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In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, Clive Veroni's Spin is a fascinating investigation of how the techniques of political strategists are being applied to the world of consumer marketing. In the early twentieth century political operatives did their work in the backroom, a shady place of secret deals and dark arts. By the middle of the century, the politicos were heading to Madison Avenue to learn the techniques of mass communication and persuasion.

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.

Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. Economist Paul Collier outlines original and ethical ways of healing these rifts--economic, social, and cultural--with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervor of ideological revivalism.

As the US and Cuba move toward the normalization of diplomatic relations after an epic fifty-six-year standoff, we find ourselves face-to-face with one of the few places in the world that has been off limits to most Americans. Standing on both sides of the political divide, twelve of our most celebrated writers investigate this period of momentous transition.

This Cold War narrative takes listeners from top secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary to bring new dimension to our understanding of the inner workings of the Eisenhower White House.

Major thinkers engage with King's less studied writing, arguing its marginalization has let King be drafted into projects he would not endorse.

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A candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America from Julián Castro, the keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, former San Antonio mayor, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, that chronicles his journey from poverty, to Stanford, Harvard, and into politics, where he was short-listed as a potential running mate for Hillary Clinton, and is now seen as a future presidential candidate.

From the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy'explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the "forever wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it. In 1992, the United States stood at the pinnacle of world power and Americans were confident that a new era of peace and prosperity was at hand. Twenty-five years later, those hopes have been dashed.

Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new audiobook, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive movement and how we go forward as a nation. "Senator Sanders's gravelly voice and dramatic presentation are surely familiar to listeners. He reads with the same sincerity and earnestness he brought to audiences throughout his extraordinary primary campaign for president of the United States.