Hardcover Political Books
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#1 AMERITOPIA
Mark R Levin
A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the utopian movement and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty.
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#2 AMERICAN SNIPER
Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
A member of the Navy Seals who has the most career sniper kills in United States military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
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#3 KILLING LINCOLN
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
The commentator looks at the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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#4 UNBROKEN
Laura Hillenbrand
An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
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#5 BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS
Katherine Boo
A journalist reports on families striving for better lives in a Mumbai slum.
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#6 COMING APART
Charles Murray
The author of “The Bell Curve” explores the state of white America, 1960-2010.
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#7 ELIZABETH THE QUEEN
Sally Bedell Smith
The public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II as she approaches her Diamond Jubilee.
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#8 INDIVISIBLE
James Robison and Jay W Richards
An examination of politics, faith and culture from a Christian perspective maintains that Americans can unite to overcome their cultural malaise and revive the economy.
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#9 IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS
Erik Larson
This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazi Party concentrates on William E. Dodd, who became the U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933, and his daughter, Martha.
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#10 CATHERINE THE GREAT
Robert K Massie
The author of “Nicholas and Alexandra” provides a sweeping narrative of the life of the minor 18th-century German princess who, thanks to ambition, luck, wiles and a strategic marriage, became Empress of All the Russias.
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#11 STRATEGIC VISION
Zbigniew Brzezinski
President Carter’s national security adviser offers advice on how American foreign policy should respond to the shift in gravity from West to East.
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#12 HOW DO YOU KILL 11 MILLION PEOPLE?
Andy Andrews
Citing the Holocaust to show the need for truth in America.
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#13 GREEDY BASTARDS
Dylan Ratigan
The host of MSNBC’s “Dylan Ratigan Show” proposes solutions to problems of banking, education, health care and dependence on foreign oil.
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#14 BOOMERANG
Michael Lewis
A look at some of the places — Greece, Ireland, Iceland — hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008, and at how it happened.
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#15 HOW TO BE BLACK
Baratunde Thurston
A memoir and satirical look at the complexities of racial politics.
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