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The Witches Are Coming
Lindy West - Hachette Books
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In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era. THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.WE'RE WITCHES,AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU.From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations... |
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Kissinger on Kissinger: Reflections on Diplomacy, Grand Strategy, and Leadership
Henry Kissinger - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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In a series of riveting interviews, Americas senior statesman discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension.As National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger transformed Americas approach to diplomacy with China, the USSR, Vietnam,... |
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Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World
Michael Schuman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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This history of China as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again." We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite... |
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The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
Mara Hvistendahl - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near... |
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Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence
Brian Clements - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted, including a foreword by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly and an introduction by Colum McCann, published on the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence... |
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Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Arthur J. Magida - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating story of the valiant Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic and unlikely World War II heroine.Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her family and to her father's spiritual values... |
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After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom
Alice Marie Johnson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Kim Kardashian WestThe true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West - an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude.How do you hold on to hope... |
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Paper Daughter: A Memoir
M. Elaine Mar - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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When she was five years old, M. Elaine Mar and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Denver to join her father in a community more Chinese than American, more hungry than hopeful. While working with her family in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant and living in the basement of her aunt's... |
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Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
Greg Gutfeld - Crown Forum; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool. From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst,... |
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An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
Alex Kotlowitz - Anchor
Format: Hardcover
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2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER. From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicagos most turbulent neighborhoods.. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been... |
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Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto
Jesse Ventura - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy on marijuana, and why he's always been in favor of legalization. Now, more than ever before, our country needs to see full legalization of medical/recreational marijuana and hemp.Any way you look at it, for whoever... |
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Great Society: A New History of the 1960s in America
AMITY SHLAES - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestsellers The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a provocative and conversation-changing look at President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and how its failures reverberate to this day.In Great Society, Amity Shlaes argues that just as Franklin Delano... |
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Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding the Plot to Unmake America
Michelle Malkin - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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You already know that we have an immigration crisis in America. You know that our southern border isn't a border at all - it's an open migrant highway. Now, in this gripping expos from #1 national bestselling author Michelle Malkin, you'll discover that the immigration crisis is no accident.... |
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Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: American Life in Columns
Michael A Smerconish - Temple University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Opinionated talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has been chronicling local, state, and national events for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 15 years. He has sounded off on topics as diverse as the hunt for Osama bin Laden and what the color... |
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Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
VANESSA NEUMANN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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International smuggling has exploded, deepening and accelerating the collaboration of transnational organized crime and terrorist groups. Attacks like the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan shootings in Paris, the kidnappings and murders by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the San Bernardino shooting... |
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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Imani Perry - Beacon Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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2020 Chautauqua Prize Finalist2020 NAACP Image Award Nominee - Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) Best-of Lists: Best Nonfiction Books... |
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Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
MICHAEL IDOV - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men's fashionIn this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside -- and closely observing -- the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer... |
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Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Sara E. Gorman - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science... |
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Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
ELI FELTER JOSEPH H SHAPIRO JACOB N BERMAN - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find... |
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Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change
Aric McBay - Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback
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A guide to direct action for those disillusioned with the posturing of liberal "activism."The radical left is losing, but it doesn't have to be that way. Here is the radical's guide to activist work - the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize for universal... |
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Trump / Russia: The Corruption of a Dealmaker and the Takeover of the White House
SETH HETTENA - Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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In the model of David Cay Johnston's MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, a shocking examination by an acclaimed investigative journalist of the history of collusion between Russia and the President of the United States.Is Donald Trump the most corrupt president in American history? A celebrated investigative... |
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DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington
David Schoenbrod - Encounter Books
Format: Print book
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You think you know why our government in Washington is broken, but you really don't. You think it's broken because politicians curry favor with special interests and activists of the Left or Right. There's something to that and it helps explain why these politicians can't... |
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Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
Kyle Swenson - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.In the early 1970s,... |
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Conor Dougherty - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy... |
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Yes We
DAN PFEIFFER - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;... |
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The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt
P F Clarke - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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An innovative exploration of the origins, impact, and consequences of the First and Second World Wars, from Peter Clarke, one of our foremost historians. "War is the locomotive of history," claimed Trotsky, a remark often thought to acknowledge the opportunity that the First World... |
