Books
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The Teacher Wars
A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana GoldsteinTeaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprece... -
Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy
Daniel Rothenberg Peter BergenDrones are the iconic military technology of many of today's most pressing conflicts, a lens through which U.S. foreign policy is understood, and a... -
No Good Men Among the Living
America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan—and then brought the Taliba... -
The Assets Perspective
The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy
I am very pleased to announce the publication of The Assets Perspective: The Rise of Asset Building and it Impact on Social Policy. It’s a 13-chapt... -
The Bright Continent
Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
Dayo OlopadeAfrica is a continent on the move. It’s often hard to notice, though—the Western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual dynami... -
Overwhelmed
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true... -
Now I Know Who My Comrades Are
Voices from the Internet Underground
In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities unsuccessfully try to silence a... -
The Meat Racket
The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read. How much do you kn... -
The Up Side of Down
Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
Megan McArdleMost new products fail. So do most small businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professi... -
The Loudest Voice in the Room
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics and media changed forever. Now, with a remarkabl... -
Five Days at Memorial
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspen... -
The Smartest Kids in the World
And How They Got That Way
Amanda RipleyIn a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learn... -
The Pioneer Detectives
Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?
Explore one of the greatest scientific mysteries of our time, the Pioneer Anomaly: in the 1980s, NASA scientists detected an unknown force acting o... -
Beautiful Souls
The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Eyal PressHistory has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flip side, what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authorit... -
On Internet Freedom
Every few years, a new book comes out arguing that the future of the Internet is at risk. And every few years, it really is. This book, by one of t... -
Talibanistan
Katherine Tiedemann Peter BergenThe longest war the United States has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan. But when we speak of "Afghanistan," we really mean a conflict ... - book | January 01, 2013 | Fellows
The Insurgents
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Fred KaplanThe Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the l... -
Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manusc... -
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
From the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble, an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. ... -
Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Christopher HayesOver the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church... -
Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
Steve CollIn Private Empire Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its ... -
Land of Promise
An Economic History of the United States
From one of America’s leading intellectuals comes a sweeping and original work of economic history, recounting the epic story of America’s rise to ...