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In The Light We Carry (2022), former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, tackles complex questions about community, identity, and relationships with trademark warmth and honesty. Obama believes we all carry a light inside us – in this book, she tells us how to shine that light so it illuminates the potential for hope and healing, and pathways toward a better world.

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Michelle Obama is an attorney and writer. From 2009 to 2017, she was First Lady of the United States – the first Black woman to hold this role. She has advocated for women’s rights, veterans, and children’s health. Her memoir Becoming has sold over 17 million copies worldwide.

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Renegades (2021) documents eight intimate and enlightening conversations between two living legends: the musician Bruce Springsteen and the former US president Barack Obama. These two friends delve into some of the issues that have defined both of their careers, including American identity, fatherhood, class and racial divides, wrestling with the past, and maintaining hope for the future.

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Barack Obama, a former community organizer and US senator, served as president of the United States of America between 2009 and 2017. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he is the author of multiple best-selling books, including The Audacity of Hope and A Promised Land.

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The Man I Knew (2021) is the simultaneously heartwarming, tear-jerking, and surprising story of George H. W. Bush’s life after the White House. Many people are aware of President Bush’s accomplishments as a politician – shepherding the US through the end of the Cold War, successfully navigating the Gulf War, and signing the Americans With Disabilities Act into law, to name but a few. But this isn’t the story of George Bush the politician –⁠ it’s the story of George Bush the husband, friend, and father.

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Jean Becker served as George H. W. Bush’s chief of staff –⁠ and good friend –⁠ from 1994 through to Bush’s death in 2018. Before that, she was a journalist and spent three years as First Lady Barbara Bush’s deputy press secretary. She edited and did research for All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings; Barbara Bush, A Memoir; and Reflections.

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After the Fall (2021) takes a sobering look at the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism in places like Hungary, China, Russia, and the United States of America. It examines how the standing and influence of the US changed in the years following the Cold War, and how this has led to the current challenges facing democracy around the world.

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Ben Rhodes is a former advisor and speechwriter for President Barack Obama and current cohost of the popular podcast Pod Save the World. He is a contributor to MSNBC and NBC News, as well as the author of the best-selling memoir The World As It Is.

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An honest and thorough rendering, this award-winning work chronicles the public and personal challenges that came to define the political life of civil-rights activist Rosa Parks. Among other details of her activism, those presented here set the record straight on the personality that sparked the well-known bus boycott, which became a key moment in the civil rights movement.

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Jeanne Theoharis, PhD, completed her studies at Harvard and the University of Michigan and is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is an expert on the contemporary politics of race in the United States and has written and co-authored several titles on the subject.

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What Happened (2017) is the story of the woman at the center of one of the craziest elections the United States has ever seen: the 2016 presidential election. This is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s account of her experience facing, and eventually losing to, Donald Trump – an opponent like no other – and the road that led her to this historic election.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has had a remarkable career in public service. She became the first First Lady still in the White House to be elected to a public office when she was voted New York’s first female senator in 2001. She went on to become the first woman to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Clinton’s other books include It Takes a Village and her two previous memoirs, Living History and Hard Choices.

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United (2016) is the inspirational story of state senator Cory Booker’s lifetime spent fighting for the common good. From Ivy League classrooms to the roughest neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Booker examines the big issues America faces up close. These blinks explore the depth and impact of these problems, and call on each one of us to work together in finding common ground.

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Impeachment (2018) details how the Framers of the US Constitution envisioned the process of removing a president, and how the three impeachment proceedings prior to Trump’s have played out. Spanning the years right after the American Revolution to the late twentieth century, Impeachment looks at how the Framers imagined impeachment as a safety valve for democracy, as well as how Congress used impeachment to sanction Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton.

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Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham, and Timothy Naftali are lauded authors and presidential historians; Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times. Collectively they have founded presidential history scholarly research centers, run presidential libraries, authored several dozen books about presidents and international history, and won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.

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Permanent Record (2019) is the long-awaited memoir of infamous whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 used his position as a tech specialist at the US National Security Agency to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance. In his autobiography, he tells the story of his life for the first time, from being a teenage computer whiz to his steep ascent in the intelligence community and his decision to risk it all for justice.

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