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The Prisoner in His Palace
Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides “a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning of evil and power” (USA TODAY).
The “captivating” (Military Times) The Prisoner...
To Be a Friend Is Fatal
The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The “searing” (The New Yorker), “must read” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) memoir of “one of the few genuine heroes of America’s war in Iraq” (Dexter Filkins).
In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID’s (US Agency for International Development)...
Tell Them I Didn't Cry
A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
When she arrived in Iraq in May 2004 as the most junior member of the Washington Post bureau staff, Jackie Spinner entered a war zone where traditional reporting had become impossible. Bombs were a daily occurrence and kidnapping an ever-present threat for American journalists. Yet "the longer I stayed,...
Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President
Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2003
In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal presidential chronicle. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an unprecedented nine...
Front Row At The White House
My Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 1999
"I'm still here, still arriving at the White House in the wee hours of the morning, reading the papers and checking the wire, still waiting for the morning briefing, still sitting down to write the first story of the day and still waiting to ask the tough questions."
From the woman who has reported...
Ravens in the Storm
A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2008
In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked by a local Democratic congressman to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War. Oglesby's report argued that the conflict was misplaced and unwinnable. He had little idea that its subsequent publication would...
The Good Fight
A Life in Liberal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Former vice president Walter Mondale makes a passionate, timely argument for American liberalism in this revealing and momentous political memoir.
For more than five decades in public life, Walter Mondale has played a leading role in America’s movement for social change—in civil rights,...
The Brotherhoods
The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
INSIDE THE MOB. INSIDE THE NYPD. THE LAST GREAT MAFIA BOOK OF OUR TIME.
The Brotherhoods is the chilling chronicle of the shocking crimes of NYPD detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops found guilty in April 2006 of the ultimate form of police corruption -- shielding...
by Patrick Cockburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq." Paul Bremer denounced him as a "Bolshevik Islamist" and ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." Who is Muqtada al-Sadr, and...
Palestinian Walks
Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the...
Speaking of Freedom
The Collected Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Through the lens of more than forty speeches from his presidency, George H. W. Bush takes a special look back on the momentous global events of 1989-1992 -- the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the liberation of Kuwait, to name a few -- and reminisces about what it was...
Fidel Castro: My Life
A Spoken Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
The intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.
Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary...
by David Quammen
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers.
This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces takes us to meet kayakers on the Futaleufu River...
Demon Camp
The Strange and Terrible Saga of a Soldier's Return from War
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A “chilling” (O, The Oprah Magazine), “darkly brilliant” (Bookforum) account of “the effects of war on the psyches of the soldiers who fight” (Esquire).
In 2005 a Chinook helicopter carrying sixteen Special Ops soldiers crashed during a rescue mission in Afghanistan, killing everyone...