21st Century
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Between Blade and Bullet: The Mary Steinhauser Story
$28.99 Add to cartMary Steinhauser is the only peace officer in the history of penal institutions in Canada to willingly offer up her life in the service of her country. It was during a 1975 prison escape attempt and 4… [more below]
- Author: Franz, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1525588230
- Language: English
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We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
$24.95 Add to cartWe’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a
Movement is the first book-length treatment of the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,- Author: Grim, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1947492373
- Language: English
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The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure and p… [more below]
- Author: Douthat, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1476785252
- Language: English
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
$19.99 Add to cartA thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power.
When the Cold War- Author: Bacevich, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250787637
- Language: English
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Concepcion: Conquest, Colonialism, and an Immigrant Family’s Fate
$27.00 Add to cart“Absolutely extraordinary…A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora.” –Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
“If Concepcion were only about Samaha’s mother, it would already be whol- Author: Samaha, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593086090
- Language: English
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The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
$17.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times
From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbç–£, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of stron- Author: Rachman, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1635424054
- Language: English
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The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11
$91.65 Add to cartOn September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the … [more below]
- Author: Walker, J. Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0700632611
- Language: English
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year – A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – A New York Times Notable Book
A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 052552231X
- Language: English
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The Lives They Saved: The Untold Story of Medics, Mariners, and the Incredible Boatlift That Evacuated Nearly 300,000 People on 9/11
$31.58 Add to cartThe Lives They Saved is the story in artifacts and oral histories of the 300,000 New Yorkers who were evacuated from Manhattan on 9/11…by boat. It is a story that has not yet been written about or t… [more below]
- Author: Keeney, L. Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: August 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073001
- Language: English
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Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials
$19.99 Add to cartIn Kids These Days, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets real about why the Millennial generation has been wrongly stereotyped, and dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences n… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0316510858
- Language: English
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Aboriginal TM: The Cultural and Economic Politics of Recognition
$27.95 Add to cartIn Aboriginal(TM), Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term “Aboriginal” and its displacement by the word “Indigenous.” In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term’s express pur
- Author: Adese, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 177284005X
- Language: English
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Pieces Falling: Navigating 9/11 with Faith, Family, and the FDNY
$16.99 Add to cartAs a wife and mom, church volunteer, and small business owner, Ann Van Hine prided herself on being in control of her life.
Until 9/11.
Pieces Falling is Ann’s story of navigating the very personal loss
- Author: Van Hine, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1955043221
- Language: English
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The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas
$30.00 Read moreEvery Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 prov
- Author: Kiel, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 150363065X
- Language: English
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Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach
$24.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling history of the glamour and debauchery of the ultra-wealthy Palm Beach community–from The Breakers to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.
For more than a hundred years, Palm Beach has- Author: Leamer, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1401310117
- Language: English
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$31.18 Read moreThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 520375858
- Language: English
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This Isn’t Happening: Radiohead’s Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century
$17.99 Add to cartTHE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD’S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris withou… [more below]
- Author: Hyden, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0306845679
- Language: English
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Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals about Him
$28.00 Read moreBarbara A. Res worked directly with Donald Trump for eighteen years on some of his biggest projects and had nearly unlimited access to him. Trump selected Res to be in charge of construction of Trump … [more below]
- Author: Res, Barbara a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 23 2020
- ISBN10: 1631683047
- Language: English
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Invasion of Laos, 1971: Lam Son 719
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of war
- Author: Sander, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: March 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0806148403
- Language: English
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
$19.99 Add to cartA “superb” and “ambitious” (New York Times) intellectual and political history of the last century of American conservatism
When most people think of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reaga- Author: Continetti, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600517
- Language: English
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new foreword by the author–Chris Rose’s New York Times bestselling collection: “A gripping book about life’s challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans…packed with heart, honesty, and wit” (New … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1501125370
- Language: English
