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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando

PAUL KIX - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur...
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

BEN RHODES - Random House
Format: Hardcover

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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Untitled on HRC

Jonathan Allen - Crown
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about...
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Night Thoughts

WALLACE SHAWN - Haymarket Books
Format: Hardcover

Although he is guided and inspired by the people he respects, and despite the insufficiency of his knowledge and experience - an insufficiency shared by most (or all) other humans, Wallace Shawn can't see any real alternative to trying to figure out his own answers to the most essential...
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Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump

JEROME R CORSI - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover

Donald Trump beat 16 Republican challengers and Hillary Rodham Clinton to win the presidency. Now he must beat the Deep State to keep his presidency. Here's how!#1 New York Times bestselling author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND and THE OBAMA NATION Jerome Corsi uncovers the secret conspiracy...
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Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State

ALI H SOUFAN - W W NORTON
Format: Print book

A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead.When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why?Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house,...
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Last Hope Island : Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war

Lynne Olson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days When the Nazi...
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The Performance of Becoming Human

Daniel Borzutzky - Brooklyn Arts Press
Format: Print book

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Following in the path of his acclaimed collections THE BOOK OF INTERFERING BODIES (Nightboat, 2011) and IN THE MURMURS OF THE ROTTEN CARCASS ECONOMY (Nightboat, 2015) , Daniel Borzutzky returns to confront the various ways nation-states and their bureaucracies...
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Lessons My Father Taught Me: The Strength, Integrity, and Faith of Ronald Reagan

Michael Reagan - Humanix Books
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestselling author Michael Reagan is the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. In this book, Michael Reagan reveals what it was like growing up as a child to one of the most famous Hollywood stars who went on to become a great American president and one of the greatest...
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The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin's Spies Are Winning Control of America and Dismantling the West

Malcolm Nance - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Retired Intelligence officer and New York Times bestselling author of The Plot to Hack America, Malcolm Nance, offers a provocative, comprehensive analysis of the Russian Federation's master plan to destroy democracy, the methodologies used in the 2016 election, what will...
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

Benn Steil - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary...
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One Long Night

Andrea Pitzer - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernitys greatest tragedy: concentration camps.For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope...
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Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies

Tom Fitton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Corruption Chronicles comes a devastating expose of the scandals of Obama's second term. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton reveals what the largest watchdog agency in America has uncovered in its battles against Obama secrecy.Clean...
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

TO BE CONFIRMED. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

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 Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Chris Whipple - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president...
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Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 19741978

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - University of Notre Dame Press
Format: Hardcover

Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures -- and perhaps the most important writer -- of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West,...
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing

GAIL LUKASIK - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow...
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All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump

Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal bestseller. ALL OUT WAR!. Thats what the media, the Democrats, and the Never-Trump Republicans are waging on the democratically elected president of the United States.. With ferocity not seen since the Civil War, the Washington establishment and the radical Left are joining...
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The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation

MIRIAM PAWEL - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley-told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century.Even in the land of reinvention, the story is exceptional:...
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Pretend I'm Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp

Barbara Feinman Todd - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

An accomplished former ghostwriter and book researcher who worked with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton goes behind-the-scenes of the national's capital to tell the story of how she survived the exciting, but self-important and self-promoting world of the Beltway.Barbara...
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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

Edward J. Watts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

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 Gutfeld Monologues: Classic Rants from the Five

GREG GUTFELD - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

An interactive and annotated collection of Fox News star and New York Times bestselling author Greg Gutfeld's sharp, hilarious monologues on everything from politics to pop culture - updated with new commentary for the current day."Wherever I go, I am hit repeatedly by the same...
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

D D'SOUZA - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." - RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York...
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Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Ann Mcelhinney - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book

Gosnell is the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer.In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree.ABC News correspondent Terry Moran...
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

ANONYMOUS. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American...
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The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump

