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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
ALI H SOUFAN - W W NORTON
Format: Print book
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A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead.When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why?Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house,... |
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The Performance of Becoming Human
Daniel Borzutzky - Brooklyn Arts Press
Format: Print book
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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Following in the path of his acclaimed collections THE BOOK OF INTERFERING BODIES (Nightboat, 2011) and IN THE MURMURS OF THE ROTTEN CARCASS ECONOMY (Nightboat, 2015) , Daniel Borzutzky returns to confront the various ways nation-states and their bureaucracies... |
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Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump
JEROME R CORSI - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump beat 16 Republican challengers and Hillary Rodham Clinton to win the presidency. Now he must beat the Deep State to keep his presidency. Here's how!#1 New York Times bestselling author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND and THE OBAMA NATION Jerome Corsi uncovers the secret conspiracy... |
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Lessons My Father Taught Me: The Strength, Integrity, and Faith of Ronald Reagan
Michael Reagan - Humanix Books
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestselling author Michael Reagan is the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. In this book, Michael Reagan reveals what it was like growing up as a child to one of the most famous Hollywood stars who went on to become a great American president and one of the greatest... |
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
BEN RHODES - Random House
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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Night Thoughts
WALLACE SHAWN - Haymarket Books
Format: Hardcover
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Although he is guided and inspired by the people he respects, and despite the insufficiency of his knowledge and experience - an insufficiency shared by most (or all) other humans, Wallace Shawn can't see any real alternative to trying to figure out his own answers to the most essential... |
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Untitled on HRC
Jonathan Allen - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about... |
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Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 19741978
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - University of Notre Dame Press
Format: Hardcover
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Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures -- and perhaps the most important writer -- of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West,... |
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
TO BE CONFIRMED. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple - Crown
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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All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump
Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal bestseller. ALL OUT WAR!. Thats what the media, the Democrats, and the Never-Trump Republicans are waging on the democratically elected president of the United States.. With ferocity not seen since the Civil War, the Washington establishment and the radical Left are joining... |
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
GAIL LUKASIK - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow... |
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One Long Night
Andrea Pitzer - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernitys greatest tragedy: concentration camps.For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope... |
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
Benn Steil - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary... |
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Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies
Tom Fitton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Corruption Chronicles comes a devastating expose of the scandals of Obama's second term. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton reveals what the largest watchdog agency in America has uncovered in its battles against Obama secrecy.Clean... |
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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Edward J. Watts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's... |
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
D D'SOUZA - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." - RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York... |
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The Gutfeld Monologues: Classic Rants from the Five
GREG GUTFELD - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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An interactive and annotated collection of Fox News star and New York Times bestselling author Greg Gutfeld's sharp, hilarious monologues on everything from politics to pop culture - updated with new commentary for the current day."Wherever I go, I am hit repeatedly by the same... |
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Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Free Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of "The Caged Virgin, " Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands,... |
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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
David A Kaplan - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government - and how we've... |
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Eric Bogosian - Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian GenocideIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper... |
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
MITCH LANDRIEU - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate... |
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Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China
Alec Ash - Arcade
Format: Hardcover
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"Ashs book paints a telling portrait of this most restless generation raised in a system that has provided them with unprecedented personal opportunities while denying them political ones . . . A gifted observer." - Washington Post If China will rule the world one day, who will... |
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Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Ann Mcelhinney - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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Gosnell is the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer.In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree.ABC News correspondent Terry Moran... |
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
FRANCISCO CANT - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump
Ronald A Fein - Melville House
Format: Paperback
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"Read this book and learn how best to protect our democracy." --Tom Steyer, founder of NeedToImpeach.org The reasons Donald Trump must be impeached - as per the Founding Fathers - and what you can do to help make that happenThree veteran constitutional attorneys say there's... |
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Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman, and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South
Courtney Hargrave - Convergent Books
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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To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect
Mary Thompson-Jones - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A former American diplomat reveals a disconnect between Washington policymakers and those who work in US embassies.When the world awoke on November 28, 2010, and read the first of the 251,287 State Department cables made public by WikiLeaks, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini warned,... |
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Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth
Howard Kurtz - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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With outrageous examples of left-wing media bias and insider scoops on front-page skirmishes between the Trump White House and reporters, Howard Kurtz's new book is an astonishing expos of the media industry that is reminiscent of Bernard Goldberg's game changing New York Times bestseller... |
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Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
Emily Dufton - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuanaIn the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago,... |
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Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt
