Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir
10 best books like Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir (John Paul Stevens): Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, Decision Points, First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power, United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good, The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush’s diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a vivid and...
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
| Author | Pete Buttigieg |
| ISBN | 1631494368 |
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation’s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American...
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
| Author | John Heilemann |
| ISBN | 0061733636 |
“It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times
“It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.
Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed...
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara shows the...
| Author | Rick Perlstein |
| ISBN | 0743243021 |
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixon rose from the political grave to seize & hold the presidency. Perlstein's account begins with the '65 Watts riots, nine months after Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater appeared...
| Author | George W. Bush |
| ISBN | 0307590615 |
In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.
George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached...
First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
| Author | Kate Andersen Brower |
| ISBN | 0062668943 |
From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world—the vice presidents of the modern era—from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.
Vice presidents occupy...
United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
| Author | Cory Booker |
| ISBN | 1101965177 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future.
Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford...
The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
| Author | Amy Klobuchar |
| ISBN | 1627794174 |
One of the U.S. Senate's most candid--and funniest--women tells the story of her life and her unshakeable faith in our democracy
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has tackled every obstacle she's encountered--her parents' divorce, her father's alcoholism and recovery, her political campaigns...
| Author | Noah Feldman |
| ISBN | 0446580570 |
A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international...
| Author | Jan Crawford Greenburg |
| ISBN | 1594201013 |
Drawing on unprecedented access to the Supreme Court justices themselves and their inner circles, acclaimed ABC News legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg offers an explosive newsbreaking account of one of the most momentous political watersheds in American history. From the series of Republican...
| Author | Jeffrey Toobin |
| ISBN | 0449013677 |
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.
From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack...
| Author | Clarence Thomas |
| ISBN | 0060565551 |
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 Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
| Author | Chris Whipple |
| ISBN | 1524722960 |
The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country.
What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president...
Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality
| Author | David G. Benner |
| ISBN | 0830823026 |
A Personal Growth Finalist in the 2004 Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards! "Only God deserves absolute surrender because only God can offer absolutely dependable love." In our self-reliant era, most of us recoil from the concept of surrendering to a power or authority outside ourselves. But surrender...
| Author | Maya Angelou |
| ISBN | 0553255762 |
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time..
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393356973 |
Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows...
Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0735217920 |
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs...
