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History and Current Events August 2020
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* Our Time Is Now by Stacey Abrams What it is: a well-researched history of voter suppression and disenfranchisement in the United States.
Is it for you? Policy wonks and progressives looking for a hopeful rejoinder to current political discourse will be inspired by politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams' proposals to end suppression tactics.
Author alert: 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Abrams made history in 2019 by becoming the first African American woman to deliver the response to the State of the Union address. | | * The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy by Thomas Penn What it's about: As the Wars of the Roses raged on in 15th-century Europe, three men at the center of the conflict -- House of York brothers Edward, George, and Richard -- saw their fragile unity upended by shifting alliances, greed, and paranoia.
Read it for: a dramatic and vivid narrative that reads like fiction, full of court intrigue, conspiracy plots, battles, and betrayals.
For fans of: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare's Richard III. | |
Three days in Moscow : Ronald Reagan and the fall of the Soviet empire
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Bret Baier
The #1 best-selling author of Three Days in January and anchor of the #1 rated Special Report With Bret Baier on Fox News Channel reveals as never before President Ronald Reagan’s battle to end the Cold War, framed around the historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit.
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Tanker pilot : lessons from the cockpit
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Mark Hasara
A veteran air-refueling expert who served for more than two decades during the Cold War, Afghan War and Iraq War presents an eyewitness account of modern warfare, sharing inspirational stories and 12 moral lessons gleaned from his military experiences.
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Dean Acheson : a life in the Cold War
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Robert L. Beisner
Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era--the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential career, Acheson spearheaded the greatestforeign policy achievements in modern times, ranging from the Marshall Plan to the establishment of NATO. Now, in this monumental biography, Robert L. Beisner paints an indelible portrait of one of the key figures of the last half-century.
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Ike's bluff : President Eisenhower's secret battle to save the world
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Evan Thomas
The Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek and best-selling author examines the White House years of Dwight Eisenhower and reveals the former president, often viewed as a doddering lightweight, as a brilliant, intellectual tactician who could be both patient and ruthless and generous and self-serving.
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