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Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women
Batya Ungar-Sargon - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it's my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book will help lead the way. - Greg... |
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
Stephen Puleo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero.. In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when the very future of the nation hung in the balance-Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest,... |
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Paperback
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From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about... |
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon... |
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Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
Norman Ohler - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs.Berlin 1945. Following the fall... |
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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
Raymond Jonas - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep.. The outbreak of the US Civil War provided an unexpected opportunity for political conservatives... |
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