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The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
Eric Lichtblau · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis Thousands of Nazis - from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich - came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. They had little... |
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The Wikileaks Files: The World According to Us Empire
Julian Assange · Verso, 2015.
Pages: 614
Format: Print book
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Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policyWhen WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly... |
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
JOANNE FREEMAN · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife... |
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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy
TRITA PARSI · Yale University Press
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive book on Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran from the author of the Foreign Affairs Best Book on the Middle East in 2012This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015... |
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Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
Dennis Ross · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Pages: 474
Format: Print book
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award's Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History.A necessary and unprecedented account of America's changing relationship with IsraelWhen it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad... |
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Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Rosabeth Moss Kanter · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"America has been waiting for a call to think big and act big as we envision our transportation future. Kanter's important book is it." -- Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, 2007 -- 2015Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays... |
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DIY Rules for a WTF World: How to Speak Up, Get Creative, and Change the World
Krista Suh · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the Pussyhat Project comes a manifesto for every woman to create her own distinct and original path to joy, success, and impact.On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore... |
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We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States
Thomas Linzey · PM Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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We the People offers powerful portraits of communities across the United States that have faced threats from environmentally destructive corporate projects and responded by successfully banning those projects at a local level. We hear the inspiring voices of ordinary citizens and activists... |
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
DAVID E SANGER · Crown
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cyberwarfare is influencing elections, threatening national security, and bringing us to the brink of global war.Behind the Russian cyberattacks that may have thrown the 2016 election; behind... |
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Bravehearts: Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden
Mark Hertsgaard · Hot Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save ours. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden or ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing - whether it's government spying, corporate... |
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