Ronald A Fein - Melville House
Format: Paperback

"Read this book and learn how best to protect our democracy." --Tom Steyer, founder of NeedToImpeach.org The reasons Donald Trump must be impeached - as per the Founding Fathers - and what you can do to help make that happenThree veteran constitutional attorneys say there's...
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

FRANCISCO CANT - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"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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Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Free Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of "The Caged Virgin, " Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands,...
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Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth

Howard Kurtz - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

With outrageous examples of left-wing media bias and insider scoops on front-page skirmishes between the Trump White House and reporters, Howard Kurtz's new book is an astonishing expos of the media industry that is reminiscent of Bernard Goldberg's game changing New York Times bestseller...
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History

MITCH LANDRIEU - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate...
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To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect

Mary Thompson-Jones - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A former American diplomat reveals a disconnect between Washington policymakers and those who work in US embassies.When the world awoke on November 28, 2010, and read the first of the 251,287 State Department cables made public by WikiLeaks, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini warned,...
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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution

David A Kaplan - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government - and how we've...
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

Eric Bogosian - Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian GenocideIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper...
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Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman, and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South

Courtney Hargrave - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover

THE TRUE EVENTS THAT INSPIRED THE UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Forest Whitaker, Garrett Hedlund, and Usher, and produced by Robbie Brenner (Dallas Buyers Club) A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South.In...
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Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China

Alec Ash - Arcade
Format: Hardcover

"Ashs book paints a telling portrait of this most restless generation raised in a system that has provided them with unprecedented personal opportunities while denying them political ones . . . A gifted observer." - Washington Post If China will rule the world one day, who will...
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir

Casey Gerald - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart--a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church...
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Thomas E Ricks - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill...
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Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

Sarah Jaffe - Nation Books
Format: Print book

"Sarah Jaffe marches into the class war, fighting the good fight with a pen as sharp as any sword." - Bill Moyers"The most compelling social and political portrait of our age." - Robin D. G. KelleyWe are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political engagement and social...
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The Memo: A Novel

Rachel Dodes - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

"A total joyride of a novel. The Memo is a funny, fascinating exploration of love, friendship, ambition and what it truly means to live a good life. I loved it." - J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Commencement, Maine, and Friends and StrangersIf you could...
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

VALERIA LUISELLI - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived

ANTONIN SCALIA CHRISTOPHER SCALIA - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest...
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Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America

Emily Dufton - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuanaIn the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago,...
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism

Edward Luce - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. In The Retreat of Western...
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

Susan Burton - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

One woman's remarkable odyssey from tragedy to prison to recovery - and recognition as a leading figure in the national justice reform movementSusan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without...
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Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government

Mike Lee - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

Senator Mike Lee tells the story of the Founders whose warnings about the dangers of an all-powerful federal government helped shape our Constitution--but are being ignored today. Today, most Americans are familiar only with the "big names" associated with the Founding - Washington,...
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

Howard Zinn - HarperCollins e-books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

“It’s a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants“[It] should...
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Understanding Trump

Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

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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Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America

John Nichols - Nation Books
Format: Paperback

An essential examination of the the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are "making America great again" Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of white nationalists, alt-right hatemongers, voter-suppression schemers, immigrant bashers, and climate-change...
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

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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Argentina: A Modern History

Jill Hedges - I.B.Tauris
Format: Paperback

In this book, Jill Hedges analyses the modern history of Argentina from the adoption of the 1853 constitution until the present day, exploring political, economic and social aspects of Argentina's recent past in a study which will be invaluable for anyone interested in South American...
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

Kate Andersen Brower - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: eBook

Brower draws on a wide array of untapped, candid sources to tell the stories of the ten remarkable women who have defined the role of First Lady of the United States since 1960. From Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama, she offers new insights into this privileged group, and shares stories...
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

NAOMI KLEIN - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback

The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic...
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration

Emily Bazelon - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis - and charts a way out. The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense,...
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The Right Answer: How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation

JOHN K DELANEY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The first declared candidate for president in 2020 delivers a passionate call for bipartisan action, entrepreneurial innovation, and a renewed commitment to the American ideaThe son of a union electrician and grandson of an immigrant, John Delaney grew up believing that anything was possible...
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

