The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power

8 best books like The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power (Jules Witcover): Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

Author

Preet Bharara

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...

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

Author	David McCullough
ISBN	1501168681

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...

Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

Author

Michael Connelly

Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends—and,...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Author

D.H. Lawrence

WARNING: This review contains a discussion of the c-word, and I plan to use it. Please don't read this if you do not want to see the word spelled out. Thanks.

This is less a review than an homage to my crazy mother (now I have you really intrigued, don't I?)

It was 1983, and I was in my first...

The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

Author	Steve Sheinkin
ISBN	1596434864

Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle...

Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

Author	Brian L. Weiss
ISBN	0446520594

The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives. As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring...

The Lager Queen of Minnesota

Author	J. Ryan Stradal
ISBN	0399563059

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.

Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home,...

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Author	Ronen Bergman
ISBN	1400069718

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter”

The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct...