Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose throughout the past half-century before succumbing to corruption...
Politics and government
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Author:McLeod, JamesSummary:Newfoundland and Labrador had three premiers in a single year-- three and a half, if you count Frank Coleman. An elected politician broke down crying on live radio. In less than eighteen months, the Official Opposition went from six to...
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Author:Savage, MichaelSummary:The "Godfather of Trumpmania," Michael Savage, examines the initial appointments, speeches, tweets, and history of Donald Trump and offers his insights and analysis.
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Author:Raymaker, DarrylSummary:Trudeau appeared to enjoy the encounter. He stood his ground while escaping projectiles, including a tomato… In this insightful and lively history, Liberal insider Darryl Raymaker recalls the attempt to broker “a marriage from hell”...
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Author:Litt, PaulSummary:In 1968, Canadians dared to take a chance on a new kind of politician. Pierre Trudeau became the leader of the Liberal Party in April and two months later won the federal election. His meteoric rise to power was driven by Trudeaumania,...
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Trudeau appeared to enjoy the encounter. He stood his ground while escaping projectiles, including a tomato… In this insightful and lively history, Liberal insider Darryl Raymaker recalls the attempt to broker “a marriage from hell”...
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Author:Ackerman, Kenneth D.Summary:Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical...
- Author:Philbrick, NathanielSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "Travels with George . . . is quintessential Philbrick-a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement." - The Boston Globe. Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel...
- Author:Laxer, JamesSummary:
In this Anansi Digital Publication, James Laxer takes the pulse of America from the vantage point of Southern California at a time when the United States is riven with debates about immigration, guns, and how to tackle the economic...
- Author:Trump, Mary L.Summary:
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order...
- Author:Baier, BretSummary:
The #1 bestselling author and Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced, thrilling and...
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Author:Colby, GerardSummary:The United States' secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the mid-twentieth century is revealed in this "blistering expose", with a new introduction by the authors (Publishers Weekly). What...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:In a rehabilitation center for disabled children, twelve-year-old Nora says she loves the color pink and chewing gum and explains that the wheels of her wheelchair are like her legs. Eleven-year-old Mohammad describes how his house was...
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Author:Lebedev, SergeĭSummary:A story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.
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Author:Rowe, BillSummary:Part memoir, part history, The Worst and Best of the Premiers and Some We Never Had is Bill Rowe’s most ambitious work of non-fiction to date. The book observes with a critical and humorous eye the landscape of Newfoundland and...
- Author:Judd, DenisSummary:
This course will examine the development of the British Empire from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, via its greatest terretorial extent in 1919 to its eventual decline and end in the years after World War II, and its final...
- Author:Wine-Banks, JillSummary:
This program includes a prologue and epilogue read by the author. Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor. It...
- Author:Adler-Olsen, JussiSummary:
The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series is back, with a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America in chaos . "The president has gone way too far. ... These are...
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Author:Turner, ChrisSummary:A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on science.
In this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner argues that Stephen Harper's attack on... -
Author:Kendzior, SarahSummary:From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory. "A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly...
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