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REBECCA DOREY-STEIN - Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love, and finding her place in the world. In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in DC when a posting on Craigslist...
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Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism

Steven M Gillon - Basic Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequalityIn Separate and Unequal, historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders--popularly known...
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Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

Andrew Pollack - Post Hill Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the policies that made it inevitable have spread to your school. "After my sister Meadow was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the media obsessed for months about the type of rifle...
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson - Crown
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

On Winston Churchills first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons....
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I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime

JOE KENDA - Center Street
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

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How Democracies Die

STEVE LEVITSKY - Crown
Pages: 320
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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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

Ben Hubbard - Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The gripping chronicle of the rise of Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler "A rare and penetrating look behind the curtain of the world's most important family and its dangerous new leader." - Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower MBS is the untold...
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail

Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from...
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Who Rules the World?

Noam Chomsky - Metropolitan Books
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rightsIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues...
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

CHINA MIEVILLE - Verso
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed fantasy author China Miville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive...
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