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Staking Our Claim: The Fight for Better Housing in the 1970s

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Morrissy (Author) Number of Pages: 466 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 22, 2025

How Ethiopia and Al-Shabaab Crippled Western Efforts in Somalia: A Senior Somali Commander's Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby Abdirahman O. Warsame Jeeniqaar (Author) Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.67 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: April 17, 2025

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Morgenthau (Author)By the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire was beginning to dissolve. Upon seeing this weakness, Germany set its own plans into action in the capital of Constantinople-to bring the vast Turkish Empire under its control. In this book, American statesman HENRY MORGENTHAU SR. (1856-1946) details how Turkey fell under the influence of Germany and how this led to the Armenian Genocide. In a trial run of the extermination of the Jews, the Germans...

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Report copyright infringementby Albert J. Beveridge (Author)John Marshall (1755-1835) became the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court despite having had almost no formal schooling and after having studied law for a mere six weeks. Nevertheless, Marshall remains the only judge in American history whose distinction derives almost entirely from his judicial career. During Marshall's nearly 35-year tenure as chief justice, he wielded the Constitution's awe-inspiring power aggressively a...

The Whole Damn Deal: Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn J. McGarr (Author)Robert S. Strauss was for many decades the quintessential Democratic power broker. Born to a poor Jewish family in West Texas, he founded the law firm that became Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and -- while forever changing the nature of the Washington law firm -- worked as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, special trade representative, ambassador to the Soviet Union and then Russia, and an advisor to presidents. A...

Rolling Pennies in the Dark: A Memoir with a Message

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas MacKinnon (Author)A heartbreaking and inspirational memoir of one man's journey from abject childhood poverty and abuse to a high-level career as a White House writer. This very personal memoir is both heartbreaking and highly inspirational. In it, Douglas MacKinnon weaves his astounding story as a desperately poor child and his triumphant transition from abject squalor to White House writer who now has the political influence to change the system--espe...

Make Your Mark: Lessons in Character from Seven Presidents

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Report copyright infringementby Mark K. Updegrove (Author)The award-wining author of Second Acts and The Last Republicans draws on interviews and conversations with seven presidents to identify the essence of character, leadership and legacy that has defined each of them and the modern American presidency.Throughout his career as an author, journalist, television commentator, and head of a presidential library and foundation, Mark Updegrove has had the privilege of getting to know seven U.S. ...

Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth about Alger Hiss

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Kisseloff (Author)A revelatory political history that uncovers the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss and points a finger at who was really behind one of the most sensational and divisive accusations of the twentieth century.When Alger Hiss was accused by Whittaker Chambers in 1948 of being a secret Communist spy in the 1930s, the subsequent perjury trials were some of the most sensational and politically significant trials of the century. Altho...

My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin

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Report copyright infringementby Jill Dougherty (Author)My Russia reveals CNN's Jill Dougherty's transformative journey from a Cold War-era obsession with Russia to witnessing firsthand the rise of Vladimir Putin and the unraveling of a nation she grew to love At the height of the Cold War, as a high school freshman, CNN's Jill Dougherty developed an obsession with Russia. Over the next half-century, she studied in Leningrad, traveled across the Soviet Union, lived in Moscow, and reported on ...

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Report copyright infringementby Meghan Daum (Author)From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays. "For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p.m., I've been overcome with the sensation that my life is effectively over. Note the personal touch here. This is not a sensation of the world ending, which has been in vogue for quite some time now, and maybe for good reason. It's a d...

Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Guelzo (Author)An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today--by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize *Winner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize**Finalist for the 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize* "It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy and its most subtle defender, Allen Guelzo again ...

The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now

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Report copyright infringementby Bakari Sellers (Author)"Toni Morrison once said, 'The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.' In The Moment, Bakari Sellers brilliantly and precisely cuts through the noise of the calculated, well-financed, and relentless campaign by conservative media, think tanks, and politicians to end the post-George Floyd 'racial reckoning' and reverse the civil rights victories of the past fifty years. This is a must-read!"--Joy-Ann Reid, New York T...

The Syria Scam: An insider look into Chemical Weapons, Geopolitics and the Fog of War

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Report copyright infringementby Inspector A (Author)Inspector A was a leading chief inspector with the OPCW, the UN chemical weapons watchdog. He deployed all around the world for twelve years, but found things came to a head after his involvement in contentious missions to Syria. Inspectors objected to what they saw as clear political interference after their investigation of the tragic incident in Douma in April 2018. In The Syria Scam, Inspector A describes exactly what happened following ...

The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Waller (Author)Author BiographyDouglas Waller is a former correspondent for Newsweek and Time, where he covered the CIA, Pentagon, State Department, White House, and Congress. He has authored seven books on the military and intelligence, including the New York Times bestseller Wild Bill Donovan. Waller lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Judy. Number of Pages: 656 Dimensions: 2 x 9.25 x 6.25 IN Publica...

The High Road: Following the Campaign Trail for a Kinder America

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Report copyright infringementby Tommy Zurhellen (Author)Can kindness win an election in America? In 2019, Navy veteran Tommy Zurhellen walked across America alone, to raise awareness on veteran homelessness and suicide in our country. In 2023, he embarked on another journey much more perilous: running for local office as a Democrat in the Republican stronghold of Dutchess County, New York. His platform? Kindness. His chances? Not good. Can you win an election in America today with only kindne...

