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Jane Addams: Spirit in Action
Louise W. Knight - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this landmark biography, Jane Addams becomes America's most admired and most hated woman—and wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a leading statesperson in an era when few imagined such possibilities for women. In this fresh interpretation, the first full... |
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Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide
Joy-Ann Lomena Reid - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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Barack Obama's speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches should have represented the culmination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial unity. Yet, in Fracture, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid shows that,... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal... |
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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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Head Shot
G. Paul Chambers - Prometheus Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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After more than four decades and scores of books, documentaries, and films on the subject, what more can be said about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? A great deal, according to this physicist and ballistics expert. This provocative, rigorously researched book presents evidence... |
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Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror
Matthew M. Aid - Bloomsbury Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The United States intelligence establishment is a colossus. With stations in 170 countries, armed with cutting-edge surveillance gear, high-tech weapons, and fleets of armed and unarmed drone aircraft, it commands the most extensive and advanced intel force in history. But America's... |
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Social Security: The Inside Story, 2012 Edition
Andy Landis - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Book
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Social Security and Medicare form the bedrock of your future financial security. You paid for them—now learn how they work for you! SOCIAL SECURITY: THE INSIDE STORY is detailed. Comprehensive. User-friendly. Previous editions were hailed as the best resource on Social Security and Medicare.... |
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The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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The Wordy Shipmates is New York Times?bestselling author Sarah Vowell?s exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop?s ?city upon a hill??a shining example, a ?city that cannot be hid.? To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation,... |
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Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy
Fawaz A Gerges - Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A civil war is being waged among jihadists for the soul of Islam. While all Islamist radicals may share a vision of a purified and unified ummah, or Muslim community, few agree over how to bring it about. Ultra-militant wings, such as Al Qaeda, dominate our thoughts and headlines, for they... |
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Canada 2016-2017
Wayne C Thompson - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present. The contents in this volume are organized into sections dealing withCanada's culture; Geography; people; history (from New France to the constitutional debates in the late 20th century) ;political system (including... |
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The African American Experience during World War II
Neil A. Wynn - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book
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Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development... |
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How Democracy Ends
DAVID RUNCIMAN - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophySince the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled,... |
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
JANET DEWART BELL - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights - many nearly lost to history - from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize During the Civil Rights Movement,... |
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A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
Amy S. Greenberg - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling... |
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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Mark R Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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Don't miss syndicated radio host and author Mark Levin's #1 New York Times acclaimed and longtime bestselling manifesto for the conservative movement.When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin's Liberty and Tyranny appeared in the early months of the Obama presidency,... |
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Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free
John Ferling - Bloomsbury Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary... |
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The Price of Politics
Bob Woodward - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward's 17th book The Price of Politics is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal... |
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How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
Gideon Rose - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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IN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the same opponent in just over a decade, win lightning... |
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Robert's rules of order: Revised
Henry M Robert - Morrow
Format: Paperback
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Since 1876, when this standard guide to parliamentary procedure was born members, as well as presiding officers, of clubs, societies, and assemblies of all kinds have relied on Robert's Rules of Order to steer them smoothly through their business meetings. The book has also been adopted... |
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Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son
DIMITRI BONTINCK - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Rescued from ISIS is the inspiring and terrifying tale of one man's journey to the Middle East to save his child from radical Islam, and its surprising worldwide repercussions.Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent's worst nightmare. His teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend,... |
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Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
Peter Baker - Doubleday; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.Theirs was the most captivating... |
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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
Sudhir Venkatesh - Penguin Press HC, The; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] fascinating X-ray of the city...Venkatesh's engrossing narrative dissects the intricacies of illegal commerce." --Publishers Weekly (STARRED review) New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute... |
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The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy
