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  • The Fixers

    Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

    by Julia Rabig ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    Stories of Newark’s postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city’s decline mounted by Newark’s residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists whose dynamic organizing elected African American candidates in unprecedented numbers. There are tenants who ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The Business of Black Power

    Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America

    Edited by Laura Warren Hill, Julia Rabig ...
    The Business of Black Power emphasizes the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement and explores the myriad forms of business development in the Black power era. This volume charts a new course forBlack power studies and business history, exploring both the business ventures that Black power fostered and the impact of Black power on the nation's business world. Black ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    by Sarah Burns ...
    **A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. •A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See UsOn April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and ... Read more

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  • Money and Power

    How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

    by William D. Cohan ...
    The bestselling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success.From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine loudly declares it to be smarter, more ethical, and more profitable than all of its competitors. Behind closed doors, however, the firm constantly straddles the line ... Read more

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  • Katharine Graham's Washington

    by Katharine Graham ...
    As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the nation’s capital.To Russell Banks, it is a place where “no one is in charge and no one, therefore, can ... Read more

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  • The Unmaking of a Mayor

    by William F. Buckley Jr. ...
    John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. As a candidate,” Joseph Alsop conceded, Buckley was cleverer and livelier than either of his rivals.” And Murray Kempton concluded that The process which coarsens every other man who enters it has only refined Mr. Buckley.”The Unmaking of a Mayor is a time ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Inside Newark

    Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation

    by Robert Curvin ...
    Series series Rivergate Regionals Collection
    For decades, leaders in Newark, New Jersey, have claimed their city is about to return to its vibrant past. How accurate is this prediction? Is Newark on the verge of revitalization? Robert Curvin, who was one of New Jersey’s outstanding civil rights leaders, examines the city, chronicling its history, politics, and culture*.* Throughout the pages of Inside Newark, Curvin approaches his story both ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Obama's Last Stand: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012)

    by Glenn Thrush, Politico ...
    A series of four instant eBooks on the 2012 presidential election, POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 provides an unprecedented real-time account of the race for the White House. The third edition, Obama’s Last Stand, follows the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama as it struggles to find the winning formula in a political landscape that has changed dramatically since his history-making victory in ... Read more

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  • Fear City

    New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the ... Read more

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  • From Colony to Superpower

    U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776

    by George C. Herring ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to ... Read more

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  • The Routes Not Taken

    A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System

    by Joseph B. Raskin ...
    A fascinating journey into the past—and under the ground—that offers "an insightful look at the what-might-have-beens of urban mass transit" ( The New York Times).From the day it broke ground by City Hall in 1900, it took about four and half years to build New York's first subway line to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again.The Routes Not Taken explores the often ... Read more

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  • Leading from Behind

    The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him

    by Richard Miniter ...
    Barack Obama has never been fully vetted—until now.In the New York Times bestselling Leading from Behind, investigative journalist Richard Miniter presents the first book to explore President Obama's abilities as a leader, by unearthing new details of his biggest successes and failures. Based on exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, Leading from Behind investigates the secret ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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