Levy Patrick Mwanawasa: An incentive for posterity

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Report copyright infringementby Amos Malupenga (Author)Forthright and upstanding, Levy was never afraid to speak his mind. He instilled a culture of transparency in his government and cracked down on corruption, launching the biggest anti-corruption campaign in Zambia. He espoused the values of clean governance as one of the critical requirements for the development and reconstruction of the African continent.Thabo Mbeki, South African President, September 3, 2008I bring to the people of Zamb...

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Report copyright infringementby Karl Marx (Author)The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is a political treatise written by Karl Marx, which analyzes the events that led to the coup d'��tat in France in 1851, where Louis-Napol��on Bonaparte seized power and established himself as the Emperor of France. The book explores the historical context of the coup, including the economic, social, and political factors that contributed to it. Marx also examines the role of class struggle, ideo...

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

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Report copyright infringementby Edward D. Berkowitz (Author)In the second half of the twentieth century, no one exerted more influence over Social Security than Robert Ball, who in 1947 wrote what became the key statement defining why social insurance, not welfare, should be America's primary income maintenance program. This policy-oriented biography surveys the history of Social Security from 1950 to the present through the eyes of the public servant most crucial to its development. Drawing ...

Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Wendell Steavenson (Author) Number of Pages: 384 Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN Publication Date: March 15, 2016

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Kendzior (Author)The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips, in a book that is part memoir, part history, and wholly unique. It is one thing to study the fall of democracy, another to have it hit your homeland -- and yet another to raise children as it happens. The Last American Road Trip is one family's jou...

Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-Sung

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Report copyright infringementby Fyodor Tertitskiy (Author)Author BiographyFyodor Tertitskiy has been living in South Korea for more than a decade, where he studies North Korean political, social and military history. He has authored several books in English and Korean, including The North Korean Army: History, Structure, Daily Life, and Soviet-North Korean Relations During the Cold War. Number of Pages: 352 Dimensions: 1.5 x 8.72 x 5.87 IN Publication D...

Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty

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Report copyright infringementby Scott MacMillan (Author)Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times called him "one of the unsung heroes of modern times." Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most people have never even heard of. As the founder of BRAC, his work had a profound impact on the lives of millions. A former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid, he founded BRAC, originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committ...

Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas A. Schwartz (Author)"[Henry Kissinger and American Power] effectively separates the man from the myths." --The Christian Science Monitor (Best Books of the Month)The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger--at least for those who neither revere nor revile him.Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been one of America's most lavishly praised--and most reviled--public figures. He was hailed as a "miracle worker" for his peacemaking in the Middle Ea...

Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria

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Report copyright infringementby Nasser Rabbat (Editor), Hashim Sarkis (Foreword by), Pascal Menoret (Editor)A sustained critique of postwar reconstruction in Syria as a politically neutral process In 2011, emboldened by the Arab Spring, the Syrians rose up against their government. The Syrian regime used violence to suppress the protests, so that what began as pro-democracy protests eventually morphed into a civil war with heavy outside intervention. Today, the Assad regime has fallen, but l...

The Urban Calendar: 365 Days That Shaped the Urban World

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Mullerat (Author) Number of Pages: 374 Dimensions: 1.02 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 12, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Meskell (Author)Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural understanding. Its mission was inspired by leading Eu...

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Report copyright infringementby Ross Walker (Author)A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern AustraliaHarold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was Holt's legacy more significant than in the 1967 referendum, and in helping to end the White Australia policy. At the same time, as the Vietnam Wa...

From Goatherd to Governor. The Autobiography of Edwin Mtei

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin Mtei (Author)From Goatherd to Governor is Edwin Mtei's autobiography. It is a story of the journey a few Africans of his generation made, from humble beginnings to heights of success and power. Mr. Mtei was the first Governor of the Bank of Tanzania and the architect of Central Banking in Tanzania, Secretary General of the East African Community and Minister of Finance in Nyerere's Government. Born in 1932 in Marangu, Moshi, he was brought up in a grass-t...

Madam Mayor: Love and Loss in an American City

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie A. Miner (Author)Former Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner offers a candid insider look at her trailblazing time in elected office, the pressures and pitfalls of city and state politics, and the true potential of local government.Elected the first woman of a major city in New York State, Stephanie Miner gives readers an inside look at the complexity of public policy and how the political system favors Goliath-like insiders who amass power by giving easy a...

Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Payne (Author), Michelle Shephard (With)The thrilling true story of one man who risked his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, an "urgent and exciting look into the life of an FBI undercover agent" (Joe Pistone) by "one of the top undercover agents in the Bureau" (Joaquin "Jack" Garcia). When Scott Payne was growing up, an '80s kid with a big attitude and a taste for sleeveless shirts, he could never have envisioned ...

King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanne Theoharis (Author)A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookFrom the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. "Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism in the North, but battled it from the very beginning of his career." --Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memor...

Finding Rose: The Search for My Grandmother

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew a. Dahl (Author) I never met my grandmother Rose Liepmann Oppenheim, but a telegram she sent from Nazi Germany confirms that she knew that I had just been born in Shanghai. "Finding Rose" chronicles the persistent efforts of my mother, then in China, and her two brothers, one in Palestine and the other in the United States, to save their mother Rose during the Holocaust. From Rose's origin as a descendant of long-standing German-Jewish families, I descr...