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Bush at War: Inside the Bush White House

By Bob Woodward

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

By Suzy Hansen

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

By Charles Krauthammer

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

By Eliese Colette Goldbach

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

By Thomas E. Ricks

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

By Anya Kamenetz

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

By Rebecca Traister

License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport

By Patrick Bixby

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

By Jessamyn Conrad

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

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

By Wesley Lowery

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

By James Bamford

Ally

By Oren, Michael B.

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

By Benjamin Balint

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

By Craig Olsen

The Storm is Here: America on the Brink

By Luke Mogelson

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

By Matt Farwell, Michael Ames

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

By Chalmers Johnson

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

By David E. Sanger

The Barack Obama Presidency: A Two Year Assessment

By J. Davis

Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right

By Anne Nelson

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

By Helen C. Epstein

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

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

By Jeffrey Friedman, Wladimir Kraus