The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
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Category: American
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, ...Show more
The President's Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Michael Duffy
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Category: American
Over the years that followed and to this day-the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world's most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secret ...Show more
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Michael Wallace
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Category: American
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Libe ...Show more
Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Suprising Use of American Power by David E. Sanger
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Category: American
FROM INSIDE OBAMA'S SITUATION ROOM . . . THE CRITICAL MOMENTS IN THE COVERT WAR AGAINST IRAN, THE STRUGGLES TO DEAL WITH A RECALCITRANT PAKISTAN AND ITS FAST-GROWING NUCLEAR ARSENAL, THE TENSIONS WITH THE AMERICAN MILITARY OVER AFGHANISTAN AND WITH ALLIES SWEPT UP IN THE CHAOS OF THE ARAB SPRING Three ...Show more
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
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Category: American
Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seri-ously funny, Drift will reinvigorate a 'loud and jangly' political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power - and who gets to make those decisions.
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
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Category: American | Series: Arena Books
The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land, lives and liberty to white settlers pushin ...Show more
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A Caro
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Category: American | Series: Years of Lyndon Johnson
A publishing event: the fourth volume in Robert Caro's monumental biography, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the best-selling and prize-winning "The Path to Power, Means of Ascent, "and "Master of the Senate." "The Passage of Power" follows Johnson through both the most frustrating and the ...Show more
That Used to be Us: What Went Wrong with America - and How it Can Come Back by Thomas Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum
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Category: American
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic defic ...Show more
Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry by Dylan Ratigan
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Category: American
Infuriated by government corruption, incensed by "banksters" shaking down taxpayers, and despairing of the healthcare system, the dependency on foreign oil, and the failing educational system, Dylan Ratigan sees an America that is botched almost beyond repair. In this book, his first, he rips the lid of ...Show more
The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power by Hugh White
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Category: American
The crucial question for this century is how America should respond to the rise of China. In The China Choice, strategic expert Hugh White sets out America's options in the Asian century. As China ascends, America faces a stark decision about its future. If China continues to grow, the current American ...Show more
Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America by Writers For The 99%
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Category: American
For two months this fall, Zuccotti Park, squeezed deep in a canyon between bankers' skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, was the site of an extraordinary political action. Home to the hundreds of anti-capitalist protestors who camped there overnight, and the thousands who visited to join the protest, the par ...Show more