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Pity the Billionaire
The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
The Harper's columnist and author of The Wrecking Crew profiles how conservative Republicans have rebounded after the election of Barack Obama, outlining their strategy of total opposition to the liberal state while arguing that their policies further injure victims of the recession.NPR Bestseller
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The Myth of the Muslim Tide
Do Immigrants Threaten the West?
The author of the prize-winning Arrival City argues against concerns that an increase in Islamic immigration is threatening basic American values, demonstrating how prejudice against Islam echoes earlier responses to immigrant groups in a report that also outlines recommendations for Islamic integration.
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The Oath
The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
President Obama and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts both went to Harvard Law School and worked on the Harvard Law Review, but their similar legal backgrounds have led to dramatically different conclusions. Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine, presents an insider's account of an ideological war between the Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration. Toobin argues that the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision and the Affordable Care Act ruling show how the Constitution is being reinterpreted — and how Supreme Court precedent is being quickly overturned.NPR Bestseller
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The Victory Lab
The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
An energetic assessment of how a team of academics, statisticians, and strategists are reshaping today's political campaigns explores war room strategies based in behavioral psychology and randomized experiments.
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The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
The best-selling author of Balkan Ghosts presents a timely and provocative response to The World Is Flat that draws on the insights of leading geographers and geopolitical thinkers to present a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia that considers such topics as European debt, Chinese power and the role of Iran.
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Class Warfare
Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
Steven Brill looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate.
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That Used To Be Us
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and foreign policy expert Michael Mandlebaum make recommendations for meeting four major challenges facing the United States: globalization, the information-technology revolution, chronic deficits and unbalanced energy consumption.NPR Bestseller
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The Parties Versus the People
How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans
To banish the negative effects of partisan warfare from our political system, a former congressman, drawing on his first-hand experience with legislative battles, presents a solution-based, practical way to break the stranglehold of the political party system.
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First Cameraman
Documenting the Obama Presidency in Real Time
The first official White House videographer offers an inside look at the events he has recorded, from the president throwing out the first pitch at an all-star game to hiding in a bathroom while a YouTube town hall was in progress.
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Miracle Boy Grows Up
How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
Miracle Boy Grows Up describes how the author, an NPR commentator and professional writer who was born with spinal muscular atrophy, was expected to die in childhood but who with the support of a growing disability rights movement became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard.
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The Real Romney
Two investigative reporters provide a portrait of the Republican governor of Massachusetts and 2012 presidential hopeful, tracing his Mormon roots and missionary service in France through his role in the 2002 Olympics and his controversial time at a private investment firm. (This book was previously listed in Forecast. 50,000 first printing.
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Subversives
The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
A narrative report on the FBI's covert involvement with future President Ronald Reagan, radical Mario Savio and liberal university president Clark Kerr to suppress the 1960s student movement at Berkeley reveals acts designed to undermine the Democratic party.
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The Secrets of the FBI
This expose from the author ofIn the President's Secret Service takes a look inside the secrets of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as some of the secrets it has uncovered about famous personalities over the years.
