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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world’s most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father’s captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the...

In her New York Times best seller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.

As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014 and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'Black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she wrote, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.'

From day one of the BP oil spill, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal acted as a leader in a crisis should: quickly and decisively - providing a stark contrast to President Obama, who dithered and bogged down the containment process with needless bureaucracy. In his new book, Leadership and Crisis, Jindal reveals the extent of the Obama administration’s incompetence during the oil spill and shows why commonsense conservative solutions are exactly what we need to solve all of our nation’s biggest problems.

The political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson, bestselling author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, teams up with the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis to expose the catastrophic failure—social, political, legal, and personal—of legalized abortion.

La isla oculta no es otro libro más sobre Cuba, un país que forma parte de nuestro imaginario colectivo desde su Revolución, sino una colección de crónicas que nos lleva a sus lugares menos conocidos con una mirada conmovedora, triste y a la vez pícara. Un puzle del último lustro de Cuba...

"Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper Steered Debate with Sharp Questions" is from the October 10, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Michael M. Grynbaum and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Burberry, J.W. Anderson and Simone Rocha: Reflections on a Fashion System" is from the Style section of The New York Times. It was written by Vanessa Friedman and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Laurie Anderson Puts on a Concert for Dogs in Times Square" is from the Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Joshua Barone and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Swedish Court Sentences Man to Life in Prison for Role in Rwanda Genocide" is from the May 16, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Christina Anderson and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Arnold Palmer, the Magnetic Face of Golf in the '60s, Dies at 87" is from the September 25, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Dave Anderson and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"When Muhammad Ali's Twinkle Shone Brightest" is from the June 04, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Dave Anderson and narrated by Paul Ryden.

Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was...

From a New York Times bestselling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality In Separate and Unequal, New York Times bestselling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the...

Most Americans still see Brown v. Board of Education as a triumph - but was it? James T. Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African-Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits; to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision.

"Assange Is Questioned in London over Rape Accusation in Sweden" is from the November 14, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Sewell Chan and Christina Anderson and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.