21st Century
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Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink
$30.00 Read moreA kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy’s winners and losers–from a leading business reporter
“A true masterwork- Author: Hoffman, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593239016
- Language: English
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Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers & Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer
$18.95 Read moreLetters from Mississippi offers a riveting, personal and multi-faceted narrative of the dramatic events that took place during the summer of 1964, “Freedom Summer,” when hundreds of people came to Mis
- Author: Martínez, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1938890027
- Language: English
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24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy
$27.95 Read moreA gripping account of racial justice activists who confronted violent white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, and stirred the nation
On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descende- Author: Neus, Nora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0807011924
- Language: English
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Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism–And What Comes Next
$19.99 Read more“A clear-eyed, compelling study of the road to Jan. 6 and the possible future of the politics-versus-religion battle in the U.S.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Watching the eerie footage of the Jan
- Author: Onishi, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889833499
- Language: English
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Final Engagement: A Marine’s Last Mission and the Surrender of Afghanistan
$28.99 Read moreThrough a deadly last showdown beside Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, Marine Corps veteran Christopher Izant illustrates the impossible conditions and strategic blunders that disillusioned a gener
- Author: Izant, Christopher L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1635768721
- Language: English
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The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS’s History with David Rubenstein–David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top histori… [more below]
- Author: Rubenstein, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1668067625
- Language: English
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The Case for Trump
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a brilliant and bracing analysis” (Mark R. Levin) of Donald Trump, his presidency, and his vision of America’s future–now updated for 2024
In The Case for Trump, awa- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606434
- Language: English
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Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past
$32.50 Add to cartA searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party’s dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer and bestselling author of Th
- Author: Benen, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063393670
- Language: English
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Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America–from the acclaimed author of Thrown
“At 25, [Reality] Winner–yoga teacher, beloved sister- Author: Howley, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0525565043
- Language: English
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
$19.99 Add to cart“Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done…great fun to read.” — New York Times Book Review
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253170
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West
$18.00 Read moreA new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next
“[A] provocative short book . . . with a novel twist.”–The Economist Over the last three centuries, the- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280084
- Language: English
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No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema
$32.95 Add to cartNo Jurisdiction interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for the (super)heroes who destroy brown people like himself. Framing… [more below]
- Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
- Author: Ben-Youssef, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1438489269
- Language: English
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From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
$32.50 Add to cartThe politics of grief, in an era marked by loss, shows us how we can find our humanity once more. From one of our most vital and far-seeing social critics.
Our era is one of significant and substantia
- Author: Jaffe, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703499
- Language: English
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The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
$19.00 Add to cart“Ambitious…. The truth is that Fromkin’s outline is persuasively thought out and presented.”–The Washington Post Book World
As the human race approaches the 21st century, questions of our past trou- Author: Fromkin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0679766693
- Language: English
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No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
$29.99 Add to cartDeeply troubled by the Constitution’s inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is res
- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091584
- Language: English
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The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy
$32.99 Add to cart“Required reading for anyone seeking to understand Christian nationalism.” –Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne
A propulsive account of the network of charismatic Christians that co
- Author: Taylor, Matthew D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1506497780
- Language: English
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Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis
$40.00 Add to cartThe long-developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis
Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions–most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom,- Author: Hunter, James Davison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300274378
- Language: English
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them
We- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014323
- Language: English
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Trouble in Censorville: The Far Right’s Assault on Public Education and the Teachers Who Are Fighting Back
$24.95 Add to cartFrom Florida, whose “Don’t Say Gay” law prohibits K-12 instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation, to Texas, which is shuttering libraries in schools, America is in the middle of a far-righ… [more below]
- Author: Kalin, Nadine M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1964098009
- Language: English
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The Rising: The Twenty-Year Battle to Rebuild the World Trade Center
$35.00 Add to cartThe never-before-told inside story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center — an epic tale of business, politics, and engineering by the man who spent two decades working to make it happen
After t- Author: Silverstein, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0525658963
- Language: English
