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From the Corner of the Oval
REBECCA DOREY-STEIN - Spiegel & Grau Format: Hardcover
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The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love, and finding her place in the world. In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in DC when a posting on Craigslist... |
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Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
Joe Scarborough - Harper Format: Hardcover
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The host of MSNBC's Morning Joe reveals how President Harry Truman defended democracy against the Soviet threat at the dawn of the Cold War.Harry Truman had been vice president for less than three months when President Franklin Roosevelt died. Suddenly inaugurated the leader of the free... |
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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
Robert Kagan - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems... |
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Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
THOMAS E RICKS - ?Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. In Waging a Good War, bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks... |
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Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper Format: Hardcover
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After serving the highest office of American government, five men - Jimmy Carter, the late George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama - became members of the world's most exclusive fraternity. In Team of Five, Kate Andersen Brower goes beyond the White House to uncover... |
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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
Joseph Rosenbloom - Beacon Press Format: Hardcover
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An "immersive, humanizing, and demystifying" (Charles Blow, New York Times) look at the final hours of Dr. King's life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King,... |
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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden
Peter L. Bergen - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen provides the first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating America's long wars with al-Qaeda and its descendants, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his life: as a family man, as a zealot, as a battlefield... |
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