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Betrayal In Black by Mark M. Bello
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPolice lights illuminate a dark street on a dark night in a small Michigan town. A vehicle has been pulled over; the cop claims the occupants resemble robbery suspects. No traffic law has been violated. The man is the wrong age, the woman, the wrong sex and small children are seated in the back. Still, the officer persists... -
Betrayal High by Mark M. Bello
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat does a kid do when it just won’t stop?Kevin Burns has had enough. Today, the bullying stops. Today, he has easy access to his father’s gun cabinet. Today, Kevin exacts his revenge.“You think I’m small? Maybe I am, but my gun is huge . . . Size does matter—the larger the gun, the larger the . . .” Jake Tracey’s phone buzzes. It’s a text from his brother, Kenny.Where are you?English class... -
United States Bill of Rights by James Madison
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution...Categorized as:
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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
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Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine—a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump. Marie Yovanovitch was at the height of her diplomatic career when it all came crashing down... -
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... -
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years to examine how dictators come to power, and how they help to foster a poisonous culture of polarisation, fear and suspicion that persists even after their time in power is over... -
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCo-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columnist at the The New Yorker, this is a biography any would-be power broker must own: the story of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III, the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world... -
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless... -
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake podcast... -
The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians by David M. Rubenstein, Carla Hayden
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCo-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they’ve come to so intimately know and understand... -
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSimple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans’ ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end... -
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn December 1981, independent journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and then beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop... -
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAmerica’s runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system.Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more... -
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One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History by Ted Cruz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings** WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER ** USA TODAY BESTSELLER ** PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **With a simple majority on the Supreme Court, the left would have the power to curtail or even abolish the freedoms that have made America a beacon to the world. We are one vote away from losing our most precious constitutional rights... -
What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar by Murray N. Rothbard
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Mises Institute is pleased to present this very beautiful hardbound edition of Rothbard's most famous monetary essay--the one that has influenced two generations of economists, investors, and business professionals. The Mises Institute has united this book with its natural complement: a detailed reform proposal for a 100 percent gold dollar... -
Truth Be Told by Beverley McLachlin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFormer Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta foothills to her career on the Supreme Court, where she helped to shape the social and moral fabric of the country... -
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvery major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative... -
De genocidefax by Roxane van Iperen
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereWat zou jij doen als het erop aankomt?Rwanda, januari 1994. Het is voor Roméo Dallaire, generaal van de VN Vredesmissie ter plaatse, glashelder dat als de VN de komende 36 uur niet ingrijpt, de animositeit tussen de Hutu’s en de Tutsi’s zal ontaarden in een ongekend bloedbad...Categorized as:
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The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor a century, the Statists have steadfastly constructed a federal Leviathan, distorting and evading our constitutional system in pursuit of an all-powerful, ubiquitous central government. The result is an ongoing and growing assault on individual liberty, state sovereignty, and the social compact... -
First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Evan Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class at law school in 1952, no firm would even interview her... -
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall.In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C... -
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... -
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Meticulously researched and rewarding to read…Thomas is a gifted storyteller.” —The New York Times Book ReviewBest known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate “because of sex... -
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Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and the economic, emotional, and life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom.On June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned, and suddenly the right to an abortion in America was no longer guaranteed... -
The U.S. Constitution And Fascinating Facts About It by Terry L. Jordan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn The U.S. Constitution & Fascinating Facts About It you'll see the entire text of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence--and much more! You'll find interesting insights into the men who wrote the Constitution, how it was created, and how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution in the two centuries since its creation... -
Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It by Ari Berman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power ― and the movement to stop them.The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy a blatant disregard for the will of the majority... -
Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion by David Barton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDiscover how the United States Supreme Court has reinterpreted the Constitution, diluting the Biblical foundations upon which it was based. Filled with hundreds of the Founders' quotes revealing their beliefs on the role of religion in public affairs, the proper role of the courts, the intended limited scope of federal powers, and numberous other current issues... -
American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us by Joseph J. Ellis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today. The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J... -
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy." —Donald TrumpThe framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule...
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