West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House
By: Gautam Raghavan
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Obama White House staff invites us behind-the-scenes of history for a deeply personal and movin…
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1. Kennedy
By: Theodore C. Sorensen
4.16
Format: 784 pages, Paperback
A powerfully moving biography of JFK by one of his closest friends and advisors. Sorensen's work wa… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
2. 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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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
4. Power Forward: My Presidential Education
By: Reggie Love
3.66
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Reggie Love is a unique witness to history, whose introduction to Washington was working in Junior … read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
By: Brianna Wiest
3.76
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writi… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
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"Hold yourself to your standard."-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
"Anything other than ideal is not failure. It’s life."-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
"We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger, too"-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
"There are two mindsets people tend to have: explorer or settler. Our society has a “settler"-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
6. The Stepford Wives
By: Ira Levin
2.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more
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- feminism
7. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
By: Alyssa Mastromonaco , None
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her beh… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
8. Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
By: David Litt
3.91
Format: 337 pages, ebook
Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Notes from a Small Island
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
10. 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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11. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
12. A Promised Land
By: Barack Obama
4.33
Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity - one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America."-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
"I thought the country I'd just described to them - a hopeful, generous, courageous America, an America that was open to everyone. At about the same age as the graduates were now, I'd seized on that i…"-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
"Then again, a president wasn’t a lawyer or an accountant or a pilot, hired to carry out some narrow, specialized task. Mobilizing public opinion, shaping working coalitions - that was the job. Whethe…"-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
"But there comes a point in the speech where I find my cadence. The crowd quiets rather than roars. It's the kind of moment I'd come to recognize in subsequent years, on certain magic nights. There's …"-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
13. Rough Draft: A Memoir
By: Katy Tur
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From MSNBC anchor and New York Times bestselling author Katy Tur, a sharp and candid memoir about a… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.40
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of le… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
By: Ben Rhodes
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Oba… read more
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- american history
- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"For a moment, we all just stared out the window at the crowds. “I’m reading a good book now,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"I watched the speech backstage on the teleprompter. Obama paused for a moment, and I saw the text freeze. “I’m going off script here for a second,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"He said we had to find a way to reach Muslims who “didn’t think it was such a great thing to have a McDonald’s down the street and American pop culture on their television."-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"And then Obama said what he believed: that people should be equal under the law; that citizens should be free to criticize their government and protest peacefully; that voters should have the freedom…"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
16. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
By: Jamie Raskin
4.51
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the star… read more
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- memoir
- politics
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- audiobook
"If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too."-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
"Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people) sleeping. I have found that good memory, like good…"-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
17. From the Corner of the Oval
By: Beck Dorey-Stein
3.82
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir (A Bestselling Biography)
By: Pat Cunnane
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The West Wing meets The Office in this fresh and funny exclusive look into President Barack Obama’s… read more
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- audiobook
19. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories
By: Chris Atkins
4.34
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more
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- audiobook
20. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House
By: Gautam Raghavan
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Obama White House staff invites us behind-the-scenes of history for a deeply personal and movin… read more
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