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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
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James W. Douglass · 514 pages
In this fascinating and disturbing book James Douglass presents a compelling account of why President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and why the unmasking of this truth remains crucial for the future of our country and the world. Drawing on a vast field of investigation, including many sources available only in recent years, Douglass lays out a sequence of steps by JFK that transformed him, o
The Dark Side of Camelot
Seymour M. Hersh · 498 pages
This monumental work of investigative journalism reveals the Kennedy White House as never before. With its meticulously documented & compulsively readable portrait of John F. Kennedy as a man whose reckless personal behavior imperiled his presidency, *The Dark Side of Camelot* sparked a firestorm of controversy upon its initial publication - becoming a runaway bestseller & one of the year's most t
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 910 pages
The gap between rich and poor has never been wider. Legislative stalemate paralyzes the country. Corporations resist federal regulations. Spectacular mergers produce giant companies. The influence of money in politics deepens. Bombs explode in crowded streets. Small wars proliferate far from our shores. A dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life. These unnervingly familiar headli
In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Ronald Kessler · 273 pages
Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. 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
They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK
Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell, David Wayne · 368 pages
The former governor of Minnesota teams up with a successful author and some of the most respected and influential assassination researchers to provide all the conspiracy angles of this notable event in American history.
The Final Days
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward · 476 pages
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
Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?
Mark Lane · 400 pages
An investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy draws on new documentation that links the CIA to the murder of the president.
One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
Whitney Alyse Webb · 544 pages
The Kennedy Conspiracy
Anthony Summers · 640 pages
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace
Peter Janney, Dick Russell
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Steve Sheinkin · 370 pages
From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb comes a tense, exciting exploration of what the Times deemed “the greatest story of the century”: how Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government analyst into “the most dangerous man in America,” and risked everything to expose the government’s deceit. On June 13, 1971, the front page of the New York Times announ
The Death of a President: November 1963
William Manchester · 736 pages
An account of the assassination of President Kennedy and the days after culled from "evidence and recollection, scenes and moods, quotations and opinions from an enormous number of observers and participants." Pub W.
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin · 384 pages
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important--and secret--legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.Just in time for the 2008 presidential election--where the future of the Court will be at stake--Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of co
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty Medsger · 624 pages
The never-before-told complete story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists -- quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans -- that exposed the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected: that J. Edgar Hoover was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
Philip Shenon · 632 pages
"Groundbreaking new history of the Kennedy assassination, investigative reporter and bestselling author Phil Shenon writes the ultimate inside account of what has become the most controversial murder investigation of the 20th century, the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Based on groundbreaking research, deep reporting, and unprecedented access, the book is character dr
Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
Bob Woodward · 608 pages
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
Kitty Kelley · 736 pages
The Bush family's rise to dominance has been marked by their masterful orchestrations of their own public image, their money and status having always afforded them a curtain of privacy. Until now. An important polemic on wealth, power, and class in America, The Family is rich in texture, probing in its psychological insight, revealing it its political and financial detail, and stunning in the patt
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright · 550 pages
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders & How They Changed America 1789-1989
Michael R. Beschloss · 448 pages
High Treason: The Assassination of JFK & the Case for Conspiracy
Robert J. Groden, Harrison Edward Livingstone · 621 pages
A nation lost its innocence on November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. Thirty-five years later the nation continues to suffer the aftershock of perhaps the most traumatic single event in its history, in part, no doubt, because the case continues to elude closure. For more than three decades, Harrison Edward Livingstone has continued
Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Del Quentin Wilber · 305 pages
On March 30, 1981, after giving a lunchtime speech, President Ronald Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington, D.C., and heard gunfire. Hustled into his limousine, Reagan didn't immediately realize that he had been injured. But soon he -- and the world -- learned that he had been shot and badly wounded. For years, few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying, and no one
Madison and Jefferson
Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg · 809 pages
The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper and noble gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson's genius overshadowing James Madison's judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book, both leaders are seen as men of their times, ruthless and hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years.
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
David Talbot · 478 pages
Robert F. Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist about his brother's murder. In this new account of the Kennedy years, David Talbot explains why - even on 22 November 1963 - RFK had reason to believe that dark forces were at work in Dallas.