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"From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change."
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"The book is an epic history of China that I can’t hope to encapsulate in such a brief review, the story of a nation “in international contexts and on global scales.” But the stories Brook tells are those of individuals that played a part in that history, sometimes far outside the borders of the modern Chinese state."
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"We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure."
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"In a revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation, John Farrell takes us inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face."
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William Davidow and Michael Malone ask us to reimagine what Patrick Henry’s proclamation to “Give me liberty or give me death” means at a time when the companies that control the internet also increasingly control the overall economy and our very lives—at a time when “Suddenly commercial enterprises, not repressive governments, are what pose the direct threats to our individual freedoms and privacy.”
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