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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorRegime Change
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Two White House correspondents for The New York Times delve into the first year of President Trump's second term. Read by Robert Petkoff. 17 hours, 7 minutes unabridged.
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Andrew G. McCabe · 282 pages
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes · 464 pages
"It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign--the candidate herself. Throu
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
Joshua Green · 272 pages
The shocking elevation of Steve Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who'd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. Yet Bannon's hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plo
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin · 456 pages
"This shit would be really interesting if we weren't in the middle of it."—Barack Obama, September 2008In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton—and the improbable resurr
The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election
Dan Balz, Haynes Johnson · 432 pages
The election of 2008 shattered political barriers, illuminated undercurrents of race, gender, and class, and ignited an extraordinary battle among some of the most formidable political rivals ever to seek the presidency in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. It was an election that played out against a backdrop of wars, a shattered economy and deep pessimism about the future.Dan Balz a
Confidence Men
Ron Suskind · 515 pages
Draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and in-depth research to relate the complete story of the nation's financial meltdown, from the trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway.
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Michael Isikoff, David Corn · 480 pages
Written by veteran journalists, this is the inside story of how President Bush took the nation to war using faulty and fraudulent intelligence. It takes us behind the scenes at the Bush White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress to answer all the vital questions about how the Bush administration came to invade Iraq. Filled with new revelations, Hubris is a narrative of
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
“Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre. . . . the book is packed with news that will stay news. . . . This is reporting of consequence.”\ \ —David Remnick, The New Yorker\ \ \ \ “A flabbergasting feat of political reporting.”\ \ —Tina Brown\ \ “Riveting and richly textured. . . . What the authors add is the vivid detail that makes these events feel actual. They wrest real
Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
Jeffrey Toobin · 308 pages
From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history.P
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Marc Lamont Hill · 272 pages
"Unarmed citizens shot by police. Drinking water turned to poison. Mass incarcerations. We've heard the individual stories. Now a leading public intellectual and acclaimed journalist offers a powerful, paradigm-shifting analysis of America's current state of emergency, finding in these events a larger and more troubling truth about race, class, and what it means to be "Nobody." Protests in Ferguso
This Unquiet Land
Barkha Dutt · 336 pages
India's fault lines run wide and deep. Some of them go back centuries, others are of comparatively recent origin. The myriad villains these fault lines have spawned include rapists, murderers, terrorists, prophets of religious hatred, corrupt politicians, upholders of abhorrent caste traditions, opponents of free speech and dissent, apologists for regressive cultural practices, and external advers
Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
Robin Wright · 307 pages
Written by a veteran reporter, this is an up close portrait of the fierce struggle between moderates and extremists taking place within the Islamic world today. Why don't Muslims challenge the violent extremists among them? Well, they do. Here she cites the clerics, comedians, and rappers who challenge al Qaeda violence; the women who are launching liberation movements; and the former jihadists wh
The Nerd Reich
Gil Durán
An independent journalist portrays a new political order that would supplant elected governments with corporate rule. Read by the author. 9 hours, 29 minutes unabridged.
The Promise: President Obama, Year One
Jonathan Alter · 461 pages
Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid · 484 pages
The #1 New York Times bestselling author provides a shocking analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West.Ahmed Rashid is "Pakistan's best and bravest reporter" (Christopher Hitchens). His unique knowledge of this vast and complex region allows him a panoramic vision and nuance that no Western writer can emulate.His book Taliban first introduce
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
Howard W. French · 280 pages
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
Tim Shipman · 675 pages
xxvi, 662 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm
Double Down: Game Change 2012
Mark Halperin, John Heilemann · 499 pages
The authors of the best-selling Game Change present an account of the 2012 presidential election that draws on hundreds of insider interviews to illuminate what the election meant to both parties, covering such topics as the dramatic Republican nomination fight, the rise and fall of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's Election Day triumph.
The Counterrevolution
Victor Davis Hanson
The author of “The End of Everything” evaluates the influence of President Trump’s time out of office on his second term. Read by Bob Souer. 16 hours, 4 minutes unabridged.
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran · 336 pages
An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.
Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
David E. Sanger · 480 pages
Inside the White House Situation Room, the newly elected Barack Obama immerses himself in the details of a remarkable new American capability to launch cyberwar against Iran--and escalates covert operations to delay the day when the mullahs could obtain a nuclear weapon. Over the next three years Obama accelerates drone attacks as an alternative to putting troops on the ground in Pakistan, and bec