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The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces

The Girl from Devil's Lake (Joanna Brady Mysteries)

The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State

America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

A Resistance History of the United States

The Harvey Girl (The Harvey Girls Mysteries)

The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care

Firestorm - The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster

The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding

Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

America, América: A New History of the New World

Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage

All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

An Extravagant Death (Charles Lenox, #11)

Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis

The Wedding Plot (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #4)

The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust

Off the Reservation (The Only Good Indians, #2)

The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma af Klint and Her Creative Circle

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics

Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West

Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power

Una storia americana. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris e una nazione da ricostruire

Molly and the Twin Towers: A 9/11 Survival Story (Girls Survive)

Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

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“ If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now. Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative. ...more ”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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“ [Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:] Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along w [Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:] Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along with every other form of unbelief that all the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime. Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms – the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome – if it’s an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that he’s doing God’s work and executing God’s will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, “I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? It’s exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system? Again, this is not a difference of emphasis between us. To suggest that there’s something fascistic about me and about my beliefs is something I won't hear said and you shouldn't believe. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens

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