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

By Lee Drutman

$27.95

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

$34.95

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

$32.00

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

$28.00

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 7th, 2020

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Lee Drutman - Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

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Clifford Thompson - What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues

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Jonathan Rosenberg - Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War Through the Cold War

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Harvey Solomon - Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America During World War II

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David E. Lowe - Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination

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Peggy Wallace Kennedy - The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter's Journey to Reconciliation — in conversation with Diane McWhorter

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