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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... -
![Прошание с иллюзиями by Vladimir Pozner, Владимир Познер]()
Прошание с иллюзиями by Vladimir Pozner, Владимир Познер
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPolitical commentator, international media celebrity, and Communist Party Member Vladimir Pozner is a familiar face to millions of television viewers throughout America -- perhaps the second most widely recognized Soviet citizen next to Mikhail Gorbachev... -
![Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire]()
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live... -
![Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer]()
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRichard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America’s greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. His power lay in an utter belief in himself and his idea of a muscular, generous foreign policy... -
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![Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher]()
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRead-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline—poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment... -
![The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper by Aaron McGruder]()
The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper by Aaron McGruder
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first anthology of the beloved comic strip that inspired the critically acclaimed Cartoon Network show. In 1999, Aaron McGruder launched a cultural phenomenon with his smart and bitingly satirical comic strip, The Boondocks. It centers on the experiences of two young African-American boys, Huey and Riley, who move from inner-city Chicago to the suburbs (or the "boondocks" to them)... -
![Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.]()
Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald)... -
![The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid]()
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost... -
![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... -
![The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes]()
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West... -
![Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman]()
Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989 he had transformed Soviet Communism... -
![Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek]()
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
![Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire]()
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan]()
Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work "Capital"... -
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![They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace, Vietnam And America, October 1967 by David Maraniss]()
They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace, Vietnam And America, October 1967 by David Maraniss
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDavid Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967... -
![The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack]()
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGetting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how—and why—disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body... -
![Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger]()
Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHenry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead... -
![De la Chine (Documents) by Henry Kissinger]()
De la Chine (Documents) by Henry Kissinger
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape...Categorized as:
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![A Third University Is Possible by La Paperson]()
A Third University Is Possible by La Paperson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion... -
![Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice by Anita Diamant, Melissa Berton]()
Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice by Anita Diamant, Melissa Berton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Anita Diamant comes a timely collection of essays to help inspire period positive activism around the globe.When Period. End of Sentence. won an Oscar in 2019, the film’s co-producer and Executive Director of The Pad Project, Melissa Berton, told the audience: “A period should end a sentence, not a girl’s education... -
![The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present by John Pomfret]()
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present by John Pomfret
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Remarkable History of the Two-Centuries-Old Relationship Between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the Present DayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap for Chinese tea, and the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China... -
![The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne]()
The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPaid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate... -
![Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History by Tony Perrottet]()
Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History by Tony Perrottet
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHistorian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the guerrilla uprising: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them... -
![The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph by Scott Ellsworth]()
The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph by Scott Ellsworth
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe true story of the game that never should have happened.Something was happening to basketball.In the wartime fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing the game forever... -
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![Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol]()
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe story that jolted the conscience of the nation when it first appeared in The New YorkerJonathan Kozol is one of America’s most forceful and eloquent observers of the intersection of race, poverty, and education. His books, from the National Book Award–winning Death at an Early Age to his most recent, the critically acclaimed Shame of the Nation, are touchstones of the national conscience... -
![Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy]()
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"The definitive history.…With his masterly book, Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell." ― The EconomistA harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse... -
![Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy]()
Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Allied victory in 1945 - though comprehensive - was far from inevitable. By 1942 almost the entire resources of continental Europe were in German hands and Japan had wiped out the western colonial presence in Asia. Democracy appeared to have had its day... -
![Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels]()
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Marx explains how, under capitalism, people rely on labor to live. In the past people could rely on Nature itself for their natural needs; in modern society, if one wants to eat, one must work: it is only through money that one may survive. Thus, man becomes a slave to his wages... -
![Reagan: The Life by H.W. Brands]()
Reagan: The Life by H.W. Brands
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War — and "the rare academic historian who can write like a bestselling novelist" ( USA Today )—comes an irresistible portrait of an underestimated politician whose pragmatic leadership and steadfast vision transformed the nation.In his magisterial new biography, H. W... -
![Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy by Julia Preston, Julia Preston]()
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy by Julia Preston, Julia Preston
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reportersOpening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy...
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