Browsing: Politics and Current Events

House of Cards fans will savor this mix of political and legal thriller. After his client’s apparent suicide, attorney Marc Kadella detects a cover-up that could take down the charismatic new US president.

An explosive #1 New York Times bestseller: Take a look behind the scenes of Donald Trump’s White House with this tell-all account of his first nine months in office. “A significant achievement, which deserves much of the attention it has received” (The Economist).

“A must-read” (Forbes): This “conscientiously reported” book (The New Yorker) offers a “lively introduction” to universal basic income, “a seemingly quixotic concept that has attracted thinkers from John Stuart Mill to Martin Luther King Jr.” (Publishers Weekly).

In this New York Times Notable Book of 2019, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter delivers a comprehensive account of the 2015 Charleston church shooting and its wide-ranging aftermath. “At once horrifying and inspiring, engaging and thought-provoking… A definitive must-read” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One? “[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget…

With over 1,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: In Flint, Michigan, physician Mona Hanna-Attisha fought to expose the city’s water pollution crisis — and the political failures that were putting children’s health at risk. Her captivating story is told “with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

In this “wise and scrupulous” New York Times bestseller (The Economist), a First Amendment scholar and a social psychologist argue that today’s college campuses are stifling students and academics. “Disturbing and comprehensive” (The New York Times Book Review).

New York Times bestsellerThe former Director of National Intelligence’s candid and compelling account of the intelligence community’s successes–and failures–in facing…

There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United…

The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence…