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Best Canadian Politics

Understanding Trump
Further, these pages hold a detailed discussion of Trump-style solutions for national security, education, health care, economic growth, government reform, and other important topics. The very essence of Trump's mission is a willingness to enact policies and set goals that send our country in a bold new direction - one that may be "unreasonable" to Washington but is sensible to millions of Americans outside the Beltway. He is a Fox News contributor and author of 34 books, including 14 New York Times bestsellers.
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"Excellent excellent excellent."
"Bought this for my husband for Christmas, he said it was a very good book."
"In any case, this book goes a long way toward articulating the ideological trends that drove Trump to a historic victory in the presidential election, giving context to the man himself, and looking forward to give us a glimpse of what we can expect in the future."
"OK, so it seems I posted my review on the wrong book- this is by far the BEST book on both the 2016 election and Donald Trump I've seen yet- and I've read over 2 dozen."
"If you love Trump, then you have an opportunity to find out why so many people are exploding with hatred for him. Similarly, if you hate him, it would be interesting to find out what it was about him that appealed to enough voters to win the election. Praise: In the front of the book, Gingrich explains the methods behind some of Trump's crazy habits. When a radio interviewer asked him to name some leaders in the middle east conflict, he quickly admitted he couldn't do that, but he'd know all about them when he needed to. I work in a technical job, where there are too many domains and details to hold in consciousness all the time; they will literally paralyze me. I practice Trump's method, holding on to what I need to know about the job at hand, confident I can throw new data in when necessary. I can't offer a solution but I'd like to say this: We'll never get anywhere until we admit that our present costs are unacceptable and that other countries do this MUCH better than we do."
"He includes parts of speeches given by numerous people as well as Trump speeches. He also includes numerous excerpts from written material."
"Thoroughly enjoyed this book."
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. As the passengers stepped from the airplanes, exhausted, hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage, they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople. Despite the grim consequences that led to the situation, DeFede finds humor: two flight attendants are offered a car for sightseeing by a local woman who happened to be driving by; the stranded chairman of Hugo Boss finds himself shopping for men's underwear at the local Wal-Mart.
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"The shelf full of books for my grandkids to read and keep for their grandkids because of the tangible and intangible life stories and lessons told."
"The people of Gander and the surrounding area are wonderful and we can only hope to be as giving as they were on those days."
"The book is obviously well researched in order to get so many true human interest tales of the people aboard multiple airlines forced to land in New Foundland."
"This is a terrific story about the thousands of people stranded in Gander immediately after the 9/11 attacks."
"A very heart warming story and a good reminder that there are wonderful people in the world."
"A FANTASTIC book about the BEST that people can be at a time when others were showing their worst!"
"The story of Gander should always be told when the story of 9/11 is told."
"This is an easy read and tells the story of real people in a small town or two who gave of themselves unselfishly to help hundreds of people stranded in their area of the world."
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Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future
A glance at international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands– a trifecta for igniting wildfires like we’ve rarely seen before. Despite this, we are not prepared to deal with an escalation of fire during periods of intense drought and shorter winters, earlier springs, potentially more lightning strikes and hotter summers. Struzik weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics, politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we, and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires. ( Library Journal ). "Combining personal insights with keen investigative-journalistic skills, Struzik presents a comprehensive and compelling overview of the future of wildfire management." What emerges is a portrait of the intricacies of the forest management practices, settlement patterns, economic motivators, and political pressures that lead up to and influence decisions during these wildfires...Struzik warns readers of the bleak reality that may lie ahead if we continue 'business as usual,'…[but] does not forfeit hope ...The decisions and policies we make now, as a nation and as a global community, will have a profound influence on what our world looks like in the future." ( Science ). " A new wildlife paradigm is emerging in North America's boreal forests...Edward Struzik's deft account interweaves reportage, science and policy to show how fires that are normally key to ecological resilience are growing bigger and faster, thawing permafrost, degrading watersheds and disrupting habitats of species from grizzly bears to fungi."
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"". Struzik's Firestorm is so full of fascinating information that I have been reading one chapter every evening promising myself that I would read it again and burn the midnight oil if I have to, not to set fire but to better absorb all the new, critical information contained in each chapter."
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Best Political Commentary & Opinion