Masha Gessen - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Look out for Masha Gessens new book, THE FUTURE IS HISTORY, coming October 2017. "A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism ... [that] gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must be understood as more than monsters" (Christian Science... |
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1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America
David Pietrusza - Union Square Press
Format: Print book
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Indelibly, we recall the iconic newsphoto: jubilant underdog Harry Truman brandishing his copy of the Chicago Tribune proclaiming "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." But far, far more exists to 1948's election that a single inglorious headline and a stunning upset victory. Award-winning... |
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Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt & Company Inc
Format: Print book
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By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife,... |
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Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card--and Lose
Larry Elder - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Is life unfair for black Americans?Is racial equality the answer to every question of public policy?Are a huge group of citizens being kept down by “the man”?Radio host and bestselling author Larry Elder has made a career out of being a thorn-in-the-side of the conventional... |
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Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture And American Democracy
Joan Burbick - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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On progressive websites and in newspaper columns Gun Show Nation has become part of a lively debate on guns and democracy in America. "Burbick gets it," Buzzflash says, "she cuts through to the heart of the psychology of guns."Cultural historian, critic, and gun owner... |
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
Bob Woodward - Simon & Schuster; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship... |
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Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
James Neff - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover
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One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa.From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying... |
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End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
James L. Swanson - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In End of Days, James L. Swanson, the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK assassination—from the Kennedys' arrival in Texas through the shooting in Dealey Plaza and the shocking... |
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The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great
Harvey J. Kaye - Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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On January 6, 1941, the Greatest Generation gave voice to its founding principles, the Four Freedoms: Freedom from want and from fear. Freedom of speech and religion. In the name of the Four Freedoms they fought the Great Depression. In the name of the Four Freedoms they defeated the Axis... |
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Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch
Barbara A. Perry - W. W. Norton & Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented look at the life of Rose Kennedy reveals the private woman who became a political legend. In her compelling and intimate portrait, presidential historian Barbara A. Perry captures Rose Kennedy's essential contributions to the incomparable Kennedy dynasty. This biography... |
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A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington
Mike Huckabee - Sentinel HC; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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"We need a simple government. Don't get me wrong; I know that many of the nation's problems are highly complex. But I also know that the governing principles that can solve them, if we work together, are simple." Armed with little money but a lot of common sense, former... |
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Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
Yoani Sanchez - Melville House
Format: Paperback
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She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation.Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos,... |
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Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes
Cass R. Sunstein - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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Since America's founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of judges have occupied the bench. Yet as Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and bestselling co-author of Nudge, points out, almost... |
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T Chang - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers - the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall... |
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
CHINA MIEVILLE - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed fantasy author China Miville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive... |
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Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad
Bruce O. Riedel - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pakistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive American presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in the South Asian nation, and many of the resulting policies proved counterproductive in the long term, contributing... |
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The Middle East and South Asia 2014
Malcolm Russell - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 48th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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This volume is designed to place in context the passionate controversies and emotional attachments of the two billion people who live, study, work, love, and die in the Middle East and South Asia. Special chapters address significant issues of continuing international importance, including... |
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David Crockett: The Lion of the West
Michael Wallis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." -- Texas Monthly Popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett," and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael... |
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Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
Jean H. Baker - Hill and Wang; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed... |
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Joe Bageant - Crown Publishers
Format: Book
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After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a "dirt-poor" childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory. That was ironic,... |
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Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
Valerie Plame Wilson - Simon & Schuster; 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE BOURNE FILMS COMES THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SEAN PENN AND NAOMI WATTS Based on Fair Game, Valerie Plame Wilson’s historic and unvarnished account of the personal and international consequences of speaking truth to power.
