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The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness
John Prados - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agency's foundingDuring his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald... |
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
AndreÌs ReseÌndez - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A landmark history - the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrs Resndez illuminates... |
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George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster
John A Nagy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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George Washington was America's first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for independence.George Washington's Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day in the Revolutionary... |
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story... |
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Larry Tye - Random House
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive... |
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Eileen McNamara - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family's most profound political legacy.While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping... |
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Nations of the World 2018: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
World of Information - Grey House Publishing
Format: Paperback
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This comprehensive handbook profiles 231 nations and self-governing territories around the world in an easy-to-access, single-volume format. More than 2,000 pages present political, economic and business information not found in any other reference work of its kind. |
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Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics
Erin McHugh - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A collection of entertaining and cautionary tales of political missteps in American history, from the birth of the nation through the present day. Just in time for the presidential election of 2016 comes Political Suicide, a history of the best and most interesting missteps, peccadilloes,... |
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The Long Game: A Memoir
Mitch Mcconnell - Sentinel
Format: Print book
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In October 1984, a hard-charging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for President Ronald Reagan to arrive at a presidential rally in Louisville. In the midst of a tough Senate campaign against an incumbent Democrat, the young Republican hoped Reagan's endorsement would give a much-needed... |
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals
JEANINE PIRRO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand how narratives take form, whether they are based in truth or not. In her explosive new book, she will write about some of the most egregious lies she's seen, and take on the Liars, Leakers, and Liberals. |
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginningsWhen the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring... |
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The Truth About Trump
Michael D'Antonio - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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Who is the man shaking up the GOP?What does he really stand for?How far will he go in his pursuit of power?This isTHE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMPHe is one of the world's most successful businessmen -- and a man who many Americans love to hate. So how did Donald Trump become a serious contender... |
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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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Bush
Jean Edward Smith - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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Reagan: An American Journey
Bob Spitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents,... |
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One Day Closer: A Mother's Quest to Bring Her Kidnapped Daughter Home
Lorinda Stewart - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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On the day my daughter Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped in Somalia, my life changed forever. This is the story of how, for 460 days, I fought to save her and bring her home. "This book is impossible to put down. As inspiring as it is bone-chilling, this is an incredible story of hope... |
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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.
ANTONIA FELIX - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth Warren's rise as one of America's most powerful women is a stirring lesson in persistence. From her fierce support of the middle class to her unapologetic response to political bullies, Warren is known as a passionate yet plain-speaking champion of equity and fairness. In the wake... |
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On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer
Antonin Scalia - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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On Faith is an inspiring collection of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's reflections on his own faith, on the challenges that religious believers face in modern America, and on the religious freedoms protected by the Constitution. Featuring a personal introduction by Justice... |
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Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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Glenn Beck, #1 bestselling author and radio host, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country.WHY DO WE ACCEPT THE LIES? Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill;... |
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Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
Nancy F Koehn - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From a brilliant historian at the Harvard Business School, here is a masterful, in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures - Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson - that illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity... |
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The Case for Impeachment
ALLAN J LICHTMAN - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." - The Hill"It is still striking to see the full argument unfold and realize that you don't have to be a zealot to imagine some version of it happening ... Lies. Abuse of power. Treason.... |
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The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents
Corey Lang Brettschneider - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An essential guide to the presidential powers and limits of the Constitution, for anyone voting -- or running -- for our highest office.Can the president launch a nuclear attack without congressional approval? Is it ever a crime to criticize the president? Can states legally resist a president's... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
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The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism
Samuel M Katz - Berkley Caliber
Format: Print book
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The untold story of the Ya'mas, Israel's special forces undercover team that infiltrated Palestinian terrorist strongholds during the Second Intifada.It was the deadliest terror campaign ever mounted against a nation in modern times: the al-Aqsa, or Second, Intifada. This is the untold... |
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The Road to Camelot: Inside the Kennedy Campaign
Tom Oliphant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read for fans of presidential history." - USA TODAY "Splendid ... a gripping, authoritative campaign history." - The Boston Globe "Terrific ... a tougher and more balanced account of the long campaign than anybody's written yet." - The... |
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Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master
Paddy Hayes - Overlook Duckworth
Format: Print book
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The true story of Daphne Park, the female British secret intelligence officer who rose through the male-dominated ranks to become the Queen of SpiesFrom living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life -- one that... |
