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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroada road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles... |
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Understanding Trump
Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "... |
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Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
Aaron B O'Connell - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. America's goals in Afghanistan were lofty... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE - ALFRED A KNOPF
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... |
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American." - Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow"l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured." - Amy Tan,... |
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.Elliott... |
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Conor Dougherty - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy... |
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The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids
Quanyu Huang - Prometheus
Format: Paperback
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Why do Asian and Asian-American students consistently perform so well on standardized tests? Why are students of Asian descent disproportionately admitted to Americas top colleges?This informative and entertainingly written comparison of educational methods in America and China answers... |
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The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival
Denise Low - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Print book
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"Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end," Denise Low says, "as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible." Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native... |
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Shadow Courts: The Tribunals that Rule Global Trade
Haley Sweetland Edwards - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Print book
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International trade deals have become vastly complex documents, seeking to govern everything from labor rights to environmental protections. This evolution has drawn alarm from American voters, but their suspicions are often vague.In this book, investigative journalist Haley Sweetland Edwards... |
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Standoff: How America Became Ungovernable
BILL SCHNEIDER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Schneider, former CNN senior political analyst, takes us inside the voting booth to show how Americans vote and why their votes sometimes seem to make no practical sense.In the 1960s, a rift developed between the Old America and the New America that resulted in a populist backlash... |
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Hitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors
Tim Tate - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This dramatic expos of Allied subterfuge and betrayal uncovers the treachery of undercover fascists and American Nazi spy rings during the height of World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted -- mostly in secret trials -- of working to help... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present
DAVID TREUER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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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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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Peter Edelman - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department's Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson's largely poor, African American population, resulted... |
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Permanent Record
Arthur King - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013,... |
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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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What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal
E. Jean Carroll - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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A The Washington Post 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 . "A work of comic genius." -- Mary Norris, The New Yorker"Darkly humorous and deadly serious." -Sibbie OSullivan, Washington Post . "A compulsively interesting feminist memoir." -Virginia Heffernan,... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back
Thom Hartmann - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback
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America's #1 progressive radio host looks at how elites have long tried to disenfranchise citizens--particularly people of color, women, and the poor--and shows what we can do to ensure everyone has a voice in this democracy.In today's America, only a slim majority of people register... |
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Alexander Hamilton's Revolution: His Vital Role as Washington's Chief of Staff
Ph.D. Phillip Thomas Tucker - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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Despite his less-than-promising beginnings as the only key Founding Father not born and raised on American soil, Hamilton was one of the best and brightest of his generation. His notoriety has rested almost entirely on his role as Secretary of the Treasury in Washington's administration,... |
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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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Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World
June Diane Raphael - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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"Over the last few years we've seen a remarkable surge of women running for office, and even better, winning. Running takes courage, passion, and commitment, but it also takes books like this. June and Kate have created a wonderful resource for women as they think about taking the leap."... |
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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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The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence
NOT AVAILABLE. - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this well-rounded, deeply-investigated biography, the first full look at the vice president, two award-winning journalists unmask the real Mike Pence. Little-known outside his home state until Donald Trump made him his running mate, Mike Pence -- who proclaims himself a Christian first,... |
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Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
Toni Jensen - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always... |
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Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America
David Daley - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,... |
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A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump
David Plouffe - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A voter's playbook on making a difference in the 2020 election and beyond from the most recognized and most successful political strategist in the countryIf you've asked yourself the question, what more can I do to make sure Donald Trump does not continue to occupy the Oval Office... |
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Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Sara E. Gorman - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science... |
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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
Behrouz Boochani - Anansi International
Format: Paperback
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"Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man." -- From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard FlanaganIn 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast... |
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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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Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution
David A. Bell - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmenIn Men on Horseback, the Princeton University historian David A. Bell offers a dramatic new interpretation of modern politics, arguing that the history of democracy is inextricable... |
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For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
Liz Plank - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For The Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved. In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told... |
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(((Semitism) ) ) : Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
Jonathan Weisman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop: "With eloquence and poignancy Weisman shows how hatred can slowly and quietly chew away at the moral fabric of society. We now live in an age where more than ever bigotry and oppression no longer need to hide in fear of reproach.... |
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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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They Said This Day Would Never Come: Chasing the Dream on Obama's Improbable Campaign
Chris Liddell-Westefeld - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling, unlikely story of Barack Obama's first presidential campaign, as told by the volunteers and staff who propelled the longshot candidate to the presidencyIn the year leading up to the Iowa caucuses, few thought a freshman senator named Barack Hussein Obama would be able to win the Democratic... |
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Social Security For Dummies
Jonathan Peterson - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Print book
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Praise for Social Security For Dummies Social Security for Dummies is a must read for people of any age who want a comfortable retirement. Jonathan Peterson does a great job of explaining this complicated system and helps you understand how to get the most from the benefits youve earned.... |
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Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
