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The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyismand How Trump Can Drain It

ERIC BOLLING - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again. In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents...
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While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America

Yeonmi Park - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also...
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The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change

Michelle MiJung Kim - Hachette Go
Format: Hardcover

As we become more aware of various social injustices in the world, many of us want to be part of the movement toward positive change. But sometimes our best intentions cause unintended harm, and we fumble. We might feel afraid to say the wrong thing and feel guilt for not doing or knowing...
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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in AmericaWidespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race....
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We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution

Gerald F. Seib - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal chronicles the astonishing rise, climax, and decline of one of the great political movements in American history - the forty-year reign of the conservative movement, from the election of Ronald Reagan to the Republican Party's...
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A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism

Daniel Sjursen - Truth to Power
Format: Paperback

challenges readers to think critically and to apply common sense to their understanding of our nation's past--and present--Written by a combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, A True History of the United States grew out of a course that Daniel A. Sjursen taught to cadets...
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed

Brad Meltzer - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President LincolnEveryone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865,...
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The Division of Light and Power

DENNIS KUCINICH - Finney Avenue Books
Format: Paperback

Private, investor-owned utilities in Texas, Ohio, California, Illinois and elsewhere are crushing consumers with sky-high rates, price gouging and criminal behavior.The Division of Light and Power is the thoroughly documented, true story of one courageous American mayor who fought, and beat,...
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Back in the Game: The Majority Whip's Remarkable Fight for His Life

Steve Scalise - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

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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Fascism

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace. At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many,...
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