Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up
9 best books like Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up (Lawrence E. Walsh): Washington: A Life, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future, The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975, Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, President Carter: The White House Years
| Author | Ron Chernow |
| ISBN | 1594202664 |
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic...
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President...
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
| Author | Ronan Farrow |
| ISBN | 0393652106 |
American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We’re becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later.
In an astonishing account ranging...
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future
| Author | Victor Cha |
| ISBN | 0061998508 |
“A meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy.” -Foreign Affairs
The definitive account of North Korea, its veiled past and uncertain future, from the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council
In The...
The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post
| Author | The Washington Post |
| ISBN | 1982129735 |
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize–winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available.
Read the findings of the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying...
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
| Author | Vincent Bugliosi |
| ISBN | 0393045250 |
This extraordinary and historic book required twenty years to research and write. The oft-challenged findings of the Warren Commission Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot and killed President John F. Kennedy are here confirmed beyond all doubt. But "Reclaiming History" does much more than that....
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
| Author | Max Hastings |
| ISBN | 0062405667 |
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one...
| Author | Jim Newton |
| ISBN | 1594489289 |
In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned- Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the Supreme Court in American life through cases whose names have...
President Carter: The White House Years
| Author | Stuart E. Eizenstat |
| ISBN | 1250104556 |
The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments―drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.
Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter’s side from his political rise in Georgia through four years...
