and Technical... |
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Inspired Collaboration: Ideas for Discovering and Applying Your Potential
Dorothy Stoltz - ALA Editions
Format: Print book
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Collaboration involves a fusion of individual talents and skills through outreach and cooperation. And it is one of the key ingredients of a vibrant, successful library that is also relevant to the community it serves. But it doesn't just happen magically, and it's a challenge... |
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Politics at Work: How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists
ALEXANDER HERTEL-FERNANDEZ - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander... |
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A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein
Alana Goodman - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself On the morning of August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, jet-setting consigliere and friend to the rich and powerful, was found unresponsive in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan where he awaited his second trial for sexual... |
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Becoming a U.S. Citizen: A Guide to the Law, Exam & Interview
Ilona Bray J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Everything you need to become a naturalized U.S. citizen For a green card holder, taking the next step to U.S. citizenship offers a host of benefits. But the application process itself can be long and confusing. With Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can save months, or even years. Best... |
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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World
Mason Funk - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal... |
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Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
Carrie Goldberg - Plume
Format: Hardcover
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Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists - one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off - and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE - ALFRED A KNOPF
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... |
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Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump
Laura Ingraham - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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Americans didnt just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement... |
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Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today
James M. Banner - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A whole book devoted exclusively to the misconduct of American presidents and their responses to charges of misconduct is without precedent." - from the introduction to the 1974 edition by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historianThe historic 1974 report for the House... |
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Everyday Sexism
Laura Bates - St Martin'S Press, 2016.
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In 2012 after having been sexually harassed on London public transport, Laura Bates started a project called Everyday Sexism. Astounded by the response from all over the world, she quickly realized that the situation was far worse than she'd initially thought.
In a culture that's... |
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Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office
Susan Hennessey - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidencyThe extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature... |
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The Case Against Impeaching Trump
ALAN M DERSHOWITZ - Hot Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else." -- PoliticoAlan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the... |
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Paper Daughter: A Memoir
M. Elaine Mar - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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When she was five years old, M. Elaine Mar and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Denver to join her father in a community more Chinese than American, more hungry than hopeful. While working with her family in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant and living in the basement of her aunt's... |
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Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn't Work without a Strong Middle Class
David Madland - University of California Press
Format: Print book
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For the past several decades, politicians and economists thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But because America s middle class is now so weak, the US economy suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. As Hollowed Out explains,... |
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Lessons in Belonging from a Church-Going Commitment Phobe
Erin S. Lane - IVP Books
Format: Book
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The thing I am most desperate to keep you from finding out about me is . . . I want to belong, but I do not know how. There was a time when being a part of a church was not a decision you made but a reality you inhabited. But today belonging to the church has become a lost art, especially... |
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Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President
James C Klotter - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Charismatic, charming, and one of the best orators of his era, Henry Clay seemed to have it all. He offered a comprehensive plan of change for America, and he directed national affairs as Speaker of the House, as Secretary of State to John Quincy Adams--the man he put in office--and as acknowledged... |
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Robert D Kaplan - Random House
Format: Print book
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A concise and deeply moving portrait of the American landscape from coast to coast, Earning the Rockies offers a detailed and pragmatic framework for our foreign policy by examining the specific geography from which American power springs. As a boy, Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father... |
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Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal
Ben Sasse - St. Martin's Press
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 in positions... |
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Never Play Dead: How the Truth Makes You Unstoppable
Tomi Lahren - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Fox Nation host, Fox News contributor, and social media master argues that it's time to square your shoulders, stand your ground and speak the truth.The conventional wisdom is that we need more civility and fewer arguments. If you have a controversial option, keep it to yourself. Tomi... |
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The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America
Jim Acosta - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From CNN's veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump's war on truth. In Mr. Trump's campaign against what he calls "Fake News,"... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely." - New York Times Book Review"Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment." - The Washington PostDonald Trump's presidency... |
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Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency
Corey R. Lewandowski - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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LET TRUMP BE TRUMP: THE INSIDE STORY OF HIS PRESIDENCY is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of how he became President of the United States.Donald Trump was a candidate, and now a president, like none that have come before. His startling rise to the White House is the greatest political... |
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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
ANDREW C MCCARTHY - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media-Democrat "collusion narrative," which paints Donald Trump as cat's paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted... |
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Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
Kyle Swenson - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.In the early 1970s,... |
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy Snyder - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized... |
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My Vanishing Country: A Memoir
Bakari Sellers - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black working-class men and women.Part... |
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The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness
Steve DeAngelo - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
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The Cannabis Manifesto is both a call to action and a radical vision of humans' relationship with this healing but controversial plant. Steve DeAngelo, the founder of Harborside Health Center, the world's largest medical-cannabis dispensary, presents a compelling case for cannabis... |
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The... |
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
William Dalrymple - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place,... |
