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Climate of Fear
The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize—winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme in world politics.
Decades ago, the idea of collective fear had a tangible face: the atom...
The Blue Bedspread
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A midnight phone call awakens a man to inform him that his sister has died in childbirth. He is told he must keep the orphaned baby girl overnight, until her new, adopting parents can collect her. Over the course of that hot night in Calcutta, the man hurriedly writes stories to the baby sleeping...
So Far from God
The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona,...
. . . And His Lovely Wife
A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Writing with warmth and humor, Connie Schultz reveals the rigors, joys, and absolute madness of a new marriage at midlife and campaigning with her husband, Sherrod Brown, now the junior senator from Ohio. She describes the chain of events leading up to Sherrod’s decision to run for the Senate (he...
Me the People
One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution—one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says.
Until now.
Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution...
No Quarter
The Battle of the Crater, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
In this richly researched and dramatic work of military history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil War’s most pivotal events: the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. At first glance, the Union’s plan seemed brilliant: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a Confederate...
The Right Path
From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics--and Can Again
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Joe Scarborough—former Republican congressman and the always insightful host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe—takes a nuanced and surprising look at the unexpected rise and self-inflicted fall of the Republican Party. Dominant in national politics for forty years under the influence of the conservative...
by Sam Tanenhaus
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Sam Tanenhaus’s essay “Conservatism Is Dead” prompted intense discussion and debate when it was published in The New Republic in the first days of Barack Obama’s presidency. Now Tanenhaus, a leading authority on modern politics, has expanded his argument into a sweeping history of the American...
Cassidy's Run
The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2000
Cassidy's Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War—an espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels of the government, its code name was Operation shocker.
Lured by a double agent...
An End to Evil
How to Win the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.
This...
Quoth the Maven
More on Language from William Safire
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist discusses contemporary figures of speech, from witty stories about expressions such as "kiss and tell" and "stab in the back" to the evolution of "read my lips."
NOTE: This edition does not include illustrations.
Wallace
The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
“A sensitive, informed and funny feat of high journalism that is a classic of the kind.”—The New York Times Book Review
Wallace is a classic portrait of one of the century’s most fiery and controversial political figures. Initially conceived as a novel, Marshall Frady’s biography of George...
by Noah McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“I want everyone to know about the history of the United States and about important political events and issues and how they work.”
–Noah McCullough, age ten, 2032 presidential hopeful
Noah McCullough may just be this country’s youngest presidential historian ever–and in this delightful...
Crossroads
The Future of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
An array of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independent thinkers provide a road map for America’s political future.
America is at a turning point. For the first time in history, the United States is the world’s lone superpower—in Andrew Cuomo’s words, “both the tamer and target...