DAVID MCCULLOUGH - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American...
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The Will to Lead: America's Indispensable Role in the Global Fight for Freedom

Anders Fogh Rasmussen - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

From the former prime minister of Denmark comes an impassioned plea to persuade Americans to elect a president who will restore America to its proper role of global leader, instead of "leading from behind."Anders Fogh Rasmussen is unabashedly pro-American, a fierce defender of freedom,...
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Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House

Donna Brazile - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Explosive... A blistering tell-all."---Washington Post "People should sit up, take notes and change things."---Ace Smith, Los Angeles Times "Brazile most certainly has a story to tell.... Vivid."---The...
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The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century

ROBERT D KAPLAN - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A bracing assessement of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and America - from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge...
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

JAMES COMEY - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours

Joseph Rosenbloom - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

An "immersive, humanizing, and demystifying" (Charles Blow, New York Times) look at the final hours of Dr. King's life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King,...
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To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police

Norm Stamper - Nation Books
Format: Print book

The police in America belong to the people - not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege - misunderstood,...
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestsellerThe fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save itSenator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's...
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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism

STEVE KORNACKI - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

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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Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities

Daniel Golden - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage -- and why that is troubling news for our nation's security.Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline...
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

Michael Chabon - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists,...
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

Ian Haney López - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book

Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing...
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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather. "A tonic for our times . . . Rathers writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new generation. In these essays, he gives voice...
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry

PATRICK J CHARLES - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces...
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Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the Worlds Most Secretive Nation

DANIEL TUDOR - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide...
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE - ALFRED A KNOPF
Format: Print book

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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Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate

Gary J Byrne - Center Street

A former Secret Service official explores what he sees as "the personal and political dysfunction of the Clinton White House, so consumed by scandal and destroying their enemies, real and imagined, ... that governing was an afterthought."
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The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945

Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II - intelligence - showing how espionage successes...
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect...
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy...
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One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

E J JR DIONNE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

With Donald Trump's election we find ourselves at an existential moment in our republic's history. His campaign, victory, and first months in office, egregious in previously unimaginable ways, suggest a threat to the well-being of our country and the sustainability of our democracy. In One...
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The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

SHARYL ATTKISSON - Harper
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerEver wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.Behind...
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin

Sybrina Fulton - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book

Trayvon Martin's parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement. On a February evening in 2012, in a small town in central Florida, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking...
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

Michelle Kuo - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."...
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right

Michael J. Graetz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a "moderate" or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency...
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William...
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

Douglas Murray - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable...
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

DAVID E SANGER - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. Cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies,...
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

GILBERT KING - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential...
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How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

Edward Jay Epst - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking expos that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important. After details of American government...
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Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State

Karen J Greenberg - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book

The definitive account of how America's War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security.The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the attorney general with preventing another terrorist attack...
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad

Del Quentin Wilber - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good...
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The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year

Amy Siskind - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda,...
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Why We Fight: Recovering America's Will to Win

Sebastian Gorka - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

America needs a clear, unifying doctrine if we are to succeed in the war on terror says security, strategy, and counterterrorism expert Sebastian Gorka, author of national bestseller Defeating Jihad and former Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States.
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization

Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Print book

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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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line

DAVID HOGG - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From two students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement that arose after the Parkland, Florida, shooting.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister,...
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Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump

Laura Ingraham - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

Americans didnt just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement...
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Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom - Univ Of California Press
Format: Print book

This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police...
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America

Peter Edelman - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

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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How the Right Lost Its Mind

Charles J Sykes - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Paperback

"Bracing and immediate." - The Washington PostOnce at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles J. Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes...
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A World to Win: The Life and Thought of Karl Marx

SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN - Verso
Format: Hardcover

Epic new biography of Karl Marx for the 200th anniversary of his birthIn this essential new biography - the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx - Sven-Eric Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent...
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book

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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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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Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

