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Ted Widmer
The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text

INSIDE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America.Illustrations and close readings of 60 origi…

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Walter Isaacson
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

America's bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans---and explains how it should shape …

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Peter L Hahn
Crisis and Crossfire

Crisis and Crossfire traces the origins of the contemporary challenges facing the United States in the Middle East by analyzing the broad contours of U.S. policy in the region since the government's first…

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Black Citizens and American Democracy

How Black activism has helped achieve and maintain democracy for all AmericansIn 2020, Black Americans continued a centuries-long pursuit of racial equality and justice in the streets and at the polls. Ar…

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Black Citizens and American Democracy

How Black activism has helped achieve and maintain democracy for all AmericansIn 2020, Black Americans continued a centuries-long pursuit of racial equality and justice in the streets and at the polls. Ar…

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What We Do Now

As MAGA resurges and the Democratic Party falters, many Americans are left without moral or political direction. What We Do Now offers a roadmap for navigating this uncertain moment.This collection of ess…

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Robert Kagan
Rebellion

Could the 2024 election have been the last free election held in a unified America? "A dire warning of the right's drift towards authoritarianism." ---Financial TimesPublished in the run-up to D…

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Benn Steil
The World That Wasn't

From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan , a "timely, riveting" (The Washington Post) new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace---one that will forev…

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Fara Dabhoiwala
What Is Free Speech?

Fara Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the…

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Noam Chomsky, Nathan J. Robinson
The Myth of American Idealism

Penguin Publishing Group

"For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky." ---The New Statesman A sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and …

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Matthew Stewart
An Emancipation of the Mind

This is a story about a dangerous idea-one which ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals…

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Prager University
The Honest Book of Presidents

America's most trustworthy resource delivers a refreshing guide to the American presidency.Only forty-five men have held the title President of the United States. In this concise yet powerful volume, Prag…

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Aaron J Leonard
Menace of Our Time

Beginning at the turn of the century, and ending only with communism's collapse, the US government and major elements in the wider society undertook an unrelenting effort to suppress and criminalize domes…

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Morton J Horwitz
The Warren Court and the Democratic Constitution

A timely history of the profound impact of Earl Warren's Supreme Court on many areas of modern American government and societyFrom 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren served as chief justice of the US Supreme Court…

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David Mccullough
History Matters

In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays---many never published before---Pulitzer Prize--winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can…

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Allan J Lichtman
Conservative at the Core

Conservative at the Core unpacks the history, rhetoric, and policies of the American conservative movement and probes the truth about what conservatism actually represents.Allan J. Lichtman investigates t…

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Christian F Ostermann
Between Containment and Rollback

"An international history of US foreign relations in the early years of the Cold War, this book reassesses the aims and influence of the American policies of "containment" and "rollbac…

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Jack Carr, James M Scott
Targeted: Beirut

A Marine Corps Commandant's Professional Reading List SelectionThe first in a new "authoritative, shocking" (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) nonfiction series examining the d…

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Smithsonian Institution
The Promise of a Nation

Celebrate 250 years of American history---and witness the nation's decade-by-decade evolution---in this gorgeously illustrated volume featuring 700 Smithsonian objects.The 250th anniversary of the United …

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Tom Wells
The Kissinger Tapes

A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and …

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