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How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir

Cameron Russell - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to the fashion industry.. Now I measure the distance from model to president. You can see it in pictures. It's...
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The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

Robin Reames - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How rhetoric - the art of persuasion - can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded. In this book,...
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Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order

Saleha Mohsin - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

From Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin, the untold story of how one of America's most invincible institutions - the Treasury - has used the U.S. dollar to define America's role in the world, and our economic future.. In 1995, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin re-defined the next...
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Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War

Martin Sixsmith - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover

An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced...
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A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic

Francis D. Cogliano - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

The first full account of the relationship between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, countering the legend of their enmity while drawing vital historical lessons from the differences that arose between them.. Martha Washington's worst memory was the death of her husband. Her second...
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Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe

Jesse Watters - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Can the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country? When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked...
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Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age

Frank H. McCourt Jr. - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The internet as we know it is broken. Here's how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet - before it's too late. It was once a utopian dream. But today's internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary...
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Trash: A Poor White Journey

Cedar Monroe - Broadleaf Books
Format: Hardcover

Human beings are not trash, and the system that enables humans to imagine each other as such needs to end. Every day across the US, 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In this sweeping debut, activist and chaplain Cedar Monroe writes indelibly about and for poor...
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

Vicki Sokolik - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth - told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends'...
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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama...
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