I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol D. Philip; Leonnig Rucker
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Category: American
THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A blockbuster . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVERThe definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New Yor ...Show more
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes
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Category: American
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The TimesTo be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted - a state of nature arrived at after all else ...Show more
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
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Category: American
A short, sharp nonfiction modern classic on the political and societal state of America - how America got into this mess, and how it might get out of it - by one of the world's greatest nonfiction writersAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed ...Show more
The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama by Gabriel Debenedetti
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Category: American
New York Magazine national correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti reveals an inside look at the complicated, co-dependent, and at-times rocky relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama, which has shaped Democratic politics over the past 16 years. Delving deeper than the bromance narrative that's held t ...Show more
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
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Category: American
"Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day--written by one of the world's leading historians of Cuba.In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the ...Show more
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman
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Category: American
'This is the book Trump fears most.' - Axios From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortur ...Show more
Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
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Category: American
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
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Category: American
Evan Osnos moved to Washington, DC, in 2013 after a decade away from the United States. While abroad, he often found himself making a case for America, urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to some foundat ...Show more
Destiny And Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham
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Category: American
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this brilliant biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * Time * NP ...Show more
Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise by Jack Parlett
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Category: American
A scintillating, richly peopled, impeccably researched history of the New York coastal enclave that, over the last century, became an iconic site of queer liberation.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
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Category: American | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, ...Show more
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
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Category: American
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing st ...Show more