Ronald Kessler: 13 books
The Terrorist Watch
Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
“You make a mistake, there are dead people.” —FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’...
The First Family Detail
Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES **BESTSELLER • **“Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.”—Slate
As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation’s leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes...
The Trump White House
Changing the Rules of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The unvarnished and unbiased inside story of President Donald Trump and his White House by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler
Based on exclusive interviews with the president and his staff, The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game tells the real story of what Donald...
Laura Bush
An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
When Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow in Barbara Bush’s footsteps? Would she be another Hillary Clinton?
“I think I’ll just be Laura Bush,” she...
The Season
The Secret Life of Palm Beach and America's Richest Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Palm Beach is known around the world as the most wealthy, glamorous, opulent, decadent, self-indulgent, sinful spot on earth. With their beautiful 3.75 square-island constantly in the media glare, Palm Beachers protect their impossibly rich society from outside scrutiny with vigilant police, ubiquitous...
by Ronald Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Ronald Kessler’s explosive bestseller, The FBI, brought down FBI Director William S. Sessions. Now, in this unparalleled work of investigative journalism, Kessler reveals the inner world of the CIA. Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including several with former Directors of...
The CIA at War
Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
With the CIA at the core of the war on terror, no agency is as important to preserving America's freedom. Yet the CIA is a closed and secretive world-impenetrable to generations of journalists-and few Americans know what really goes on among the spy masters who plot America's worldwide campaign against...
In the President's Secret Service
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.
Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S....
The Richest Man in the World
The Story of Adnan Khashoggi
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
New York Times bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler goes inside the infamously lavish life of billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, once the richest man in the world.
He made more money than anyone in history. And he spent it at a dizzying clip of $330,000 a day, every day of...
The Bureau
The Secret History of the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
No institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, no institution is as powerful. Yet until now, no book has presented the full story of the FBI from its beginnings in 1908 to the...
The Sins of the Father
Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
From the New York Times bestselling author of 20 books about the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA comes the detailed account of the life and times of the ambitious, powerful, masterfully manipulative Joseph Patrick Kennedy.
For all his wealth and power, Joe Kennedy was not a happy man. He also...
by Ronald Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
New York Times bestselling author reveals the FBI’s most closely guarded secrets, with an insider look at the bureau’s inner workings and intelligence investigations.
Based on inside access and hundreds of interviews with federal agents, the book presents an unprecedented, authoritative...
How Does Foster Care Work?
International Evidence on Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning,...