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Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
Sandra Grimes · Naval Institute Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Circle of Treason details the authors' personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. The search for the presumed traitor was necessitated by the loss of almost all of the CIA's large stable of Soviet intelligence... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of On Tyranny and Why Nations Fail, a bracing look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world - and a roadmap for rescuing our own. Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard... |
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON... |
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Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century
Daniel Oppenheimer · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures - from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens - who abandoned the left and joined the right.In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political... |
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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
Oona Hathaway · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928 was among the most transformative events in modern history.On a hot summer afternoon in 1928, the leaders of the world assembled in Paris to outlaw war. Within the year,... |
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
David Brooks · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
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It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s;... |
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Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan
Michael G. Waltz · Potomac Books Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington DC and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have... |
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Why the right went wrong : conservatism-- from Goldwater to the Tea Party and beyond
E J Dionne · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 532
Format: Print book
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"Dionne's expertise is evident in this finely crafted and convincing work." - The Los Angeles Times From one of our most engaging political reporters and the author of Why Americans Hate Politics; the story of conservatism from the Goldwater 1960s to the present day Tea Party... |
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The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard · Regnery Publishing; First Printing edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Cited by White House press secretary Mike McCurry as the origin of every major Clinton scandal story, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has done more than any other journalist to expose the truth about the Clintons. Now Evans-Pritchard is breaking the biggest scoop of all: an assiduously documented... |
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Far and Away: Reports from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
Andrew Solomon · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics' Circle Award - and one of the most original thinkers of our time - a riveting collection of essays about places in dramatic transition.Far and Away collects Andrew Solomon's writings about places undergoing seismic... |
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
ANTONIN SCALIA CHRISTOPHER SCALIA · Crown Forum
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest... |
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The Statesman's Yearbook 2018: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World
Palgrave Macmillan · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 1518
Format: Hardcover
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Now in its 154th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions:... |
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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
Ben Ehrenreich · Penguin Press
Pages: 428
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest... |
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942
Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 514
Format: Hardcover
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Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House... |
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Coming to My Senses: One Woman's Cochlear Implant Journey
Claire H. Blatchford · Gallaudet University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Deafened at the age of six, Claire Blatchford was educated orally with speech lessons, speechreading, and hearing aids. Though successful both professionally and domestically, at the age of 67 Blatchford decided to undergo a cochlear implantation. In this memoir, she describes in prose... |
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