Losers: The Road to Everyplace But the White House
10 best books like Losers: The Road to Everyplace But the White House (Michael Lewis): The Best and the Brightest, The Magnificent Ambersons, Permanent Record, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital, Anarchism, Bowie: Album by Album, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles, Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
The Best and the Brightest
| Author | David Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0449908704 |
The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding...
| Author | Booth Tarkington |
| ISBN | 1406935735 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson...
| Author | Edward Snowden |
| ISBN | 1250237238 |
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All
In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at...
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 1859843980 |
With the detention of Augusto Pinochet, and intense international pressure for the arrest of Slobodan Milosovic, the possibility of international law acting against tyrants around the world is emerging as a reality. In this incendiary book, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts...
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital
| Author | Mark Leibovich |
| ISBN | 0399161309 |
'The great thing about Washington is no matter how many elections you lose, how many times you're indicted, how many scandals you've been tainted by, well, the great thing is you can always eat lunch in that town again. What keeps the permanent government spinning on its carousel is the freedom of shamelessness,...
| Author | Daniel Guérin |
| ISBN | 0853451753 |
“One of the ablest leaders and writers of the French New Left describes the two realms of ‘anarchism’—its intellectual substance, and its actual practice through the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the Italian Factory Councils, and finally the role in workers’ self-management...
| Author | Paolo Hewitt |
| ISBN | 1780972172 |
I first became aware of Bowie when I was at school, in the early 70’s. Was it his music or his look I noticed first? Actually, I think it was that my mates started to talk about him and so I was forced to take a look too. The album that had caught their attention was, of course, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust...
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
| Author | Geoff Emerick |
| ISBN | 1592402690 |
Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles “She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” the...
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
| Author | Ben Mezrich |
| ISBN | 1476771898 |
The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House (sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and the basis for the hit movie 21) and The Accidental Billionaires (the basis for the Academy Award–winning film The Social Network) delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry, and betrayal...
| Author | Harry Markopolos |
| ISBN | 0470625767 |
No One Would Listen is the thrilling story of how the Harry Markopolos, a little-known number cruncher from a Boston equity derivatives firm, and his investigative team uncovered Bernie Madoff's scam years before it made headlines, and how they desperately tried to warn the government, the industry,...
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
| Author | David Enrich |
| ISBN | 0753557495 |
In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor—the London interbank offered rate, which determines the interest rates on trillions in loans worldwide—was set daily by a small group of easily manipulated...
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
| Author | Tim Kreider |
| ISBN | 1476738998 |
*A People Top 10 Book of 2018*
The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.
Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s...
All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860
| Author | Sidney Blumenthal |
| ISBN | 1476777284 |
In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style.
After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue...
The Shadow War: Inside the Modern-Day Undeclared Battles Waged Against America
| Author | Jim Sciutto |
| ISBN | 0062853651 |
CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged—often without the public’s full knowledge—from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry.
The United...
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
| Author | Anna Fifield |
| ISBN | 1541742486 |
The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.
Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda,...
| Author | William T. Vollmann |
| ISBN | 0060878827 |
because i was bad in my last life.because allah has willed it.because the rich do nothing for the poor.because the poor do nothing for themselves.because it is my destiny.
These are just some of the answers to the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asks in cities and villages...
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71 is the first book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Price of Glory and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.
The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming...
