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The Briefing
SEAN SPICER · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Sean Spicer takes readers behind the scenes of his turbulent tenure as President Trump's press secretary, shedding new light on the headline-grabbing controversies of the Trump administration's first year. |
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23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Keramet Reiter · Yale University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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How America's prisons turned a "brutal and inhumane" practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors... |
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Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes
Michael Rubin · Encounter Books
Format: Print book
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The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now. Rogue regimes—governments and groups that eschew diplomatic normality, sponsor terrorism, and proliferate nuclear weapons—threaten the United States around the globe. Because sanctions and military action are so costly, the American... |
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The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America
Kenneth Weisbrode · Viking, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A vivid account of America at the pivot point of the postwar era, Harry Truman's first full year in office In 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant... |
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy... |
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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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The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Mike Lofgren · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred, House of Cards-style exposé of who really wields power in Washington Mike Lofgren is back with a book perfectly pitched for the frenzied circus of the primaries. His argument this time is that for all of the backstabbing... |
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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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Upheaval
Lou Dobbs · Pocket Books
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight offers his illuminating views on some of our nation's most intractable problems.IF YOU DREAM OF A BETTER TOMORROW FOR AMERICA, FIRST FACE THE REALITIES OF TODAY. Expanding on his candid "Chalk Talks" that inform the popular... |
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