Browsing: Politics and Current Events

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened,…

WITH A NEW FOREWARD Journalist Seyward Darby’’s “masterfully reported and incisive” (Nell Irvin Painter) exposé pulls back the curtain on…

An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by award-winning political…

New York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr. sounds the alarm in Code Red, calling…

“Electrifying” (Library Journal): In this NPR Best Book of 2018, a Black feminist hailed as “one of our fiercest voices in the new generation of African American thinkers” (Essence) explores Black women’s anger and its power to change society. A “funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed” memoir (The New Republic).

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics.…

A Wall Street Journal bestseller: Hoover headed the FBI for 50 years, leaving a trail of paranoia, blackmail, and other indiscretions in his wake. This fascinating biography “throws light on Hoover’s relentless corruption and other skeletons in his closet” (Publishers Weekly).

This “insightful, uplifting” read (Tom Brokaw) chronicles the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian and 39th president of the United States. “Splendid… Ably sourced and fluidly written, one of the best in a celebrated genre of presidential biography” (The Washington Post).

“One of the most captivating novels of the year.” – Washington Post NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year: Bloomberg | Boston Globe | Chicago…

Born in 1894, Leonarda Cianciulla’s early life was marked by abuse and misery. But she would go on to commit crimes of her own — and participate in the most shocking one of all. Learn more in this chilling account.