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Walter Russell Mead
The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order
Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
The Case for Trump
The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion
John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
The Empty Throne: America’s Abdication of Global Leadership
Every Day Is Extra
The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957
Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
Reconstruction: A Concise History
Fear: Trump in the White House
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall—and Those Fighting to Reverse It
Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance
The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump; The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America; The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics
God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America
New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England’s Merchant Adventurers
Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century
Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
The Big Shift
The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness
The Iran Nuclear Deal: Bombs, Bureaucrats, and Billionaires
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896
National Security Strategy of the United States of America
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920–2015
Grant
What Happened
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary
The Least Among Us: Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable
The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower’s Secret Campaign Against Joseph McCarthy
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats Are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas
The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914–24
The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America’s Greatest Political Family
Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World
Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation
Learning From Experience
Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America; The Field of Fight
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
The Jacksonian Revolt
Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post–Cold War Order
American Power and Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest
The End of White Christian America
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews
The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Role in the World
Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965; Detached America: Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia
His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies
The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power
Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman’s America
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal
Washington: A History of Our National City
The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft
The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House
By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America’s Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care
Between the World and Me
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Katrina: After the Flood
Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics
African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy: From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama
The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today
Go Set a Watchman: A Novel
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture
Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World; Is the American Century Over?
Five Books on the U.S. Civil War
Global Rules: America, Britain, and a Disordered World
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece
Eisenhower: A Life
America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power
Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
The New Class Conflict
Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black
An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
The Scorpion’s Sting: Anti-Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War
What Good Is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft From Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush
Hard Choices; HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way and It Wasn’t My Fault and I’ll Never Do It Again
America’s Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph and Collapse
Maximalist: America in the World From Truman to Obama
The Return of Geopolitics
The American Senate: An Insider’s History
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
The Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies
Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan
Reign of Error; Radical
Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral -- Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! -- in America's Gilded Capital
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations, and Business
Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era
Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy
Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power
Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times
Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream -- and How We Can Do It Again
Rendezvous With Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America Into the War and Into the World
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order
Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance Through Technology
A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic
What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster
The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It
Washington and Napoleon: Leadership in the Age of Revolution
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
The Higher Education Bubble
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865
Why Romney Lost (and What the GOP Can Do About It)
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
Philanthropy in America: A History
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
Peace Out
The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs -- and Who Will Take It
Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power
The Real Romney
The World America Made
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
The Crisis of Zionism
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010
Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations and the Rise of American Power
Steve Jobs
The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government
The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History
Hitler and America
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir
Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building From the Founders to Obama
James Madison
Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America From Washington
Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics
Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America
Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Spiritual Engagement
Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Nearest East: American Millennialism and Mission to the Middle East
The South and America Since World War II
The Dogs of War: 1861
The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy From the Cold War to the Present
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History
Decision Points
The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy
Bob Dylan in America
At the Precipice: Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis.
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women
Washington: A Life
Obama's Wars
Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
The American Civil War: A Military History
The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School
Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction
Henry Clay: The Essential American
National Security Strategy
The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
Honolulu, Harvard, and Hyde Park
Global Compassion: Private Voluntary Organizations and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1939
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Abigail Adams
Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present
Global Dawn: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865-1890
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor
A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq
Muslims in America: A Short History
Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security—From World War II to the War on Terrorism
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
After the War: Nation-Building From FDR to George W. Bush
Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate Over International Relations, 1789-1941
Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change
American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age
Global California: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
A Hegemon's Coming of Age
American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims From the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Portraits of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served—From JFK to George W. Bush
Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power
The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization From the Puritans to the Present Day
America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II
The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
Old World, New World: Great Britain and America From the Beginning
Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion
To Lead the World: After the Bush Doctrine
The New Israel and the Old
Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq
Ike: An American Hero
Washington Irving: An American Original
FDR
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s: "The Shores of Light," "Axel's Castle," Uncollected Reviews
Change They Can Believe In
The Irish Americans: A History
Empires of Trust: How Rome Built -- and America Is Building -- a New World
Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment
Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
George H. W. Bush
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
American Transcendentalism: A History
Forge of Empires, 1861-1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made
The American Mission and the "Evil Empire": The Crusade for a Free Russia Since 1881
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
America's Three Regimes: A New Political History
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism
Jerusalem Syndrome
Edith Wharton
George Kennan: A Study of Character
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
The Reagan Diaries
Dr. Livingston, I Presume? Missionaires, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire
The Assault on Reason
Entente Infernale
Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
Milton Friedman: A Biography
Gerald R. Ford
Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America; Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause; War on the Middle Class: How the Government, B
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life
Losing Hearts and Minds? Public Diplomacy and Strategic Influence in the Age of Terror
Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
The Plan: Big Ideas for America
Faith and Politics: How the Moral Values Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together
Mellon: An American Life
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America
Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World, from It's Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century
The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
God's Country?
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths; Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House
The House: The History of the House of Representatives
Through Our Friends' Eyes
The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement
America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Andrew Jackson; Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
Henry Adams and the Making of America
Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition -- 1742-2004
Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem -- and What We Should Do About It
2006 Almanac of American Politics
What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
DisneyWar
Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition
Debating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Foreign Policies, 1933-1945
Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond
America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64
A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000
Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War Through the Civil Rights Era
The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan
Martin Van Buren
The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights
America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism
An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero
Washington's Crossing
History Lessons: How Textbooks Around the World Portray American History
Jesus and Muhammad: Profound Differences and Surprising Similarities; The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad; Beyond Iraq: The Next Move: Ancient Prophecy and Modern Day Conspiracy Collide
What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828
Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the U.S. Information Agency
Life and Death in Civil War Prisons: The Parallel Torments of Corporal John Wesly Minnich, C.S.A., and Sergeant Warren Lee Goss, U.S.A.
Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism.
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs-The Election That Changed the Country
The Most Fearful Ordeal: Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and Reporters of the New York Times
James Buchanan
First Principals
Party of the People: A History of the Democrats; Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans
We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of The Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
James K. Polk
Warren G. Harding
Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882
America's Inadvertent Empire
The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America; The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War
Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years; Madame Secretary: A Memoir
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I
Terror and Liberalism
A Grand Strategy for America
William McKinley
At War With Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World
Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam
Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions
The Louisiana Purchase
Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages
Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003
Alexander Hamilton: A Life
The Passions of Andrew Jackson
Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics
Woodrow Wilson
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1941-1945
Rutherford B. Hayes
Benjamin Franklin
Memoirs
The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism
American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy
Ciao, America! An Italian Discovers the U.S
The Emerging Democratic Majority
James Madison
9-11; Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century
Granta 77: What We Think of America
The Liberal Lion
The American Foreign Policy Legacy
In The Long Run: Keynes and the Legacy of British Liberalism
The End of Asia? Redefining a Changing Continent
Roller-Coaster Capitalism: Creative Destruction at Work
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