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301) Nixon's secrets: the rise, fall, and untold truth about the president, Watergate, and the pardon
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this revisionist history of the American state, former Reagan budget director and bestselling author David Stockman shows where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored. He argues that Washington -- and especially the Federal Reserve -- have fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts. These policies have converged to bloat...
305) Blue-eyed devil
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Appaloosa police chief Amos Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just as Imperial Russia did in 1917 and as Soviet Russia did in 1991. The only questions are when, how violently, and with how much peril for the world. The U.S. election complicates everything, including: Putin's next land grab; Exploitations of the Arctic; Cyber-espionage; Putin and China... and many more crucial topics. An essential read for everybody bewildered and dismayed...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Capturing a world of social unrest and upheaval, a study of America's Gilded Age offers an analysis of a post-Civil War era marked by corrupt politicians, racism, a tyranny of wealth, labor unrest, violence, and the corporate rule of government.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Seth Abramson alleges Trump has conspired and colluded with leaders from Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, from even before he won the presidency In late 2015, convicted pedophile, international dealmaker, and cooperating witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation George Nader convened a secret meeting aboard a massive luxury yacht in the Red Sea. Nader pitched Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The author, who was imprisoned because she refused to testify in Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation, speaks out, offering a portrayal of the Clinton administration, Starr's investigation, and her years spent in prison.
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Una investigación profundamente documentada sobre la forma en que el narcotráfico aniquila o seduce a periodistas. Conuna pluma violenta, aguerrida, profundamente humana, Javier Valdez Cárdenas revela quiénes han sido víctimas de los narcos por buscar la verdad, por escribir con valentía sobre la impunidad y las injusticias, y cómo actúan algunos reporteros o analistas que colaboran para los narcos con tráfico de información y servicios...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"American Kompromat tells the story of the unimaginably corrupt, dissolute, and decadent subculture of the most powerful people in the world and how they have orchestrated, obtained, and used kompromat--Russian for compromising information--as leverage to achieve their political goals"--
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1324--a land rife with superstition and gripped by fear of the Church's holy wrath. When a beggar is murdered in the quiet village of Bottesford, his body draped across the altar of St. Mary's church in a perverse pose of pagan sacrifice, the Pope's Inquisitor General places the small hamlet in his sights. Anxious to stave off the Inquisition, the Bishop of Lincoln dispatches Thomas Lester, son of a disgraced Templar Knight, to investigate--but...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Information is the ultimate weapon," this program proclaims. Based in New York City, Guerrilla News Network (GNN) is an independent news organization with a mission to expose young people to important global news and information free from corporate filters, through programming on the Web and on TV. GNN's news videos are 5 to 10 minute documentaries combining high-impact images, commentary by media experts, scholars, and political leaders with music...
317) All that is hidden
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful-home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends, and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each other's opinions in all things. So when he tells her they're moving...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The agency actually began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore Roosevelt. Willard Oliver details the political fight that led to the birth of America's premier law enforcement agency. Roosevelt was concerned...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century...
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