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There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia
Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just when Colombians were ready to move past the murderous legacy of the country's cartels, a new, bloody chapter unfolded. In the late 1990s, right-wing paramilitary... |
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Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life
Nato Thompson - Melville House
Format: Print book
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One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us.The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising... |
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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Ashton Applewhite - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower,... |
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We Do Our Part: Toward a Fairer and More Equal America
CHARLES PETERS - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary editor who founded the Washington Monthly and pioneered explanatory journalism trains his keen, principled eye on the changes that have reshaped American politics and civic life beginning with the New Deal. "We Do Our Part" was the slogan of Franklin Delano... |
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The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech
Kimberley Strassel - Twelve
Format: Print book
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From Kim Strassel-one of the preeminent political columnists writing today and member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board-comes an insightful, alarming look at how the Left, once the champion of civil liberties, is today orchestrating a coordinated campaign to bully Americans out of free... |
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The governance of China
Jinping Xi - Foreign Languages Press
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"As general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and president of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping has delivered many speeches on a broad range of issues. He has offered his thoughts, views and judgments, and answered a series of important theoretical and practical... |
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The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America
Jake Sherman - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of the battle to control Congress and the unsparing fight for advantage in the 2018 midterm electionsWith control of both the House and Senate up for grabs in 2018 and the direction of the nation resting on the outcome, never has a more savage, unrelenting fight been waged... |
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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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Why We Can't Afford the Rich
Andrew Sayer - Policy Press
Format: Hardcover
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Even as inequalities widen, the effects of austerity deepen, and the consequences of recession linger, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why We Can't Afford the Rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced... |
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Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "one of the greatest writers of our time" Ngg wa Thiong'o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From "The Fig Tree, " written... |
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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
Eliot A Cohen - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen argues that the United States must use military power in support of its foreign policy, but that doing so will be increasingly difficult. The United States must continue to assume primary responsibility for maintaining world order, or risk a chaotic international... |
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A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Rachel Kleinfeld - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant analysis of societies that appear to be intractably violent, but in fact are not - including our own. A Savage Order is original, penetrating, and filled with gripping history and reporting." - Steven PinkerAn urgent and provocative look at how extreme violence... |
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I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids
Kyle Schwartz - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Print book
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One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacherknew ." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking-all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results... |
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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
TAMER ELNOURY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the insideIt's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing... |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's... |
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
MITCH LANDRIEU - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once... |
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Jared Diamond - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding... |
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Our Separate Ways: The Struggle for the Future of the U.S.Israel Alliance
Dana H Allin - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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The U.S.-Israeli alliance is not simply under strain - it is fundamentally at risk. Our Separate Ways is an urgent examination of why the alliance has deteriorated and the dangers of its neglectPowerful demographic, cultural, and strategic currents in Israel and the United States are driving... |
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Untitled JLTM
Anonymous 9781250205797 - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times BestsellerA 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. "An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores... |
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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
Alexis Okeowo - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Absolutely essential reading, period."---Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo--a vivid... |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most... |
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Making the Move to RDA: A Self-Study Primer for Catalogers
Sara Shatford Layne - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Making the Move to RDA A Self-Study Primer for Catalogers is aimed at catalogers working in the MARC environment who currently create records using AACR2 and need to transition to using the new standard, Resource Description and Access RDA. Since both RDAs structure and content differ from... |
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Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
Jill Ahlberg Yohe - University of Washington Press
Format: Paperback
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Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists explores the artistic achievements of Native women and establishes their rightful place in the art world. This landmark book includes works of art from antiquity to the present, made in a variety of media from textiles and beadwork to video and digital... |
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
DeRay Mckesson - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"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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Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law
James B. Stewart
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author James Stewart, the definitive story of the war between President Trump and America's principal law enforcement agencies, answering the questions that the Mueller report couldn't - or wouldn'tWhen Trump fired James Comey, he triggered the appointment of Robert... |
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Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS
David J Barron - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A first-rate history filled with revealing incidents and informed analysis." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A timely account of a raging debate: The history of the ongoing struggle between the presidents and Congress over who has the power to declare and wage war.The... |
