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The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court

Laura Kalman - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed,...
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Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today

Barbara Teller Ornelas - Thrums Books
Format: Paperback

Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic...
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A Warning

Anonymous - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

Andrew G. McCabe - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President...
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Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power - Updated and Revised: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing

Amy Sonnie - Melville House; Updated, Revised edition
Format: Paperback

Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s...
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Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism

Seyward Darby - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Journalist Seyward Darby pulls back the curtain on modern racial and political extremism in America with this eye-opening account of three women immersed in the white nationalist movement.After the election of Donald J. Trump, journalist Seyward Darby went looking for the women of the so-called...
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

Eyal Press - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view...
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The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America

Ira Shapiro - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In two previous highly regarded books on the U.S. Senate, Ira Shapiro chronicled the institution from its apogee in the 1970s through its decline in the decades since. Now, Shapiro turns his gaze to how the Senate responded to the challenges posed by the Trump administration and its prospects...
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American Discontent: The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age

John L Campbell - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing. He was the first true outsider to win the White House in over a century and the wealthiest populist in American history. Democrats...
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A New Politics from the Left

Hilary Wainwright - Polity
Format: Hardcover

Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions. In this urgent polemic, Hilary Wainwright argues that this requires a new politics for the left that comes from the bottom up, based...
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