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Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust

James Comey - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but he's had a long, varied career in the law and justice system. He knows better than most just what a force for good the US justice system can be, and how far afield it has strayed during the Trump...
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We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

Eliot Higgins - Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In 2018, Russian exile Sergei Skripal and his daughter were nearly killed in an audacious poisoning attempt in Salisbury, England. Soon, the identity of one of the suspects was revealed: he was a Russian spy. This huge investigative coup wasn't pulled off by an intelligence agency or a traditional...
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The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike

Jacob A. Zumoff - Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback

This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers' struggle in the United...
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The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Decoding History's Unsolved Mysteries

Brad Meltzer - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

In a riveting collection, Brad Meltzer guides us through the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time, from Leonardo da Vinci's stolen prophecy to the Kennedy assassination. This richly illustrated book serves up those fascinating, unexplained questions that nag at history buffs and conspiracy...
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Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

Laura Bates
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking book that pulls back the curtain on the terrorist movement no one is talking aboutWomen's rights activist Laura Bates has been the target of many misogynistic attacks online: from hate-fueled Twitter rants to vivid descriptions of her own rape and even death threats....
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The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How small-town America's surprising success reshapes our understanding of the nation's urban-rural divide The United States today appears to be deeply divided. Journalists have painted a portrait of an enraged America, where poor, conservative small towns are at war with affluent,...
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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

Cara Fitzpatrick - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education - one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school . America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining...
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The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control Ameri

Jason Chaffetz - Broadside e-books
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author, Fox News contributor, and former Congressman Jason Chaffetz reveals how an unelected bureaucracy - and not just the government - is infringing on our rights.For years, many Americans have increasingly felt that their votes don't change things. While...
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Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy

Jonathan Marshall - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From Truman to Trump, the deep corruption of our political leaders unveiled.Many critiques of the Trump era contrast it with the latter half of the twentieth century, when the United States seemed governed more by statesmen than by special interests. Without denying the extraordinary vigor...
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Bill Cohen's 1972 Campaign for Congress: An Oral History of the Walk that Changed Maine Politics

Christian P. Potholm II - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

1972 was a true watershed in Maine politics. Following a hundred years of Republican dominance, Democrats led by Senator Ed Muskie had achieved a string of victories that threatened to sweep Republicans from the board of congressional and gubernatorial offices. On election day only the win by first...
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