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And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise - a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White... |
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A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Rachel Kleinfeld - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant analysis of societies that appear to be intractably violent, but in fact are not - including our own. A Savage Order is original, penetrating, and filled with gripping history and reporting." - Steven PinkerAn urgent and provocative look at how extreme violence... |
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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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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
Michael Chabon - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists,... |
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
GAIL LUKASIK - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow... |
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Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma
Tirzah Firestone - Adam Kadmon Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lasting effects of individual trauma are now widely recognized. But what of the consequences of extreme trauma on an entire ethnic group? New research in neuroscience and clinical psychology demonstrates that even when they are hidden, trauma histories -- from persecution and deportation... |
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Montaigne: A Life
Philippe Desan - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world,... |
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Mike Duncan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization.... |
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Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities
Denis K. Anson - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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How would you make a phone call or write an email if you couldn't hear, see, or use your hands? This book shows how assistive technology helps individuals with disabilities to perform tasks that people without disabilities may take for granted.* Explores the many types of assistive... |
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
Sarah Kendzior - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory."A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability... |
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Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro
Thomas Maier - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros.Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever... |
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I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
JOE KENDA - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism
Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America's most sacred values.In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders' warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes... |
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Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate
Đình Trụ Trần - University of Hawaii Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in Vietnamese in the years... |
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The Age of Walls
TIM MARSHALL - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Tim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, analyzes the most urgent topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations.The globe has always been a world of walls,... |
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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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Liars, Leakers and Liberals
JEANINE PIRRO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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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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Reckless: Henry Kissinger's Responsibility for the Tragedy in Vietnam
ROBERT K BRIGHAM - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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This disturbing new account of Henry Kissinger's Vietnam years shows a blundering, self-serving man who led America to tragedy and Vietnam to waste in an unnecessarily dragged-out, ill-conceived war. The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 under the terms of a truce that were... |
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Travel as a Political Act
Rick Steves - Rick Steves
Format: Paperback
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Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan,... |
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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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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
DAVID MCCULLOUGH - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American... |
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Kurt Andersen - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest... |
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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line
DAVID HOGG - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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From two students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement that arose after the Parkland, Florida, shooting.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister,... |
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling... |
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos."--Roxanne... |
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies... |
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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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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Cliff Sims - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's... |
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expos of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking... |
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Hidden Terrors: The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America
A. J. Langguth - Open Road Media
Format: Paperback
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A "devastating" expos of the United States' Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione (Kirkus Reviews) . In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with the United States... |
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
Ethan Michaeli - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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"An extraordinary history ... Deeply researched, elegantly written ... a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten." - Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great... |
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what... |
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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
David A Kaplan - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government - and how we've... |
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House practice : a guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House
Charles W Johnson, III - U.S. Government Publishing Office
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Published by the Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives. Contains the parliamentary precedents of the United States House of Representatives.The compilation of the parliamentary precedents of the House is as important as any other function of the Office of the Parliamentarian.... |
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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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What Happened
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton... |
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The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine
Yousef Bashir - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A Palestinian activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada, and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of devastating brutality in this moving, candid, and transformative memoir that reminds us of the importance of looking beyond prejudice, anger, and fear.Yousef... |
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Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists
CHRIS STIREWALT - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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From Fox News' politics editor Chris Stirewalt -- a fun and lively account of America's populist tradition, from Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt, to Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and Donald Trump. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke:... |
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Full Disclosure
Stormy Daniels - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.How did Stormy... |
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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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Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary
Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller!From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Amateur and Blood Feud . . .Unlikeable is the stunning, powerful expos of Hillary Clinton and her floundering race for the White House. With unprecedented access to longtime associates of the Clintons and the Obamas,... |
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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
CASEY SHERMAN - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During an infamous thirteen-day stretch... |
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Addicted to Outrage: How Thinking Like a Recovering Addict Can Heal the Country
GLENN BECK - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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A new and sober Glenn Beck - author of thirteen #1 New York Times bestsellers - issues a startling challenge to people on both sides of the aisle to give up our addiction to hating each other.America is addicted to outrage, we're at the height of a twenty-year bender, and we need an intervention.... |
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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.
