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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
Cara Fitzpatrick - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education - one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school . America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining... |
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Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America
Karine Jean-Pierre - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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A moving, inspiring political memoir and progressive call to arms from the chief public affairs officer for moveon.org, chronicling her own experiences - from growing up in New York's Haitian community to working in the Obama White House and charting a path for others to help change the face... |
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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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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many... |
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The Road Taken: A Memoir
PATRICK LEAHY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A historic, sweeping memoir from United States Senator Patrick Leahy, currently the chamber's longest-serving senator and President Pro Tempore. In his landmark memoir The Road Taken, Patrick Leahy looks back on a life lived on the front lines of American politics. As the senior-most... |
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The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Joel Magnuson - Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback
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"A brave book by a smart person with a masterful command of economic theory."—Publisher's WeeklyHow should we act and think economically in the world as the era of cheap oil comes to an end? The Approaching Great Transformation begins to answer this massive... |
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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
JAMES CRABTREE - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly... |
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My Life in Progressive Politics: Against the Grain
Joseph D Tydings - Texas A&M University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir,... |
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A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama's Defining Decisions
Reed Hundt - RosettaBooks
Format: Hardcover
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This book is the compelling story of President Obama's domestic policy decisions made between September 2008 and his inauguration on January 20, 2009.Barack Obama determined the fate of his presidency before he took office. His momentous decisions led to Donald Trump, for Obama the worst... |
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