COLLECTION EIGHT: POLITICS & SOCIAL ISSUES
Our world is changing rapidly, especially right now. This is a good time to take stock of the way in which our forefathers and mothers have shaped our country, and to think about how we could all do so for the future. This collection takes us through politics, social issues, and the people who create the policies that affect us all.
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How Was it for You? Women, Love, Sex and Power in the 1960s by Virginia Nicholson
A rousing investigation into the decade that changed the world from the perspective of a wide variety of women
Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Deborah Lipstadt
A riveting, blow-by-blow account of a singular legal battle, which resulted in a formal denunciation of a Holocaust denier
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson
The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade
Wing Nuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama by John Avlon
A case for the assertion that the time has come for the moderate majority of Americans to hold extremists accountable
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning by Elliot Ackerman
From a decorated Marine war veteran, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria