21st Century
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Sweet Potato or Pumpkin Pie: Conversations with My White Friends about Race
$25.00 Add to cartSweet Potato or Pumpkin Pie: Conversations with My White Friends About Race, Dr. William T. Lewis, talks with his White friends about perhaps one of the hardest conversation topics in America, racism.
- Author: Lewis, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 31, 2022
- ISBN10: 1953555217
- Language: English
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Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” –Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader- Author: Graff, Garrett M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1501182218
- Language: English
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White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds
$23.95 Add to cartWhite Fear has shaped our democracy and society from the beginning–and today, it’s more intense and visible than ever. To neutralize it, we must first understand it.
For two centuries, the deep-seate- Author: Martin, Roland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 163774028X
- Language: English
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Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
$32.00 Add to cartA provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case f… [more below]
- Author: Breyer, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 1668021536
- Language: English
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F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II
$40.00 Read moreThe inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it.
The F-35 has changed allied combat warfare. But by the time it’s completed, it wil- Author: Burbage, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1510777571
- Language: English
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The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party
$29.99 Add to cartEven before the cataclysmic 2016 election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself–yet Joe Biden’s narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire threat of a second Trump ad
- Author: Walker, Hunter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1324020385
- Language: English
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The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age
$18.00 Read moreHow can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?
A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called “Moneyball for politics,” journalist Sasha- Author: Issenberg, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987053621
- Language: English
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet
$28.00 Read moreA Next Big Idea Club “Must Read” for December 2023
As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is “real” and what is digitally fabricated gr
- Author: Scheirer, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 1503632881
- Language: English
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Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
$32.00 Add to cartHow a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a par- Author: Dallek, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 21-Mar-23
- ISBN10: 1541673565
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
$20.99 Add to cartThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l… [more below]
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0197676316
- Language: English
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Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn
$19.95 Add to cart“A compelling story of a hymn rescued from the horror of slavery . . . in the author’s hands, ‘Amazing Grace’ lands firmly on the right side of history.”―TLS
Journey through the history of “Amaz- Author: Walvin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: 31-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 0520391829
- Language: English
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PULITZER PRIZE WINNER – A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the grow
- Author: Wright, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: 1-Sep-07
- ISBN10: 1400030846
- Language: English
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Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
$28.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighter- Author: Pfeifer, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593330250
- Language: English
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
$21.99 Add to cartUpdated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet–the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of w… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: 13-Oct-20
- ISBN10: 1982130849
- Language: English
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The Right Kind of White: A Memoir
$27.99 Read moreA revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness.
As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a “good white person.” T- Author: Bucks, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 198219720X
- Language: English
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62: Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness
$29.99 Read more“The definitive story” (Tyler Kepner, The New York Times baseball columnist) of Yankees slugger Aaron Judge’s incredible, unparalleled run to break Roger Maris’s home run record and the franchise both… [more below]
- Author: Hoch, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 166802795X
- Language: English
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Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
$24.95 Read moreWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER – 2022 IPPY AWARDS GOLD MEDALIST — SCIENCE – NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST — POLITICAL – 2021 WORLD MAGAZINE ACCESSIBLE SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR — HONORAB… [more below]
- Author: Koonin, Steven E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1950665798
- Language: English
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
$18.99 Add to cartThe real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent im… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338827
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West
$27.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 030027372X
- Language: English
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Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA
$30.00 Read moreA vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA
Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NB- Author: Runstedtler, Theresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1645036952
- Language: English
