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(((Semitism) ) ) : Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
Jonathan Weisman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop: "With eloquence and poignancy Weisman shows how hatred can slowly and quietly chew away at the moral fabric of society. We now live in an age where more than ever bigotry and oppression no longer need to hide in fear of reproach.... |
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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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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
David B Woolner - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor... |
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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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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
STEVE KORNACKI - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s - one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscapeIn The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve Kornacki follows the twin paths of Bill Clinton and Newt... |
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All Politics Is Local: Why Progressives Must Fight for the States
Meaghan Winter
Format: Hardcover
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Democrats have largely ceded control of state governments to the GOP, allowing them to rig our political system and undermine democracy itself.After the 2016 election, Republicans had their largest majority in the states since 1928, controlling legislative chambers in thirty-two states... |
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge - Bloomsbury Circus
Format: Hardcover
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'This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential' Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantA... |
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William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841
Gail Collins - Times Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest officeWilliam Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity... |
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Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Derek Leebaert - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American superpower -- with global insights for today.An enduring myth of the twentieth century is that the United States rapidly became a superpower in the years... |
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Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 19712017
Simon Reid-Henry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day, Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are.Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo... |
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Reagan: The Life
H.W. Brands - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth... |
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
Casey Gerald - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart--a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church... |
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John Adams
David G McCullough - Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United... |
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The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
WESLEY YANG - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The National Magazine Award-winning writer's debut collection of incisive, stylish essays on race and gender. Inspired by The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois's classic collection of essays on race and American society, Wesley Yang's debut book marks a fresh contribution to the conversation... |
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The Good Fight: America's Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Rick Smolan - Against All Odds Productions
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the bestselling Day in the Life series comes an extraordinary illustrated book focusing on oppressed groups in the United States. The Good Fight vividly depicts the human face of America's sporadically violent, often triumphant, always risky struggle to fulfill... |
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Unfreedom of the Press
Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Paperback
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Six-time New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin "trounces the news media" (The Washington Times) in this timely and groundbreaking book demonstrating how the great tradition of American free press has degenerated into a standardless... |
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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Edward J. Watts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's... |
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Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House
Tom LoBianco - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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MIKE PENCE: THE ULTIMATE POLITICAL SHAPE-SHIFTER"I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican . . . in that order." - Mike PenceAs the impeachment of President Donald Trump remains a constant topic of discussion in political circles, the questions around our current vice... |
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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 Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women's Liberation
BONNIE J MORRIS - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Explores the global history and contributions of the feminist revolution.The Feminist Revolution offers an overview of women's struggle for equal rights in the late twentieth century. Beginning with the auspicious founding of the National Organization for Women in 1966, at a time... |
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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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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis - and charts a way out. The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense,... |
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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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The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
BENJAMIN CARTER HETT - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happenWhy did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf... |
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Haigs Coup: How Richard Nixons Closest Aide Forced Him from Office
Ray Locker - POTOMAC BOOKS
Format: Hardcover
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When General Alexander M. Haig Jr. returned to the White House on May 3, 1973, he found the Nixon administration in worse shape than he had imagined. President Richard Nixon, reelected in an overwhelming landslide just six months earlier, had accepted the resignations of his top aides - the chief... |
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The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence
NOT AVAILABLE. - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this well-rounded, deeply-investigated biography, the first full look at the vice president, two award-winning journalists unmask the real Mike Pence. Little-known outside his home state until Donald Trump made him his running mate, Mike Pence -- who proclaims himself a Christian first,... |
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No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding
Sean Wilentz - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A radical reconstruction of the founders' debate over slavery and the Constitution, by the best-selling, award-winning author of The Rise of American Democracy.Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have... |
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Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations
Chris Bobel - Vanderbilt University Press
Format: Paperback
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Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of society's body outlaws - individuals from myriad social locations who oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body. Original research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative interviews, and participant... |
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ASSAD, OR WE BURN THE COUNTRY : how one family's lust for power destroyed syria
SAM DAGHER - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War that offers never-before published details about the origins and persistence of the 21st century's worst humanitarian disasterIn spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice... |
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Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
David A Neiwert - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United StatesJust as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "alt-right"... |
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
KEVIN PERAINO - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day. In the opening months of 1949, U.S. President... |
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Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations
Martin Goodman - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem.In 70 C.E., after a four-year war, three Roman legions besieged and eventually devastated Jerusalem, destroying Herod’s magnificent Temple. Sixty years later,... |
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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation.The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional... |
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See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics
Caitlin Moscatello - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning journalist covering gender and politics comes an inside look at the female candidates fighting back and winning elections in the crucial 2018 midterms. After November 8, 2016, first came the sadness; then came the rage, the activism, and the protests; and, finally,... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement... |
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War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 19431945
Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed.Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day... |
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This America: The Case for the Nation
Jill Lepore - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This... |
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
PATRICK J CHARLES - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces... |
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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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On Democracy
E. B White - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear."These words were written by E. B. White in 1947.Decades before our current political turmoil, White crafted eloquent yet practical political statements that continue to resonate. "There's only one kind of press... |
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President Carter: The White House Years
Stuart Eizenstat - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments -- drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White... |
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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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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
Suketu Mehta - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu... |
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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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How democracies die
Steven Levitsky - Crown
Format: Print book
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"Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America,... |
