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Devil's Bargain
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
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...
Revolutionary Characters
What Made the Founders Different
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?" and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of...
Facts and Fears
Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
**New York Times bestseller
The 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 America**
When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director...
James Madison
A Life Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney
Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; it features James Madison among its vibrant cast of characters. This majestic new biography...
by Paul Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
From the “most celebrated and best-loved British historian in America” (Wall Street Journal), an elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of Winston Churchill
In Churchill, eminent historian Paul Johnson offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities...
Playing to the Edge
American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, demonstrating in a time of new threats that espionage and the search for facts are essential to our democracy
For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust...
Worthy Fights
A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling autobiography of a legendary political and military leader
It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past fifty years. His first career, beginning as an Army intelligence officer and...
Winston Churchill
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
One of the greatest historians writing today gives us a defining portrait of the incomparable Winston Churchill
In his landmark biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian John Keegan offers a very human portrait of one of the twentieth century's enduring symbols of heroic defiance....
by Antoine Leiris
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate."
On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock...
Angler
The Cheney Vice Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
The landmark exposé of the most powerful and secretive vice president in American history
Barton Gellman shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for a keen-edged reckoning with Dick Cheney's domestic agenda in The Washington Post. In Angler, Gellman goes far beyond that series to take on the full...
JFK's Last Hundred Days
The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
**A Kirkus Best Book of 2013
A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have been**
Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend...
The Sack of Rome
Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called ?one of the best English-language writers on Italy? by the New York Times Book Review, and in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a virtual media monopoly, and acute shamelessness combine in one man?...
A Treasury of Great American Scandals
Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home with A Treasury of Great American Scandals. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and...
The Bin Ladens
An Arabian Family in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. Until now, however, it is a story that has never been fully told, as the Bin Ladens have successfully fended off attempts to understand the...