Jonathan SteinbergThis is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890...

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall StreetSheelah KolhatkarThe story of billionaire trader Steven Cohen, the rise and fall...

Mark BowdenOn October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of...

Thomas Sowell Sowell seeks to dispel the stereotypes associated with "black rednecks," claiming that their attempts to escape these typecasts are hampered by white liberals. He ventures further, questioning other...

Uri DanDan, General Ariel Sharon's "media adviser," offers a highly partisan, I-was-there account of the general's recent libel action against Time magazine, which centered on the allegation that Sharon had...

Rex Weyler This classic and accessible history of the American Indian Movement details an important part of Native peoples' continuing struggles against corporate and governmental development interests. Blood of the...

Paul Auster An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and “genuine American original” ( The Boston Globe ), in...

Chalmers Johnson Now available in paperback, Chalmers Johnson's take-no-prisoners account of the consequences of American global policies, hailed as "brilliant and iconoclastic" (Los Angeles Times)The term "blowback," invented by the...

Ernesto Che Guevara

Andrew Gimson THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER'My biography of the year' Michael Crick'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken LivingstoneA brilliant and definitive biography of...

Author: James Fallows Why do Americans mistrust the news media? It may be because show like "The McLaughlin Group" reduce participating journalists to so many shouting heads. Or because, increasingly,...

Tom Bower When Tony Blair became Prime Minister in 1997, he was, at 43, the youngest to hold that office since 1812. With a landslide majority, his approval rating was...