August 2020 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
by Zephyr Teachout
Identifying big-platform monopolies that have resulted in the greatest economic and power imbalances since the Gilded Age, a leading anti-corruption scholar and activist shares bold recommendations for addressing major issues by eradicating monopolies and creating better antitrust safeguards.
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Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
by Suzanne Nossel
The CEO of PEN America and former executive director of Amnesty International USA outlines vital steps for maintaining open democratic debates that respect diversity while defending free speech and cultivating a more inclusive society.
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The End of Everything
by Katie Mack
From a dynamic rising star in astrophysics comes an accessible and eye-opening look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology.
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
by Martyn Rady
Describes the dominance throughout Europe of the Habsburgs, a dynasty that gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the 1400s and stretched to Hungary and Spain and centuries later to the New World.
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His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hope of Glory presents a timely portrait of veteran congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis that details the life experiences that informed his faith and shaped his practices of non-violent protest.
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Live Free or Die: America (and the World) on the Brink
by Sean Hannity
The Fox News host and best-selling author of Conservative Victory argues that the leftist radicalism that he believes undermined American democracy in the 1960s must be purposefully fought again during the 2020 election to prevent progressive changes.
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Mayday 1971
by Lawrence Roberts
Chronicles the largest act of civil disobedience in U.S. history, in Richard Nixon’s Washington, the 1971 attempt to blockade Washington, D.C.
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric.
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Your Brain at Work
by David Rock
David Rock takes the reader inside the heads, literally, of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday and show us how a more nuanced understanding of the brain allows us to better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our daily life.
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