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

By John Heilemann, Mark Halperin (University of California, Davis)

The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

By Malcolm Nance

The War on Islam

By Enver Masud

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

By Chalmers Johnson

American Cipher: One Soldier's Nightmare in the Afghanistan War

By Matt Farwell, Michael Ames

The Storm is Here: America on the Brink

By Luke Mogelson

P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

By Craig Olsen

Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right

By Benjamin Balint

Ally

By Oren, Michael B.

The Shadow Factory: the Ultra-secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

By James Bamford

The Best Defense: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

By Douglas Feith

All Gone to Look for America: Riding the Iron Horse Across a Continent (and Back)

By Peter Millar

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Michael Lewis

Puzzle Palace

By Bamford, James

America: The Farewell Tour

By Chris Hedges

Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV

By Alan Schroeder (Northeastern School of Journalism)

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By Martin Wolf

Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond

By Senior Fellow E J Dionne, Jr

Clinton's Legacy: A New Democrat In Governance

By A. Waddan

Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies

By Jim Marrs

Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong

By Macur, Juliet

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

By Gary Gerstle (Paul Mellon Professor of American History, Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge)

Postcards from the End of America

By Linh Dinh

The Untold History of the United States

By Stone, Oliver, Kuznick, Peter

The Emerging American Garrison State

By Milton J. Esman

Japanese Public Opinion and the War on Terrorism

By R. Eldridge

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

By Timothy F. Geithner

The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By Matthew Continetti