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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

By Packer, George

The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (American Empire Project)

By Turse, Nick

Descent into Chaos: The world's most unstable region and the threat to global security

By Rashid, Ahmed

Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin (Stephanie Plum)

By Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin

Dark Money: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US

By Mayer, Jane

9/11: The Big Lie

By Meyssan, Thierry

It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America After September 11

By Goldberg, Danny, Victor, Greenwald, Robert, West, Cornel, Garofalo, Janeane

Divine Magnetic Lands: A Journey in America

By O'Grady, Timothy

Promise Me, Dad: The Heartbreaking Story of Joe Biden's Most Difficult Year

By Biden, Joe

State of War

By Risen, James

ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Damaged Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

By Smith, Yves

Very Long War

By Bergen, Peter

The Mueller Report

By The Washington Post

President Obama: The Path to the White House

By TIME magazine Photographs by Callie Shell

From the Corner of the Oval Office: One woman’s true story of her accidental career in the Obama White House

By Dorey-Stein, Beck

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - A Tragedy in Three Acts

By Anderson, Scott

Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign

By Scout Tufankjian

Audacity to Win, The: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory

By David Plouffe

Obama: From Promise to Power

By Mendell, David

The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 on the 20th Anniversary

By Graff, Garrett M.

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

By Heilemann, John, Halperin, Mark

The Umbrella of US Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of US Policy (Seven Stories' Open Media)

By Chomsky, Noam

New Pearl Harbor, The: Disturbing Questions About The Bush Administration And 9/11

By Griffin, David Ray

Dawn Over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East, 1953-1957

By Steven Z. Freiberger

The Spirit of Terrorism

By Baudrillard, Jean, Turner, Chris

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

By Žižek, Slavoj

The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11

By Graff, Garrett M.

Does America Need a Foreign Policy?: Towards a New Diplomacy for the 21st Century

By Kissinger, Henry

Countdown Bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the MasterMind of 9/11 to Justice (Chris Wallace's Countdown)

By Wallace, Chris

Renegade

By Wolffe, Richard