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Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

Ric Prado - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era.Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro...
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Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope: Kerry Kennedy Interviews World Leaders, Activists, and Celebrities about Her Fathers Influence in Their Lives

Kerry Kennedy - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, shares personal remembrances of her father and through interviews with politicians, media personalities, celebrities and leaders, explores the influence that he continues to have on the issues at the heart of America's identity. Robert Kennedy...
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A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

TROY SENIK - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

A long-overdue biography of Grover Cleveland - the honest, principled, and plain-spoken president whose country has largely overlooked him.Featuring a wealth of in-depth research and newly uncovered details, A Man of Iron explores the remarkable life and extraordinary career of Grover Cleveland...
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Yes We

DAN PFEIFFER - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

ROBERT DALLEK - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents...
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The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat

Charlie Crist - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book

Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party's inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat.After serving as a Republican governor - one who was on the short list for the vice presidency in 2008...
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"One of America's most important journalists" (The Washington Monthly) , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump, David Cay Johnston examines the Trump Administration's policies in its first one hundred...
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This Country: My Life in Politics and History

Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In This Country, Chris Matthews offers a panoramic portrait of post-World War II America through the story of his remarkable life and career. It is a story of risk and adventure, of self-reliance and service, of loyalty and friendship. It is a story driven by an abiding faith in our country....
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The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics

Dan Kaufman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

National BestsellerThe untold story behind the most shocking political upheaval in the country.For more than a century, Wisconsin has been known nationwide for its progressive ideas and government. It famously served as a "laboratory of democracy," a cradle of the labor and environmental...
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When I Was White: A Memoir

Sarah Valentine - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed...
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