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"Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy." In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?"--and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives."--Publisher's description.
5) "You lie!": the evasions, omissions, fabrications, frauds, and outright falsehoods of Barack Obama
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A devastating catalog of Barack Obama’s numerous evasions, misleading statements and blatant lies, from statements in his national bestseller Dreams from My Father to “You can keep your health plan,” PolitiFact’s 2013 “Lie of the Year.”
During President Obama’s address to Congress in November 2009, Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted, “You lie!” As Jack Cashill details,
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It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign -- the candidate herself. Through deep access to insiders from the top to the bottom...
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"From President Obama's chief speechwriter Cody Keenan, a spellbinding account of ten days of the presidency, in June 2015, when a hate-fueled massacre and two impending Supreme Court decisions put the character of our country on the line, and a President's words could bring the nation together or tear it apart"--
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The former Obama administration "ambassador to America's believers" gives an inside account of living with faith in the White House and argues that Christians have a responsibility to be a hopeful and faithful presence in public life. As a young Christian in his early twenties, Michael Wear found himself deep inside the halls of power in the Obama administration as one of the youngest ever White House staffers. Throwing himself wholeheartedly into...
11) Trump and me
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In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject's head as an enduring irritant-and how Singer (“A TOTAL LOSER!” according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump's evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America's standing as a rational guardian of the world order. Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his...
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The unvarnished and unbiased inside story of President Donald Trump and his White House by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler. Based on exclusive interviews with the president and his staff, including Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway, and H.R. McMaster, The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game tells the real story of what Donald Trump is like, who influences him, how he makes decisions, what he says about the people around...
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Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. A disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. Haberman reveals in full the depth of her understanding of the 45th president himself, and of what the Trump phenomenon means. Interviews with hundreds of sources and numerous interviews over the...
15) How Bernie won: inside the revolution that's taking back our country-- and where we go from here
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The president of the Our Revolution nonprofit and manager of Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign shares insights into how Bernie Sanders and his run for office effectively rose above typical negative practices and affiliations with big money to reconnect the Democratic party to its populist roots, triggering important, revolutionary changes in American politics.
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Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.
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Hillary Clinton shattered the political glass ceiling for women when she was nominated as a presidential candidate in 2016. Hillary Clinton: Historic Politician introduces readers to other milestones Clinton reached throughout her career as a politician and advocate for women, children, and families. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics,...
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"General Keith Kellogg saw it all. The only national security advisor to work side by side with both President Trump and Vice President Pence, he was their confidant as they made their most momentous decisions. No one knows better than he that the hysterical accusations of the administration's partisan detractors were unconnected to reality."--Amazon.
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"Finally, the unnerving, seemingly inexplicable phenomenon that is the political rise of Donald Trump explained--just in time to save democracy and the world. When Aaron James first published his groundbreaking and bestselling book Assholes : A Theory in 2012, little did he or we know that he had written one of the prophetic books of our time. Donald Trump was featured prominently in that book as an exemplary asshole, of course; in this urgent new...
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