Politics & Activism

“A narrative masterwork. Bird vividly creates the sinister web of charm and deceit that Cohn was able to spin through his decades at the very center of power.” —Marie Brenner, award-winning writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and coproducer of the documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn? From the...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A KIRKUS EARPHONES AWARD WINNER Narrated by the Vice President himself—an intimate account of why the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy JD Vance strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith. Communion is a spiritual exploration of...

Narrated by John Kennedy himself, this audiobook of “America’s most quotable Senator” offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens. How to Test Negative for Stupid offers the...

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, courage, and healing. “Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year) It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of...

In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes...

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work—a firsthand account of the rise of America’s foremost businessman. “Donald Trump is a deal maker. He is a deal maker the way lions are carnivores and water is wet...

The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 “Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait...

Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words. Thomas speaks out, revealing the pieces of his life he holds dear, detailing the...

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made...

"This dazzling book is full of brilliant detail, behind-the-scenes wit and humor, and a great tenderness for her subjects. All seen through the lens of Lucy Worsley's career working as Chief Curator at Hampton Court, her scholarship, passion for her subject and deep knowledge is lightly worn...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY The Washington Post HuffPost The Seattle Times Lit Hub...

In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and rise to greatness. Hailed as the most masterful...

The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—by the author of Powers and Thrones. The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir. This program is read by the author. Francis Fukuyama, a leading public...

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history. Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer. You are the first woman in history to be elected...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times). “A feast of historical insight...

*THE SENSATIONAL NEW ROYAL BIOGRAPHY FROM THE NO.1 BESTSELLING INVESTIGATIVE BIOGRAPHER, TOM BOWER* 'Juicy... A Bower news bomb is always something of a publishing event' Tina Brown, Observer 'Explosive' - The Times 'A fascinating read' - Evening Standard 'Sensational... A brutal, forensic...

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political...

Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad,Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. The #1 New York Times bestseller from “America’s historian-in-chief” (New York magazine). An...

In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted list....

Join Stephen Fry as he delves in to the secrets of one of the most extraordinary monarchs in one of our most extraordinary eras in English history. A woman in a man’s world. And not just any woman – but Elizabeth I, one of the greatest and most secretive monarchs of all time. This queen realised that her sex, far from being a weakness, could be deployed as a strength. It’s not an overstatement to say that England’s politics, religion, and culture have all been shaped by what she did and said. And what she kept secret. This wasn’t just a time of poets, playwrights and poachers.

“A narrative masterwork. Bird vividly creates the sinister web of charm and deceit that Cohn was able to spin through his decades at the very center of power.” —Marie Brenner, award-winning writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and coproducer of the documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn? From the...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir. This program is read by the author. Francis Fukuyama, a leading public...

Informed by his life journey, former US ambassador to Mexico, US senator, and US secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar shares his unrivaled vantage on the US-Mexico relationship, the border and migration crisis, and his belief that the diversity of our many communities and cultures is America's...

Glory, Grief, and the Gavel takes listeners deep into the high-stakes world of Capitol Hill, pulling back the curtain on what it takes to lead one of the most complex and unruly institutions in America: the U.S. House of Representatives. While presidential elections hinge on tens of millions of votes, the speakership—the third-highest office in the land and second in line to the presidency—can be decided by just 218.

"This dazzling book is full of brilliant detail, behind-the-scenes wit and humor, and a great tenderness for her subjects. All seen through the lens of Lucy Worsley's career working as Chief Curator at Hampton Court, her scholarship, passion for her subject and deep knowledge is lightly worn...

A Best Book to Read this Fall According to The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times For fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as “the first shots of the Civil War,” from the New York Times bestselling...

William Pitt the Younger sometimes gets lost in the historical shuffle, overshadowed by his famous father and the drama of Napoleon Bonaparte in France. But few prime ministers in any country have left a deeper mark. Taking office at just 24 years old, making him the youngest prime minister in world history, he spent nearly two decades reshaping Britain's finances and steering it through a war that would define a generation. He might not have been a smooth operator, but he was certainly a shrewd one.

The story of Artemisia, formidable queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, that counters longstanding misconceptions about women's roles in antiquity Herodotus's listeners never doubted that Artemisia I of Caria had commanded a fleet in the naval Battle of Salamis. After all, she was the...

What really happened between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle—and how did two royal sisters-in-law become the faces of one of the most famous family feuds in the world? The Royal Rift Between Kate and Meghan takes readers behind the headlines surrounding Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Prince William, and the British Royal Family to examine the personal relationships, misunderstandings, royal pressures, and explosive public revelations that transformed the once-celebrated “Fab Four” into two very different royal couples. When Meghan Markle married Prince Harry, millions ...

"I am a mum of two beautiful daughters, Larose and Lorena." "My eldest, Larose, is the light of my life. She is so like I was as a child and with her big brown eyes, the double of her father too. And she loves to be the centre of attention... just like me." "But my youngest, Lorena, is harder to...

A gripping, deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance by a student protestor–turned–political prisoner in post-revolution Egypt. “I will never be the same after reading Huna.”—Javier Zamora “A beautifully written portrait of a radical political awakening.”—Hanif...