--This... |
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Augustus: The Life of Romes First Emperor
Anthony Everitt - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover
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Historian Anthony Everitt earned widespread critical acclaim for his best-selling biography of Cicero. Now, with Augustus, he delivers his second spellbinding account of a Roman icon whose legacy has echoed through the ages. Caesar Augustus has been called historys greatest emperor. It was said... |
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
Condoleezza Rice - Crown Archetype; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming... |
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Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment
Craig Whitney - PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Newtown. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Tucson. Aurora. Gun violence on a massive scale has become a plague in our society, yet politicians seem more afraid of having a serious conversation about guns than they are of the next horrific shooting. Any attempt to change the status quo, whether... |
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom
John Follain
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Zoya's Story is a young woman's searing account of her clandestine war of resistance against the Taliban and religious fanaticism at the risk of her own life. An epic tale of fear and suffering, courage and hope, Zoya's Story is a powerful testament to the ongoing battle to cla |
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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The Fire Next Door: Mexico's Drug Violence and the Danger to America
Ted Galen Carpenter - Cato Institute
Format: Book
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Since Mexican President Felipe Calderón initiated a military offensive against his country’s powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 44,000 people have perished, and the drugs continue to flow. The growing violence has created concerns that Mexico could become a failed... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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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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War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges - PublicAffairs
Format: Book
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General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact with which... |
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My Father at 100
Ron Reagan - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A moving memoir of the beloved fortieth president of the United States, by his son. February 6, 2011, is the one hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagans birth. To mark the occasion, Ron Reagan has written My Father at 100, an intimate look at the life of his father-one of the most popular... |
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Helen Keller: A Life
Dorothy Herrmann - University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Dorothy Herrmann's powerful biography of Helen Keller tells the whole story of the controversial and turbulent relationship between Helen and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Herrmann also chronicles Helen's doomed love affair, her struggles to earn a living, her triumphs at Radcliffe... |
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Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump
JEROME R CORSI - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump beat 16 Republican challengers and Hillary Rodham Clinton to win the presidency. Now he must beat the Deep State to keep his presidency. Here's how!#1 New York Times bestselling author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND and THE OBAMA NATION Jerome Corsi uncovers the secret conspiracy... |
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Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster; annotated edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss now brings the great... |
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Nixon, Vol. 3: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990
Stephen E Ambrose - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Watergate is a story of high drama and low skulduggery, of lies and bribes, of greed and lust for power. With access to the central characters, the public papers, and the trials transcripts, Ambrose explains how Nixon destroyed himself through a combination of arrogance and indecision,... |
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life... |
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Eric Weiner - Twelve
Format: Print book
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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel,... |
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Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Del Quentin Wilber - Henry Holt and Co.; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time a minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan On March President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington DC and was shot by a would-be assassin For years few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying and no one has ever... |
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America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag
Sarah Palin - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivers an intimate and personal look at the woman behind the public servant. In her 1 New York Times bestselling memoir Going Roguethe bestselling nonfiction book of 2009Palin gave readers a look at her upbringing, her dynamic career, and her candidacy... |
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Listen, liberal, or, What ever happened to the party of the people
Thomas Frank - Metropolitan Books
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics - a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats? It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections,... |
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Anand Gopal - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Hardcover
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Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the deadIn a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist Anand Gopal traces in vivid detail the lives of three Afghans caught... |
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Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield
Jeremy Scahill - Nation Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestsellerNow also an Oscar-nominated documentaryIn Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders... |
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The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
Henry A. Crumpton - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missionsFor a crucial period, Henry Crumpton led the CIA's global... |
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
Robert A. Caro - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal... |
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On the Rez
Frazier - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A great writer's journey of exploration in an American place that is both strange and deeply familiar.In Ian Frazier's bestselling Great Plains, he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala, South Dakota." In On the Rez,... |
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
Joseph J Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history... |
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Lyndon B. Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 36th President, 1963-1969
Charles Peters - Times Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam WarFew figures in American history are as compelling and complex as Lyndon Baines Johnson, who established himself as the master... |
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The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know
Philip J Cook - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest... |
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Obama's Wars
Bob Woodward - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president,... |
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Ark of the Liberties: America and the World
Ted Widmer - Hill and Wang; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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The United States stands at a historic crossroads; essential to the world yet unappreciated. America’s decline in popularity over the last eight years has been nothing short of astonishing. With wit, brilliance, and deep affection, Ted Widmer, a scholar and a former presidential... |
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38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
Scott W. Berg - Pantheon; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled... |
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Joan Biskupic - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009-made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable-flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto... |
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Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11
Tom McMillan - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardcover
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The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93 provides a riveting narrative based on interviews, oral histories, transcripts, recordings, personal tours of the crash site, and voluminous... |