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Kenneth Whyte - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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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Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Tiya Miles - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart... |
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Front Row at the Trump Show
Jonathan Karl - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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An account like no other from the White House reporter who has known President Trump for more than 25 years. We have never seen a president like this...norm-breaking, rule-busting, dangerously reckless to some and an overdue force for change to others. One thing is clear: We are witnessing... |
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Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
Amin Saikal - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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On the fortieth anniversary of the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, a definitive political picture of the Islamic RepublicWhen Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would paralyze the country... |
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The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution
Daniel Raimi - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically -- thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as "fracking." This rapid increase has generated widespread debate, with... |
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The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK
JOHN R BOHRER - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother,... |
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Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities
Rogers Brubaker - Princeton University Pres
Format: Print book
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In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately... |
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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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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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography**Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography**Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy...... |
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
Jefferson Morley - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States government in the mid-20th century, a ghost of American power. From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. He unwittingly... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society... |
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The American Revolution: A World War
David Allison - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated collection of essays that explores the international dimensions of the American Revolution and its legacies in both America and around the worldThe American Revolution: A World War argues that contrary to popular opinion, the American Revolution was not just a simple... |
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Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America
Donald Trump - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In this book (previously published as Crippled America) , were going to look at the state of the world right now. Its a terrible mess, and thats putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible... |
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Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
JOSHUA ZEITZ - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform,... |
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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Ashton Applewhite - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower,... |
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost... |
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Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos
Peter Bergen - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's preeminent national security journalists, an explosive, news-breaking account of Donald Trump's collision with the American national security establishment, and with the worldIt is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy experience... |
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First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence
Harlow G Unger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Before Washington, before Jefferson, before Franklin or John Adams, there was Lee--Richard Henry Lee, the First Founding Father.Richard Henry Lee was the first to call for independence, and the first to call for union. He was "father of our country" as much as George Washington,... |
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Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller's "Witch Hunt"
Jerome R. Corsi Ph.D - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and CNN!In Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller's "Witch Hunt", New York Times bestselling author of Killing the Deep State Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. meticulously details the psychological torment he was subjected... |
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Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
Alan Gallay - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire. Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming... |
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what... |
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
ANTONIN SCALIA CHRISTOPHER SCALIA - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest... |
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War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
Benjamin R Teitelbaum - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hidden alliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval. In 2015, Bloomberg News named Steve Bannon "the most dangerous political operative in America." Since then, he has grown... |
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The Apprentice: Trump, Mueller and the Subversion of American Democracy
Greg Miller - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller, the truth about Vladimir Putins covert attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, its possible connections to the Trump campaign, Robert Muellers ensuing investigation... |
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Untitled Louise Lobo
Louise Lobo - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"You have replaced 'advice and consent' with 'search and destroy.'" - BRETT KAVANAUGH In this deeply researched account, one of Washington's top legal reporters reveals the massive funding, sophisticated organization, and fanatical zeal behind the campaign to stop Brett Kavanaugh's... |
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Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics
Jennifer L. Lawless - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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The past two decades of politics in Washington have seen increased partisanship, prolonged stalemates, and numerous scandals. For today's teenagers and young adults, years of ineffective and inefficient political leadership have completely eroded any sense that politicians or government... |
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Living with Alzheimer's: Managing Memory Loss, Identity, and Illness
RenÃe L. Beard - New York University Press
Format: Paperback
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News of Alzheimer's disease is constantly in the headlines. Every day we hear heart-wrenching stories of people caring for a loved one who has become a shell of their former self, of projections about rising incidence rates, and of cures that are just around the corner. However, we don't... |
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics
Ruwen Ogien - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right... |
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The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
Akhil Reed Amar - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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"I don't think there is anyone in the academy these days capable of more patient and attentive reading of the constitutional text than Akhil Amar."--Jeremy Waldron, New York Review of BooksWhen the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions,... |
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Eileen McNamara - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family's most profound political legacy.While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping... |
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Everyday Sexism
Laura Bates - Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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Good Housekeeping has this to say about Everyday Sexism, "a new generation of women is shouting back against everyday sexism, and their leader, Laura Bates, is determined to change the world."In 2012 after having been sexually harassed on London public transport, Laura Bates... |
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The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline
Jonathan Tepperman - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book
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A provocative look at the world's most difficult, seemingly ineradicable problems - and the surprising stories of the countries that solved them. We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth... |
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