6 Best government books like A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times by Mark T. Esper

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A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

By: Mark T. Esper

3.88

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking de…

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Cover of Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party by Jonathan Karl

1. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

By: Jonathan Karl

4.28

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
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2. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

By: Peter Baker

4.46

Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency ye… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
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3. Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

By: Jonathan Karl

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

***THE INSTANT New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and IndieBound BESTSELLER*** An NP… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
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  • nonfiction
"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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5. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Jonathan Martin

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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6. The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

By: Elliot Ackerman

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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7. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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8. One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

By: William P. Barr

4.01

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  The former attorney general provides a candid account of his… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

By: Michael Cohen

4.09

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

11 hours, 50 minutes This book almost didn’t see the light of day as government officials tried… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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10. Fear: Trump in the White House

By: Bob Woodward

3.87

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodw… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"He’s a fucking moron,"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"When Trump called Mexicans “rapists"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats," Graham said. The good news is they come cheap."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"For Mr. Trump, though, bringing in Mr. Bannon was the political equivalent of ordering comfort food."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

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11. I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

By: Stephanie Grisham

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from be… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • political science
Cover of Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump by Miles Taylor

12. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

By: Miles Taylor

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
Cover of They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm W. Nance

13. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

By: Malcolm W. Nance

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATI… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds

14. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

By: Craig L. Symonds

4.65

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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15. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

By: John Bolton

3.15

Format: 588 pages, Kindle Edition

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"All this confused press coverage reveals both the inconsistencies within Trump’s own thinking, and reporting based on second- and third-hand sources, exacerbated under a President who spent a disprop…"

-John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

Cover of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 by Jonathan   Lemire

16. The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020

By: Jonathan Lemire

4.10

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

From the White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early comes a probing… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • political science
Cover of Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch

17. Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir

By: Marie Yovanovitch

4.50

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Just as in the Trump-Giuliani Ukraine conspiracy, we saw a ruthless, single-minded obsession with staying in power; a manifest lack of moral values, shame, and civility; and a stunning disregard of a…"

-Marie Yovanovitch, Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir

Cover of The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump by Bob Woodward

18. The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump

By: Bob Woodward

4.27

Format: 12 pages, Audiobook

 “I’m doing something here that I’ve never done before, presenting the lengthy, raw interviews of m… read more

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  • politics
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19. A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

By: Mark T. Esper

3.88

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking de… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • political science
  • leadership
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20. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • political science
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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21. Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

By: Neil Gorsuch

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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21 Best history books like A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times by Mark T. Esper

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Jonathan Karl

4.28

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The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

Peter Baker

4.46

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Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

Jonathan Karl

4.48

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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Maggie Haberman

4.09

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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Chris Whipple

4.28

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Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

Bill O'Reilly

4.19

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Jonathan Karl

4.28

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Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

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