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Format: Hardcover


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The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide

Linda R Monk - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback

With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens.In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill...
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Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon With Secretary Mattis

Guy Snodgrass - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

An insider's sometimes shocking account of how Defense Secretary James Mattis led the US military through global challenges while serving as a crucial check on the Trump Administration.For nearly two years as Trump's Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis maintained a complicated relationship...
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The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made

Cliff Sloan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country, with consequences that endure today. By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had molded his Court. He had appointed seven of the nine justices...
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The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age

Andrew Whitby - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census, revealing why the true boundaries of today's nations aren't lines on a map, but columns in a census tabulationIn April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization...
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I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

Penguin Publishing Group - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius. The...
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Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

Matthew Dallek - ?Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a vast communist conspiracy...
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LC Classification Schedules J: Political Science

Library of Congress - Library of Congress
Format: Paperback


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Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy

Laurent Richard - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud's Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy is the story of the one of the most sophisticated and invasive surveillance weapons ever created, used by governments around the world.Pegasus is widely regarded...
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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