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A harrowing tale of how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the the other splintered. Donald Trump’s November 2016 electoral victory was the beginning of four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and—ten months into a pandemic—an incitement to violence that led a mob of thousands to descend on the Capitol in Washington, DC. Fueled by suspicion, conspiracy, and bigotry, a f...

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Little Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a champion tennis player, golfer, hockey player, tobogganist, skater, mountaineer, and archer.

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A biography of Lottie Dod, one of the greatest athletes of all time. She won Wimbledon at the age of 15, won a silver medal at the 1908 Olympics, won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship and also played hockey for England.

Release date is timed to coincide with Wimbledon 2020 (the tennis championship will run from June 29-July 12, 2020)--over 400, 000 attended Wimbledon in 2018, and tens of millions watch on TV throughout the world.Abramsky is a journalist who has published with Hachette, Random House, etc. His 2014 Hachette release, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives, has Book-scanned over 8 thousand copies (hardcover & paperback combin...

An expose about the penitentiary system and how vengeance has replaced rehabilitation in our prisons

Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismissed with a yawn? Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that the stranger shoots her dead? In Jumping at Shadows, Sasha Abramsky sets his sights on America's most dangerous epidemic: irrational...

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A heartfelt celebration of the vanished world of his grandfather's intellectual passions.

Jetzt auch als Taschenbuch! Ein Haus voller Bücher, in dem Abend für Abend eine illustre Gästeschar lebhaft diskutierte. Als Kind kam Sasha Abramsky dies ganz selbstverständlich vor. Erst viel später wurde ihm bewusst, welcher Schatz sich hinter der unauffälligen Fassade dieses Londoner Reihenhauses verbarg: Sein Großvater Chimen, der 2010 hochbetagt starb, hatte im Laufe seines Lebens geschätzte zwanzigtausend Bücher zusammengetragen und eine...

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Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.

Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam, hosted epic gatherings in their house of books that brought together many of the age's greatest thinkers. The atheist son of one of the century's most im...

In this disturbing yet elegant exposé of U.S. penitentiaries and their surrounding communities, Sasha Abramsky shows how American prisons have abandoned their long-held ideal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. After surveying our current state of affairs-life sentences for nonviolent crimes, appalling conditions for inmates, the growth of private prisons, the treatment of juveniles-Abramsky argues that our punitive policies are no...

From the moment he burst onto the national political scene, Barack Obama has fascinated and inspired people more than any politician in decades. Millions have wondered how his mind works, what passions drive him, and what makes him such an effective leader. The fifth book, and third audio book in this series, explores the ideas, inspirations, and experiences that have shaped how President Obama thinks about tough issues, how he makes decisions...