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Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House
Tom LoBianco - Dey Street Books
Pages: 384
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 Pence As the impeachment of President Donald Trump remains a constant topic of discussion in political circles, the questions around... |
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ISIS: The State of Terror
Jessica Stern - Ecco; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated... |
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Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
Thomas Travisano - Viking
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life - and for poetry - than anyone else I've known." This new biography... |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks - Penguin Press
Pages: 352
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 alike
Both George Orwell and Winston... |
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Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About A People's History
Howard Zinn - The New Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Never before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical conversation between Howard Zinn and PBS/NPR journalist Ray Suarez, wherein American history is turned upside down - published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Zinn's death Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
CATHRYN JAKOBSON RAMIN - HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW - William Morrow
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross Barack Obama's speech at the 2004... |
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL - City Lights Publishers
Pages: 144
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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Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
Kay Whitlock - Beacon
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative book about rethinking hatred and violence in America Over the centuries American society has been plagued by brutality fueled by disregard for the humanity of others: systemic violence against Native peoples, black people, and immigrants. More recent examples include the Steubenville... |
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
DAVID MCCULLOUGH - Simon & Schuster
Pages: 176
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... |
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