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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling."...
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America

James Traub - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America Hubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied segregationists and forced the Democratic...
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Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA

Patrick Winn - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of an indigenous people running the world's mightiest narco-state - and America's struggle to thwart them. In Asia's narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China....
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I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America's Mayor, and Why He Still Matters

Terry Golway - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A hugely entertaining celebration of one of America's greatest politicians - a source of inspiration for our equally challenging times.... Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians - on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially...
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How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church

Lamar Hardwick - Brazos Press
Format: Paperback

Publishers Weekly starred review. "Marshaling fine-grained historical detail and scrupulous analysis, Hardwick persuades."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) As a Black autistic pastor and disability scholar, Lamar Hardwick lives at the intersection of disability, race, and religion....
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A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

Lauren Markham - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told - and told ourselves - in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order." - Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams When...
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