Dangerous
The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. ''Fat people will hate this book.''.
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"As an information professional I have always been very interested in intellectual freedom issues and am a card carrying member of the Freedom to Read Foundation so as soon as my industry colleagues began to tell me how dangerous Dangerous would be, I knew I had to read it as soon as possible. I emailed my old Intellectual Freedom & Censorship professor from grad school about the cancellation and her response was that Milo already had a platform so it's not the same type of insidious censorship. It is important to be mindful that censorship can come from both the political right and the political left. It seemed a bit ironic to me that all these alleged advocates of free speech were refusing to get a book called Dangerous because it would be too dangerous for people to read. Milo was more invigorating to read than Trump, probably because he is by trade a professional word slinging journalist. I'm not saying I agree with literally all the things Milo Yiannopoulos says or stands for but that doesn't matter. Dangerous is a decent book and censorship is dangerous."
"I pre-ordered the book out of curiosity, there was so much controversy when Simon and Schuster cancelled the book deal."
"As a gay man who has seen not just the gay rights movement but the entire progressive movement hijacked by Marxist regressives, Milo is and has always been a breath of fresh air. Milo comes back from a takedown that would have left most people in hiding."
"You don't have to like who he is, you might not like the way he looks or speaks or expresses his thoughts, but what he stands for is EVERYTHING that we are slowly losing as the media outlets take control of manipulating everything we see and hear."
"Milo is absolutely correct in the following excerpt from "Dangerous". "In short, I’m the Left’s worst nightmare: a living, breathing refutation of identity politics, and proof that free speech and the truth wrapped in a good joke will always be more persuasive and more powerful than identity politics.""
"It is extraordinarily funny, and gets the modern conservative viewpoint across in a way that stereotypical stuffy conservatives can only imagine. While I have tried my best to encourage free-thinking in her impressionable young mind, the mindset in her public school has her believing all sorts of PC based nonsense. I asked for specific examples, but they have thus far been unable or unwilling to give examples."
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Best Asian Politics

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. ‘Hyeonseo Lee brought the human consequences of global inaction on North Korea to the world's doorstep … Against all odds she escaped, survived, and had the courage to speak out’ Samantha Power, U.S. representative to the U.N. Recently graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, she has become a regular speaker on the international stage fostering human rights and awareness of the plight of North Koreans.
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"Being so close to the border they could also get Chinese cell phone service and calls could be made to North Korea using Chinese cells. She withstood an interrogation by the Chinese police and was able to convince them she was Chinese due to her ability to speak Mandarin and her mastery of Chinese Characters, which she attributes to her father pushing her to study while she was in school. She has dangerous interactions with gangs, which she survives, was assaulted badly by an unknown assailant with a 1 liter beer bottle, an incident that did put her in the hospital and other adventures. They chose Laos, a backwater whose insufferable bureaucracy and corrupt civil service made things hard."
"The book is divided into parts, describing the author's life in North Korea, then her life in China (an entire decade), escape to South Korea, and finally, the ordeal of getting her mother and brother out of North Korea. In China, she makes a life and barely avoids deportation, being captured by human traffickers, and an arranged marriage to a complete zero."
"Few people that live outside North Korea (myself included) can fully understand the brutal horror that is a daily reality for the average people who are enslaved there."
"As tensions between the U.S. and North Korea escalate, I cannot fathom a more pertinent story to inform the rest of the world of the plight of North Koreans...in their own country as well as much of Asia, and the rest of the world really. And no, it was not lost on me that this brave young woman and her family could not just stop to take a breather while living this gut-wrenching saga. You are an extraordinary young woman, daughter, sister, and world citizen with a voice for oppressed persons the world over."
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Best African Politics

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. Written by New York Times bestselling author Mitchell Zuckoff, this riveting book takes readers into the action-packed story of heroes who laid their lives on the line for one another, for their countrymen, and for their country. The Annex Security Team consists of the five surviving CIA contract operators who responded to the September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi.
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"The fast paced, down to earth account given by the survivors made me swell with pride that there are good guys out there, willing to take on evil to protect others and what we should all hold dear."
"It is the account of what happened during the attack on our diplomatic outpost and CIA annex by the heroic defenders of the compounds."
"Excellent book."
"The leadership at the State Department was squarely at fault for the lack of adequate security, failing to pull the mission out of Benghazi in time, and the reliance on local militias as the go to defense of our own people."
"It's hard to believe that Chris Stephens told the State Department about the lack of security and they did nothing."
"The story doesn't delve into the political battle concerning Hillary Clinton and the lack of preparation or support from the State Department - that's not the focus of this story - this is the story of those men on the ground, the decisions they faced, the effort they gave and the blood they shed."
"It made me very mad to read just how this whole thing could have been avoided or at least the danger diminished but the powers to be just wouldn't do the right thing."
"I did find it interesting that he makes a brief mention of when the facts as relayed to him by the men don't line up with other official or unofficial reports."
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Best European Politics Books

