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In this masterful account of one of our era's defining political sagas, a national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek traces the rise of economic populism in the Democratic Party through the interwoven stories of three outsiders who emerged in the wake of the crash to lead the charge.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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xxi, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions abouttheir legacy and mortality.
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Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
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Introduces readers to one of the most famous women in the world and the idea of how books guided her life, from her childhood captivation with reading to her emergence as an American icon who revealed herself in the nearly 100 books she brought into print.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
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444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Crisis has a way of laying bare our truest selves: who we trust, which principles and impulses we heed, whose lives we deem expendable. As it ravaged millions of lives, the Covid-19 pandemic revealed and accentuated the dividing lines that had already, for decades, splintered American public life. Against the backdrop of the 2020 presidential election, misinformation regimes, and the transformation of the facemask into a flagrant political symbol,...
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
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xviii, 429 pages ; 24 cm
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"Over his 50-year career in Washington, Joe Biden has become known for his wild dishonesty, embarrassing policy failings, and an absolute lack of accountability, culminating in his predictably unpopular presidency. But what has not yet been revealed is the vast web of consultants, bureaucrats, corporate titans, foreign interests, and various extended family members (it's not just Hunter!) who have achieved unfathomable wealth and power while keeping...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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xviii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of slavery, then lawyer Abraham Lincoln composed a note on the...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
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324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image--and the wreckage he's left in his wake. Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump's improbable journey from disgraced and defeated former president to the dominant force, yet again, in the Republican Party. From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
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Contains the riveting historic report by the Congressional committee investigating the plot to overthrow American democracy, and the president's involvement, as well as tells the inspiring stories of the many people who stepped in to stop the attack on the White House.
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