Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol. 2 by CARO ROBERT A
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Category: American | Series: The\Years of Lyndon Johnson Ser.
The most important, acclaimed, and galvanizing political biography of our era--which began with The Path to Power--continues in this national bestseller. In Means of Ascent Lyndon Johnson's almost mythic personality is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. The culminating drama--the explosive heart of the ...Show more
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
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Category: American
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryIn a sweeping narrative, Peter Cozzens tells the gripping story of the wars that destroyed native ways of life as the American nation continued its expansion onto tribal lands after the Civil War, setting off a conflict that would last nearly three ...Show more
Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth by Howard Kurtz
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Category: American
According to the media, Donald Trump could never become president. Now many are on a mission to prove he shouldn't be president. The Trump administration and the press are at war - and as in any war, the first casualty has been truth. Bestselling author Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News's Media Buzz and f ...Show more
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
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Category: American
In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of the American fabric, and reveals how the wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today's hillbillies.P ...Show more
Grant by Ron Chernow
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Category: American
A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Pulitzer Prize-Winning AuthorWith lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Ron Chernow sheds new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic . . . and yet the greatest hero." This is America's greatest biographer bringing movingly to life one of our fine ...Show more
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
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Category: American
'Essential. A compelling and damning exploration of the abuse of one of our basic human rights: shelter.' --Owen Jones 'If I could require the president to read one book it would be Evicted' --Zadie Smith Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest ...Show more
Inside Nixon's White House: The Triumphs and Tragedy That Made and Broke America's Most Controversial President by Patrick J. Buchanan
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Category: American
From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan--speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon--tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural address, Nixon held ...Show more
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon (New York University)
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Category: American
A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most Americans today, this "second Klan" largely flourished above the Mason-Dixon Line-its army of four-to-six-million members spanning the contine ...Show more
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
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Category: American
You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts If you want to understand Trump's America, how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you have to go back to the very beginning and take a dizzying road trip across five centuries of crackpot delusion and make-b ...Show more
Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
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Category: American
* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of ...Show more
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
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Category: American
At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top-secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top secret documents related to America's nuclear program in the 1960s. Here for the first time he reveals the contents of those documents, and makes clear ...Show more
Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul by Jeremiah Moss
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Category: American