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Why You Should Be a Socialist
Nathan J. Robinson - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it. America is witnessing the rise of a new generation of socialist activists. More young people support socialism now than at any time since the labor movement of the 1920s. The Democratic Socialists of America,... |
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The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City
Ryan Lugalia-Hollon - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoodsFor people of color who live in segregated urban neighborhoods, surviving crime and violence is a generational reality. As violence in cities like... |
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
Aaron Bobrow-Strain - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system?When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida's mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona.... |
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Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas
Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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1 New York Times Bestseller In this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein... |
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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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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping
Klaus Mühlhahn - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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A panoramic survey of China's rise and resilience through war and rebellion, disease and famine, that rewrites China's history for a new generation.It is tempting to attribute China's recent ascendance to changes in political leadership and economic policy. Making China Modern... |
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The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War
Benjamin Carter Hett - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War -- a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders to impress upon them... |
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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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Permanent Record
Edward Snowden - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden... |
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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
Ted Koppel - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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In this New York Times bestselling investigation, Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks... |
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It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
Stuart Stevens - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal expos of how his party became what it is todayStuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows... |
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The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate
Tom Brokaw - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Tom Brokaw brings readers inside the White House press corps in this up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president. In August 1974, after his involvement in the Watergate scandal could no longer be denied, Richard Nixon became the first and only president... |
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Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-Year Search for Truth
Scott James - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from two giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. But who was at fault? And who would pay? This being Rhode Island, the two questions wouldn't... |
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Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality
David Boies - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on Proposition 8 - by the two lawyers who argued the case On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's... |
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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
MARWAN HISHAM - One World
Format: Hardcover
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A bracingly immediate memoir of the Syrian war from its inception to the present by a young man coming of age and finding his voice as a journalist, whose friends traveled divergent paths through the carnage. An intimate lens into the century's bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation... |
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The Right Answer: How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation
JOHN K DELANEY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The first declared candidate for president in 2020 delivers a passionate call for bipartisan action, entrepreneurial innovation, and a renewed commitment to the American ideaThe son of a union electrician and grandson of an immigrant, John Delaney grew up believing that anything was possible... |
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East and Southeast Asia 2018-2019
Steven A. Leibo - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Updated annually, East & Southeast Asia provides just enough historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help students gain a thorough understanding - in one semester - of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory regional and comparative... |
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Chroniques: Selected Columns, 2010-2016
Kamel Daoud - Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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This engaging collection of essays showcases the extraordinary passion, insight, and range of Kamel Daoud, bestselling author of The Meursault Investigation. Kamel Daoud has been a journalist for more than twenty years, writing the most-read column in Algeria, in Le Quotidien d'Oran,... |
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Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump
Neal Katyal - Mariner
Format: Paperback
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Why President Trump has left us with no choice but to remove him from office, as explained by celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal. No one is above the law. This belief is as American as freedom of speech and turkey on Thanksgiving - held sacred... |
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The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
Wendy Lower
Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler's Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the Holocaust is vast, but there are virtually no images of a Jewish family at the actual moment of murder, in this case by German... |
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Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
Evan Osnos
Format: Hardcover
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Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses and disappointments that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden's... |
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Farewell Speeches
BARACK OBAMA - Melville House
Format: Paperback
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The final speeches of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama. Both speeches were instant and moving landmarks, as well as stirring testaments to the time this inspiring and beloved couple spent in the White House. |
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Partner to Power: The Secret World of Presidents and Their Most Trusted Advisers
K WARD CUMMINGS - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A former congressional staffer and Capitol Hill veteran recounts the colorful history of presidential advisers, showing how influential these unelected appointees have been.This revealing book examines the relationships between U.S. presidents and their closest advisers from a psychological,... |
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation.The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional... |
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Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement
Thomas Geoghegan - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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Is labors day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In his new book, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revivedbut differentlabor movement is the only way to stabilize the economy... |
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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
James P P Horn - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in handAlong the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course... |
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
James Oakes
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln's antislavery strategies.The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James... |
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The Mueller Report: Graphic Novel
Shannon Wheeler - IDW Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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It's the greatest WHODUNIT of our time... or a new low for "Presidential Harassment!"Shannon Wheeler, Eisner Award-winning New Yorker cartoonist (Too Much Coffee Man, Sh*t My President Says, God is Disappointed in You) , and veteran journalist Steve Duin (The Oregonian,... |
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
TO BE CONFIRMED. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... |
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A Black Women's History of the United States
Berry, Daina Ramey - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American... |
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First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence
