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Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office

Susan Hennessey - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidencyThe extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. If you want to get the highest possible retirement or pension income - not to mention the best medical coverage - turn to Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions to discover the benefits you're entitled...
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Low Taxes and Small Government: Sam Brownback's Great Experiment in Kansas

Smith, Michael A. - LEXINGTON BOOKS


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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Andrea Elliott - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification...
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Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont

Robert Bilott - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Silent Spring meets Erin Brockovich in this eye-opening, riveting true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous, unregulated chemical PFOA, uncovering a history of environmental contamination that affects virtually...
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The January 6th Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

The January 6 Select Committee - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The official report by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, featuring an exclusive foreword on the state of American democracy by Congressman Adam Schiff. On January 6, 2021, the United States came perilously close to losing its democracy....
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Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

Jeffrey Rosen - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty...
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March...
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (King Legacy)

Clayborne Carson - Beacon Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence,...
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The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink

William Inboden - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A masterful account of how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat, won the Cold War, and supported the spread of freedom around the world."Remarkable ... a great read." - Robert Gates * "Mesmerizing ... hard to put down."...
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