21st Century

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“‘They don’t elect us. If they don’t like what we’re doing, it’s more or less just too bad.’”

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Lazarus Man turns an ancient biblical miracle into a modern story of how we can weather the worst so long as we have each other. . . .

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“The Indian Card is about growing up as an enrolled Native American and what that means, from the harsh treatment in Indian schools to hardly making any difference

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The Iraq War is only beginning to receive its due historical reckoning, with many new volumes uncovering the background of the 2003 invasion and discussing the biased, chaotic and often dysfunction

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Al Worden, command module pilot on the Apollo 15 lunar mission, belongs to a unique club, one of only six men who flew to the dark side of the moon, alone and out of contact with any other human be

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Books like this are important as 9/11 continues to fade into past history for many Americans, a distant reminder of that period of time when all Americans united to overcome trage

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“For anyone wanting to understand how America has fought the ‘grey wars’ of the last 20 years, this book provides a unique introduction to how these units train, think, and fight.”

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The United States confronts many problems besides an often recalcitrant and myopic Senate.

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“A thoroughly consuming reexamination of one of the most shameful scandals of American political history.”

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It is late at night on June 4, 2018, and under cover of darkness a father and son, carrying nothing but a backpack, approach “a short wall painted dark” that demarcates the international border bet

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Welcome to the “Rashomon effect” in politics inside the Beltway!

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“it would be well for all to read One Mighty and Irresistible Tide in order to gain a better understanding of what it means to be an immigrant pursuing the American Dream.”

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“‘The rise of the religious right should be cause for alarm among all who care about the future of democracy in America.’”

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“they have become the successors to the Greatest Generation . . .”

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Was there a way for candidate Barack Obama to address chaos in Iraq while also calling for pursuit of Osama bin Laden lodged in a corner of putative partner Pakistan?

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Russian Roulette is essential reading for anyone interested in the strange story of Donald Trump’s complex and disturbing relationship with Russia.

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“Hovitz had the grit, determination and resources to pull herself out of the morass of PTSD. What about the rest of her generation growing up in this post-September 11 world?”

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Is there an Obama Doctrine—a grand strategy based on a coherent worldview that guides Obama’s foreign policy?

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And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK is a companion to a PBS series of the same name and chronicles the last 50 years of black history and culture in an illustrated timeline featuring

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a needed addition to the shelves of thoughtful parents and citizens, affluent or not.”

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In the introduction to her book The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World Alison Wolf states that “until now all women’s lives, whether rich or poor,

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“[certain characterizations in the book ought not] preclude serious consideration of Dr.

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