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The Beekeeper:Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
DUNYA MIKHAIL - New Directions
Format: Paperback
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The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from DaeshSince 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women.The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed... |
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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
GREGG JARRETT - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton's deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election.The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama's Justice Department worked... |
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Enemies: A History of the FBI
Tim Weiner - Random House; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * New York Daily News * Slate"Fast-paced, fair-minded, and fascinating, Tim Weiner's Enemies turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today's headlines." - Jeffrey... |
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
Sasha Abramsky - Nation Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times Book Review
- David K. Shipler
[Abramsky] travels the United States meeting the poor, whose wrenching tales he inserts in tight vignettes among data-driven analyses and acute dissections of government programsAbramsky... |
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Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream
Eileen Truax - Beacon Press (MA)
Format: Paperback
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Dreamers is a movement book for the generation brought to the United States as children - and now fighting to live here legally Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up here, going to elementary,... |
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Bridge of Spies
Giles Whittell - Broadway Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin's Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first and most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that exchange on February 10, 1962, when their... |
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Canada 2017-2018
Wayne C. Thompson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present. The contents in this volume are organized into sections dealing withCanada's culture; Geography; people; history (from New France to the constitutional debates in the late 20th century) ;political system (including... |
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The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings
Peggy Noonan - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Peggy Noonan is one of the most brilliant and influential political thinkers and writers of our time. The author of five bestselling books (What I Saw at the Revolution is now a classic) , her column in The Wall Street Journalis a must-read for millions of Americans. Witty, incisive and always... |
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The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right
Arthur Goldwag - Pantheon; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From “Birthers” who claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States to counter-jihadists who believe that the Constitution is in imminent danger of being replaced with Sharia law, conspiratorial beliefs have become an increasingly common feature of our public discourse.... |
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William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841
Gail Collins - Times Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest officeWilliam Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity... |
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Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe
Malcolm Nance - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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ISIS - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda. In Defeating ISIS, internationally renowned intelligence veteran, author, and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance gives an insider's... |
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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
Howard B Means - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book
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At mid-day on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. Just after noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-five minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second,... |
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American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy
C. David Heymann - Atria Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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From the moment of their births, John and Caroline Kennedy occupied a central position in what is generally regarded as the most famous family in the United States, if not the world. Even as young children growing up in the White House, their most subtle gestures and actions made headlines....... |
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Richard Reeves - Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed... |
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Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What They Wanted Has Made Women Miserable
Andrea Tantaros - Harpercollins, 2015.
Format: Print book
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In this lively contrarian romp through the American cultural landscape, Andrea Tantaros argues that the swapping of gender roles has had a drastic effect on relationships, families, the boardroom, the bedroom, and beyond.Women today have more choices and options than ever. So why are they... |
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Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Richard Brookhiser - Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Hardcover
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Argues that the sixteenth president of the United States was inspired by the Founding Fathers of the nation and struggled to carry on their work throughout his career. |
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Weekends with Daisy
Sharron Kahn Luttrell - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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“A heartwarming and utterly charming story about empathy, hope, and letting go. Weekends with Daisy shows us how loving a dog can make us all a little more human.” —Lisa Genova, NYT bestselling author of Still Alice and Love, Anthony “Moving… with candor that... |
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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
C. S. Manegold - Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would later become governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony--Ten Hills Farm was a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston. Winthrop, famous for envisioning... |
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Bryan Burrough
Format: Paperback
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Coming in Summer 2009, the major motion picture from Universal Studios "ludicrously entertaining" (Time), Public Enemies is the story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI, and an assortment of criminals... |
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko - PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, over the last several... |
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Gordon Corera - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining... |
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Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
Kevin Ryan - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Inside the lives of homeless teens--moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant HouseAlmost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her way to Covenant House,... |
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Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back
Jere Longman - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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On the evening of September 14, as the sun set over the flag-draped county courthouse in Somerset, Pennsylvania, fifteen hundred mourners gathered together as Governor Tom Ridge presided over a memorial to the passengers and crew of United Flight 93. In the hushed twilight, amid the toiling... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai - Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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William McKinley: The American Presidents Series: The 25th President, 1897-1901
Arthur M. Schlesinger - Times Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacyBy any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic... |
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor
FLO GROBERG - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A story of valor and the making of a hero - Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.Florent "Flo" Groberg... |
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The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West? (Vintage)
Doug Saunders - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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From the author of prize-winning Arrival City, a controversial and long-overdue rejoinder to the excessive fears of an Islamic threat that have spread throughout America and Europe and threaten our basic values. Since September 11, 2001, a growing chorus has warned that Western society... |
