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Where Did You Get This Number?: A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World
Anthony Salvanto - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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CBS News' Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto takes you behind the scenes of polling to show you how to think about who we are and where we're headed as a nation.As Elections and Surveys Director for CBS News, it's Anthony Salvanto's job to understand you - what you think and how you vote.... |
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All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Zygar - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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"I read this book in one night, truly a page-turner. It leaves a profoundly scary impression: [Putin's court is the] real House of Cards." - Lev Lurie, writer and historianAll the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control.... |
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Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Matt Taibbi
Format: Hardcover
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Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling... |
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Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
Jonathan Allen - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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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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Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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Glenn Beck, #1 bestselling author and radio host, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country.WHY DO WE ACCEPT THE LIES? Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill;... |
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
John Pomfret - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's... |
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The Girl from Kathmandu: Twelve Dead Men and a Woman's Quest for Justice
Cam Simpson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking story of the massacre of a group of Nepalese men working as Defense contractors for the United States Government during the Iraq War, and the widow who dedicated her life to finding justice for her husband and the other victims - a riveting tale of courageous heroes, corporate... |
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The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth
Orlando Patterson - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over... |
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Gene Weingarten - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten... |
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