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Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America (Hardcover)

By Lee Drutman

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ISBN: 9780190913854

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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - January 2nd, 2020
Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America during World War II (Hardcover)

By Harvey Solomon

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ISBN: 9781640120846

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Published: Potomac Books - January 1st, 2020
The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch (Hardcover)

By Laura DeNardis

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ISBN: 9780300233070

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Published: Yale University Press - January 7th, 2020
They Said This Day Would Never Come: Chasing the Dream on Obama's Improbable Campaign (Hardcover)

By Chris Liddell-Westefeld

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ISBN: 9781541730618

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Published: PublicAffairs - January 7th, 2020
We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism--American Style (Paperback)

By Kate Aronoff (Editor), Peter Dreier (Editor), Michael Kazin (Editor)

$17.99

ISBN: 9781620975213

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Published: New Press - January 14th, 2020

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Lawrence Lessig - They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

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7:00 pm

CANCELED: Alice Feiring - Natural Wine for the People: What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Love It — in conversation with Sam Fromartz — at Union Market

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1:00 pm

Sarah Yerkes - Days of Blue and Flame

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Kristen Richardson - The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

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Dana R. Fisher - American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave — in conversation with James Zogby

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Dexter Palmer - Mary Toft; Or, the Rabbit Queen & Mark Haber - Reinhardt's Garden

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Sarah Abrevaya Stein - Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

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David J. Silverman - This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

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Leila Taylor - Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul — in conversation with Ericka Taylor — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

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Adam Platt - The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony — in conversation with Corby Kummer

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Alec Karakatsanis - Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

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