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Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
Mark Whitaker - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist and author Mark Whitaker explores the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan "Black Power" challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. In gripping, novelistic... |
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How Not to Kill Your Plants
NIK SOUTHERN - HODDER STOUGHTON
Format: Hardcover
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Hands up if you've killed a plant? Yep, me too. It's no secret that we've all become plant obsessed, but do we really understand how to look after them? I am not a Professor of Botany, but having run my florist and plant shop, Grace & Thorn, since 2011 I've learnt a few things along... |
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Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads
Al Sharpton - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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In RISE UP: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads, Rev. Al Sharpton revisits the highlights of the Obama administration, the 2016 election, and Trump's subsequent hold on the GOP, and draws on his decades-long experience with other key players in politics and activism. He also amplifies... |
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What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics
Richard Rorty - ?Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United StatesRichard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost... |
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Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
Smith, Helmut Walser - LIVERIGHT PUB CORP
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An epic in the tradition of Jonathan Spence's The Search for Modern China and Jill Lepore's These Truths, Helmut Walser Smith's sterling work promises to redefine our perception of German history. For nearly a century, conventional historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly... |
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Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader
Jessie Asya Kanzer - St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Hardcover
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Volodymyr Zelensky captivated the world when his country was invaded by Russia in February 2022. His appearances were accompanied by countless inspiring statements. But there's a single one that informs Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: "We are all simple people.". Jessie Kanzer... |
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All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia
Matthew Algeo - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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In early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of eastern Kentucky to gauge the progress of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Kennedy, already considering challenging Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination, viewed his two days in Kentucky... |
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