September 2018 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Been So Long: My Life and Music
by Jorma Kaukonen
A candid memoir by the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna co-founder and guitarist traces his life and relationships with fellow artists while discussing his present-day work at the instructional Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp.
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Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation
by Kenneth Starr
A former special prosecutor shares behind-the-scenes perspectives into the divisive impeachment of Bill Clinton to discuss key events and how they inform today's debates about presidential power, sexual harassment and what actions justify impeachment.
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
by Jose Antonio Vargas
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker and immigration-rights activist presents a debut memoir about how he unknowingly entered the United States with false documents as a child.
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Fearless: How an Underdog Becomes a Champion
by Doug Pederson
Doug Pederson took the Philadelphia Eagles to their first championship in fifty-eight years with his fearless approach. With rare candor, Pederson explains his unusual leadership style and how it was formed, bringing readers along with him on a twenty-three-year NFL journey, including his fourteen years as a quarterback. Fearless offers never before told stories about Super Bowl LII and the incredible season that led up to it.
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In Pieces
by Sally Field
The Academy Award-winning actress shares insights into her difficult childhood, the artistic pursuits that helped her find her voice and the powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and mother.
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Time draws on five decades of scholarship to offer an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth and exercise of leadership as demonstrated by Presidents Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR and Johnson
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
by Soraya L. Chemaly
The director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project urges 21st-century women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
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Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam
by Brian Vandemark
Road to Disaster is the first history of the war to look at the cataclysmic decisions of those in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory to explain why the "Best and the Brightest" became trapped in situations that suffocated creative thinking and willingness to dissent, why they found change so hard, and why they were so blind to their own errors. An epic history of America's march to quagmire, Road to Disaster is a landmark in scholarship and a book of immense importance.
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The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence
by Michael D'Antonio
Little-known outside his home state until Donald Trump made him his running mate, Mike Pence—who proclaims himself a Christian first, a conservative second, and a Republican third—has long worn a carefully-constructed mask of Midwestern nice. Behind his self-proclaimed humility and self-abasing deference, however, hides a man whose own presidential ambitions have blazed since high school. Pence's drive for power, perhaps inspired by his belief that God might have big plans for him, explains why he shocked his allies by lending Christian credibility to a scandal-plagued candidate like Trump.
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