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History and Current Events May 2017
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| Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David GrannIn 1920s Oklahoma, the Osage Indian Nation possessed immense wealth because their land contained large petroleum reserves. New Yorker staff writer David Grann portrays a series of murders on the reservation. In this thoroughly researched history, Grann also reveals conspiracy and corruption beyond what the FBI discovered. |
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The American spirit : who we are and what we stand for
by David G McCullough
A timely collection of speeches by one of the most honored historians in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom—aims to remind readers of fundamental American principles.
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The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women
by Kate Moore
A full-length account of the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to dangerous levels of radium while working factory jobs during World War I describes how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights.
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Hacking Isis : How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad
by Malcolm Nance
A guide to ISIS cyber-terrorism on the Internet and the war being waged to stop it explains and illustrates in graphic detail how ISIS produces religious cultism, recruits vulnerable young people and disseminates their brutal social media to the world.
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| No One Cares about Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron PowersBestselling author Ron Powers combines a well-researched discussion of the social history of mental illness with an account of his two sons' schizophrenia. Sharply critiquing recent political comments about the mentally ill, Powers traces the treatment of these patients from 18th-century Britain's Bedlam hospital to 21st-century American practices. |
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The Holocaust : A New History
by Laurence Rees
A historian who has an unrivaled archive of firsthand testimony from both the perpetrators and victims of the Holocaust presents almost all of this evidence for the first time in an authoritative and accessible account of the greatest crime against humanity.
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Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
by Condoleezza Rice
The controversial former Secretary of State traces her witness to key events throughout the past half century while assessing the evolution of global democracy and how it is under attack in all world regions.
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Why we march : signs of protest and hope : voices from the Women's March
by Artisan
"On January 21, 2017, over 5 million people in 673 cities around the globe gathered in solidarity for the Women's March, carrying signs that demanded the protection of women's rights, opposed the newly inaugurated U.S. president, and championed equality and justice for all. This book is a valuable and timely encapsulation of an unprecedented moment in political history.
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| The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark MazzettiAfter the 9/11 attacks, the CIA changed its practice of shunning violence in its operations and adopted covert paramilitary techniques to carry out White House orders to assassinate specific enemies. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Mazzetti reviews the policy shift that now permits the use of predator drones, paramilitary contract agents, and similar operations, obscuring the distinction between espionage and acts of war. |
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| Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen ThorpeUntil 2015, the U.S. excluded women from ground combat, but they have increasingly served as non-combatants on the front lines since deployments to Iraq began in 2002. In Soldier Girls, journalist Helen Thorpe chronicles the experiences of three Indiana women who joined the National Guard before 9/11, not expecting to be sent to a war zone. |
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| Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby WarrickIn Black Flags, Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick chronicles the birth of ISIS and its rise to become a major international threat. Recounting the history of Muslim zealot Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, he explains how Zarqawi organized the insurgency into a coherent movement called al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which survived his 2006 death in an airstrike and became ISIS. |
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Dirty wars : the world is a battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
The author of Blackwater presents a sobering exposé of secret war programs currently being conducted behind the scenes of the War on Terror, drawing on interviews with CIA agents, mercenaries and other operators to reveal the human consequences of night raids, drone strikes and other unofficial "dirty-war" tactics.
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