ANTONIA FELIX - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth Warren's rise as one of America's most powerful women is a stirring lesson in persistence. From her fierce support of the middle class to her unapologetic response to political bullies, Warren is known as a passionate yet plain-speaking champion of equity and fairness. In the wake... |
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Jared Diamond - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding... |
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What Unites Us
Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what... |
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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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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through... |
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Called to Rise
DAVID O BROWN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Dallas police chief who inspired a nation with his compassionate, community-focused response to the killing of five of his officers shares his uplifting personal story and a blueprint for the future of policing. |
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Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
Barry Friedman - Farrar
Format: Print book
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As the debate about out-of-control policing heats up, an authority on constitutional law offers a provocative account of how our rights have been erodedIn June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over... |
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Fear: Trump in the White House
BOB WOODWARD - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL ITWith authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes... |
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Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace
Laurence Leamer - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Where Trump Learned to RuleTo know Donald J. Trump it is best to start in his natural habitat: Palm Beach, Florida. It is here he learned the techniques that took him all the way to the White House. Painstakingly, over decades, he has created a world in this exclusive tropical enclave and favorite... |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's... |
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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Peter Andreas - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review) The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts... |
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
D D'SOUZA - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." - RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York... |
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration... |
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American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family
ROBERT F JR KENNEDY - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving, thoughtful family history, the son and namesake of Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy shares memories of his turbulent childhood and the lessons that have shaped his enduring values.Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the third of eleven children born to Bobby Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy,... |
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Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation
KEN STARR - Sentinel
Format: Book
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Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of one of the most divisive periods in American history.
You could fill a library with books about the scandals of the Clinton administration,... |
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Understanding Trump
Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "... |
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect... |
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
JEANNE THEOHARIS - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Explodes the fables that have been created about the civil rights movementThe civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered... |
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back
Jackie Speier - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier.Jackie Speier was twenty-eight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan's delegation to rescue defectors from cult leader... |
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The Case for Trump
Victor Davis Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more than ever In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor... |
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
Miriam Horn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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Now a feature-length documentary on the Discovery channel narrated by Tom Brokaw.. "Lush, gorgeously written ... A profoundly hopeful book." -- Tina Rosenberg, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardA Kirkus Best Book of 2016Many of the men and women doing todays... |
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The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years
John Paul Stevens - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful and personal account of life on the Supreme Court that offers a unique understanding of American history from one of the most prominent jurists of our time When Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, he left a legacy of service unequaled in the history... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra - Farrar
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year
Amy Siskind - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda,... |
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How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
Tom Ginsburg - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self rule. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump marked a decisive turning point for many. What kind of president calls the news media the "enemy... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly... |
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence - Picador Usa
Format: Print book
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Named a 2016 Best of Book of the Year by The EconomistThe Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it's a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a "nursery for terrorists"; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents,... |
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Kate Clifford Larson - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference. Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world... |
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The Netanyahu Years
BEN CASPIT - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office. Caspit... |
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White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide
Carol Anderson - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Paperback
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National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016From the Civil... |
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
BRITTNEY COOPER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage.Melissa Harris Perry says: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story...I was waiting and she has come... |
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Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border
John Carlos Frey - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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A damning portrait of the U.S.-Mexico border, where militaristic fantasies are unleashed, violent technologies are tested, and immigrants are targeted.Over the past three decades, U.S. immigration and border security policies have turned the southern states into conflict zones, spawned... |
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Chokehold: Policing Black Men
Paul Butler - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's... |
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
Meryl Gordon - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. |
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin:... |
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginningsWhen the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring... |
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Antisemitism: Here and Now
Deborah E. Lipstadt - Schocken
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist... |
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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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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
KAMALA HARRIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth... |
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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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Bloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition
Chris McNickle - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Examine the Bipartisan Legacy of a Remarkable Billionaire PoliticianBloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition tells the story of how one of America's most successful entrepreneurs was elected mayor of New York City and what he did with the power he won. Bloomberg's stunning victory... |
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
MITCH LANDRIEU - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate... |
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Bethlehem: Biography of a Town
Nicholas Blincoe - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable history of the beloved little town published in time for the holidays Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it feels like an unreal city even to those who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical... |
