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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A breakout writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture with verve, deftness, and intellectual ferocity - for readers who've wondered what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the internet."A whip-smart, challenging... |
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I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
Baynard Woods - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) , that terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade. When Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins said he had a monster, he meant he had found a big-time drug dealer -- one that he wanted... |
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Midland: Reports from Flyover Country
Michael Croley - Tiller Press
Format: Paperback
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After the 2016 election, the national media fretted over what they could have missed in the middle of the country. Journalists in the middle of the country shook their head at these narratives about Trump Country and the forgotten. Ted Genoways, one of the prominent contributors here, foresaw... |
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In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State"
David Rohde - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's eye-opening investigation of the so-called deep state.A recent poll found that 74 percent of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials is secretly manipulating or directing national policy. But does an American... |
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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial... |
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Excessive Use of Force: One Mother's Struggle Against Police Brutality and Misconduct
Loretta P Prater - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The vast majority of the law enforcement officers in this country perform their very difficult jobs with respect for their communities and in compliance with the law. Even so, there have been incidents in which this was not the case. Police brutality and misconduct has been under the microscope... |
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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
Eliot A Cohen - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen argues that the United States must use military power in support of its foreign policy, but that doing so will be increasingly difficult. The United States must continue to assume primary responsibility for maintaining world order, or risk a chaotic international... |
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Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
Becky Bond - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Print book
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Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the "rules" that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted... |
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Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis
Robert Gellately - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism... |
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