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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady

Susan Quinn - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband...
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Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us

Amanda Carpenter - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

A CNN contributor, former Ted Cruz staffer, and "Never Trump" adherent reveals a shocking truth: Donald Trump's lies and fabrications don't horrify America - they enthrall us - and explains how we can avoid falling for them."Can you believe what Donald Trump said?"In...
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Fear: Trump in the White House

BOB WOODWARD - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL ITWith authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes...
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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather. "A tonic for our times . . . Rathers writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new generation. In these essays, he gives voice...
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Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

BRUCE HENDERSON - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role...
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The Witches Are Coming

Lindy West - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era. THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.WE'RE WITCHES,AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU.From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations...
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The Cold War: A World History

Odd Arne Westad - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming...
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Reagan: An American Journey

Bob Spitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents,...
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

Ben Rawlence - Picador
Format: Print book

To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort.Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement,...
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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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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies

MICHAEL V HAYDEN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more importantIn the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence,...
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In Trump We Trust: How He Outsmarted the Politicians, the "Elites," and the Media

Ann Coulter - Sentinel
Format: Print book

Donald Trump isn't a politician -- he's a one man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution. The three biggest news stories...
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Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America

Donald Trump - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

In this book (previously published as Crippled America) , were going to look at the state of the world right now. Its a terrible mess, and thats putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible...
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Everyday Sexism

Laura Bates - St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Format: Book

In 2012 after having been sexually harassed on London public transport, Laura Bates started a project called Everyday Sexism. Astounded by the response from all over the world, she quickly realized that the situation was far worse than she'd initially thought. In a culture that's...
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state...
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis

Patrick Kingsley - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book

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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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

BILL O'REILLY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,...
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Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unknown Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology

Max Allan Collins - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Devil in the White City, Furious Hours, and I'll Be Gone in the Dark, comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case -- his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer...
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Armageddon: THE BATTLE TO STOP OBAMA'S THIRD TERM

Dick Morris - Humanix Pub Llc
Format: Print book

Timed for the critical presidential election season, New York Times bestselling author and noted political commentator Dick Morris provides a strategy and position on the issues for Republicans to attract crucial new voters to the party in order to win back the White House in 2016...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

JOSEPH MATTHEWS - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. The rules for claiming Social Security benefits are changing. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government...
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

Jim DeFede - Regan Books
Format: Paperback

"For the better part of a week, nearly every man, woman, and child in Gander and the surrounding smaller towns stopped what they were doing so they could help. They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They affirmed the basic goodness...
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies...
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Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

Sarah Jaffe - Nation Books
Format: Print book

"Sarah Jaffe marches into the class war, fighting the good fight with a pen as sharp as any sword." - Bill Moyers"The most compelling social and political portrait of our age." - Robin D. G. KelleyWe are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political engagement and social...
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance

Alexis Clark - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

A "New & Noteworthy" selection of The New York Times Book Review . "Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history." - Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci "[A]n irresistible human story. . . . Clarks voice...
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Poetry and Power: John F. Kennedy's Vision for America

STEPHEN KENNEDY SMITH - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures - including Senator Elizabeth Warren,...
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Breaking Through Gridlock: The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World

Jason J Jay - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback

Think about the last time you tried to talk with someone who didn't already agree with you about issues that matter most. How well did it go? These conversations are vital, but too often get stuck. They become contentious or we avoid them because we fear they might. What if, in these...
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Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States

Bradley W Hart - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II.Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular...
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The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

Mark K Updegrove - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An historian's revealing and intimate portrait of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush that explores their relationship as presidents and as father and son - the first major biographical treatment of these two consequential presidents and figures in American history.In 2016 the Republican...
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

Ron Stallworth - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback

The extraordinary true story and basis for the major motion picture BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs...
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Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency

David Greenberg - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

The most powerful political tool of the modern presidency is control of the message and the image.In Republic of Spin -- a vibrant history covering more than one hundred years of politics -- presidential historian David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House spin machine, from Teddy...
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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

ELI SASLOW - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mindDerek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand...
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

H W Brands - Doubleday
Format: Print book

Click Here For the Autographed Copy From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height...
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I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime

JOE KENDA - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump

GREGG JARRETT - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton's deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election.The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama's Justice Department worked...
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Today's Social Issues: Democrats and Republicans

Timothy W. Kneeland - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover

Covering everything from abortion to gun control to immigration, this book explains policies and positions of today's Democratic and Republican parties, giving readers a complete understanding of modern-day American politics and the 2016 presidential race.* Offers clear, relevant information...
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Everyday Sexism

Laura Bates - Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Good Housekeeping has this to say about Everyday Sexism, "a new generation of women is shouting back against everyday sexism, and their leader, Laura Bates, is determined to change the world."In 2012 after having been sexually harassed on London public transport, Laura Bates...
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

RONEN BERGMAN - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The page-turning, news-breaking, inside account of Israel's state-sponsored assassination programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as "arguably [Israel's] best investigative reporter."
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill OReillys Killing Lincoln. More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill OReillys Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction...
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The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

David D Van Tassel - Indiana Univ Pr
Format: Hardcover

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, The by Van Tassel, David D. and John J. Grabowski, eds.
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

Anonymous. - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,...
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Wake Up, America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great--and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

Eric Bolling - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

America was built on nine distinct virtues which shaped the character of our nation and made it great. Grit, manliness, individualism, merit, profit and providence, dominion over our environment, thrift, and above all pride in our country -- these qualities define us, and are the reason...
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

