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Full Faith & Credit: A Novel About Financial Collapse

by James R. Cook

Published: 2000-03-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

by Philip K. Howard

Published: 2011-05-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common...

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Published: 2005-08-23

Paperback: 368 pages

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Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragil...

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What Color is a Conservative?

by J. C. Watts Jr.

Published: 2002-10-15

Hardcover: 320 pages

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An inspiring autobiography by one of America's emerging African-American leaders. This is the inspiring story of J. C. Watts' journey from poverty to college football acclaim to the United States Congress. For the first time in print, Watts shares his hopes and plans for the future of America. Included...

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The War Over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission

by Lawrence F. Kaplan, William Kristol

Published: 2003-02-01

Hardcover: 170 pages

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As the crisis with Iraq continues, Americans have questions. Is war really necessary? What can it accomplish? What broad vision of U.S. foreign policy underlies the determination to remove Saddam Hussein? What were the failures of the last couple of decades that brought us to a showdown wi...

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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

by Barry Glassner

Published: 2018-11-06

Paperback: 384 pages

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The bestselling book revealing why Americans are so fearful, and why we fear the wrong things--now updated for the age of TrumpIn the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did only a couple decades ago. ...

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Kennedy; An Unfinished Life

by Robert Dallek

Published: 2015-06-20

Hardcover: 849 pages

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Guns, Freedom, and Terrorism

by Wayne LaPierre

Published: 2003-04

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Gun control has long been a hot topic in the United States, and the controversy has only heightened since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Now, with a growing focus on homeland security, more and more Americans are asserting their Second Amendment right to bear arms. In Guns, F...

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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior

by Arthur Herman

Published: 2016-06-14

Hardcover: 960 pages

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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation’s great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim—from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was argu...

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Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey

Published: 2017-10-13

Paperback: 768 pages

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 There’s little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows,...