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The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World
Sung-Yoon Lee - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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This first book on Kim Jong Un's increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea's secretive and murderous dynasty.. The first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even... |
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Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
David Leonhardt - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The Morning" newsletter.. "With the even-handed incisiveness that has made him one of the country's... |
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The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
Dan Senor - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the societal ills plaguing other wealthy democracies?. Why do Israelis have among the world's... |
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The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
Edward Achorn - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history - Abraham Lincoln's history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential electionIllinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln had a record of political failure.... |
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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Steven Levitsky - Crown
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late - from the authors of How Democracies Die. "[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have co-opted the enshrined rules to exert... |
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan Thrall - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.. Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing,... |
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Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Steve Inskeep - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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An instant New York Times bestseller. A compelling and nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln's political acumen, illuminating a great politician's strategy in a country divided - and lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, with the United States at odds over slavery, the lawyerAbraham... |
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