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The Police in a Free Society: Safeguarding Rights While Enforcing the Law
Todd Douglas - Praeger
Format: Hardcover
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As accusations of police misconduct and racial bias increasingly dominate the media, The Police in a Free Society: Safeguarding Rights While Enforcing the Law takes an unflinching look at the police, the communities they serve, and the politicians who direct them. Author Todd Douglas, a veteran... |
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Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary
Catherine Fogarty - Biblioasis
Format: Paperback
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On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control. The inmates held the guards hostage for four intense days, making headlines around the world and drawing international attention to the dehumanizing realities of incarceration when... |
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Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
David K. Johnson - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands -- the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements,... |
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Charles Person
Format: Hardcover
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-- At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists -- including future Congressman John... |
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Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership
Steven Levingston - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and inspiring account of the "bromance" between Barack Obama and Joe Biden.The extraordinary partnership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden is unique in American history. The two men, their characters and styles sharply contrasting, formed a dynamic working relationship that... |
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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
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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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We Shall Bury You!: The Hunt for the Spies Who Changed the World
HOWARD BLUM - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence... |
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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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The Longest Trail: Writings on American Indian History, Culture, and Politics
Alvin M. Josephy Jr. - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Alvin Josephy Jr.'s groundbreaking, popular books and essays advocated for a fair and true historical assessment of Native Americans, and set the course for modern Native American studies. This collection, which includes magazine articles, speeches, a white paper, and introductions... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through... |
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