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Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
Barton Gellman · Penguin Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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From the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, who unearthed the deepest secrets of Edward Snowden's NSA archive, the first master narrative of the surveillance state that emerged after 9/11 and why it matters, based on scores of hours of conversation... |
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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
Jia Lynn Yang · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today's roiling debates.The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a law that choked... |
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The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
Anthony DePalma · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years.Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma,... |
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Zachary D. Carter · Random House
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas that outlived him.In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate biographical portrait of her great friend John Maynard Keynes. Writing a full two years before Keynes would revolutionize... |
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