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Man of the world : the further adventures of bill clinton
Joe Conason - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Veteran political journalist Joe Conason takes readers inside the post-presidential exploits of the perpetually fascinating Bill Clinton - and finds his continuing adventures just as colorful, controversial, and significant as his earlier political career.The extraordinary post-presidency... |
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1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War
Marc Wortman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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Officially, America entered World War II on December 8, 1941 the day after the bombing of Peal Harbor, but even before that infamous day America had been at war. Long before, Franklin D. Roosevelt had been supporting the Allies. While Americans were sympathetic to the people being crushed... |
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Essential Supreme Court Decisions: Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law
John R Vile - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 17th edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark decisions on such topics as campaign finance,... |
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Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
Carolina De Robertis - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Radical Hope is a collection of letters - to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged - written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical... |
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime,... |
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Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain
Frances Mccall Rosenbluth - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Considering this question, two of our most celebrated political scientists trace the shocking ways in which governments have mobilized armies since... |
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In Trump We Trust: How He Outsmarted the Politicians, the "Elites," and the Media
Ann Coulter - Sentinel
Format: Print book
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Donald Trump isn't a politician -- he's a one man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution. The three biggest news stories... |
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo... |
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
VAN JONES - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart - from the CNN host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) , now seen... |
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The girl who escaped ISIS : this is my story
Farida Khalaf - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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"A rare and riveting first-hand account of the terror and torture inflicted by ISIS on young Iraqi Yazidi women, and an inspiring personal story of bravery and resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors. In the early summer of 2014, Farida Khalaf was a typical Yazidi teenager living... |
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The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech
Kimberley Strassel - Twelve
Format: Print book
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From Kim Strassel-one of the preeminent political columnists writing today and member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board-comes an insightful, alarming look at how the Left, once the champion of civil liberties, is today orchestrating a coordinated campaign to bully Americans out of free... |
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Back in the Game: The Majority Whip's Remarkable Fight for His Life
Steve Scalise - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Back in the Game is the inspiring story of how a massive political assassination at baseball practice for Republican members of Congress was narrowly avoided, and how the Majority Whip fought his way back to the People's House. On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through... |
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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Book
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From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents... |
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Unfreedom of the Press
Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Paperback
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Six-time New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin "trounces the news media" (The Washington Times) in this timely and groundbreaking book demonstrating how the great tradition of American free press has degenerated into a standardless... |
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just... |
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Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP
Jeffrey Asher Nesbit - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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"Poison Tea shines a spotlight on the shadowy Koch brother network and reveals hidden connections between the tobacco industry, the reclusive billionaire brothers, and the Tea Party movement. It's a major story that for too long has been underreported and poorly understood."... |
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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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Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
APRIL RYAN - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration. In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she and other reporters... |
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United States of Jihad : investigating America's homegrown terrorists
Peter L Bergen - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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Presents a look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism, from 9/11 to the present, discusses the perpetrators who have acted both in the U.S. and abroad, and examines the controversial tactics used to track potential terrorists. --Publisher's description. |
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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Ashton Applewhite - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower,... |
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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
ELI SASLOW - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mindDerek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand... |
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Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
Baz Dreisinger - Other Press,
Format: Print book
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Baz Dreisinger travels behind bars in nine countries to rethink the state of justice in a global context Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline,... |
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Unmasked: Big Media's War Against Trump
Brent Bozell - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Brent Bozell and I have fought together in the trenches for many, many years. He's an indispensable warrior in the cause of liberty and against the arrogant elites in the press." -- Mark R. Levin, New York Times bestselling author "Objective journalism is dead. Today's... |
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The... |
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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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Pence: The Path to Power
ANDREA NEAL - Red Lightning Books
Format: Hardcover
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What does it take to become the second-in-command of one of the most powerful countries in the world? Mike Pence's rise to the vice presidency of the United States wasn't always easy. To some, he is the personification of American conservative values, but to others, his ideals are the epitome... |
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency, from "one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today" (Vanity Fair) . Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race... |
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From Suffrage to the Senate Access Card
Grey House Publishing - Grey House Pub
Format: Hardcover
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From Suffrage to the Senate is a comprehensive and valuable compendium of biographies of leading women in U.S. politics, past and present, and an examination of the wide range of women's movements. |
