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In 2004, an Iraqi grenade blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's US Army Black Hawk helicopter. The explosion, which destroyed her legs and mangled her right arm, was a turning point in her life. But, as Duckworth shows in this memoir, that moment was just one in a lifetime of extraordinary turns.

In this dispatch from exile, Hong Kong political activist Nathan Law explores the meaning of freedom, and shows how easily freedoms can be eroded or dismantled. Freedom is fragile--it is not a given, and each generation must fight to protect it, whether in emerging democracies or in the Western world, where freedom is too often taken for granted.

Peter Schweizer presents his most alarming findings to date by revealing the secret deals wealthy Americans have cut to help China build its military, technological, and economic might. Equally as astonishing, many of these elites quietly believe the Chinese dictatorial regime is superior to American democracy.

Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements for more than fifty years. This autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in these struggles.

The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures serving two vastly different presidents, George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump.

From divesting from the police to halting new jails, abolition shapes our political moment. The authors show how abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence.

David Mamet examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the United States in the last generation. By screaming down freedom of thought and expression, Mamet explains, we kill invention and democracy, the foundations of security and growth.

Journalist Mark Follman examines never-before-told accounts from perpetrators and mass shooting survivors in order to offer hope and a way forward at a time when the costs of gun violence have never been higher.

In 2020 after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Alexander turned a mother's eye to her sons' and students' generation, observing the race-based violence that they could not be shielded from.

Dr. Jill Biden has been described as President Biden's greatest political asset. Now that she is First Lady, there is more curiosity than ever about the ways she will shape the country.