The Storm Before the Calm - America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond by George Friedman
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
An illuminating, provocative new book by the master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years. George Friedman turns to the future of the United States, predicting that the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of government, foreign policy, economics ...Show more
Work - A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
We live in a society where work defines who we are, what we do and who we spend our time with. But this wasn't always the case. For 95% of our history, our ancestors had a radically different view of its importance; hunter gatherers rarely worked more than fifteen hours per week. How did work become the ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
Civilization: A History of the World in 1000 Objects by DK
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history book. From the beginning of human history, the one thing that has defined us is our talent for making things, from basic technology and everyday objects, suc ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...Show more
Barack and Joe - The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership by Steven Levingston; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A Washington Post 2019 Notable SelectionA vivid and inspiring account of the "bromance" between Barack Obama and Joe Biden.The extraordinary partnership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden is unique in American history. The two men, their characters and styles sharply contrasting, formed a dynamic working rel ...Show more
How to Sell A Massacre by Peter Charley
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
By the mastermind who infiltrated the NRA and One Nation and based on the award-winning documentary seen on ABC TVIn 2019, the ABC aired an explosive investigative documentary entitled How to Sell a Massacre. The result of an audacious three-year infiltration of the US National Rifle Association, the do ...Show more
The Golden Maze - A biography of Prague by Richard Fidler
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution br ...Show more
Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse by Graham Hancock
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returned with the sequel to his seminal work filled with compl ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more