Current Events category: 843 books
Secret Empires
How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!
by Darius Rejali
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture...
Spree Killers Encyclopedia
True stories of same day mass killings for a Kobo
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Shocking true stories of mass killings that include suicidal passenger plane pilots, police officers going on a rampage and crazed men walking door-to-door shooting their neighbors - many in the space of ten minutes, with killings in double-digits. This book brings together the world's most shocking...
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected governor explains just how close we've come to losing the republic, and how we can restore...
Government by Dissent
Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming. Martin shows the modern relevance of their debates in ways that all will find valuable—even those who dissent...
Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right
What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Texas may well be America's most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state's politics and attitude. And yet, according to...
by Jim DeMint
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Serving within the supposed pinnacles of power as a respected and influential U.S. Senator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint often felt frustrated and powerless to fight against the frightening growth of the federal bureaucracy and refute the mistaken idea that ever-bigger government is the solution...
by Adolph Caso
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
According to Adolph Caso the dream behind "We the people..." has not yet been fulfilled although America came close in doing so with Dr. Martin Luther King in his "I have a dream" speech. A counter revolution against King took place which further vitiated the dream of Thomas Jefferson...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Best Museums In Europe, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the...
by Glenn Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This first book-length examination of the Klan in Alabama represents
exhaustive research that challenges traditional interpretations.
The Ku Klux Klan has wielded considerable power both as
a terrorist group and as a political force. Usually viewed as appearing
in distinct incarnations, the...
Better Than Sex
Confessions of a Political Junkie
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in...
Never Trust Ann Coulter
An Unauthorized, Autobiographical Parody
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
In this hilarious unauthorized, autobiographical parody, Ann Coulter has been approached to be the Vice Presidential candidate in 2016, so she is coming out with a tell-all book. She will reveal who she is, who she was and who she hopes to be before the left wing media and the Democratic spin...
UKRAINE
ZBIG'S GRAND CHESSBOARD & HOW THE WEST WAS CHECKMATED
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
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I’m not sure if there’s been a better written book published yet this year than Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West Was Checkmated, but I’m confident there’s not been a more important one. With some 17,000 nuclear bombs in the world, the United States and Russia...
MY DARK SHONE OUT
Poems by a rapper
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
South African rapper Ro, has taken the most vulnarable pages out of his lyrical diary, literally the content too daunting to be released in song, and opened up to expose even more of himself to the fans.
This book poetry mostly follows typical Hip-Hop rhyming form, with a few exceptions. Jam...