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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
Robert Baer · Crown; 1 edition
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global... |
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Obama: From Promise to Power
David Mendell · Amistad; 1 edition
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The biography of America's hottest political superstar—Barack Obama—from a journalist who has been covering Obama and his career since his successful run for U.S. SenateBarack Obama's meteoric rise from Hawaii high schooler to exemplary Harvard Law School student to well-groomed... |
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FBI Girl: How I Learned to Crack My Father's Code
Maura Conlon-McIvor · Warner Books
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
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Young Maura Conlon's dad is a secret agent. And she knows what that means: chasing cars, jumping over buildings, handcuffing bad guys, just like on "The FBI," her favorite TV show. No matter how many times she asks her father about his work, he never says anything. So Maura... |
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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
Bernard Goldberg · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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In 1996, veteran CBS News reporter and producer Bernie Goldberg committed the unpardonable sin of publicly mentioning the issue of liberal bias in the media. For that he became persona non grata at CBS. Goldberg tells how friends and colleagues turned on him, from junior CBS reporters... |
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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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Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World
Page Talbott · Yale University Press; 1St Edition edition
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover
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Benjamin Franklin In Search of a Better World examines the many facets of Americas most extraordinary founding father. Politician, diplomat, scientist, printer, and civic improver, Franklin influenced every aspect of American life, from his own time to the present. This book, designed to accompany... |
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JFK, Conservative
Ira Stoll · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A startling reconsideration of John F. Kennedy’s record and achievements John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired LBJ to push for landmark civil rights laws. His “New Frontier” promised new spending on education and medical care for the elderly. His champions... |
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
WILLIAM TAUBMAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 852
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost... |
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.An Economist Best Book of 2014.A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation... |
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13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings
Philip Caputo · Chamberlain Bros.
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen seconds passed. Sixty-seven shots were fired. One nation watched . . . On May 4, 1970, Ohio's Kent State University was in chaos following President Richard Nixon's announcement that the U.S. bombing of Cambodia would continue, with student protesters on one side and the National... |
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