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The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings
In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism. A Penguin Classic In time...
Titan of the Senate: Orrin Hatch and the Once and Future Golden Age of Bipartisanship
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If greatness is measured by achievement, Orrin Hatch was the greatest U.S. senator of modern times--discover the life and career of the senator through archival material, original research, and exclusive...
Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Hunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature: drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged aplomb by Johnny Depp; memorialized as a Doonesbury character. In all this entertainment,...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of
A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
Mao: The Unknown Story
The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...
Follow the Leader: Democracy & the Rise of the Strongman: Quarterly
What has gone wrong with political leadership in Australia? And are things likely to change with a change of leader or government? What is true political leadership, and how do...
The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the
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This first book on Kim Jong Un's increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea's secretive and murderous dynasty. The...
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER * Andy Borowitz, "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS Sunday Morning ), brilliantly "chronicles our...
Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important...
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
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A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" ( Wall Street Journal ) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
God Calls Us to Do Hard Things: Lessons of Faith, Family, and Leading
With grit and grace, Katie Britt has tackled a lot that life's thrown at her. From working long days in her parent's hardware store, to finding her path at the...
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India
'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic...
A Warning
On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its writer anonymity. Described only as "a senior official in the...
Human Rights: The Case for the Defence
A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedoms Our human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to...
Becoming
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir from the First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the...
The Last Sweet Bite: When War Changes the Menu
War changes every part of human culture: art, education, music, politics. Why should food be any different? For nearly twenty years, Michael Shaikh's job was investigating human rights abuses in...
Truth of the Matter
On Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, sacked the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict, as...
The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the
'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with religious fundamentalism' Sunday Times Engaging, incisive and acute, The New Puritans is a deeply necessary...
Alexander Hamilton: A Life
From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, to his unhappy fate in 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey, at the hands of his old...
A Decade of Drift
The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in climate change policy over the...
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future
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A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a...
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed...
Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy
Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...
#DELETED: Big Tech's Battle to Erase a Movement and Subvert Democracy
Conservative journalist Allum Bokhari examines how the liberal-leaning elites of Silicon Valley have completely overtaken social media, creating a crisis for privacy and freedom of expression. In the beginning, the...
Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
A Telegraph Book of 2018 An Observer Pick of 2018 A New Statesman Book of 2018 A definitive history and anarchic celebration of the fight for women's right to vote;...
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
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'A masterful debunking of some of the myths of capitalism ... Witty, iconoclastic and uncommonly commonsensical ... this book will be invaluable' Observer In 23 Things They Don't Tell You...
The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America
The New York Post columnist, Fox News contributor, and national bestselling author of Laptop from Hell returns with the explosive, definitive account of the Biden family scandals. It's rare that...
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for
Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018 Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader,...
Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCan the political be way too personal What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole countryWhen Jesse...
The Impossible Will Take a Little While (Second Edition): A Citizen's
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What keeps us going when times get tough? How have the leaders and unsung heroes of world-changing political movements persevered in the face of cynicism, fear, and seemingly overwhelming odds?...