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Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America
Kate Washington - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned... |
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My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son's Search For Home
Michael Brendan Dougherty - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty delivers a meditation on belonging, fatherhood, and nationalism, through a series of letters to his estranged Irish father.The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up before he was born, Michael Brendan Dougherty... |
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last 150 years of American history-from the post-Reconstruction... |
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to AfghanistanRichard Holbrooke was brilliant,... |
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The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage
Jonathan Cohn
Format: Hardcover
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) , better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation to become law in modern American history. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another, for better or worse, and it continues to cost people... |
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Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Caitlyn Collins - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Talia Lavin - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Talia Lavin is every skinhead's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, smart, and profoundly anti-racist, with the investigative chops to expose the tactics and ideologies of online hatemongers.Culture Warlords is the story of how Lavin, a frequent target of extremist... |
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