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Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market

Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market

Wedel charts how the “shadow elite” challenge both governments’ rules of accountability and business codes of competition.

Dec 1, 2009

Janine R. Wedel

Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity

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Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity

In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants.

Nov 18, 2009

Tomás Jiménez

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

Thompson weaves a fascinating narrative that follows two rivals and friends from the beginning of the Cold War to its end.

Sep 15, 2009

Nicholas Thompson

The Evolution of God

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The Evolution of God

Using the prisms of archaeology, theology, history, and evolutionary psychology, Wright repeatedly overturns conventional wisdom.

Jun 8, 2009

Robert Wright

The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

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The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

Part personal journey, part cultural biography, The House at the End of the Road examines interracial families that survived and prevailed.

May 19, 2009

W. Ralph Eubanks

To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan

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To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan

Schmidle takes readers to Pakistan’s rioting streets, to Taliban camps, and on many adventures as he provides a history of this country.

May 12, 2009

Nicholas Schmidle

The Next Progressive Era

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The Next Progressive Era

The Next Progressive Era provides a blueprint for a re-empowered progressive movement and describes its implications for American families.

Apr 1, 2009

Ray Boshara, Phillip Longman

Michelle

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Michelle

In Michelle, Liza Mundy paints an intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most dynamic couple in politics today.

Oct 7, 2008

Liza Mundy

Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath

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Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath

Wartzman expertly tells the remarkable story behind the censorship of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

Sep 2, 2008

Rick Wartzman

Ark of the Liberties: America and the World

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Ark of the Liberties: America and the World

In a sweeping history of centuries, Ted Widmer recounts America’s ambition to be the world’s guarantor of liberty.

Jun 24, 2008

Ted Widmer

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Thriving Families

What Parents of Young Kids Want: Insights from the 2026 National Parent Survey

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The Care Disconnect: Americans Misjudge Care Realities, But Know Families Need Help

A Model for Associational Party Building

Redrawing School Boundaries for Fairer Funding

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

Harnessing Terrorism Data to Reshape U.S. National Security Policy

Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate

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The City of Raleigh’s First Civic Assembly

The Next Generation of Voters

12th Annual Future Security Forum

The Great Refusal: A Conversation with Casey Gerald

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Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market

Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

The Evolution of God

The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan

The Next Progressive Era

Michelle

Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath

Ark of the Liberties: America and the World

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