Ron Fournier
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Ron Fournier is a business executive and former journalist. Until 2018, he was the publisher and editor of Crain’s Detroit Business. Previously he worked at Atlantic Magazine and the National Journal and as Washington bureau chief at the Associated Press until leaving in June 2010.
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American Midnight
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory new account of a pivotal but neglected period in American history: World War I and its stormy aftermath, when bloodshed and repression on the home front nearly doomed American democracy.The nation was on the brink. Angry mobs burned Black churches to ...
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2022-12-18T17:13:39.000ZA scathing history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnistIn 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with Americ...
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2022-08-07T11:59:16.000ZThe shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposing the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point.This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country...
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2022-05-24T00:21:15.000ZAlso recommended by
Maggie HabermanFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed booksFor the first time in his long career, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these ev...
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2022-05-14T15:11:28.000ZAlso recommended by
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How Zingerman's Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community
From an accomplished journalist, this illuminating chronicle of the trials, tribulations, and triumph of Zingerman’s—a beloved, $70 million-dollar Michigan-based gourmet food store with global reach—is “thoughtful reading for foodies and entrepreneurs” (Kirkus Reviews).Certain businesses are legendary, exerting immense influence in their field. Zin...
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2022-02-22T11:53:44.000ZFathers, sons, and sports are enduring themes of American literature. Here, in this fresh and moving account, a son returns to his native South to spend a special autumn with his ninety-five-year-old dad, sharing the unique joys, disappointments, and life lessons of Saturdays with their beloved Ole Miss Rebels. After growing up in Jackson, Stuart S...
The definitive biography of the fiercely vigilant and politically astute First Lady who shaped one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century: Nancy Reagan.The made-in-Hollywood marriage of Ronald and Nancy Reagan is more than a love story—it’s the partnership that made him president. Of the pair, Nancy was the one with the sharper ...
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2021-09-25T21:00:10.000Z*The Instant New York Time s Bestseller* "A book historians will relish."--Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalMust read. I've read every book about the Trump presidency. This is the best.--Bill PressAn account like no other, from the White House reporter who has known President Donald Trump for more than 25 years.We have never seen a president like t...
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2021-03-17T11:26:23.000ZThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to ...
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2020-12-28T01:10:09.000Z
The Hidden Life of Trees
What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature (1))
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their childre...
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2020-09-07T12:46:56.000ZDonald Trump and His Assault on Truth by The Washington Post Fact Checker Staff
Grace from the Rubble by Jeanne Bishop
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Once in a Great City by David Maraniss
Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle