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History and Current Events September 2019
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Jefferson, Madison, and the making of the Constitution
by Jeff Broadwater
Explores the evolution of the constitutional thought of two seminal American figures, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights, explaining how their collaboration and disagreements influenced the full range of constitutional questions during this early period of the American republic.
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
by Dan Abrams and David Fisher
The plaintiff: GOP leader and New York state politician William Barnes, who sued a fellow Republican for libel in 1915.
The defendant: Barnes' friend turned rival, former president Theodore Roosevelt, whose accusation of corruption spurred the case.
The verdict: dramatic and suspenseful, this "fine and timely legal drama" (Booklist) examines resonant issues of political influence and overreach.
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The conservative sensibility
by George F Will
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author of One Man's America outlines revolutionary perspectives on American conservatism that reveal how the Founders' beliefs in natural rights established a political tradition under threat in today's world.
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Dignity : seeking respect in back row America
by Chris Arnade
A widely acclaimed photographer and writer shines new light on America’s poor, drug-addicted and forgotten—both urban and rural, blue state and red state—and indicts the elitists who’ve left them behind.
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Appeasement : Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the road to war
by Tim Bouverie
A narrative history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich before World War II draws on previously unseen archival resources to identify the indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe.
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Discrimination and disparities
by Thomas Sowell
Examines economic discrimination in the United States, discussing the varying costs of discrimination to the victims, to society, and to the discriminators themselves, and the consequences of those costs in different economic institutions
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
by Isha Sesay
What it's about: Two years after Boko Haram's 2014 kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls, CNN International correspondent Isha Sesay accompanied 21 recently freed survivors back home, developing a rapport with four of the girls and their families.
What sets it apart: Peabody Award winner Sesay draws from her own childhood in Sierra Leone to provide an empathetic and richly contextualized portrait of contemporary West African gender politics.
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The Stonewall Riots : a documentary history
by Marc Stein
A 50th anniversary tribute to the Greenwich Village raid that became a turning point in LGBTQ history draws on a wide range of sources, from alternative media and political fliers to first-person accounts and state court decisions, to chronicle how LGBTQ life has changed or stayed the same.
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Code blue : inside America's medical industrial comple
by Mike Magee
The Health Commentary blogger exposes the practices of the Medical Industrial Complex network of big business, academic medicine, patient-advocacy organizations, hospitals and government that have made America's healthcare system the highest-costing, but poorest performing among major developed nations
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| The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith HoustonWhat it is: a witty deep dive into the evolution of the book that explores how technological advancements, entrepreneurial trial and error, and shifting artistic and cultural conventions resulted in the bound tomes today's readers know and love.
What's inside: chapters surveying the history of elements that make up a book, including paper, ink, type, illustration, and binding.
Chapters include: "Etching a Sketch: Copperplate Printing and the Renaissance;" "Size Matters: The Invention of the Modern Book." |
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| When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill ManningWhat it's about: how the War Department, publishing industry, and librarians collaborated to distribute 120 million pocket-sized Armed Services Edition paperbacks to American soldiers during WWII.
Featuring: intrepid librarian Althea Warren, the American Library Association's first director of the National Defense Book Campaign.
Why it matters: the morale-boosting Armed Services Editions were many soldiers' introduction to literature, inspiring them to correspond with authors or seek higher education after their service. |
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| Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History by J. P. Romney and Rebecca RomneyWhat it is: a collection of humorous (and occasionally strange) anecdotes about famous books, authors, and printers throughout history.
Read it for: a lively narrative and lighthearted tone.
Did you know? Since Johannes Gutenberg did not keep records of his life, it took nearly 300 years for scholars to prove that he invented the printing press. |
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| Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library by Wayne A. WiegandWhat it is: a compelling history of public libraries that centers on the experiences of patrons rather than staff.
What sets it apart: Though this is a mostly celebratory account, author Wayne A. Wiegand also notes the ways that libraries have denied access to their patrons, whether by censoring materials or prohibiting members of marginalized communities from obtaining library cards.
Reviewers say: "eminently readable...a must-have" (Booklist). |
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