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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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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump

GREGG JARRETT - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton's deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election.The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama's Justice Department worked...
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

Suzy Hansen - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Overseas Press Club of Americas Cornelius Ryan Award * Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual...
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Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography

Kate Bennett - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The first behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most enigmatic First Lady in U.S. historyMelania Trump is an enigma. Regardless of your political leanings, she is fascinating -- a First Lady who, in many ways, is the most modern and groundbreaking in recent history. A former...
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

Eyal Press - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view...
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Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network

DAVID MONTERO - Viking
Format: Hardcover

An investigation into corporate bribery around the world and how it undermines democracy and the free market systemThe World Bank estimates that rich multinational corporations pay hundreds of billions of dollars in bribes every year to officials overseas. The perpetrators are not a handful...
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.

James Carville - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,...
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Anne Applebaum - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states.Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond,...
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Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

Oliver Bullough - ?St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world.The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's twentieth century, the moment...
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Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback

Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

No one understands the Make America Great Again effort with more insight and more experience than former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich helped President Ronald Reagan "Make America Great Again" in 1980. He authored the Contract with America and spearheaded the 1994...
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