Gerald L Posner - Random House
Format: Print book

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination,...
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

MICHAEL WOLFF - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling...
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Richard Nixon: The Life

John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book

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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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Candice Millard - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny...
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Leadership in Turbulent Times

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does...
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s

William I Hitchcock - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial...
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

ELAINE F WEISS - Viking
Format: Hardcover

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 Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

Thomas Childers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic story of the Third Reich - how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young...
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Whistlestop: Reporting the Stories that Make Campaign History

John Dickerson - Twelve
Format: Print book

From Face the Nation moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson, WHISTLESTOP tells the stories behind the stories of the most memorable and even forgotten moments in American presidential campaign history.The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego....
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Victoria & Abdul

Shrabani Basu - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul...
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

Mike Duncan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization....
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Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law

David Cole - Basic Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

How did gay and lesbian couples' right to marry go from unthinkable to inevitable? How did the individual right to bear arms, dismissed as fraudulent by Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1990, become a constitutional right in 2008? And what compelled President George W. Bush to rein in many...
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Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right

KENNETH STERN - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Widening the dialogue begun with Strangers in Their Own Land and Hillbilly Elegy, a former NPR CEO and lifelong Democrat's chronicle of his immersion in Republicanism to understand his fellow Americans across the political divide.Ken Stern doesn't believe that our political world...
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The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Jason Sokol - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassinationOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing...
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America

HOWARD G BUFFETT - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Browns eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost...
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Ronan Farrow - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

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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What Happened

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton...
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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence

Howard B Means - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book

At mid-day on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. Just after noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-five minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second,...
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Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)

Noam Chomsky - Picador
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller. With a New Afterword. The worlds leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation,...
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, and more. "A tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue" (Associated...
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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling...
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The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era

Akhil Reed Amar - Basic Books
Format: Print book

A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevanceAmerica's Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in McCulloch v. Maryland, aspires "to...
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The Road to Camelot: Inside the Kennedy Campaign

Tom Oliphant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"A must-read for fans of presidential history." - USA TODAY "Splendid ... a gripping, authoritative campaign history." - The Boston Globe "Terrific ... a tougher and more balanced account of the long campaign than anybody's written yet." - The...
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House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

Craig Unger - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win Trump the White House. It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made...
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

Rachel Maddow - Crown
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy - Winner Take All In 2010, the words "earthquake swarm" entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia - including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove - was sold...
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

Ronan Farrow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy...
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

Marty Makary M.D. - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, timely, urgent critique of America's broken health care system.One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America....
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The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics

SALENA ZITO - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

CNN contributor Salena Zito and Republican strategist Brad Todd report across five swing states to answer the pressing question: Was Donald Trump's election a fluke, or did it represent a fundamental shift in the electorate that will have repercussions - for Republicans and Democrats - for years...
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Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever

PATRICK J BUCHANAN - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover

From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural...
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The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

Jeff Sharlet - Harper; 1ST edition
Format: Book

A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerfulThey are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls...
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One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment

Mei Fong - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Format: Print book

An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates...
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Anthony Ray Hinton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A 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.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine...
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The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal

Carol Belanger Grafton - Harper Collins Publishers
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General "Wild Bill" Donovan as "the...
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals

JEANINE PIRRO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand how narratives take form, whether they are based in truth or not. In her explosive new book, she will write about some of the most egregious lies she's seen, and take on the Liars, Leakers, and Liberals.
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Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump

JEROME R CORSI - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover

Donald Trump beat 16 Republican challengers and Hillary Rodham Clinton to win the presidency. Now he must beat the Deep State to keep his presidency. Here's how!#1 New York Times bestselling author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND and THE OBAMA NATION Jerome Corsi uncovers the secret conspiracy...
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The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945

Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II - intelligence - showing how espionage successes...
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Deborah Blum - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for changeBy the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous....
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Full Disclosure

Stormy Daniels - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.How did Stormy...
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle...
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Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't

Robert G. Kaiser - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works - and doesn't - that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008.The founding fathers expected Congress to be the most important branch of government and gave...
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The fight to vote

Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Michael Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at a crucial American struggle: the drive to define and defend government based on "the consent of the governed." From the beginning, and at every step along the way, as Americans sought to right to vote, others have fought...
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The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin's Spies Are Winning Control of America and Dismantling the West

Malcolm Nance - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Retired Intelligence officer and New York Times bestselling author of The Plot to Hack America, Malcolm Nance, offers a provocative, comprehensive analysis of the Russian Federation's master plan to destroy democracy, the methodologies used in the 2016 election, what will...
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The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World: Practical Advice and Everyday Actions for a More Sustainable, Humane, and Compassionate Planet

STEPHANIE FELDSTEIN - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

"This book belongs on every animal lover's shelf -- and it's a particularly great gift for young people who are on fire to save animals but are unsure where to start. Hooray!!" -- Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig and The Soul of an OctopusThe Animal...
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit

Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power

Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Book

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents...

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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

JAMES COMEY - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

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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The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline

Jonathan Tepperman - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book

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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The Death of Truth

MICHIKO KAKUTANI - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover

A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects...
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

ANONYMOUS. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace

Alex Von Tunzelmann - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under...
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Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House

Donna Brazile - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Explosive... A blistering tell-all."---Washington Post "People should sit up, take notes and change things."---Ace Smith, Los Angeles Times "Brazile most certainly has a story to tell.... Vivid."---The...
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The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

SHARYL ATTKISSON - Harper
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerEver wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.Behind...
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