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A Caro - A.A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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For the sheer magnitude, depth and authority of its revelations, The Power Broker stands alone---a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the virtually unknown saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the hidden story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York... |
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Susan Page - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}... |
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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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Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown
Lauren Hilgers - CROWN
Format: Book
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The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds
In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman,... |
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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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Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War
H BRUCE FRANKLIN - Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America's victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation... |
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The Beekeeper:Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
DUNYA MIKHAIL - New Directions
Format: Paperback
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The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from DaeshSince 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women.The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed... |
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The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War
Ricardo C. Ainslie - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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The city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to Juárez, and nearly 20 percent of the country's... |
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Maoism: A Global History
Julia Lovell - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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'Revelatory and instructive ... [a] beautifully written and accessible book' --The Times (London) For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's... |
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
JAMES COMEY - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions.... |
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We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
JABARI ASIM - Picador
Format: Paperback
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Insightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America by critically acclaimed writer Jabari AsimIn We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the "Master Narrative" and replaces it with... |
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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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The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right
MAX BOOT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion... |
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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
Preet Bharara - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara... |
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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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Reconstruction: A Concise History
Allen C Guelzo - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what... |
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama - Broadway
Format: Paperback
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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history... |
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
CAROL ANDERSON - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious... |
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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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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
MAX BOOT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987) , the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet... |
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Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding the Plot to Unmake America
Michelle Malkin - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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You already know that we have an immigration crisis in America. You know that our southern border isn't a border at all - it's an open migrant highway. Now, in this gripping expos from #1 national bestselling author Michelle Malkin, you'll discover that the immigration crisis is no accident.... |
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Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "one of the greatest writers of our time" Ngg wa Thiong'o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From "The Fig Tree, " written... |
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Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
Micah Goodman - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author Since the Six-Day War, Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to keep the land they conquered or to return some, if not all, of the territories... |
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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 Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics
David Stephen Heidler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possibleAndrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute... |
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Susan Ware - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.For far too long, the history of how American women... |
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What Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
James Traub - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of liberalism, from its earliest origins to its imperiled present and uncertain futureDonald Trump is the first American president to regard liberal values with open contempt. He has company: the leaders of Italy, Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, among others, are also avowed... |
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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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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Christopher Leonard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard's Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world... |
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does... |
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An awe-inspiring often hilarious and unerringly honest story of one mothers exercise in extreme parenting revealing the rewards-and the costs-of raising her children the Chinese way All decent parents want to do whats best for their children What Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reveals... |
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Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
Omer Bartov - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level - turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another - as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.For more than four hundred years, the Eastern... |
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Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon
Ash Carter - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs... |
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
GILBERT KING - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential... |
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United
Cory Booker - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future. Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford... |
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
DAVID E SANGER - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. Cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies,... |
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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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Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
Susan Rice - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice - National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations - reveals her surprising story with unflinching candor. Mother, wife,... |
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Putin's World: Russia Against the West
Angela Stent - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant analysis of Putin's Russia and how Russians perceive their place in the modern world. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px... |
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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
Matt Farwell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly poignant--choice... |
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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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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation... |
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Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane - Signet; 1st Signet edition
Format: Paperback
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[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] The classic story of life in apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids... |
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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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Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
Hazel Rowley - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's... |
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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary
WALTER STAHR - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union.Of the crucial men close to President... |
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Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
Joanna Lillis - I.B. Tauris
Format: Hardcover
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Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putin's Russia, its former colonial ruler, and Xi Jinping's China, this vast oil-rich state is carving... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal... |
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The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
P. E. Moskowitz - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech -- and how we can reclaim it.There's a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: free speech. We argue about... |
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Reagan: An American Journey
Bob Spitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents,... |
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A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
ALVIN FELZENBERG - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A new understanding of the man who changed the face of American politics William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In this nuanced biography, Alvin Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects... |
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The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty he Founded
Ronald Kessler
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For all his wealth and power, Joe Kennedy was not a happy man. He also had no shame. What he cared about was having power. Through the political dynasty that he founded, he achieved that for generations to come. If he hurt and corrupted others in the process, no one had the courag |
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A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
Joshua S. Goldstein - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change. As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries... |
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