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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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Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon
Ash Carter - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs... |
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The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between
Hisham Matar - Random House
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"In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned... |
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Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Jon Meacham - Random House, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family,... |
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Untitled Louise Lobo
Louise Lobo - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"You have replaced 'advice and consent' with 'search and destroy.'" - BRETT KAVANAUGH In this deeply researched account, one of Washington's top legal reporters reveals the massive funding, sophisticated organization, and fanatical zeal behind the campaign to stop Brett Kavanaugh's... |
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Ronald Reagan: The American Presidents Series: The 40th President, 1981-1989
Jacob Weisberg - Times Books
Format: Print book
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The conservative icon who reshaped American politics and laid the groundwork for the end of the Cold WarIn the second half of the twentieth century, no American president defined his political era as did Ronald Reagan. He ushered in an age that extolled smaller government, tax cuts, and strong... |
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Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century
Daniel Oppenheimer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures - from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens - who abandoned the left and joined the right.In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political... |
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Print book
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A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens... |
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating... |
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The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement
KAYLEIGH MCENANY - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy comes an exploration of the American heartland - a fascinating and eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the powerful grassroots populist movement of frustrated Americans left behind by the government that changed the landscape... |
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller"Promise Me, Dad is a brisk, often uplifting read, a consequence of its author's congenital jollity and irrepressible candor." - Vanity FairA deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country.... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor... |
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Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
TO BE CONFIRMED GALLERY. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.Few have been a member of Donald Trump's inner orbit longer than... |
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DEMOCRACY : stories from the long road to freedom
CONDOLEEZZA RICE - Twelve
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Due to Limited Stock, Multi-Copy Orders May be Reduced to 5 Copies Per Household.
From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. From the end of the Cold... |
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Social Security: The Inside Story, 2018 Silver Anniversary Edition
Andy Landis - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Social Security and Medicare are the bedrock of your future financial security. You paid for them - now make them work for you, starting today! SOCIAL SECURITY: THE INSIDE STORY is detailed. Comprehensive. Easy to read. It's been hailed since 1993 as "the best" resource on Social... |
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Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left
Philip K. Howard - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society.In this brief and powerful book, Philip K. Howard attacks the failed ideologies of both parties and proposes a radical simplification of government to re-empower Americans in their daily choices. Nothing... |
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Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness
Nick Adams
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Political correctness must be crushed - and only America can do it.
Political correctness has ripped through America, turning life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness into lifelessness, suppression and the pursuit of mediocrity. In support of political correctness, sneeri
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The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage
John Hughes-Wilson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A ground-breaking history of intelligence -- from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age -- that lifts the veil of secrecy from this clandestine world. Comprehensive and authoritative, The Secret State skillfully examines the potential pitfalls of the traditional... |
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Profiles in Corruption
Peter Schweizer - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact. For over a decade, the work of five-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe. Clinton Cash revealed... |
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies... |
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Standing Our Ground: The Triumph of Faith Over Gun Violence: A Mother's Story
LUCIA KAY MCBATH - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover
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From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and leading gun violence prevention advocate comes the riveting memoir of a mother's loss and call to action, as well as a faith-based exploration of how the nation's gun laws put a deadly target on American lives.Lucia Kay McBath... |
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Andrew G. McCabe - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President... |
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Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
ShiÌ?riÌ?n Ê»IbaÌ?diÌ? - Random House
Format: Print book
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The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government... |
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Anonymous. - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,... |
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Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent
Michael McGowan - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history.Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as "Special" by their titles alone, Michael McGowan is an outlier. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified... |
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No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: The Life of General James Mattis
JIM PROSER - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth look at the marine hero who has become one of the most beloved and admired men in America today: Secretary of Defense James Mattis.A devout student of history and erudite reader revered by rank and file soldiers, officers, academics, politicians, and ordinary citizens,... |
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ASAP U.S. Government & Politics: A Quick-Review Study Guide for the AP Exam
Princeton Review (Firm) - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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LIKE CLASS NOTES - ONLY BETTER. The Princeton Review's ASAP U.S. Government & Politics is designed to help you zero in on just the information you need to know to successfully grapple with the AP test. Advanced Placement exams require students to have a firm grasp of content - you can't... |
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9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her
Brion McClanahan - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently scarred the nation. Which nine? Brion McClanahan, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers and The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution, will surprise readers... |
