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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
xv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the FIFA corruption scandal that implicated nearly every aspect of international soccer, sharing insights into the roles of key personalities while tracing the efforts of law enforcement officials to expose the truth.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An exposé of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their own social status.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity-who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics, citizens are harmed in overt, subtle, and even personal ways. Stacey Abrams experienced the effects firsthand, running one of the most unconventional races in modern politics as the Democratic nominee for the governorship in Georgia and the first black woman...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 240 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Black voters were critical to the Democrats' 2018 blue wave. In fact, 90 percent of Black voters supported Democratic House candidates, compared to just 53 percent of all voters. Despite media narratives, this was not a fluke. Throughout U.S. history, Black people have played a crucial role in the shaping of the American experiment. Yet still, this powerful voting bloc is often dismissed as some "amorphous" deviation, argues Tiffany Cross. Say It...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From a Pulitzer Prize - winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win the prize in the investigative reporting category, an urgent, riveting, and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating communities. Death in Mud Lick is the story of a pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, that distributed 12 million opioid pain pills in three years to a town with a population...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 350 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When he opened the FBI investigation into Russia’s election interference, Peter Strzok had already spent more than two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. His career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter, when the Trump administration used his private expression of political opinions to force him out of the Bureau in August 2018. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 338 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From ESPN journalists whose investigation garnered a Peabody Award, the full devastating story of former physician Larry Nassar's serial abuse of America's elite gymnasts and others, revealing the win-at-all-costs culture in youth athletics and higher education that enabled him"--
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xi, 467 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains how Vladimir Putin and Russia hacked an American election as part of a covert operation to subvert the United States' democracy and help Donald Trump win the presidency.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of SAY NOTHING The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sackler's...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old...