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  • Obama

    The Historic Campaign in Photographs

    Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Announcing his campaign in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007, Obama stood on the grounds of the Old State Capitol, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Being a Black Man

    At the Corner of Progress and Peril

    by Kevin Merida ...
    Over the last 100 years, perhaps no segment of the American population has been more analyzed than black males. The subject of myriad studies and dozens of government boards and commissions, black men have been variously depicted as the progenitors of pop culture and the menaces of society, their individuality often obscured by the narrow images that linger in the public mind. Ten years after the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kamala

    Her Historic, Joyful, and Auspicious Sprint to the White House

    Celebrate—through stunning photographs—Kamala Harris’s presidential run in one of the most consequential, surprising, and invigorating, campaigns in our nation’s history, one of the most impactful ever of a candidate attempting to become the first woman president of the United States.Kamala is a beautiful tribute to Kamala Harris’s remarkable rise from District Attorney in California to her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Supreme Discomfort

    The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas

    “[An] impeccably researched and probing biography . . . invaluable for any understanding of the court’s most controversial figure.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA sweeping, compelling portrait of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and “an unflinching look at success and race in America” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), from two Washington Post journalistsThere is no more powerful, detested, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    42 Today

    Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

    by Kevin Merida ...
    Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    Explores Jackie Robinson's compelling and complicated legacyBefore the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, making history as the first African American to integrate Major League ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Lucky

    How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

    The inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s harrowing ride to victory, from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Shattered, the definitive account of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House—not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the ... Read more

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  • Battle for the Soul

    Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump

    An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the inside story of how the embattled Democratic Party, seeking a direction for its future during the Trump years, successfully regained the White House.The 2020 presidential campaign was a defining moment for America. As Donald Trump and his nativist populism cowed the Republican Party into submission, many Democrats—haunted by Hillary ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • And Still I Rise

    Black America Since MLK

    The companion book to the PBS series—a timeline and chronicle of the fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise explores a half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has had a ... Read more

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  • The Breakthrough

    Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

    by Gwen Ifill ...
    In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil Rights movement is giving way to a generation ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • And Then I Danced

    Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality

    by Mark Segal ...
    A gay-rights pioneer shares his stories, from Stonewall to dancing with his husband at the White House, in a memoir full of "funny anecdotes and heart" ( Publishers Weekly).On December 11, 1973, Mark Segal disrupted a live broadcast of the CBS Evening News when he sat on the desk directly between the camera and news anchor Walter Cronkite, yelling, "Gays protest CBS prejudice!" He was wrestled to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Joy of Politics

    Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs

    by Amy Klobuchar ...
    An intimate and revelatory memoir—on personal challenges, political turmoil, and the state of American democracy—from one of the most effective voices in politics, Amy Klobuchar.During the past few years, as our country has faced unprecedented challenges, Senator Klobuchar has been in the room where it happens—on the Senate floor for critical votes during the pandemic, at the debate podium during ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Game Change

    Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

    The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country."It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." — The Financial Times"It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus