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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...
Who Let the Dogs In?
Incredible Political Animals I Have Known
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America’s most amazing and outlandish politicians–the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless–drawn from more than twenty years of reporting on the folks who attempt to run our government (in some cases,...
(Not that You Asked)
Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
How does Steve Almond get himself into so much trouble? Could it be his incessant moralizing? His generally poor posture? The fact that he was raised by a pack of wolves? Frankly, we haven’t got a clue. What we do know is that Almond has a knack for converting his dustups into essays that are both...
The Thirteen American Arguments
Enduring Debates That Inspire and Define Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Howard Fineman is one of our best-known and most trusted political journalists. Mixing vivid scenes and figures from the campaign trail with forays into four hundred years of American history, Fineman shows that every debate, from our nation’s founding to the present day, is rooted in one of thirteen...
Alter Egos
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The deeply reported story of two supremely ambitious figures, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—archrivals who became partners for a time, trailblazers who share a common sense of their historic destiny but hold very different beliefs about how to project American power
In Alter Egos, veteran...
Landslide
LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground.
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In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these two...
The Prince of Providence
The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
COP: “Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.”
BUDDY CIANCI: “Now I know why they made you a detective.”
Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince...
The Way to Win
Taking the White House in 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
In The Way to Win, two of the country’s most accomplished political reporters explain what separates the victors from the victims in the unforgiving environment of modern presidential campaigns.
Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News, and John F. Harris, the national politics editor...
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered...
Vice
Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
The riveting, disturbing exposé of the vice president who co-opted executive control over the U.S. government and became the “shadow president” of the George W. Bush administration.
Dick Cheney was the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in U.S. history. He thrived alongside...
Last Chance in Texas
The Redemption of Criminal Youth
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
A powerful, bracing and deeply spiritual look at intensely, troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates.
While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner kept hearing about a facility in Texas that...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
A comprehensive collection of writings by the legendary philosopher, whose sweeping body of work influenced our ideas about psychology, religion, free will, and pragmatism.
In his introduction to this collection, John McDermott presents James's thinking in all its manifestations, stressing...