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Why is America living in an age of profound and widening economic inequality? Why have even modest attempts to address climate change been defeated again and again? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? In a riveting and indelible feat of reporting, Jane Mayer illuminates the history of an elite cadre of plutocrats--headed by the Kochs, the Scaifes, the Olins, and the Bradleys--who have bankrolled a systematic...
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Robert Meeropol was six years old in 1953 when his parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed after being convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union at the height of the McCarthy era. Just before they were put to death, the Rosenbergs wrote a letter to their two sons saying they were "secure in the knowledge that others would carry on after them."
The Rosenbergs left their young sons a legacy that was both a...
10) The revisionists
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An agent from the future where all the world's problems have been solved goes back in time to ensure that every disaster throughout history runs its course.
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This book is a deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who pushed back against the NRA and congressional leaders, launching the singular grassroots movement March for Our Lives. The author, who has been reporting on the epidemic of school shootings for 20 years, follows the students on a 9 month odyssey showing how they seized the opportunity, traveling around...
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In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path. This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's Days of Rage. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, the organization waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building,...
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