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The Advocate's Daughter by Alex Finlay, Anthony Franze
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's not who you know, it's what you know about them . . . Among Washington D.C. power players, everyone has something to hide, including Sean Serrat, a Supreme Court lawyer. Sean transformed his misspent youth into a model adulthood, and now has one of the most respected legal careers in the country. But just as he learns he's on the short list to be nominated to the U.S... -
![From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger]()
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFew gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965... -
![What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer]()
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race -- and scours the psyches of contenders from George... -
![An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal]()
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America...Categorized as:
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![The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook]()
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.“SHED MY DNA”: three excruciating words uttered by a QAnon-obsessed mother, once a highly respected lawyer, to her only son, once the closest person in her life...Categorized as:
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![The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher]()
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the worldWe all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies...Categorized as:
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![A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell]()
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsControversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern...Categorized as:
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![Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan]()
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe austerity crisis and threat to disability rights. New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people.In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers...Categorized as:
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![Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar]()
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.In Our Migrant Souls , the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now...Categorized as:
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![Der tiefe Graben: Die Geschichte der gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika by Ezra Klein]()
Der tiefe Graben: Die Geschichte der gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika by Ezra Klein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDiscover how today’s rigidly partisan politics came to be, why we all participate in it, and what it means for America’s future—from star journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. Over the past 50 years, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities...Categorized as:
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![Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates]()
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWomen are standing up and #shoutingback. In a culture that's driven by social media, for the first time women are using this online space (@EverydaySexism www.everydaysexism.com) to come together, share their stories and encourage a new generation to recognise the problems that women face...Categorized as:
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![The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Dennis Boutsikaris]()
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Dennis Boutsikaris
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters... -
![The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature by Robert Greene]()
The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature by Robert Greene
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOver the last 22 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motivations, mastering your impulses, and recognizing strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into daily entries...Categorized as:
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![Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman]()
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index... -
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![Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: The Companion Book to the Award-Winning Film by Mark Achbar]()
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: The Companion Book to the Award-Winning Film by Mark Achbar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWinner of more than a dozen festival awards, the film has played to packed houses in more than two hundred cities worldwide... -
![What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood]()
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars. Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops...Categorized as:
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![How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt]()
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor readers of On Tyranny and Why Nations Fail, a bracing look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world--and a roadmap for rescuing our own... -
![Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho]()
Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIllegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children... -
![Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens]()
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStorming Heaven is a riveting history of LSD and its influence on American culture. Jay Stevens uses the "curious molecule" known as LSD as a kind of tracer bullet, illuminating one of postwar America's most improbable shadow-histories...Categorized as:
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![The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper]()
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin...Categorized as:
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![When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan T. Anderson]()
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan T. Anderson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe transgender movement has hit breakneck speed. In the space of a year, it's gone from something that most Americans had never heard of to a cause claiming the mantle of civil rights... -
![America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges]()
America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” ( Booklist ), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate...Categorized as:
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![Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto]()
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA highly praised best-seller for over a decade, this is a radical treatise on public education that concludes that compulsory government schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in a machine. This Special Collector's Edition celebrates 100,000 copies or the book in print, and the book's on-going importance and popularity... -
![Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy Joseph]()
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy Joseph
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEvery day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned, pushed off high buildings, drowned or set alight. Then there are the many who are killed by dangerous drivers, or corporate gross negligence. There are a lot of ways you can kill someone... -
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![Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann]()
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human RightsWas the Boston Tea Party the first WTO-style protest against transnational corporations? Did Supreme Court sell out America's citizens in the nineteenth century, with consequences lasting to this day? Is there a way for American citizens to recover democracy of, by, and for the people?Thom Hartmann takes on these... -
![The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible by Luke Mogelson]()
The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible by Luke Mogelson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory powerAfter years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore across the US... -
![Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik]()
Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president.Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has conquered America...Categorized as:
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![Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology by Max Weber, Claus Wittich]()
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology by Max Weber, Claus Wittich
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMax Weber's Economy and Society is the greatest sociological treatise written in this century. Published posthumously in Germany in the early 1920's, it has become a constitutive part of the modern sociological imagination... -
![Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit]()
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused autism, they reasoned, eliminating it from a child's system should treat the disorder...Categorized as:
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![Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies]()
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies broke the unwritten rule of the media by investigating the practices of his fellow colleagues. In this eye-opening exposé, Davies uncovers an industry awash in corruption and bias...Categorized as:
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