Chronological Period/21st Century
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies
$22.00 Add to cartA Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11 attacks, and details the Bush administration’s subsequent misuse of intelligence to sell preemptive
- Author: Bamford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 140003034X
- Language: English
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The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War
$30.00 Read moreA thrilling and emotional story about the bonds forged in war and good intentions gone wrong.
In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. H- Author: Stern, Jeffrey E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 154170245X
- Language: English
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Look Alive Out There: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Buzzfeed, Elle, Cosmopolitan, The Millions, InStyle, Bustle, BookRiot, and Southern Living
Sloane Crosley returns to the form tha- Author: Crosley, Sloane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250310415
- Language: English
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
$19.00 Add to cart“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0767923057
- Language: English
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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times)
When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Re- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0465024319
- Language: English
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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
$16.00 Add to cartBased on Evan Wright’s National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO(R) original mini-series.
Within hours- Author: Wright, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0425224740
- Language: English
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Last Man Down: A Firefighter’s Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center
$7.99 Read moreA first responder’s harrowing account of 9/11–the inspirational true story of an American hero who gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s darkest hours.
On September 11, 2001- Author: Picciotto, Richard
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0425189880
- Language: English
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Defusing Armageddon: Inside Nest, America’s Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
$25.99 Add to cartJeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing Armageddon provides a behind-the-scenes look at NEST’… [more below]
- Author: Richelson, Jeffrey T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393349594
- Language: English
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The Post-American World: Release 2.0
$18.99 Add to cart“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends h… [more below]
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340384
- Language: English
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Granite Mountain: The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave.
A “unique and bracing” (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona’s disastrous 2013 Yarnel- Author: McDonough, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 031630817X
- Language: English
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Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun
$19.00 Read moreThe Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time.
- Author: Barrett, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0307719952
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880
$22.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181352
- Language: English
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My Spiritual Journey: Personal Reflections, Teachings, and Talks
$15.99 Add to cartIn this elegant self-portrait, the world’s most outspoken and influential spiritual leader recounts his epic and engaging life story. The Dalai Lama’s most accessible and intimate book, My Spiritual J
- Author: Lama, Dalai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0062018094
- Language: English
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All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis
$19.99 Read moreAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.
In 2015, increasing numbers of re
- Author: Sachs, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1954276095
- Language: English
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The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Wire, the “utterly absorbing” (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s bustling cities–rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning ref… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1501191039
- Language: English
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Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
$22.00 Add to cartNEW UPDATED EDITION
Bob Dylan is one of the most iconic figures in modern music, and for two decades, Howard Sounes’ Down the Highway has been the definitive biography of an American icon. Based on yea
- Author: Sounes, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0802158641
- Language: English
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The Nra: The Unauthorized History
$19.99 Add to cartFor the first time, the definitive account of America’s most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins.
The National Rifle Association is- Author: Smyth, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1250210305
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership
$30.00 Read moreAn authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China’s growing power poses and how it must be confronted
“Timely and thought-provoking. . . . An unsparing analysis of how Washington’- Author: Prestowitz, Clyde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0300248490
- Language: English
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Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
$33.99 Add to cart“I don’t take responsibility at all.” Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history’s epitaph on his presidency.
A huge swath of Americans has put their fa
- Author: Frum, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0063000229
- Language: English
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Postville U.S.A.
$14.95 Add to cartPostville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew international media. Now people declare the town’s experimen… [more below]
- Author: Grey, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934848646
- Language: English
