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  • Quantico

    by Mark Blumenthal ...
    Series series Images of America
    Located in the northern Virginia hills just south of our nation's capital, Marine Corps Base Quantico is known throughout the world as the Crossroads of the United States Marine Corps. Images of America: Quantico takes the reader on a visual tour of Quantico's evolution-through World War I, interwar service as an expeditionary base, and the development of the amphibious capabilities made famous by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marines of Washington, D.C.

    by Mark Blumenthal ...
    Marines of Washington, D.C. takes the reader on a visual tour that explores the dynamic history of the United States Marine Corps in the nation's capital. The Marines have played an integral role in the development of the social, structural, and political landscape of Washington for over 200 years. This volume traces the history of the Marines from the founding of the "Oldest Post of the Corps," ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Political Polling in the Digital Age

    The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion

    by Susan Herbst, Scott Keeter, Anna Greenberg, Charles Franklin, Mark Blumenthal ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    The 2008 presidential election provided a "perfect storm" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect -- in which white voters misrepresent their intentions of voting for or against a black candidate -- skewed predictions, and aggressive voter registration and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Surge

    2014's Big GOP Win and What It Means for the Next Presidential Election

    by Alan I. Abramowitz, Mark Blumenthal, Ariel Edwards-Levy, James Hohmann, Jill Lawrence, Joshua T. Putnam, Michael E. Toner, Karen E. Trainer, Jamelle Bouie, Robert Costa, Sean Trende, Rhodes Cook ...
    The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a now-Republican-controlled Senate and House at odds with a Democratic president with only two years left in office, the fault lines within and between both parties have never been more tenuous. In this book, prominent elections scholar and political ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    The US Navy's First Torpedo Boats

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  • Devil's Bargain

    Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising

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    The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six ... Read more

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  • A Guide to Civil War Washington, D.C.

    The Capital of the Union

    by Lucinda Prout Janke ...
    An in-depth account of the Civil War people and events that left their mark on the city at the heart of the Union, shaping its historic legacy.When the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Washington, DC, was a small, essentially Southern city. The capital rapidly transformed as it prepared for invasion—army camps sprung up in Foggy Bottom, the Navy Yard on Anacostia was a beehive of ... Read more

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  • The Making of the President 1960

    by Theodore H. White ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning behind-the-scenes account of the historic Nixon-Kennedy race: "A fascinating story of a fascinating campaign." — TimeThis is the dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle that captured the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon in the 1960 presidential election, and in the process revolutionized modern political journalism. Granted intimate access to all ... Read more

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  • Battle of Antietam

    The Bloodiest Day

    by Ted Alexander ...
    The heavy fog that shrouded Antietam Creek on the morning of September 17, 1862, was disturbed by the boom of Federal artillery fire. The carnage and chaos began in the East Woods and Cornfield and continued inexorably on as McClellan's and Lee's troops collided at the West Woods, Bloody Lane and Burnside Bridge. Though outnumbered, the Rebels still managed to hold their ground until nightfall. ... Read more

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    On Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class

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    On Friday, December 10, 2010, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders walked on to the floor of the United States Senate and began speaking. It turned out to be a very long speech, lasting over eight and a half hours. And it hit a nerve. Millions followed the speech online until the traffic crashed the Senate server. A huge, positive grassroots response tied up the phones in the senator's offices in ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Rational Voter

    Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - New Edition

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  • A History of Submarine Warfare Along the Jersey Shore

    by Joseph G. Billy, Harry Ziegler ...
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