Sarah Jaffe - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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"Sarah Jaffe marches into the class war, fighting the good fight with a pen as sharp as any sword." - Bill Moyers"The most compelling social and political portrait of our age." - Robin D. G. KelleyWe are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political engagement and social... |
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
Edward Luce - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. In The Retreat of Western... |
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
ANTONIN SCALIA CHRISTOPHER SCALIA - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest... |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill... |
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
Casey Gerald - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart--a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church... |
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
NAOMI KLEIN - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic... |
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies
Kate Andersen Brower - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: eBook
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Brower draws on a wide array of untapped, candid sources to tell the stories of the ten remarkable women who have defined the role of First Lady of the United States since 1960. From Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama, she offers new insights into this privileged group, and shares stories... |
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
Howard Zinn - HarperCollins e-books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“It’s a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants“[It] should... |
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Argentina: A Modern History
Jill Hedges - I.B.Tauris
Format: Paperback
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In this book, Jill Hedges analyses the modern history of Argentina from the adoption of the 1853 constitution until the present day, exploring political, economic and social aspects of Argentina's recent past in a study which will be invaluable for anyone interested in South American... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once... |
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Understanding Trump
Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "... |
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Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government
Mike Lee - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Mike Lee tells the story of the Founders whose warnings about the dangers of an all-powerful federal government helped shape our Constitution--but are being ignored today. Today, most Americans are familiar only with the "big names" associated with the Founding - Washington,... |
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestsellerThe fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save itSenator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's... |
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The Right Answer: How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation
JOHN K DELANEY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The first declared candidate for president in 2020 delivers a passionate call for bipartisan action, entrepreneurial innovation, and a renewed commitment to the American ideaThe son of a union electrician and grandson of an immigrant, John Delaney grew up believing that anything was possible... |
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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
STEVE KORNACKI - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s - one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscapeIn The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve Kornacki follows the twin paths of Bill Clinton and Newt... |
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To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police
Norm Stamper - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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The police in America belong to the people - not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege - misunderstood,... |
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The Will to Lead: America's Indispensable Role in the Global Fight for Freedom
Anders Fogh Rasmussen - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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From the former prime minister of Denmark comes an impassioned plea to persuade Americans to elect a president who will restore America to its proper role of global leader, instead of "leading from behind."Anders Fogh Rasmussen is unabashedly pro-American, a fierce defender of freedom,... |
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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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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis - and charts a way out. The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense,... |
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
JAMES COMEY - Flatiron Books
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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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
DAVID MCCULLOUGH - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American... |
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What Unites Us
Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what... |
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The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II - intelligence - showing how espionage successes... |
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
Michael Chabon - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists,... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE - ALFRED A KNOPF
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... |
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
PATRICK J CHARLES - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces... |
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Sybrina Fulton - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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Trayvon Martin's parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement. On a February evening in 2012, in a small town in central Florida, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking... |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William... |
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
Michael J. Graetz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a "moderate" or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency... |
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect... |
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."... |
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The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year
Amy Siskind - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda,... |
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad
Del Quentin Wilber - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good... |
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
GILBERT KING - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential... |
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Print book
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A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens... |
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How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
Edward Jay Epst - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking expos that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important. After details of American government... |
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
DAVID E SANGER - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. Cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies,... |
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Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State
Karen J Greenberg - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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The definitive account of how America's War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security.The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the attorney general with preventing another terrorist attack... |
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Why We Fight: Recovering America's Will to Win
Sebastian Gorka - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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America needs a clear, unifying doctrine if we are to succeed in the war on terror says security, strategy, and counterterrorism expert Sebastian Gorka, author of national bestseller Defeating Jihad and former Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States. |
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover
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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable... |
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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line
DAVID HOGG - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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From two students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement that arose after the Parkland, Florida, shooting.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister,... |
