Little America
The War Within the War for Afghanistan
Written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.00

A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Book
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year
 
The author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, tells the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the US’s political and military misadventure in Afghanistan. In this meticulously... Read more >

The World America Made

Written by Robert Kagan

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $14.95

Robert Kagan, the New York Times bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, reaffirms the importance of United States’s global leadership in this timely and important book.
 
Upon its initial publication, The World America Made became one of the most talked about political...

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The Victory Lab
The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
Written by Sasha Issenberg

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $26.00

The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.

Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and... Read more >

Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Read by Dan Woren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $24.00

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?

Simply... Read more >

Theodore Rex

Written by Edmund Morris

Format: Trade Paperback, 792 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $18.00

Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken... Read more >

An Autobiography
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Written by Mohandas K. Gandhi

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1993
Price: $16.00

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century.

In a... Read more >

Joseph Anton
A Memoir
Written by Salman Rushdie

Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $15.99

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death&rdquo... Read more >

Rules for Radicals

Written by Saul Alinsky

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2010
Price: $11.99

First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the...

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The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: the 34 days that decided the election: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012)

Written by Glenn Thrush and Jonathan Martin

Format: eBook, 75 pages
On Sale: December 17, 2012
Price: $2.99

The fourth and final eBook in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 series once again provides an unprecedented minute-by-minute account of the race for the presidency. The End of the Line follows President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney as their campaign teams go all-in to win in the critical final weeks of... Read more >

Hubris
The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Written by Michael Isikoff and David Corn

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $14.95

THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE INVASION OF IRAQ

Now an MSNBC Documentary, hosted by Rachel Maddow

Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times bestseller, Hubris takes us behind the scenes at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, and Congress to show how George W. Bush came to invade... Read more >