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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
MICHAEL MCFAUL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the presentIn 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely... |
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Gordon Corera - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining... |
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Democracy in the Dark: The Seduction of Government Secrecy
Frederick A O Schwarz - The New Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to the National Security Agency's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief... |
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When Montezuma Met Corts: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
MATTHEW RESTALL - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Corts that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Corts first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital... |
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Democracy: A Case Study
David A Moss - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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To all who declare that American democracy is broken -- riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, and corrupted by wealth -- history offers hope. In nearly every generation since the nation's founding, critics have made similar declarations, and yet the nation is still standing.... |
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Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
JOSHUA ZEITZ - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform,... |
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How Democracy Ends
DAVID RUNCIMAN - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophySince the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled,... |
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Law & Disorder: The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD
Bruce Chadwick - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times... |
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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
Douglas Waller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives... |
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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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Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Norman G Finkelstein - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating "operations" against Gaza's largely defenseless... |
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The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of Americas Highest Office
Jeremi Suri - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every president since JFK, with enormously problematic implications for American politics In The Impossible Presidency, celebrated historian Jeremi Suri... |
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Night Thoughts
WALLACE SHAWN - Haymarket Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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Another day in the death of America : a chronicle of ten short lives
Gary Younge - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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On an average day in America, seven young people, aged nineteen or under, will be shot dead.In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost on one random day - November 23, 2013. Ten children died that day.... |
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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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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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The Handy American Government Answer Book: How Washington, Politics and Elections Work
Gina Renée Misiroglu - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback
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The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a complex, interlocking... |
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Bloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition
Chris McNickle - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Examine the Bipartisan Legacy of a Remarkable Billionaire PoliticianBloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition tells the story of how one of America's most successful entrepreneurs was elected mayor of New York City and what he did with the power he won. Bloomberg's stunning victory... |
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Black Site : The CIA in the Post-9/11 World
Philip Mudd
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A bold account of one of the most controversial and haunting initiatives in American history, Black Site tells the full story of the post-9/11 counterterrorism world at the CIA. When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, nowhere were the reverberations more powerfully felt than at CIA headquarters... |
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Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
Bob Herbert - Doubleday
Format: Book
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From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its wayIn his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle... |
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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
TO BE CONFIRMED. - 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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By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
Charles Murray
Format: Book
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The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul... |
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Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples, A
Frederick Hertz Attorney - NOLO
Format: Eighteenth Edition
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Protect yourself and your loved one with sound legal planning . Gay and lesbian couples have gained a lot of legal ground in recent years. Although same-sex marriage is now legal across the U.S.,laws governing civil unions and domestic partnerships vary from state to state. . So its still... |
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Future Right: Forging a New Republican Majority
Donald T Critchlow - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Contrary to those who argue that demographics are political destiny, social trends are transforming identity categories of race, gender, and youth - all of which provide rich opportunities for Republicans to create a new majority. To accomplish this, Republicans will need imagination and political... |
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White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Joan Williams - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite -- journalists, managers, and establishment politicians -- are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. In White Working Class,... |
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant's Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay
Joseph Hickman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The revelatory eyewitness account about Guantnamo Bay - detainees murdered, a secret CIA facility for torture, and the US government cover up - by the Staff Sergeant who felt honor-bound to uncover it.Staff Sergeant Joe Hickman was a loyal member of the armed forces and a proud American... |
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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
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"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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The Wikileaks Files: The World According to Us Empire
Julian Assange - Verso, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policyWhen WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly... |
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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
Charles Krauthammer - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical - including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about... |
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The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Graeme Wood - Random House