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My own words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Simon & Schuster
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"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words... |
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
FRANCISCO CANT - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil... |
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO... |
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Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror
Thomas McInerney - Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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McInerney and Vallely, are retired U.S. generals now military analysts for FOX News, privy to up-to-the-minute reports and inside sources. In Endgame, they direct their experience and expertise to the question of how to win the war on terror. Unlike past enemies, radical Islam is not confined... |
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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From Boss Crump to King Willie: How Race Changed Memphis Politics
Otis Sanford - Univ Tennessee Press
Format: Hardcover
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From Boss Crump to King Willie offers an in-depth look at the vital role that race played in the political evolution of Memphis, from the rise of longtime political boss Edward Hull Crump to the election of Dr. Willie Herenton as the city's first black mayor. Filled with vivid details... |
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Messing with the Enemy
CLINT WATTS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become the cutting edge of modern warfare - and how we can protect ourselves and our country against... |
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The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World
Derek Chollet - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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Authoritative and original, The Long Game is a controversial assessment of President Obama's foreign policy legacy. Too often, critical discussions concerning American foreign policy are divorced from the political reality in which leaders face choices and make decisions. Here, consummate... |
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American Spy: Wry Reflections on My Life in the CIA
H. K. Roy - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This ain't your daddy's spy story. In a memoir written as a series of narrative vignettes, a former CIA operations officer recounts his years of danger, intrigue, and adventure.This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life --and a few close brushes with death.... |
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Study Guide for the US Citizenship Test in English: Updated January 2016
Mike Swedenberg - JM Swedenberg Publishing House
Format: Print book
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#2 Best Seller in Citizenship Test Guides February 2016 NEW AND IMPROVED with an easier layout and more information. Chris Kurczaba Immigration attorney Updated November 2015 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Study Guide 100 Questions and Answers to the US Immigration test in English.... |
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I Am Not Your Slave: A Memoir
Tupa Tjipombo - Lawrence Hill Books
Format: Hardcover
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I am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent. As she is transported from the point... |
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Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal
Ben Sasse - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent assessment of the existential crisis facing our nation.Our culture has always had tribalism. Different political parties, preferred media outlets, and shifts in positions... |
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Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border
John Carlos Frey - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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A damning portrait of the U.S.-Mexico border, where militaristic fantasies are unleashed, violent technologies are tested, and immigrants are targeted.Over the past three decades, U.S. immigration and border security policies have turned the southern states into conflict zones, spawned... |
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The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep researchReaders around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill... |
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What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights
JUAN WILLIAMS - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement. Unsympathetic, ambiguous, and openly racist remarks are a hallmark of Donald Trump's public life.... |
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In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
Payam Akhavan - House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback
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A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout... |
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We Shall Bury You!: The Hunt for the Spies Who Changed the World
HOWARD BLUM - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence... |
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An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream
Julian Castro - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Julian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story.. In the spirit of a young Barack Obamas Dreams from My Father comes a candid and compelling... |
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Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership
Edward J. Larson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark new work of American history: From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson a groundbreaking dual biography of America's two pre-eminent Founders - Benjamin Franklin and George Washington - examining in fresh detail how their underexplored relationship forged the United... |
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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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Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS
David J Barron - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A first-rate history filled with revealing incidents and informed analysis." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A timely account of a raging debate: The history of the ongoing struggle between the presidents and Congress over who has the power to declare and wage war.The... |
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The Truth About Trump
Michael D'Antonio - Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book
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"Admirably straightforward, even-handed, but nonetheless damning." -- The New York Times Book Review.For all those who wonder, "Just who is Donald Trump?", The Truth About Trump supplies the answer. Drawing upon exclusive interviews and exhaustive research,... |
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Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Kate Brown - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A chilling expos of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl.Dear Comrades! Since the accident at the Chernobyl power plant, there has been a detailed analysis of the radioactivity of the food and territory... |
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The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America
Jake Sherman - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of the battle to control Congress and the unsparing fight for advantage in the 2018 midterm electionsWith control of both the House and Senate up for grabs in 2018 and the direction of the nation resting on the outcome, never has a more savage, unrelenting fight been waged... |
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The Briefing
SEAN SPICER - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Sean Spicer takes readers behind the scenes of his turbulent tenure as President Trump's press secretary, shedding new light on the headline-grabbing controversies of the Trump administration's first year. |
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Every Day Is Extra
John Kerry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life - from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and Secretary of State for four years - a revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once... |
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