Lamar Waldron

Watergate: The Hidden History, Nixon,The Mafia and The CIA

Information from recently declassified records sheds new light on two of the most sensational episodes of 20th-century American history.

Robert A. Caro

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

This fourth volume of the series provides a detailed and riveting account of the years immediately leading up to LBJ’s presidency.

All In: The Education of David Petraeus

Paula Broadwell with Vernon Loeb

All In: The Education of David Petraeus

Given firsthand access to her subject, the author looks at the superstar general’s intellectual development and how he put it to action.

Roméo Dallaire

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

From experience in Rwanda, a plea for a humanitarian response to a despicable practice.

Henry Kissinger

On China

The master of realpolitik pulls back the curtain on Chinese foreign policy.

By Francis Fukuyama

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

A sweeping, cross-disciplinary analysis of what makes a state succeed — or fail.

By Dan Gardner

Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better

The author exposes the folly in our pursuit of certainty.

Jeff Greenfield

Then Everything Changed:  Stunning Alternate Histories  of American Politics

A skilled political observer imagines how things might have turned out.