AMY CHOZICK - Harper
Format: Hardcover

For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton's pursuit of the presidency. Chozick's front-row seat, initially covering Clinton's imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to "The Hillary Beat" ahead of the 2016 election, took...
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Trump, the Blue-Collar President

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci writes his story about Trump and his administration. TRUMP, THE BLUE-COLLAR PRESIDENT is the comeback story for America and Americans. Both Wall Street and Main...
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Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy

JONAH GOLDBERG - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture, two-time NYT bestselling author, syndicated columnist, National Review senior editor, and American Enterprise Institute fellow Jonah Goldberg makes the timely case that America and other democracies...
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Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

JOHN LEWIS - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback

Now in paperback, with a new introduction by Congressman John Lewis, ACROSS THAT BRIDGE is the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront...
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals...
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

Amy Chua - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many...
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges

James Martin Stone - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,...
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Anthony Ray Hinton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine...
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Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence

James R. Clapper - Viking
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestsellerThe former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to AmericaWhen he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director...
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

Mitchell Duneier - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book

On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto -- a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto...
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

VIRGINIA EUBANKS - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Naomi Klein: "This book is downright scary."Ethan Zuckerman, MIT: "Should be required reading." Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read for everyone concerned about modern tools of inequality in America."Astra Taylor, author of The...
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S Herman - Pantheon
Format: Paperback

In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas...
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Daniel Ellsberg - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

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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Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works

Jay Newton-Small - Time Books
Format: Print book

2016 will be one of the most historic years in politics: It marks the potential for the first female President of the United States, and the 100th anniversary of the first woman elected to Congress. Additionally, in 2016, single women will be one of the most pivotal voting groups heading...
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Richard Nixon: The Life

John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book

Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly...
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Jr Forman - Farrar
Format: Print book

In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that...
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s

William I Hitchcock - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial...
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The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace

ALEXANDER KLIMBURG - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found...
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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"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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Trump's First Year

MICHAEL NELSON - University of Virginia Press
Format: Paperback

Donald Trump took office in January 2017 under mostly favorable conditions. He inherited neither a war nor an economic depression, and his party controlled both houses of Congress. He leveraged this successfully in some ways by delivering on his campaign promises to roll back regulations...
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together

VAN JONES - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

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 Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle...
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"One of America's most important journalists" (The Washington Monthly) , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump, David Cay Johnston examines the Trump Administration's policies in its first one hundred...
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War

Chandra Manning - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage...
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Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

Caitlyn Collins - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives -- and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress...
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How Democracies Die

STEVE LEVITSKY - Crown
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely." - New York Times Book Review"Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment." - The Washington PostDonald Trump's presidency...
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Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan

SHEILA TATE - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

Lady in Red is the long-awaited collection of behind-the-scenes stories and iconic images of one of the most influential First Lady in modern history -- Nancy Reagan. Lovingly compiled by long-time close confidante and aide, Sheila Tate, the book provides a rare and much-anticipated...
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since...
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We Rise to Resist: Voices from a New Era in Womens Political Action

Paula vW. Dáil - McFarland & Company
Format: Paperback

"There are more seasons to come and there is more work to do," Hillary Clinton told her supporters following her surprising defeat in the 2016 presidential election. Taking her words to heart, on January 21, 2017, millions of women (and men) across America--opposing a president-elect...
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Dangerous

Milo Yiannopoulos - Dangerous Books
Format: Audiobook

The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere.
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Bridge of spies a true story of the Cold War

Giles Whittell - Broadway Books
Format: eBook

Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin's Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first and most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West' Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that exchange on February 10, 1962, when...
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Full Disclosure

Stormy Daniels - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.How did Stormy...
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

LAUREN MARKHAM - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins...
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Reagan: An American Journey

Bob Spitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Liars, Leakers and Liberals

JEANINE PIRRO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

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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Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Ilan Stavans - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after Mexico. Needless to say, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is causing a shift, not onlychanging...
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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

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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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

DeRay Mckesson - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs,...
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Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think

Ken Buck - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain.Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life...
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