Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
By: Pete Buttigieg
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B…
Want to Read $ 9.99"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
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1. Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
By: David Axelrod
4.16
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Book Review “A stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years." A … read more
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2. United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
By: Cory Booker
4.06
Format: 223 pages, ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory… read more
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"I celebrate ideals of individual excellence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility… But rugged individualism alone did not get us to the moon. It did not end slavery, win World War II, pass the …"-Cory Booker, United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
3. This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
By: Elizabeth Warren
3.48
Format: 241 pages,
The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring boo… read more
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4. What Happened
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
4.50
Format: 191 pages,
"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more
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5. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
By: Steven Lomazow
4.33
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more
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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
6. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
7. I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan
By: Katie Porter
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An honest, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing… read more
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8. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
By: Jen Psaki
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more
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"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
9. Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
By: Jennifer Palmieri
3.90
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling vol… read more
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"Her-story. Don't search for your role is his-tory, write your own. The future is female. The past was too it's just that no one thought it important enough to bother writing it all down."-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
"Emotions were running so high in the country that I feared there was going to be some violence before the election. I even half-jokingly said to Hillary one day in October that it was beginning to fe…"-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
10. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
11. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
By: Pete Buttigieg
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
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"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
12. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
By: Joe Biden
4.14
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller From President-Elect Joe Biden, Promise Me Dad is his… read more
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"We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future."-Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
"I regarded these requests as the fruits of a life well lived: our grown children actually wanted to be with us."-Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
"I believe all politics is personal, because at bottom, politics depends o trust, and unless you can establish a personal relationship, it’s awfully hard to build trust."-Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
"Right now, you know, everyone one is going to be there for you." I explained. "Everyone will surround you with love and you'll be busy and have things to keep your mind off the worst. And then in six…"-Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
13. I Have Something to Tell You
By: Chasten Glezman Buttigieg
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential … read more
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"That gay expereince in Tulsa is just as gay and valid as other, more visible experience in the media, and attempting to police anyone’s gayness sets a dangerous precedent. It equates identity with pr…"-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You
"I was reaching my hand over the person in front of me to shake hands with Obama when a random guy barreled into me from behind. I turned to look at what had happened, and in the meantime, I felt a ha…"-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You
14. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism
By: R. Derek Black
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of … read more
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15. Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
By: David S. Tatel
4.48
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years d… read more
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16. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between
By: Gretchen Whitmer
4.34
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more
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17. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
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18. Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
By: Edward Williams
4.37
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
Backpacking around Australia in the year 2000, the author unwittingly found himself the target of o… read more
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"was he connected to the hitman? I didn't worry about it"-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
19. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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20. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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21. We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
By: D. Watkins
4.48
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author o… read more
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