United States - 21st Century
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American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now
$35.00 Add to cartHow did Americans come to elect Barack Obama–and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.
The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new hi- Author: Starr, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300282435
- Language: English
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom
$16.99 Add to cartRespected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time, mem
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 06 2008
- ISBN10: 1595550879
- Language: English
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Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America
$32.00 Add to cart“A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard’s] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them.” –Garry Kasparov
The bestselling author- Author: Woodard, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593833406
- Language: English
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America-The Last Best Hope (One-Volume Edition): Explore the Discovery of the New World, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, the Great
$29.99 Add to cartA single-volume edition of William J. Bennett’s bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated.
“The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett’s won
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1400212901
- Language: English
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Nelson Rockefeller’s Dilemma: The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism
$36.95 Add to cartNelson Rockefeller’s Dilemma reveals the fascinating and influential political career of the four-time New York State governor and US vice president. Marsha E. Barrett’s portrayal of this multi-facete
- Author: Barrett, Marsha E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501776231
- Language: English
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2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
$34.00 Add to cartIn 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in our history.
“The- Author: Dawsey, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217067619
- Language: English
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Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
$28.99 Add to cartFor fans of Fantasyland, The Road to Jonestown, and Howard Zinn, a colorful and enlightening pop history of American doomsday belief that proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all.
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1668007800
- Language: English
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Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America
$31.00 Add to cartAs relevant as it is comprehensive, Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare–based in part on newly declassified sources–by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times re… [more below]
- Author: Risen, Clay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1982141808
- Language: English
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Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
$17.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2022 PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a “riveting and tightly argued” history of eugenics and its ripple effects, by acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte.
Betw
- Author: Catte, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1953368190
- Language: English
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The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
$20.00 Add to cart“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”–ERIK LARSON
A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transfor- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593443977
- Language: English
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2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
$32.00 Add to cartIn 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in our history.
“The- Author: Dawsey, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593832531
- Language: English
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Dragon on Centre Street: New York vs. Donald J. Trump
$30.00 Add to cartThe Definitive Account of the Trump Trial. Your behind-the-scenes look at the historic showdown between President Donald Trump and the criminal justice system, told through the eyes of the journalist … [more below]
- Author: Bromwich, Jonah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Charlottesville: An American Story
$35.00 Add to cartIn August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Within an hour o
- Author: Baker, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 164445341X
- Language: English
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Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
$29.95 Add to cartHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War
Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory–but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the cham- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1890951919
- Language: English
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A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
$26.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
“Sweeping…A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars.”
—New Y- Author: Slotkin, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0674301439
- Language: English
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Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America
$32.00 Add to cartA blistering expos? of Clarence Thomas and the conservative regime of corruption that has usurped the Supreme Court–by a Democratic activist and former Republican political operative
Public confidenc- Author: Brock, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014385
- Language: English
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Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal about Rising Threats to American Democracy
$30.00 Add to cartA clear-eyed assessment of where we go from here–detailing how to combat misinformation and isolation–from the foremost expert on American political violence
“A soulful and significant contribution- Author: Heaphy, Timothy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1586424017
- Language: English
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Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post
$21.99 Read more“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” —The New York Times Book Review
Politics. Money. Media. Tech. …It’s all here in Collision of Power. “- Author: Baron, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1250844223
- Language: English
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The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The Fbi, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, Usa-1939-1956
$16.95 Add to cartThe first book to document the efforts of the FBI against the most famous American folk singers of the mid-twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, ‘Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Burl I… [more below]
- Author: Leonard, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1913462005
- Language: English
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Read more“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062275658
- Language: English
