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The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In his classic book Devil's Bargain , Joshua Green chronicled how the forces of economic populism on the right, led by the likes of Steve Bannon, turned Donald Trump into their flawed but powerful vessel. In The Rebels , he gives an epic account of the long struggle that has played out in parallel on the left, told through an intimate reckoning with the careers of the three political figures who have led the charge most prominently. Based on remarkable...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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"The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot...
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One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"An explosive, first-person account chronicling the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career--and her education--on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine."--
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Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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Right-wing stalwart Mark R. Levin posits 'that since its establishment, the [Democratic] Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy the foundation of freedom in America. More than a political party, it is the entity through which Marxism has installed its philosophy and its new revolution.' As in a Thomas Paine pamphlet or a clarion call from Paul Revere, Levin believes that his fellow Americans [are facing] destruction, ... and rallies them...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time. When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam...
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"No British monarch has had a tougher act to follow. Now, after seventy years of waiting and preparation, King Charles III is not just the head of the most famous family in the world, he is the custodian of a thousand-year-old institution that must redefine its place in the digital age while others insist on rewriting the past. With unrivaled access to the king, the royal family, and the court, leading royal authority Robert Hardman brings us the...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image--and the wreckage he's left in his wake. Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump's improbable journey from disgraced and defeated former president to the dominant force, yet again, in the Republican Party. From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world, perfect for readers of Behold the Dreamers, White Ivy, and The Leavers.
12) Enough
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington"--
13) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar-their rise, their efforts to set an ambitious agenda for the country, and their struggle to find their footing within the Democratic party"--
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Franklin Roosevelt to Harry Truman, and the legacy Truman struggled to overcome to lead America into a new, post-war world."--
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.
19) American spirits
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Three interlocking stories focusing on the residents of a rural New York town called Sam Dent,and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies." --
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This gripping account of the highest-ranked woman in the Third Reich who, as Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was personally responsible for the murder, torture and suffering of countless prisoners, explores how she became to embody the very worst of humanity.
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