Format: Print book
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The author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants" has written the definitive, electrifying account of the strategy, psychology, and theology driving the Islamic StateTens of thousands of men and women have left comfortable, privileged lives to join... |
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The Case for Trump
Victor Davis Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more than ever In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor... |
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Adam Smith: Father of Economics
Jesse Norman - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent... |
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The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation
Robin Pogrebin - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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"A remarkable work of slowed-down journalism...They are doing their jobs as journalists and writing the first draft of history." - Jill Filipovic, The Washington Post. "...Generous but also damning." - Hanna Rosin, The New York TimesFrom two New York Times reporters,... |
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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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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Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World
James Ball - Biteback Publishing
Format: Paperback
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2016 marked the dawn of the post-truth era. The year saw two shock election results, each of which has the potential to reshape the world: the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the elevation of Donald Trump to the office of US President. The campaigns highlighted many of the same issues... |
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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
Matt Farwell - Penguin Press
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The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly poignant--choice... |
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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals
JEREMY MCCARTER - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk... |
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Power Grab: Obama's Dangerous Plan for a One-Party Nation
Dick Morris - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, in their upcoming release by Humanix Books, contend that President Obama is at war with the Constitution and its provisions that provide forchecks and balances. President Obama s style of leadership is proof that he is willing... |
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Book
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When the United States was founded, it was the only attempt at self-government in the world. Today more than half of all countries qualify as democracies, and in the long run that number will continue to grow. Yet nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Using America's long struggle as a template,... |
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Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy
TRITA PARSI - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive book on Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran from the author of the Foreign Affairs Best Book on the Middle East in 2012This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement... |
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Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump
Laura Ingraham - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginningsWhen the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring... |
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The 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 the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction
Renata Adler - New York Review Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. As a staff writer at The New Yorker. Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; the wars in Biafra, and the Middle East; the Nixon impeachment inquiry;... |
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Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent
Michael McGowan - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history.Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as "Special" by their titles alone, Michael McGowan is an outlier. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified... |
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Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
Jeff Madrick - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the former economics columnist for Harpers and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theorieswhy theyre wrong, and how theyve been harming America and the world.Ideas have the power to change history. But what happens when they are bad In a tour... |
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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Heather Mac Donald - Encounter Books
Format: Print book
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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson... |
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Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 19712017
Simon Reid-Henry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day, Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are.Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo... |
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Brenda Wineapple - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president." - Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln... |
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 19361939
Adam Hochschild - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s,... |
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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
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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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The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide
Rebecca Vnuk - American Library Association
Format: Paperback
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No! We can t rid of that! Vnuk, author of the popular Weeding Tips column on BOOKLIST Online, is here to show you that yes, you can. A library is an ever-changing organism; when done the right way, weeding helps a library thrive by focusing its resources on those parts of the collection... |
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The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington
Alexander Nazaryan - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing look at the Trump cabinet: the scandals, the incompetence, the assault on the federal government, the bungled attempts to impose order on an administration lost in a chaos of its own making.Donald Trump promised a return to national greatness, but each day of his presidency... |
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100 Years of Struggle Towards Democracy in Iran, Vol. 1
Ali Limounadi - Iranian Studies and Archive Foundation; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Years Struggle Towards Democracy in Iran is a comprehensive series of exclusive interviews by Ali Limonadi Director of Iranian Television IRTV - Los Angeles with political and social scholars intellectuals opposition leaders and analysts regarding the democracy in Iran and exploring the reasons... |
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The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea
Paul Ryan - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover
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From the intellectual leader of the Republican party, an unvarnished look into the state of the conservative movement today and a clear plan for what needs to be done to save the American Idea.THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond,... |
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Cliff Sims - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's... |
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Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America
Rand Paul - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Rand Paul, leading national politician and likely contender for the 2016 Presidential bid, presents his vision for America.
