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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Christopher Leonard · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard's Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world... |
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Reagan: An American Journey
Bob Spitz · Penguin Press
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.
More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable... |
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All the Dreams We've Dreamed: A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago's West Side
RUS BRADBURD · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player.... |
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID · PENGUIN Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.
The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special... |
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We gon' be alright : notes on race, culture, and resegregation.
Jeff Chang · Picador Usa
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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"THE SMARTEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" (THE WASHINGTON POST) In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests... |
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The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace
ALEXANDER KLIMBURG · Penguin Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found... |
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I, Spy: How to Be Your Own Private Investigator
Daniel Ribacoff · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wanted to be your own private eye? Have you ever wanted to track down long-lost relatives or people who've scammed you? Have you ever wanted to know if your kids really are where they say they are? Or if your significant other is cheating on you? Or how to locate assets... |
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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... |
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Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
Rick Reilly · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An uproarious indictment of Donald Trump's lying, cheating, and poor sportsmanship--by the bestselling author and acclaimed sportswriter. Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump is an on-the-ground and behind-the-scenes look at Trump's ethics deficit on and off the course. Reilly... |
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
LAUREN MARKHAM · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.
Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical... |
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s.
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted... |
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