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To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment

Bret Baier - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and Fox News Channel's Chief Political Correspondent, a blockbuster new biography of George Washington, centering on his return from retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and secure the future of the United States.George Washington...
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Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

Jonathan Allen - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House - not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the mega-donors and key endorsers who feared he could not beat Bernie Sanders, not even Barack Obama. The story...
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The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

Craig Whitlock - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: to defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power,...
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Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Temple Grandin - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkersA quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin - the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver...
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Talk Radio's America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States

Brian Rosenwald - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

The cocreator of the Washington Post's "Made by History" blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of governing and paved the way for Donald Trump.America's long road to the Trump presidency began on August 1, 1988, when,...
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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

Rick Perlstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American...
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Kamala's Way: An American Life

Dan Morain
Format: Hardcover

There's very little that's conventional about Kamala Harris, and yet her personal story also represents the best of America. She grew up the eldest daughter of a single mother, a no-nonsense cancer researcher who emigrated from India at the age of nineteen in search of a better...
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Out of the Corner: A Memoir

Jennifer Grey - Ballantine
Format: Hardcover

In this beautiful, close-to-the bone account, Jennifer Grey takes readers on a vivid tour of the experiences that have shaped her, from her childhood as the daughter of Broadway and film legend Joel Grey, to the surprise hit with Patrick Swayze that made her America’s sweetheart,...

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Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill

Geoffrey Wheatcroft - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A major reassessment of Winston Churchill that examines his lasting influence in politics and culture.Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German...
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The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown

Julia Flynn Siler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first hundred years of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and an in-depth look at the "safe house" that became a refuge for those seeking their freedomBeginning...
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