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In his stunning memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins detailed his former role as an "economic hit man" in the international corporate skulduggery of a de facto American Empire. Now Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world, drawing on interviews to examine the current...

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...

En El Libro Secreto de la Propaganda , Alejandro Llantada explora las poderosas técnicas detrás de los mensajes que mueven masas y transforman sociedades. Desde líderes políticos hasta marcas icónicas, quienes han alcanzado el éxito duradero lo han hecho siguiendo principios fundamentales que ahora puedes descubrir. No importa si cuentas con millones de dólares como los partidos políticos o apenas una idea y una hoja en blanco como Lenin o Lutero: el poder de la propaganda está al alcance de cualquiera que se atreva a dominarlo.

An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent...

#1 New York Times Bestseller! America's top politicians have discovered the scam to end all scams. Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption—and winning—for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. In...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island “Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should...

Albert Richardson was a daring reporter for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune who took on the perilous task of going undercover in the American South, documenting the rising secession crisis. When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, he joined the Union armies as a war correspondent, tirelessly sending dispatches from the front lines for two years. His journey took a harrowing turn in May 1863 when he was thrown from a burning barge into the Mississippi River while trying to evade a Confederate battery near Vicksburg. Captured as a prisoner, Richardson believed his status as a civilian ...

Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial Secretaries of State in U.S. history—serving under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, never-before-seen transcripts of Kissinger's conversations, including top-secret talks with Beijing and Moscow, provide an unvarnished record of his brand of high-stakes diplomacy during the Nixon years. These transcripts provide an unparalleled view of historical events that shaped the world and rocked the way diplomacy is conducted in the United States.

Dive into the thrilling world of detective-mystery with On Secret Service. This compilation delivers dramatized narratives of real cases cracked by the U.S. Secret Service, an agency that has continuously expanded since its inception in 1865, especially after the assassination of President McKinley in 1901. Stay gripped as we bring you authentic, true-to-life stories from the intriguing realm of government espionage.

If you enjoyed Ashton-Kirk, Investigator, youll find this follow-up both engrossing and thrilling. Ashton-Kirk, with his special set of skills, has proven invaluable to the U.S. government in matters of national security. In an age where colossal nations teeter on the brink of war, a steady, secretive, and sure hand is required to maintain balance and keep calamity at bay. Ashton-Kirk embodies these qualities, navigating through treacherous situations that often go unnoticed by the public eye. His adventures reveal a series of dangers each nation has endured, dangers that seem insignificant at...