Charles Brandon rose from the shadow of Bosworth to become Henry VIII’s closest friend, brother-in-law and one of the most powerful noblemen in Tudor England. The son of the standard-bearer killed defending Henry Tudor at Bosworth, Brandon possessed little inherited wealth and no claim to greatness. His extraordinary advancement depended upon courage, physical presence and an ability to retain the affection of a notoriously unpredictable king. Henry raised him to the dukedom of Suffolk and trusted him as a companion, diplomat and military commander. Yet Brandon’s greatest gamble nearly ...

Written with never-before-seen documents from Paul Keating’s archive and drawing on long conversations and interviews with him over many years, this book explores the ambitions for Australia and its place in the world that guided Keating: arguably the last Prime Minister with a compelling...

Royal blood made Margaret Douglas valuable. It also made her dangerous. Born to Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's elder sister, and Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, Margaret Douglas stood at the intersection of the Tudor monarchy and the violent politics of sixteenth-century Scotland. She was Henry VIII's niece, cousin to Mary I and Elizabeth I, mother of Lord Darnley and grandmother of the future James I of England. Her ancestry placed her uncomfortably close to the English succession. Her choices made that position even more dangerous. A secret romance with Lord Thomas Howard brought ...

They were once one of the Royal Family's most exciting young couples. Then everything began to fall apart. When Prince Andrew married the spirited Sarah Ferguson, Britain celebrated the arrival of a glamorous new royal couple. They had titles, privilege, two princess daughters, and seemingly every advantage imaginable. But behind the palace walls, the House of York was heading toward a very different future. The Fall of the House of York follows the extraordinary story of Prince Andrew, Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Eugenie—from the spectacular royal wedding...

What if the person destined for the throne never lived long enough to inherit it? British history is filled with kings and queens whose reigns shaped the nation. But behind them stand another group whose influence came not from wearing the Crown, but from dying before they could. The Lost Heirs tells the remarkable stories of six royal heirs whose premature deaths changed the course of the monarchy: Arthur, Prince of Wales, Henry VII’s eldest son, whose death left his younger brother to become Henry VIII. Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the charismatic and promising eldest son of James ...

What happens when an ordinary Nigerian citizen acquires the power to challenge politicians, celebrities, businesses and institutions before millions of people? VeryDarkMan has become one of Nigeria's most controversial and influential digital activists. Loved by many, criticized by others, and rarely ignored, he has transformed social-media attention into a powerful instrument of public pressure. But the real story is bigger than the man. Why has VeryDarkMan become so influential? What does his rise reveal about Nigerian society? Why are millions of Nigerians willing to listen to someone ...

Margaret Tudor was born a Tudor princess, became Queen of Scots at thirteen, and found herself at the centre of one of the most turbulent periods in the history of England and Scotland. Her marriage to James IV was intended to secure peace between two rival kingdoms. A decade later, the Battle of Flodden left her a twenty-three-year-old widow, mother of an infant king and regent of a divided realm. What followed was a remarkable struggle for power, family and survival. Margaret's secret marriage to Archibald Douglas cost her the regency. She fought for control of her son James V, fled ...

Donald Trump may be one of the most polarising figures in modern American history. But can individual acts of generosity be examined separately from the larger political argument? The Kindness of Donald Trump asks a deliberately narrow question. Across 101 documented episodes, Jordan K. Simpson examines occasions when Donald Trump's money, influence, public platform or presidential authority was directed towards helping individuals, families, charities, veterans and communities. The stories range from helping save a widow's farm and providing a private aircraft for a critically ill child, ...

Edward VI inherited the English throne at just nine years old. Before his death at fifteen, his brief reign would transform England's religion, witness rebellion and war, destroy two of the most powerful men around him, and end in one of the most extraordinary succession crises in English history. The long-awaited legitimate son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward grew up surrounded by tutors, courtiers and ambitious relatives who understood that access to the boy prince meant access to the future of the Tudor monarchy. When Henry died in 1547, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, became ...

Finding Purpose Beyond the Shield is a leadership memoir about rediscovering purpose after service-a journey from the streets of New York to the classroom, and from the beat to the State Capitol. U.S. Army Reserve veteran, retired NYPD lieutenant, and public servant Michael Reilly shares his deeply personal story of integrity, resilience, and renewal. From the intensity of police work to the challenges of recovery after injury, Reilly reflects on the moments that tested his courage, reshaped his identity, and redefined what it meant to lead. Through powerful real-life experiences and ...

She was the wife who survived Henry VIII, but survival was only part of Katherine Parr’s remarkable story. Twice widowed before becoming queen, Katherine entered her marriage to Henry with years of experience managing estates, households and political uncertainty. She brought the king’s three children into closer contact, served as regent while Henry campaigned in France and became the first English queen to publish books under her own name. Her religious convictions placed her close to the reforming edge of Henry’s church. Surrounded by evangelical scholars and courtiers, Katherine ...

What happens when a Republican insider realizes the party he helped build no longer represents what he believes? Tim Miller: The Path of Politics, Punditry, and Podcasting traces the remarkable evolution of one of America’s most candid political commentators—from campaign operative and Republican communications strategist to outspoken Never Trumper, bestselling author, and prominent voice at The Bulwark. Miller built his early career inside Republican politics, working for John McCain, Jon Huntsman, the Republican National Committee, and Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign. He ...

Bloomsbury presents… The Plot Against Ireland: The Forger, Spies, Conmen and Terrorists Who Conspired Against Irish Home Rule Written and read by Myles Dungan In the late nineteenth century, the great Tory leader Lord Salisbury and his closest collaborators were haunted by the looming threat...