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Frye Gaillard, Cynthia Tucker
The Southernization of America

Pulitzer Prize winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect in a powerful series of essays on the role of the South in America's long descent into its present political predicament…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Anna Harwell Celenza
On the Record

In On the Record: Music That Changed America , Anna Harwell Celenza uncovers the sometimes-surprising influence of music on American politics and culture. From "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Bil…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Franklin Foer
How Soccer Explains the World

"Step aside Tom Friedman, Sam Huntington, and Amy Chua. Franklin Foer's dark and witty tale of the soccer world reveals the meaning of globalization in all its joys and horrors."---Robert KaganJ…

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Thad Williamson, Julian M Hayter, Amy L Howard
The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond

"Richmond, Virginia, took center stage globally in the summer of 2020 as an epicenter of antiracist protests in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. In a period of just a few weeks, overwhe…

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Tom Hanchett
Affordable Housing in Charlotte

Shows in detail the housing crisis in North Carolina's (USA) most populous city and beyond.

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Patrick Weil
The Madman in the White House

Shortlist, Cundill History Prize"The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud's couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collabor…

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Lisa Graves
Without Precedent

"A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider." ---Jane Mayer, author of Dark MoneyIn the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has r…

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Lisa Pease
Lie Too Big to Fail

A thorough and groundbreaking addition to our understanding of the RFK assassination based on newly released police reports and government documents.In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (…

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Beth Lew-Williams
John Doe Chinaman

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West-and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination agai…

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Jody Baxter Noll,
The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike

"In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed in their letters of resignation, creating the country's first statewide teacher strike. By going on strike, Florida's teachers fought f…

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Bret Baier
To Rescue the American Spirit

New York Times Bestseller "This captivating portrayal of Teddy is Bret Baier's gift to us. From Roosevelt's resilience over tragedy to his heroism in war, from his midnight rambles as police commissi…

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Rebecca Nagle
By the Fire We Carry

"No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. InBy the Fire We Carry , Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americ…

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Michel Paradis
The Light of Battle

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history."This is hands-down t…

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Martin J Murray
Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State

In*Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State,*Martin J. Murray uses his own personal engagement in the antiwar movement in Austin, Texas, to make sense of the entanglements between cycles of protest again…

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Jessica Neuwirth
Equal Means Equal

A fully revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the book that former Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney says "clearly and eloquently lays out the issues at stake"--from the founder of the ER…

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Melissa Adler
Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty

Examines the formation of a surveillance state through a close examination of Thomas Jefferson's plantation management techniques and political actions.

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Keisha Lance Bottoms
The Rough Side of the Mountain

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John Conyers III
My Father's House

"My Father's House is both a biography of iconic African-American Congressman John Conyers Jr. and his more than half-century of groundbreaking legislation, and a son's memoir of leveraging his own v…

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