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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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Legacy: Treasures of Black History
Moorland Spingarn Research Center - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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From its Introduction by the revered and distinguished John Hope Franklin to the bibliography and extensive index that complete it, Legacy represents a major new contribution to African-American history. The Black experience and its impact on our nation's culture and character come... |
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All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
John Taliaferro - Simon & Schuster; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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If Henry James or Edith Wharton had written a novel describing the accomplished and glamorous life and times of John Hay, it would have been thought implausible—a novelist’s fancy. Nevertheless, John Taliaferro’s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay,... |
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty Medsger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists - quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans - that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created... |
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The Civil Rights Movement (Turning Points in World History)
Paul A. Winters - Greenhaven Pr
Format: Paperback
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Grade 9 Up-This well-thought-out anthology will be extremely useful to students. Following a brief history of the movement, 23 articles and essays written at the time and in retrospect examine the pivotal mix of events, leaders, and cultural forces that transformed American society. They... |
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Sal Mineo: A Biography
Michael Gregg Michaud - Crown Archetype; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his unforgettable, Academy Award–nominated turn opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and his tragic murder at the age of thirty-seven. Finally, in this riveting new biography filled with exclusive, candid interviews with both Mineo’s... |
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What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me
Rielle Hunter - BenBella Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The John Edwards–Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. “One of the biggest political scandals of all time,” “a fall from grace,” “a modern-day tragedy”—it’s a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again... |
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The Guerrilla Factory: The Making of Special Forces Officers, the Green Berets
Tony Schwalm - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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THE NAVY HAS THE SEALS, and the Army has the Green Berets. They are masters of asymmetrical warfare, trained to immerse themselves in hostile territory, sleeping near their enemies and building relationships with people who may want to kill them. Retired lieutenant colonel Tony Schwalm... |
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Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt
Aida D. Donald - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York State Assemblyman Assistant Secretary of the Navy New York City Police Commissioner Governor of New York Vice President and at forty-two the youngest President ever-in his own words Theodore Roosevelt rose like a rocket He was also a cowboy a soldier a historian an intrepid explorer... |
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Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
James Howard Kunstler - Atlantic Monthly Press; Uncorrected Proof edition
Format: Hardcover
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James Howard Kunstler’s critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005, quickly became a grassroots hit, going into nine printings in hardcover. Kunstler’s shocking vision of our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists... |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the civil rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade,... |
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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortizs Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does... |
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Mark Mazzetti - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prizewinning reporters riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and Americas special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the worlds dark spaces the new American way of warThe most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken... |
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Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission
Thomas H Kean - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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In the words of the commission's co-chairmen, this is the compelling inside story of how the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States - more commonly known as the 9/11 Commission - managed to succeed against all odds in producing a report that made clear what... |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant. |
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Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin - HarperCollins; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Going Rogue is the 1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of Americas most beloved and controversial political figures. Now with new material, Going Rogue offers plain talk from a true American original about her life, her career, and the future of the country she loves., |
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The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
Gerald Blaine - Gallery Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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THE SECRET SERVICE. An elite team of men who share a single mission to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men failedand a country would never be the same. Now, for the first time, a member of JFKs Secret Service detail reveals the inside story of the assassination,... |
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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Tim Weiner - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim WeinerBased largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait... |
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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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A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works -- and really doesn't -- in A Fighting ChanceAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become... |
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Kurt Andersen - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest... |
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The USA and The World 2015-2016
David M Keithly - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Instant interpretive history is a difficult and demanding task, and certainly more of an art than some would suggest. USA and the World describes not only what happened, but puts events in the context of the past and criticizes policy actions as appropriate. The result goes deeper than... |
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Master the Police Officer Exam
Peterson's - Peterson Nelnet Co
Format: Paperback
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Master the Police Officer Exam is a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to pursue a career in law enforcement. Inside you'll find: Five full-length practice tests, including detailed explanations for the answers to every question The most up-to-date information on police officer... |
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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Richard Beeman - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."-Robert Morris, delegate from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional ConventionFrom distinguished historian Richard... |
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An American Son: A Memoir
Senator Marco Rubio - Sentinel HC; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Few politicians have risen to national prominence as quickly as Marco Rubio. At age forty-one he's the subject of widespread interest and speculation. But he has never before told the full story of his unlikely journey, with all the twists and turns that made him an American son.That... |
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The Tender Soldier: A True Story of War and Sacrifice
Vanessa M. Gezari - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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What happens when the Pentagon sends three Americans to help carry out the most audacious experiment since Vietnam? On the day Barack Obama was elected president in November 2008, a small group of American civilians took their optimism and experience to Afghanistan, then considered Americas... |
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expos of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking... |
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