That Used to Be Us: How America Fell ...
Thomas L. FriedmanAmerica has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of...
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other FoundÂers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of ...
An indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a reckoning with the degradation of the public sphere that facilitates their rule of unreason.
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Michael LewisThe New York Times Bestseller, with a new afterword "[Michael Lewis's] most ambitious and important book." ―Joe Klein, New York TimesMichael Lewis's brilliant narrative of the Trump administration's botched presidential tr...
One Nation: What We Can All Do to Sav...
Ben CarsonDear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles...
Conform: Exposing the Truth About Com...
Glenn BeckNow on Encore! #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal soluti...
A More Perfect Union: What We the Peo...
Ben CarsonDear Reader,Many people have wondered why I've been speaking out on controversial issues for the last few years. They say I've never held political office. I'm not a constitutional scholar. I'm not even a lawyer. All I can say to ...
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Gov...
Garrett M. GraffThe shocking truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil—even if the rest of us die—is "a frightening eye-opener" (Kirkus Reviews) that spans the dawn of the nuclear age to today...
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeralâ...
Mark LeibovichThe #1 national bestseller, Mark Leibovich's This Town, now in paperback-with a new Introduction by the author.
Politics is stuck,' writes Bill Bradley, in this insightful, informative, and provocative book about America at a crossroads, but 'idealism isn't dead. It can be reawakened.' What will it take to make America a better, stronger, tr...
The Federalist Papers: Selected Essay...
Alexander HamiltonThe Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles, written between 1787 and 1788, advocating for the ratification of the United States Constitution. They serve as a primary source for interpretation of the Constitution, as they outlin...
Secret Empires: How the American Poli...
Peter SchweizerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!
The Divide: American Injustice in the...
Matt TaibbiNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population...
A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason. At the time George W. Bush ordered Am...
The Smear: How Shady Political Operat...
Sharyl AttkissonEver wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power us...
Controlling Education: Exposing the T...
Glenn BeckPUBLIC EDUCATION IS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE CONSTITUTION. WHY? BECAUSE OUR FOUNDERS KNEW THAT IT WAS AN ISSUE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS--NOT THE FEDERAL ONE.It's not a coincidence that the more the federal government has inserted...
One Nation: What We Can All Do to Sav...
Ben CarsonDear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles th...
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Le...
James Comey"Comey's conversational tone instantly connects with the listener, and hearing him deliver the book's highly charged contents in his own voice brings authenticity and immediacy to the presentation...This greatly anticipated, reve...
A Republic No More: Big Government an...
Jay CostAfter the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?" Franklin's response: "A Republic-if you can keep it."This book argues: we couldn't keep i...
Falling in Love with America Again
Jim DemintServing within the supposed pinnacles of power as a respected and influential U.S. Senator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint often felt frustrated and powerless to fight against the frightening growth of the federal bureaucracy and refu...
Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatis...
E. J. DionneFrom the author of Why Americans Hate Politics, the New York Times bestselling and "notably fair-minded" (The New York Times Book Review), story of the GOP's fracturing—from the 1964 Goldwater takeover to the Trump spectac...
Composite Nation (Applewood's Great A...
Frederick Douglass“The voice of civilization speaks an unmistakable language against the isolation of families, nations and races, and pleads for composite nationality as essential to her triumphs.”—Frederick Douglass Renowned activi...
The Decadent Society: America Before ...
Ross DouthatFrom the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure and private despair. The era of the ...
Downsizing Federal Government Spendin...
Chris EdwardsDownsizing Federal Government Spending is a clear and essential guide for policymakers and voters alike on reducing federal spending and on preventing a massive budget crisis that could crush the generations ahead. It provides a deta...
It's Even Worse Than You Think: What ...
David Cay JohnstonFrom David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies will affect our jobs, savings, ...
Draining the Swamp: Can the Us Surviv...
David L. R. SteinWhat is happening in the ostensible "Land of the Free"? At a time when the freedoms of assembly and speech no longer exist on college and university campuses across the US, when students are swept up into violent protests organized an...
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael LewisNew York Times Bestseller For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortuna...
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael LewisFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those amon...
Originally published in 1960, this analysis of all of Locke's publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in its own right.