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Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
Colin Dickey - ?Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden powerThe United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French)... |
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A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
Fred Kaplan - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jefferson's genius with language and his ability... |
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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
MAGGIE HABERMAN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the book Trump fears most." - AxiosFrom the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York... |
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
NADIA MURAD - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters... |
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Kyle Chayka - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.. From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic... |
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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"Penetrating, haunting ... In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick."--James Forman, Jr. and Arthur Evenchik, The Atlantic Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived... |
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Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath
Kevin Sullivan - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In the spring of 2019, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi did not favor pursuing Trump's impeachment. Her view was: "He's just not worth it." But by September, after a whistleblower complaint suggesting that Trump had used his office for his political benefit, Pelosi decided... |
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The Cost of Chaos: The Trump Administration and the World
PETER BERGEN - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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From a preeminent national security journalist, an explosive account of Donald Trump's collision with the American national security establishment, and with the worldIt is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy experience to the White House than... |
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