Harlow G Unger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Before Washington, before Jefferson, before Franklin or John Adams, there was Lee--Richard Henry Lee, the First Founding Father.Richard Henry Lee was the first to call for independence, and the first to call for union. He was "father of our country" as much as George Washington,... |
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The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It
Thom Hartmann - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before-including during the Great Depression and the Civil War-because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America teeters on the verge of the next Great Crash. The United... |
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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Heather Mac Donald - Encounter Books
Format: Print book
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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson... |
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Preparing for the United States Naturalization Test: A Pocket Study Guide
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback
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A reference manual for all immigrants looking to become citizensThis pocket study guide will help you prepare for the naturalization test. If you were not born in the United States, naturalization is the way that you can voluntarily become a US citizen. To become a naturalized U.S. citizen,... |
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Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
Jared Cohen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects the nation and world.Eight... |
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The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival
Denise Low - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Print book
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"Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end," Denise Low says, "as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible." Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native... |
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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Shadi Hamid - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle... |
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Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
Kate Fazzini - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Kingdom of Lies is a brilliant and bold debut, as full of suspense as the best crime thrillers." -- Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author of Blood Oath In the tradition of Michael Lewis and Tom Wolfe, a fascinating and frightening behind-the-scenes... |
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Undocumented America
Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla - SPIEGEL & GRAU
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One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. Traveling across the country, journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio risked arrest at every turn... |
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Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and Americas Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy
Michael J Mazarr - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic insider account of why we invaded Iraq, the motivations that drove it, and the frustrations of those who tried and failed to stop it, leading to the most costly misadventure in US history. A single disastrous choice in the wake of 9/11-the decision to use force to remove Saddam... |
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Repeal the Second Amendment: The Case for a Safer America
Allan J. Lichtman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A radical case for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment as the only way to control gun violence in AmericaThere's an average of one mass shooting per day in the United States. Given the ineffectiveness of the gun control lobby, it's time for a strategy with spine. In Repeal the Second... |
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Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
Christian Picciolini - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning exploration of how to heal a nation reeling from extremist violence from a viral TED speaker and onetime white-supremacist leader who now work as a peace activist disengaging hateful radicals.At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious skinhead leader and encouraged... |
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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
STEVE KORNACKI - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s - one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscapeIn The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve Kornacki follows the twin paths of Bill Clinton and Newt... |
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Separated
Jacob Soboroff - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, winner of the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for his reporting on the child separation crisis, delivers a profoundly personal and moving report from the border and beyond, revealing the wrenching human story behind one of the most disturbing... |
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Daddy King: An Autobiography
Martin Luther King - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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First-person account and rarely heard life story of the man known as "Daddy King," the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers in Stockbridge, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Sr., came of age under the looming threat of violence at the hands of white... |
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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
Douglas Waller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives... |
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The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
Robert Boyers - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, a thought-provoking volume of nine essays that elegantly and fiercely addresses recent developments in American culture and argues for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition.Written from the perspective... |
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Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume One: Building Movements and Fighting to Win
Aric McBay - Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback
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A guide to direct action for those disillusioned with the posturing of liberal "activism."The radical left is losing, but it doesn't have to be that way. Here is the radical's guide to activist work - the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize for universal... |
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The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future
Ralph Nader - Harper Paperbacks; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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Consumer advocate activist humanitarian and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader is arguably the most provocative and important progressive voice in America todaya fearless reformer whom The Atlantic named one of the most influential figures in American history In these troubling... |
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Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
Sunil S. Amrith - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its watersAsia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers,... |
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Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares
Aarti Namdev Shahani - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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A heartfelt memoir about the immigrant experience from NPR correspondent Aarti Shahani.Who really belongs in America? That question has chased every newcomer and many native born since the founding of the republic. In this heart-wrenching, vulnerable and witty memoir, journalist... |
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Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions
Marc Rotenberg - The New Press
Format: Book
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The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical... |
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Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It
Jamie Margolin - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback
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Climate change activist and Zero Hour founder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking for young people..The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate.... |
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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
CASEY SHERMAN - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During an infamous thirteen-day stretch... |
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Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo
Alan Dershowitz - Hot Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else." - PoliticoNew York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz, one of America's most respected legal scholars, proves - with incontrovertible evidence - that he is entirely... |
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The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics
David Stephen Heidler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possibleAndrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute... |
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