Steve Jarding & Dave "Mudcat" Saunders
Foxes in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must Do to Run 'Em Out
(Touchstone/S&S, 2006)

"This is one hell of a book. I like angry, especially when it knows its target, and this one is dead-on. Both sides should read it and weap."
—Lewis Black

Roland Lazenby
April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers
(Plume/Penguin, 2007)

A gripping, emotional account of the worst school shooting in U.S. history, told by those who lived through it, compiled by a Virginia Tech journalism instructor and a group of student journalists.

Joseph P. Quinlan
The Last Economic Superpower: The Retreat of Globalization, the End of American Dominance, and the Road Ahead
(McGraw-Hill, 2010)

A leading economist offers two potential geopolitical scenarios for our post-crisis world.

Eric Rosenbach & Aki Peritz
FIND, FIX, FINISH: Inside America's Counterterrorism Campaign, from 9/11 to the Death of Osama bin Laden
(Public Affairs, 2012)

A former Senate Select Committee on Intelligence professional staff member and a former CIA Counterterrorism Center analyst explain how the U.S. is much safer today because of the radical counterterrorism strategies developed and refined since 9/11.

Lt. Col. Michael E. Silverman
AWAKENING VICTORY: How Iraqi Tribes and American Forces Reclaimed al Anbar Province and Defeated al Qaeda in Iraq
(Casemate, 2011)

A former U.S. Army commander's account of the "surge" battalion he led and the Army's new, highly successful counterinsurgency polity, which is now being employed in Afghanistan.

Michele Simon, J.D., M.P.H.
Appetite For Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back
(Nation Books, 2006)

"Clear and convincing! Simon rips the mask off the food industry, exposing a dangerous hypocrisy that's turned food into our biggest health threat."
—Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet

Chuck Todd
Untitled
(Little, Brown, 2013)

NBC's chief White House correspondent and political director will offer a nuanced look at the early part of the Obama presidency by focusing on the relationship between President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Chuck Todd & Sheldon Gawiser
How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
(Vintage, 2009)

One of the most lauded political journalists of our time and one of the most respected pollsters in the business offers a state-by-state assessment of how Obama achieved his remarkable victory.

Mel White
HOLY TERROR: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality
(Magnus, 2011)

The best-selling author of Stranger at the Gate returns with an insider's exposé of the origins of the Christian fundamentalist movement and how its virulent anti-gay agenda has led to the rise of the Tea Party movement, among other forms of recent right wing extremism.