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War Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History

By Guy Lawson

Hard Choices: A Memoir

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa

By Jeremy Keenan

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

By Hilde F. Johnson

Poverty, by America

By Matthew Desmond

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

By Christopher Leonard

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

By Scott McClellan

Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster

By Tom Shroder, John Konrad

Adnan's Story: The Case That Inspired the Podcast Phenomenon Serial

By Rabia Chaudry

How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election

By Chuck Todd, Sheldon Gawiser

Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century

By Howard M. Wachtel

The Emerging American Garrison State

By Milton J. Esman

The Untold History of the United States

By Stone, Oliver, Kuznick, Peter

Postcards from the End of America

By Linh Dinh

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)

Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong

By Macur, Juliet

Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies

By Jim Marrs

What You Should Know about Politics . . . But Don't: A Non-Partisan Guide to the Issues That Matter

By Jessamyn Conrad

License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport

By Patrick Bixby

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

By Rebecca Traister

The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now

By Anya Kamenetz

The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq, 2006 - 2008

By Thomas E. Ricks

Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

By Eliese Colette Goldbach

Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

By Charles Krauthammer

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

By Suzy Hansen

Bush at War: Inside the Bush White House

By Bob Woodward

No Higher Honour

By Condoleezza Rice

The Outrageous Barriers To Democracy In America: Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible

By John MacArthur

The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century

By David Ellwood (Senior Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopskins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna)

Why We'Re Polarized

By Ezra Klein