Ian Bremmer - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author and TIME Magazine columnist Ian Bremmer, a definitive guide to understanding the global wave of populist nationalism.From political upheaval in Europe and the United States to an explosion of anger in the developing world, social and political turmoil has dominated... |
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Far and Away: Reports from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
Andrew Solomon - Scribner Book Company
Format: Print book
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From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics' Circle Award - and one of the most original thinkers of our time - a riveting collection of essays about places in dramatic transition.Far and Away collects Andrew Solomon's writings about places undergoing... |
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First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence
Harlow G Unger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Before Washington, before Jefferson, before Franklin or John Adams, there was Lee--Richard Henry Lee, the First Founding Father.Richard Henry Lee was the first to call for independence, and the first to call for union. He was "father of our country" as much as George Washington,... |
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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
Mollie Hemingway - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access - The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino - reveal what really happened... |
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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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Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
Laura E. Gómez - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos' dynamic racial identity - because it impacts everything we think we know about race in America Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture yet many people instinctively... |
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Kenneth Whyte - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert Hoover--a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune,... |
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Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization
Gordon Brown - Free Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The international financial crisis that has held our global economy in its grip for too long still seems to be in full stride. Former British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown believes the crisis can be reversed, but that the world’s leaders must work together... |
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American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
Marco Rubio - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Friends, My parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers,... |
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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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Don't Wait for the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership
Wesley K. Clark - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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With the end of the Cold War came not the end of history, but the end of Americas sense of its strategic purpose in the world. Then, after a decade of drift, the US was violently dragged back into international conflict. Its armed forces responded magnificently but its leaders objectives... |
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Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC , and the Birth of the Blacklist
THOMAS DOHERTY - Columbia Univ Pr
Format: Hardcover
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In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the movie industry. The blowback was profound: the major studios pledged to never again employ... |
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
Nathan Thrall - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting, "one of the most important writers" in the field (The New York Times) , argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: force.Scattered over the territory between the Jordan... |
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New Directions for Special Collections: An Anthology of Practice
Lynne M. Thomas - Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback
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Special collections today from rare books and other specialized book collections to audio recordings and visual images offer librarians limitless opportunities to showcase their skills in curating, preserving, and offering access to these resources to patrons. Drawing on innovative practices... |
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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
Herb Boyd - Amistad
Format: Print book
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The author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit - a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city's past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy... |
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
JAMES COMEY - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions.... |
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga Taylor - Haymarket Books
Format: Print book
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The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America.... |
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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
STEVE KORNACKI - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s - one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscapeIn The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve Kornacki follows the twin paths of Bill Clinton and Newt... |
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She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters
Robyn Ryle - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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If you've ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it's time to embark on a daring escape outside of the binary box... Open your eyes to what it means to be a boy or a girl -- and above and beyond! Within these pages, you get to choose... |
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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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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Katha Pollitt - Picador
Format: Book
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Recommended by Carol McFarland, Youth Services.
A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATIONForty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, abortion is still a word that is said with outright... |
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A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
ALVIN FELZENBERG - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A new understanding of the man who changed the face of American politics William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In this nuanced biography, Alvin Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects... |
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They Came for Freedom: The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
Jay Milbrandt - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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A page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the course of history.Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries... |
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Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Butter, Sugar, and Women's Voices
Gunst, Kathy - Tiller Press
Format: Hardcover
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50+ recipes, short essays, and quotes from some of the best bakers, activists, and outspoken women in our country today - this cookbook encourages women to use sugar and sass as a way to defend, resist, and protest. Since the 2016 election, many women across the country have felt rage,... |
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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
Cherríe Moraga - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherre Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core,... |
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
Tom Cotton - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon... |
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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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World War Trump: The Dangerous Aftermath of America First
Jim Sciutto - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto demonstrates how Donald Trump has disrupted the world order, and lays out just how difficult it will be to restore it.There's no denying that Donald Trump has disrupted American politics. But what about his legacy around the globe?... |
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Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback
Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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No one understands the Make America Great Again effort with more insight and more experience than former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich helped President Ronald Reagan "Make America Great Again" in 1980. He authored the Contract with America and spearheaded the 1994... |
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
David Horowitz - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America - and the world.One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author,... |
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime... |
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Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff
Anthony McCann - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An "epic exploration" of the 2016 right-wing Oregon Occupation-"an excellent microcosm by which we might better understand our difficult national history and distressing political moment" (Maggie Nelson) .In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors... |
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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
NELSON MANDELA - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long... |
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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"Mr. Berrys sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow." -- Nick Offerman, New York Times... |
