Politics & Politicians

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“Chomsky’s lifetime of activism and critique culminates in this volume, offering readers both a summary of his long-standing positions and a call to action.”

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If you think you have a challenging job, consider replacing the most popular man in America in the most challenging political office in the land.

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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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Maher’s goal is to open our eyes, expand our minds, and move us past identity politics and toward making wiser choices for our country and world.

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“Although the subtitle of the book credits Churchill with the fight to save civilization, in the end Dugard makes clear that is was the courageous pilots of the RAF . . .”

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“The question of whether the United States will live up to Abraham Lincoln’s ideal of ‘a government of the people, by the people and for the people’ is the defining fight of our time.”

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This is a book about a global shock that took Washington and most of Europe by surprise: the sharp revival of superpower conflict.

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an important contribution to the current debate on the best way for the United States to maintain its global leadership while avoiding war with its primary challenger.”

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Embracing Communist China is a crisply written and compellingly argued book . . .”

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“This scholarship, written as a clear, engaging narrative, inspires the reader to take the ideas presented in Life After Power to look at other post-presidency lives.”

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The World That Wasn’t paints a convincing portrait of a gullible, flip-flopping fool that does little to explain Henry Wallace’s importance to FDR’s New Deal or progressives’ endu

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“In his new book Mirrors of Greatness, Reynolds reflects on how Churchill’s contemporaries helped ‘shape’ his greatness.”

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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality is a history lesson told through the lives of two remarkable men who were opposites in life circumstances but

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“Maddow's research reflects the danger inherent in an authoritarian state.

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“For anyone who thinks that gridlock and partisan machinations are a recent development, this book will quickly lay those misconceptions to rest.”

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“Although democracy may not inherently be fragile, when its caretakers abandon their duties, fissures can appear. Sometimes it takes a renegade to stand in the gap.”

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“a remarkable and fascinating read, made possible by the author’s extraordinary access to royal and official government archives only recently opened to researchers.”

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Christopher Miller learned Japanese, wanted to travel to sub-Saharan Africa with the US Peace Corps but ended up being the only American in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in 2010.

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Wong’s book helps us understand China, the CCP, and Xi as the new Cold War heats up in the western Pacific.”

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“provides a compelling argument for the importance of our legislative branch and how it can reassert its relevance in the 21st century.”

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Testimony challenges the narrative that Evangelical Christianity is the gateway drug to White Christian Nationalism.”

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The heart of Black’s book is his discussions of strategy in the context of the contests for power among states and empires from the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars .

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The 400-year-old relationship between China and Russia could best be summarized as incessant "frenemies"—sometimes allies, sometimes adversaries, but always in flux as the relative power between th

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