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You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People
$19.99 Read moreA 2021 YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST
America is the greatest democracy in the world . . . isn’t it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government bu- Author: Rusch, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 0358176921
- Language: English
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The Braindead Megaphone
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
T- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 159448256X
- Language: English
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Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
$18.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by New York Times bestselling author and USA Today Washin- Author: Page, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1538750708
- Language: English
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The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
$39.95 Add to cartBased on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff d… [more below]
- Author: Medoff, Rafael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0827614705
- Language: English
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The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at E… [more below]
- Author: Westen, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2008
- ISBN10: 1586485733
- Language: English
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Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
$32.00 Add to cartAmerica is disintegrating. The one Nation under God, indivisible of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unr
- Author: Buchanan, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 125000411X
- Language: English
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Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism
$37.00 Add to cartAuthoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still sh… [more below]
- Author: Norris, Pippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: February 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1108444423
- Language: English
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One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
$35.00 Read moreINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures serving two vastly different presidents, George H.W. Bush and Donald J. Trump.
William
- Author: Barr, William P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063158604
- Language: English
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We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
$24.95 Add to cartWe’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a
Movement is the first book-length treatment of the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,- Author: Grim, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1947492373
- Language: English
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Warnings
$28.00 Add to cartOld friends–one a Jew, the other a Christian–Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we … [more below]
- Author: Grob, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1666743968
- Language: English
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Liberty and Power
$23.99 Add to cartAs an engaging and persuasive survey of American public life from 1816 to 1848, Harry L. Watson’s Liberty and Power remains a landmark achievement. Now updated to address twenty-five years of new scho
- Author: Watson, Harry L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0809065479
- Language: English
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The Fifties
$22.00 Add to cartThe Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of … [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: May 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0449909336
- Language: English
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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
$19.00 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow’s Drift argues that we’ve drifted away f- Author: Maddow, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0307460991
- Language: English
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The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
$18.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller, now in paperback!
For four years, Donald J. Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas upon the Ameri- Author: Trump, Mary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250864631
- Language: English
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The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
$14.00 Add to cartWhat is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Civic Classics #01
- Author: Beeman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121960
- Language: English
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
$32.00 Add to cartWhat they didn’t want you to know
“We all watched in shock and disbelief when Challenger was lost. Probably no one felt more disappointment and regret than Allan McDonald, who had warned us not to laun
- Author: McDonald, Allan J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0813041937
- Language: English
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
$21.99 Add to cartCampaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving “welfare queens” and “strapping young bucks” buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfa… [more below]
- Author: Haney L?pez, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019022925X
- Language: English
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
$60.00 Add to cartMaster of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
A- Series: Years of Lyndon Johnson #3
- Author: Caro, Robert A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: April 23 2002
- ISBN10: 0394528360
- Language: English
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
$33.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0399589813
- Language: English
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Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution
$39.95 Read moreIn this eye-opening account, Eli Merritt reveals the deep political divisions that almost tore the Union apart during the American Revolution. So fractious were the founders’ political fights that the
- Author: Merritt, Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0826222811
- Language: English