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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
Ilan PappeÌ - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Israeli expat historian Pappe ... boldly and persuasively argues for understanding the occupied territories as the world's 'largest ever mega-prison..... Pappe's conclusions won't be welcome in all quarters but this detailed history is rigorously supported by primary sources." -- Publishers... |
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The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
Norman Ohler - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed, the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow... |
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The Ambassadors: Americas Diplomats on the Front Lines
Paul Richter - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Veteran diplomatic correspondent Paul Richter goes behind the battles and the headlines to show how American ambassadors are the unconventional warriors in the Muslim world - running local government, directing drone strikes, nation-building, and risking their lives on the front lines..... |
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Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
LILLIAN FADERMAN - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Harvey Milk - eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck - was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most... |
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Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society
Thomas Frank - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What's the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times -- perfect for this political momentWhat does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years... |
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
KEVIN PERAINO - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day. In the opening months of 1949, U.S. President... |
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Reconstruction: A Concise History
Allen C Guelzo - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what... |
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Are Libraries Obsolete? An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age
Mark Y Herring - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Format: Paperback
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The digital age has transformed information access in ways that few ever dreamed. But the afterclap of our digital wonders has left libraries reeling as they are no longer the chief contender in information delivery. The author gives both sides--the web aficionados, some of them unhinged,... |
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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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The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago
Abdul Alkalimat - Northwestern University Press
Format: Paperback
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The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago is the first in-depth, illustrated history of a lost Chicago monument. The Wall of Respect was a revolutionary mural created by fourteen members of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) on the South Side... |
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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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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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Journeys out of Homelessness: The Voices of Lived Experience
Jamie Rife - Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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How do individuals move from being homeless to finding safe, stable, and secure places to live? Can we recreate the conditions that helped them most? What policies are needed to support what worked -- and to remove common obstacles? Addressing these questions, Jamie Rife and Donald Burnes... |
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The Witches Are Coming
Lindy West - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era. THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.WE'RE WITCHES,AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU.From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations... |
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What Unites Us
Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what... |
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Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders
Reihan Salam - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Will the America of the future be peaceful and united, or it will be wracked by intense ethnic and class conflicts that will undermine our most cherished ideals? Reihan Salam, one of today's brightest young conservatives, argues that the answer hinges on how we as a society choose to manage... |
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
BEN RHODES - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From one of Obama's closest aides comes a revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of his presidency - and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive - in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. For nearly ten years,... |
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The Future of Terrorism: ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Alt-Right
Walter Laqueur - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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An expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end?Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists... |
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Yasha Levine - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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An investigative reporter unearths the true history of the internet: it was built by the government to spy on citizens, at home and abroad.With each passing year the internet becomes more and more a part of modern life. Despite story after story of hacks, malware, government surveillance,... |
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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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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
David B Woolner - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American... |
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After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom
Alice Marie Johnson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Kim Kardashian WestThe true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West - an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude.How do you hold on to hope... |
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The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jason Sokol - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassinationOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing... |
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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Edward J. Watts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's... |
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The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
Melvin I. Urofsky - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A multifaceted history of affirmative action from its inception through the past eight decades.From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis ("Remarkable"--Anthony Lewis, NYROB; "Definitive"--Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent in the Supreme... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society... |
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Generation Citizen: The Power of Youth in Our Politics
Scott Warren - Counterpoint
Format: Paperback
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Championing the activism of young people around the world, Generation Citizen is an empowering reminder of the positive power of politics, and an inspiring, actionable guide for anyone ready to fight for democracy. America is at a crossroads. We are alienated from civic engagement,... |
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The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years
John Paul Stevens - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful and personal account of life on the Supreme Court that offers a unique understanding of American history from one of the most prominent jurists of our time When Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, he left a legacy of service unequaled in the history... |
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The Trade: My Journey into the Labyrinth of Political Kidnapping
Jere Van Dyk - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In 2008, American journalist Jere Van Dyk was kidnapped and held for 45 days. At the time, he had no idea who his kidnappers were. They demanded a ransom and the release of three of their comrades from Guantanamo, yet they hinted at their ties to Pakistan and to the Haqqani network, a uniquely... |
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The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Scott Dodson - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a legal icon. In more than fifty years as a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ginsburg has influenced the law and society in real and permanent ways. This book chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements... |
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
America Ferrera - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... |
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The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
P. E. Moskowitz - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech -- and how we can reclaim it.There's a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: free speech. We argue about... |
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American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power
Andrea Bernstein - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A multigenerational saga of two families who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of U.S. power that tracks the unraveling of American democracy.In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein creates a vivid portrait of two emblematic American families.... |
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