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A revised and updated edition of the definitive guide to overturning Citizens United.  Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that the rights of things—money and corporations—matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In...
"Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad Chinese." —Peter Cozzens, The Wall Street JournalWINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE...
"An orthodox—and excellent interpretive history of the stirring years 1914–32" in the United States (New York Times)."This book gives us a rare opportunity to enjoy the matured interpretation of an American Historian who has returned to the story and seen how recent...
By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history.A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of...
"A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy (Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of...
From the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America's fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire In this compelling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals the epic story of James...
"In this fascinating look at contemporary politics, [the authors] set out to explain what really causes the extreme political polarization seen today." —Publishers Weekly What's in your garage: a Prius or a pickup? What's in your coffee cup: Starbucks or Dunkin'...
A leading educator, writer, and strategist sheds a timely and powerful light on American public schools, their miseducation of marginalized students of color and the action required to make tangible changes and reforms to a failing and racialized educational system....
"An original and important book. . . . [T]he most readable introduction to the history, theology and present-day practices of Protestantism." —Publishers Weekly A New Interpretation of Protestantism and Its Impact on the World The radical idea that individuals could...
The author of Black Hawk Down vividly recounts a pivotal Vietnam War battle in this New York Times bestseller: "An extraordinary feat of journalism". —Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal In Hue 1968, Mark Bowden presents a detailed, day-by-day reconstruction of the...