The American Spirit: Who We are and What We Stand for by David McCullough
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Category: American
A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States-winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others-that reminds us of fundamental American principles. Over the course of his distinguished ...Show more
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency (HB) by Joshua Green
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Category: American
From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump-the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political histo ...Show more
American Radical: Inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent by Tamer Elnoury
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Category: American
It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an e ...Show more
Shattered : Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Amie Jonathan; Parnes Allen
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Category: American
It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begi ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
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Category: American
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
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Category: American
The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal, now with a 40th anniversary Afterword on the legacies of Watergate and Richard Nixon. This is the book that changed America. Published just months befor ...Show more
The Right Places: (For the Right People) by Stephen Birmingham
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Category: American
Where are the Right Places, those exclusive locations where the privileged live and play? You may be in for a surprise. For as Stephen Birmingham shows, in the same witty, penetrating style that characterized his other studies of the elite, the Right Places could be just about anywhere, from exclusive c ...Show more
Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Weath and Power by Noam Chomsky
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Category: American
Requiem for the American Dream is a work of some 70,000 words based on four years of interviews with Noam Chomsky on the subject of income equality. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible, and at the same ...Show more
White Trash The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
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Category: American
The New York Times Besteller, with a new preface from the author -This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter.---Dwight Garner, The New York Times -This eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social hierarchy is ...Show more
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W Douglass
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Category: American
THE ACCLAIMED BOOK, NOW IN PAPERBACK, with a reading group guide and a new afterword by the author. At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his l ...Show more
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
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Category: American
**A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice****A Best/Most Anticipated Book of 2017 from The Washington Post, Bustle, Men's Journal, The Chicago Reader, StarTribune, and Blavity** One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in ...Show more
Obama: The Call of History by Peter Baker
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Category: American
Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure of Obama's achievements and disappointments in office and brings into focus the real legacy of the man who, as he described himself, "doesn't look like all ...Show more