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A Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American DemocracyPublished on the centenary of Norman Mailer's birth, a timely and urgent call to preserve our democracy From his bestselling first novel, The Naked and the Dead, to his last work, American democracy was a lifelong project for Norman Mailer. It was his grand...
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Poverty, by AmericaThe Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The Washington Post, Time,...
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil WarOne of the best history books I've read in the last few years. --Chris HayesA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEARThe previously untold story of the...
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Empowering the New American Worker: Market‐​Based Solutions for Today's WorkforceEmpowering the New American Worker identifies what Cato Institute scholars believe to be the most important market-oriented policies for today's American worker, covering a broad array of issues including education, housing, remote work, health care, child care, transportation, criminal justice, and licensing.Since at least...
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French RevolutionA landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title...
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of DemocracyThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition. In The New York...
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in VietnamFrances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "a compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and...
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Conspiracy Theory in AmericaEver since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service-and possibly even senior government...
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The Politics of Culture: Race, Violence, and DemocracyPostmodern philosophy is shown to be a valuable tool for exposing the bankruptcy of laissez-faire economics and culture and in developing a democratic policy. Despite the claims made by conservatives, Choi, Callaghan, and Murphy argue that an unencumbered market does not encourage pluralism. Sources...
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The Education of an Idealist: A MemoirA NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERAn intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner, human rights advocate, and former US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power. Named one of the best books of the year: The New York...
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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented WarA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war, with the United States exercising dominion everywhere. In Humane, Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if...
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Texas Reporter, Texas Radical: The Writings of Journalist Dick J. ReavisWriting about Texas, Mexico, and Texan-Mexican relations for over four decades, Dick J. Reavis is one of the most poignant political voices of Texas--not as a politician, though his writings are infused with politics, but as a candid, unsentimental, probing, journalist. Reavis has worked...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to EconomicsAnother entry in the best-selling, irreverent, hard-hitting Politically Incorrect Guide series! Economics from a rational, conservative viewpoint--that is, a refreshing look at how money actually works from an author who knows the score, and how the law of economics are frequently broken and derailed...
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Earthshot: How to Save Our PlanetAs Prince William, founder of The Earthshot Prize, said, "The Earth is at a tipping point and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we are and irreparably damage our planet, or we remember our unique power as human beings and our...
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Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st CenturyA new, inclusive union movement with a contemporary vision and an eye toward building social and economic power can remake society. Overcoming Capitalism is a book about strategy, particularly how the powerless can get the upper hand. And it's written for everyone--not a specialized,...
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A Trip to the Fire Station with Sesame Street (R)Kids can tag along to the fire station with Elmo and other Sesame Street friends! They'll learn about firefighters' gear, fire trucks, and how to make a fire safety plan with their families.Author: Christy PetersonPublisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Published: 01/01/2022Pages: 24Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.60lbsSize:...
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Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the WorldAn Economist Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Prospect Best Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the YearAn Omidyar Network "8 Storytellers Informing How We've been Reimagining Capitalism" Selection "Brilliant...Poses all the...
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Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You.President Obama's former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter--from the international stage to everyday life.History often appears to consist of big gestures and dramatic shifts. But for every peace treaty signed, someone set the stage, using hidden influence...
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Blood and IronBefore 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians,...
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Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We LoveBestselling author Newt Gingrich exposes the anti-American forces that have grown so large and so aggressive in their quest for power. The struggle between the defenders of America as an exceptional nation and the forces of anti-Americanism is reaching a fever pitch. These forces...
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