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Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington

Lachlan Markay - Viking
Format: Hardcover

An eyewitness account of Donald Trump's clown car of lieutenants and lackeys who have polluted the corridors of power with their unprecedented awfulness.Two of Washington's most meddlesome reporters take readers on a deep dive into the murky underworld of President Trump's Washington,...
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Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining President Trump

COREY R LEWANDOWSKI - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, the authors of the blockbuster, Let Trump Be Trump: the Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency, are back with their next New York Times bestseller. This book will reveal the heart of the hostile bureaucratic network that has been...
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The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage

Jared Yates Sexton - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

On June 14, 2016, Jared Yates Sexton reported from a Donald Trump rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of the first journalists to attend these rallies and give mainstream readers an idea of the raw anger that occurred there, Sexton found himself in the center of a maelstrom. Following...
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. - CROWN PUB INC
Format: Hardcover

We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself...
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When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys

Thomas Maier - Crown
Format: Book

The first comprehensive history of the deeply entwined personal and public lives of the Churchills and the Kennedys and what their "special relationship" meant for Great Britain and the United States When Lions Roar begins in the mid-1930s at Chartwell, Winston Churchill's...
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The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama

GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

New York Magazine national correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti reveals an inside look at the historically close, complicated, occasionally co-dependent, and at-times uncertain relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.Delving far deeper than the simplistic "bromance" narrative...
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend

Meryl Gordon - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion.
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Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence

VIVEK RAMASWAMY - ?Center Street
Format: Hardcover

America's inner spirit has been domesticated by a new culture that rejects excellence and embraces victimhood.   Hardship is now equated with victimhood. Outward displays of vulnerability in defeat are celebrated over winning unabashedly. The pursuit of excellence and exceptionalism...
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Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

Alisa Roth - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

An urgent expos of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisonsAmerica has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons...
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Courage Under Fire: Under Siege and Outnumbered 58 to 1 on January 6

Steven A. Sund - Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Hardcover

One of the darkest days in American history became an extraordinary story of courage under fire.Courage Under Fire is United States Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund's gripping personal account that takes readers inside the events leading up to January 6, and provides a detailed and harrowing...
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