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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths.... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple · Crown Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
MAX BOOT · Liveright Pages: 784 Format: Hardcover
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In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987) , the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet... |
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
JAMES COMEY · Flatiron Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions.... |
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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America
Don Johnson · Oxford University Press Pages: 664 Format: Hardcover
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The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited by an issue... |
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Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World
James Ball · Biteback Publishing Pages: 320 Format: Paperback
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2016 marked the dawn of the post-truth era. The year saw two shock election results, each of which has the potential to reshape the world: the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the elevation of Donald Trump to the office of US President. The campaigns highlighted many of the same issues... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. · Holt, Henry & Company, Inc. Pages: 192 Format: Print book
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Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive.... |
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The Statesman's Yearbook 2016: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World
Nick Heath-Brown · Palgrave MacMillan Pages: 1564 Format: Hardcover
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THE STATESMAN'S YEARBOOK 2016 This classic reference work presents a political, economic and social account of every country of the world together with facts and analysis. The 2016 edition includes: * Revised and updated biographical profiles of all current leaders* Extensive updates... |
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Masaji Ishikawa · AmazonCrossing Pages: 172 Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing true story of one man's life in - and subsequent escape from - North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes.Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. · Penguin Press Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
TAMER ELNOURY · Dutton Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the insideIt's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing... |
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