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Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

By Gore Vidal

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

By Douglas Feith

Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Man Behind Them: The Real Reason America Went to War in Iraq

By Bob Drogin (Author)

Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation

By Pratap Chatterjee

The Barack Obama Presidency: A Two Year Assessment

By J. Davis

The War on Terror in Comparative Perspective: US Security and Foreign Policy after 9/11

By M. Miller, B. Stefanova

Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation

By Jeffrey Friedman, Wladimir Kraus

The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

By Peniel E Joseph

They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter

By Wesley Lowery

The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age

By David E. Sanger

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

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

By Senior Fellow E J Dionne, Jr

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

By David Roediger

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

By Ben Rhodes

The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By Matthew Continetti

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

By Timothy F. Geithner

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

By Kate Andersen Brower

Ringolevio

By Emmett Grogan

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

America: The Farewell Tour

By Chris Hedges

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

Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror

By Helen C. Epstein