July 2020 list by Elizabeth Hanby
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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila LalamiA Pulitzer Prize finalist recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship.
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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt RidleyThis award-winning, best-selling author describes the history of innovation and how it differs from invention through lively stories about steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, coffee, potatoes, vaping, antibiotics and mosquito nets.
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In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State" by David RohdeA two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents a revelatory investigation into the alleged “deep state” that draws on dozens of interviews with career spymasters, covert CIA operatives and FBI agents to determine if they are working in America’s democratic best interests.
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The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World by Rahm EmanuelThe former Chicago mayor and White House Chief of Staff counsels progressives and centrists on how to get things done in today’s America, outlining working examples of how to improve local-level education, job conditions, environmental policy and more.
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The NRA: The Unauthorized History by Frank SmythA former arms-trafficking investigator for Human Rights Watch offers a complete account of America’s most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and argues that it has strayed far from its origins.
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Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob SoboroffThe award-winning NBC News and MSNBC correspondent presents a deeply personal report from America’s borders on the wrenching human realities behind the Trump administration’s infamous decision to systematically separate thousands of children from their migrant families.
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Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump by Sarah PosnerThis award-winning reporter reveals how racism and xenophobia deep within Evangelical America sparked its unprecedented support of Donald Trump to reverse civil-rights advances, appoint hard-right judges, deregulate federal agencies and discredit the free press.
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Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News by Lisa NapoliThe journalist author of Radio Shangri-La blends media and history in an account of the founding of CNN by Ted Turner and a motley assortment of cable-television visionaries, big-league rejects, and non-union newcomers, whose collective successes exceeded their wildest ambitions.
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Warhol
by Blake Gopnik
In this definitive biography of one of the most influential artists of his—or any—age, an esteemed art critic takes on Andy Warhol in all his depths and dimensions, bringing to life a figure who consistently defied easy categorization and whose life and work continue to profoundly affect our culture and society today. .
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