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Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump
Laura Ingraham - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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Americans didnt just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement... |
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Peter Edelman - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department's Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson's largely poor, African American population, resulted... |
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Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Joshua Bloom - Univ Of California Press
Format: Print book
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This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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How the Right Lost Its Mind
Charles J Sykes - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Paperback
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"Bracing and immediate." - The Washington PostOnce at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles J. Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes... |
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A World to Win: The Life and Thought of Karl Marx
SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Epic new biography of Karl Marx for the 200th anniversary of his birthIn this essential new biography - the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx - Sven-Eric Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent... |
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many... |
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Trump, the Blue-Collar President
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci writes his story about Trump and his administration. TRUMP, THE BLUE-COLLAR PRESIDENT is the comeback story for America and Americans. Both Wall Street and Main... |
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
JOHN LEWIS - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback
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Now in paperback, with a new introduction by Congressman John Lewis, ACROSS THAT BRIDGE is the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront... |
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals... |
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
James Martin Stone - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,... |
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Trump's First Year
MICHAEL NELSON - University of Virginia Press
Format: Paperback
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Donald Trump took office in January 2017 under mostly favorable conditions. He inherited neither a war nor an economic depression, and his party controlled both houses of Congress. He leveraged this successfully in some ways by delivering on his campaign promises to roll back regulations... |
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Mitchell Duneier - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto -- a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto... |
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The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace
ALEXANDER KLIMBURG - Penguin Press
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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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Jr Forman - Farrar
Format: Print book
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In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that... |
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Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works
Jay Newton-Small - Time Books
Format: Print book
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2016 will be one of the most historic years in politics: It marks the potential for the first female President of the United States, and the 100th anniversary of the first woman elected to Congress. Additionally, in 2016, single women will be one of the most pivotal voting groups heading... |
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Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
James R. Clapper - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestsellerThe former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to AmericaWhen he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly... |
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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"Mr. Berrys sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow." -- Nick Offerman, New York Times... |
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
William I Hitchcock - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial... |
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S Herman - Pantheon
Format: Paperback
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In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas... |
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expos of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking... |
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Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Caitlyn Collins - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives -- and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage... |
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Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan
SHEILA TATE - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Lady in Red is the long-awaited collection of behind-the-scenes stories and iconic images of one of the most influential First Lady in modern history -- Nancy Reagan. Lovingly compiled by long-time close confidante and aide, Sheila Tate, the book provides a rare and much-anticipated... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely." - New York Times Book Review"Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment." - The Washington PostDonald Trump's presidency... |
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
VAN JONES - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart - from the CNN host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) , now seen... |
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle... |
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Dangerous
Milo Yiannopoulos - Dangerous Books
Format: Hardcover
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The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere. |
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
LAUREN MARKHAM - Crown
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 twins... |
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Bridge of spies a true story of the Cold War
Giles Whittell - Broadway Books
Format: eBook
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Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin's Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first and most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West' Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that exchange on February 10, 1962, when... |
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Reagan: An American Journey
Bob Spitz - Penguin Press
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 documents,... |
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Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think
Ken Buck - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain.Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life... |
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
DeRay Mckesson - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs,... |
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We Rise to Resist: Voices from a New Era in Womens Political Action
Paula vW. Dáil - McFarland
Format: Hardcover
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"There are more seasons to come and there is more work to do," Hillary Clinton told her supporters following her surprising defeat in the 2016 presidential election. Taking her words to heart, on January 21, 2017, millions of women (and men) across America--opposing a president-elect... |
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals
JEANINE PIRRO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand how narratives take form, whether they are based in truth or not. In her explosive new book, she will write about some of the most egregious lies she's seen, and take on the Liars, Leakers, and Liberals. |
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The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents
Corey Lang Brettschneider - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An essential guide to the presidential powers and limits of the Constitution, for anyone voting -- or running -- for our highest office.Can the president launch a nuclear attack without congressional approval? Is it ever a crime to criticize the president? Can states legally resist a president's... |
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Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Ilan Stavans - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after Mexico. Needless to say, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is causing a shift, not onlychanging... |
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Full Disclosure
Stormy Daniels - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.How did Stormy... |
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