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Twilight of Democracy
The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
2024 || Paperback || Anne Applebaum || Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Fire Next Time
2024 || Paperback || James Baldwin || Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both blac...
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Road
2007 || Paperback || Cormac McCarthy || Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the roa...