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The Briefing
SEAN SPICER - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Chris Myers Asch - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often... |
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Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism
Terry McAuliffe - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe former governor of Virginia tells the behind-the-scenes story of the violent "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville -- and shows how we can prevent other Charlottesvilles from happening. When Governor Terry McAuliffe hung up the phone... |
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Armageddon: THE BATTLE TO STOP OBAMA'S THIRD TERM
Dick Morris - Humanix Pub Llc
Format: Print book
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Timed for the critical presidential election season, New York Times bestselling author and noted political commentator Dick Morris provides a strategy and position on the issues for Republicans to attract crucial new voters to the party in order to win back the White House in 2016... |
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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama
Michael D'Antonio - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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Barack Obama was once a most unlikely candidate, but his successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and the Great Recession had discouraged millions of Americans, Obama made a promise... |
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
VAN JONES - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart - from the CNN host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) , now seen... |
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Trump: Anatomy of a Monstrosity
Nathan J Robinson - Demilune Press
Format: Paperback
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This is the ultimate book for understanding what Donald Trump's election means for the United States and the world. Much more than just a book about Trump himself, it is about the forces that led to his existence, and it is a guide for how to create a Trumpless world. Anatomy of a Monstrosity... |
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To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment
LAURENCE TRIBE - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The history and future of our democracy's ultimate sanction, presidential impeachment, and a guide to how it should be used nowTo End a Presidency addresses one of today's most urgent questions: when and whether to impeach a president. Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz provide an authoritative... |
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The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany
DAVID KING - W W NORTON
Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told story of the scandalous courtroom drama that paved the way for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution.... |
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The Crunk Feminist Collection
Brittney C. Cooper - Feminist Press
Format: Print book
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For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted - relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership... |
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How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
Edward Jay Epst - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking expos that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important. After details of American government... |
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How to Be a Muslim: An American Story
Haroon Moghul - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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A young Muslim leader's memoir of his struggles to forge an American Muslim identityHaroon Moghul was first thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, as an undergraduate leader at New York University's Islamic Center. Suddenly, he was making appearances everywhere: on TV, talking to interfaith... |
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Charles Campisi - Scribner
Format: Print book
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This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from... |
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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15 : 17 to paris
- PublicAffairs
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Clint Eastwood, in theaters February 2018.An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear.On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364... |
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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Gordon S Wood - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much... |
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Thomas Childers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in
MORGAN JERKINS - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black... |
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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
MICHAEL MCFAUL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the presentIn 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely... |
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Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
MITCHELL JACKSON - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In a thrillingly alive, candid new work, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth, while examining the cultural forces - large and small - that led him and his family to this place.With a poet's gifted ear,... |
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state... |
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A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank
Nir Baram - Text Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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"From horror to fatigue to indifference, an important look forward and back that provides a grass-roots sense... An honest and troubling snapshot of Israel - both Palestinian and Israeli - that reveals the creeping realization that a two-state solution may no longer be possible."... |
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The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jason Sokol - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassinationOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing... |
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Gun Control in the United States: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition
Gregg Lee Carter - ABC-CLIO
Format: Print book
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Most public debate and discussion about guns in U. S. society is rarely guided by research not surprising, as most individuals have a personal opinion on this highly inflammatory topic based on their upbringing or personal experiences. Additionally, most research about gun use in America... |
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Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer.... |
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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
Souad Mekhennet - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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"I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel. . . ."For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for The Washington Post who was born and educated in Germany, has had to balance... |
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The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future
Joseph C. Sternberg - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal columnist delivers a brilliant narrative of the mugging of the millennial generation-- how the Baby Boomers have stolen the millennials' future in order to ensure themselves a comfortable presentThe Theft of a Decade is a contrarian, revelatory analysis of how one generation... |
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Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul... |
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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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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
NAOMI KLEIN - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
FRANCISCO CANT - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil... |
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The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
Flint Taylor - Haymarket Books
Format: Hardcover
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With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO) , Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt... |
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A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
DEBORAH CAMPBELL - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Freedom to Read AwardWinner of the Hubert Evans PrizeIn the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide... |
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Messing with the Enemy
CLINT WATTS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become the cutting edge of modern warfare - and how we can protect ourselves and our country against... |
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The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight
Adrian Levy - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads.... |
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Book
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When the United States was founded, it was the only attempt at self-government in the world. Today more than half of all countries qualify as democracies, and in the long run that number will continue to grow. Yet nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Using America's long struggle as a template,... |
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