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Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote

Craig Fehrman · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Gatekeepers and The Presidents Club, historian Craig Fehrman offers a surprising new look into both the public and private lives of America's presidents. Most Americans are familiar with Lincoln's famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation...
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The Body Language of Politics: Decide Who is Lying, Who is Sincere, and How You'll Vote

Donna Van Natten · Skyhorse
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Learn how to spot the lies and deceptions of our politicians in action. You can't turn on the television, check your phone, or scroll through social media without being besieged with political headlines and the "Who's Who" of today's news. With so much spoon-fed to us by the media,...
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Running For Local Office For Dummies

Dummies · For Dummies
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Get ready to run for - and win - that local election! In the land of opportunity, just about anyone who qualifies as an elector can seek public office. Some do it on a whim, some are urged to run, and some want to use their time and talents to make a difference in their local community....
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American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power

Andrea Bernstein · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy.In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families...
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Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office

Susan Hennessey · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"Unmaking the Presidency, devastating in its understatedness, may prove to be the most important book about the Trump presidency." -- Tabatha Southey, Maclean'sThe definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidencyThe extraordinary authority...
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Trump's World: GEO DEUS

Theodore Roosevelt Malloch · Humanix Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A phrase has come into the Zeitgeist - calling people the "Trump of their field." Elon Musk is the Trump of business. Many leaders still do not know how to react to President Trump; to his decision to control immigration; 3 % economic growth and, especially, to the absolutely...
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

Emma Copley Eisenberg · Hachette Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were...
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Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography

Kate Bennett · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The first behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most enigmatic First Lady in U.S. historyMelania Trump is an enigma. Regardless of your political leanings, she is fascinating -- a First Lady who, in many ways, is the most modern and groundbreaking in recent history. A former model whose...
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

Peter H. Diamandis · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger,...
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The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy

Stephen Holmes · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals. Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation...
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