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Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY · The Overlook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to comprehensively break down the politics and tensions among the countries of the western Pacific, by a foreign correspondent who has witnessed it firsthandIn the sphere of modern international politics, few regions have been as hotly contested as Asia, an area that President... |
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Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman, and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South
Courtney Hargrave · Convergent Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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THE TRUE EVENTS THAT INSPIRED THE UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Forest Whitaker, Garrett Hedlund, and Usher, and produced by Robbie Brenner (Dallas Buyers Club) A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South.In... |
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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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Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South
TRC Hutton · University Press of Kentucky
Pages: 430
Format: Paperback
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The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America's most famous feud, but it was relatively brief and subdued compared to the violence in Breathitt County, Kentucky. From the Reconstruction period until the early... |
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The Fighters
C J Chivers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 374
Format: eBook
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"Unflinching, insightful, and humane. I can think of no other book that takes as its charge so ambitious a goal: to take the full measure of America's wars in this new century. A landmark work." - Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers and In Harm's... |
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Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society
Thomas Frank · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What's the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times -- perfect for this political momentWhat does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic... |
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Michael Scott Moore · Harper Wave
Pages: 451
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration... |
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The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Michiko Kakutani · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 224
Format: eBook
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America's retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced,... |
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Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir
Jean Guerrero · One World
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory - between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death ¿Papi, dónde estás? Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood,... |
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
BEN RHODES · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From one of Obama's closest aides comes a revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of his presidency - and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive - in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. For nearly ten years,... |
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