In his four years since joining the Senate, Rand Paul has risen to the forefront of the national discussion. He's being called "the most interesting... |
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The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
Mara Hvistendahl - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near... |
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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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Union Jack: JFK's Special Relationship with Great Britain
Christopher Sandford - ForeEdge
Format: Hardcover
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John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theater, music, and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealized Englishness. In Union Jack, noted biographer... |
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Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
Barry Friedman - Farrar
Format: Print book
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As the debate about out-of-control policing heats up, an authority on constitutional law offers a provocative account of how our rights have been erodedIn June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over... |
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The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future
Joseph C. Sternberg - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal columnist delivers a brilliant narrative of the mugging of the millennial generation-- how the Baby Boomers have stolen the millennials' future in order to ensure themselves a comfortable presentThe Theft of a Decade is a contrarian, revelatory analysis of how one generation... |
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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
Joshua Yaffa - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a leading journalist in Moscow and correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule "Unforgettable. . . . This is a book about Putin's Russia that is unlike any other."... |
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Yes We
DAN PFEIFFER - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 19711972
Douglas Brinkley - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book
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The famous -- and infamous -- Nixon White House tapes that reveal forthe first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in hisown wordsPresident Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every wordspoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations... |
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Richard Haass - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions - not to mention the president and his advisers - could benefit from reading." - The New York TimesAn examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United... |
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Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon
Ash Carter - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs... |
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Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
LUKE HARDING - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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With the recent indictments of Paul Manafort, Richard Gates, and George Papadopoulos, Russia expert Luke Harding lays out the most in-depth look to date at the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia. Beginning with a meeting with Christopher Steele, the man behind the shattering dossier... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
Lisa Wade - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory account of the new culture of sex that has come to dominate the American college experience.The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers... |
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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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Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China
Alec Ash - Arcade
Format: Hardcover
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"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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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
Andrew Morton - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward... |
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Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream
Eileen Truax - Beacon Press (MA)
Format: Paperback
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Dreamers is a movement book for the generation brought to the United States as children - and now fighting to live here legally Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up here, going to elementary,... |
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The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
CHRISTOPHER ANDREW - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley... |
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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
Anu Partanen - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly... |
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The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of Firearms
Iain Overton - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this compelling and revelatory book, an investigative journalist explores the lifecycle of the gun - following those who make firearms, sell them, use them, and die by them - with a special emphasis on the United States, to make sense of our complex relationship with these weapons.We... |
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
D D'SOUZA - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra - Farrar
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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Paralegal Career For Dummies
Lisa Zimmer Hatch - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Your career as a top-notch paralegal starts here The demand for paralegal professionals is exploding, and Paralegal Career For Dummies, 2nd Edition explains the skills and requirements needed to pursue this rewarding career. Inside, you'll discover the ins and outs of paralegal skills,... |
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story... |
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Charles Campisi - Scribner
Format: Print book
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This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from... |
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The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement
KAYLEIGH MCENANY - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy comes an exploration of the American heartland - a fascinating and eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the powerful grassroots populist movement of frustrated Americans left behind by the government that changed the landscape... |
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Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women
Katie Pavlich - Threshold Editions; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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New York Times bestselling author and FOX News contributor Katie Pavlich exposes the truth behind the real war on women—the one being waged by Democrats.Assault and Flattery goes beyond the Democratic Party’s rhetoric and exposes its shocking and sustained assault on American... |
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most... |
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So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir
Michael Rosen - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaignerIn this hilarious, moving memoir, much-loved children's poet and political campaigner Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. He was born in the North London suburbs, and his parents,... |
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Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us
Donald Trump Jr. - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr. will expose all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to fake accusations of "hate speech." No topic is spared from political correctness. This is the book... |
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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
Holly Jackson - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists - free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes - and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era"In the tradition of Howard Zinn's people's histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten... |
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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 List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year
Amy Siskind - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth
Howard Kurtz - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
Jason DeParle - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas and her family in the Manila slums thirty... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book
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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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Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
Amy Knight - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since Vladamir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin's reign... |
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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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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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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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Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
Tim Bouverie - The Bodley Head Ltd
Format: Paperback
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A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War IIOn a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later... |
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Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness for the Family, 3rd Edition
Dr. Arthur T Bradley - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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How do you prepare for an Ebola outbreak? What about a hurricane, flood, tornado, or house fire? It all starts with developing a practical disaster preparedness plan for your family. The Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness is the only book that provides step-by-step... |
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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
Virginia Heffernan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan (called one of the "best living writers of English prose") reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet.Since its inception, the Internet has morphed from merely an extension... |
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The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline
Jonathan Tepperman - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book
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A provocative look at the world's most difficult, seemingly ineradicable problems - and the surprising stories of the countries that solved them. We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth... |
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