Mein Kampf
Settling Accounts became Mein Kampf, an unparalleled example of muddled economics and history, appalling bigotry, and an intense self-glorification of Adolf Hitler as the true founder and builder of the National Socialist movement. For in its pages Hitler announced -- long before he came to power -- a program of blood and terror in a self-revelation of such overwhelming frankness that few among its readers had the courage to believe it ... That such a man could go so far toward realizing his ambitions, and -- above all -- could find millions of willing tools and helpers; that is a phenomenon the world will ponder for centuries to come." Mein Kampf must be read and constantly remembered as a specimen of evil demagoguery that people whenever men grow tired of thinking and acting for themselves. In his translation Ralph Manheim has taken particular care to give an exact English equivalent of Hitler's highly individual, and often awkward style, including his occasional grammatical errors. We believe this book should stand as the complete, final, and definitive English version of Hitler's own story of his life, his political philosophy, and his thwarted plans for world domination. The book details Hitler's childhood, the "betrayal" of Germany in World War I, the desire for revenge against France, the need for lebensraum for the German people, and the means by which the National Socialist party can gain power. As Hitler and the Nazis gained power, first party members and then the general public were pressured to buy the book.
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"I am not here to criticize or defend Hitler, but as a historian, professor, author and a journalist, I am here to release a factual, fair, unbiased and objective analysis of this book, yet first to make a few points: I. In America we don’t ban or censor information (like this book is banned in Germany), on the contrary we allow public to read Communist, Fascist, Islamic, Nazi and all other ideologies’ texts, and then judge for themselves about these texts. As much as Hitler is criticized and hated in the West, yet he is admired and adored in many parts of the world such as East Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary), Middle East (Turkey, Iran, and many Arab nations) and other areas. Like it or not, Hitler is the architect and creator of a global political and economical ideology named National Socialism (Nazism) which any free thinker or curious person must study like he studies any other ideology. There is also a fine introduction by Bob Carruthers (Scottish historian, scholar, filmmaker and author) included."
"If you read this book with focus, objectivity, and equip yourself with the tools for critical thinking, you will gain much insight into the causes of these endless wars and social upheavals that plague the planet today."
"Interesting book."
"Yaay colorized pictures on the back and it's easy to write essays with, thanks to its annotations and organization."
"It is not the easiest book to understand."
"very eye opening, you really get a sense of what was going on in his head."
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Best Australian & Oceanian Politics

Penguin the Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family
Penguin the Magpie is the extraordinary true story of recovery, hope, and courage as one injured bird and her human family learn to heal and celebrate life, featuring the gorgeous photography of Cameron Bloom and a captivating narrative by New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Day Book Bradley Trevor Greive. The connections that Sam and her family make through love reveal a triumph of the human and of the bird spirit. This is a remarkable story of human suffering and a rescued bird who returns the love she received.” (Frans de Waal, author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?). "This beautiful, profound, life-changing book carries the message that wild birds have a depth of emotion, intelligence, individuality, and personality with which they can communicate empathetically and profoundly with people. I find myself returning to this healing story again and again to marvel at and be inspired by the gorgeous souls of Penguin the Magpie and her human family." “From the instant Penguin tumbles from her nest down to the pavement, this book embodies the discovery of how another being can bring new depth and meaning to our lives, even in the darkest times.Through nuanced photographs and unassuming prose, it reveals an insight both familiar and fantastical—hope and healing are within our grasp when we look beyond ourselves.” (Vint Virga, DVM, author of The Soul of All Living Creatures).
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"This book is an absolute treasure."
"'On a wing and a prayer', and with incredible photos, you, too, will fall in love with this beautiful family."
"I was extremely moved by this story of love, family, compassion and perseverance."
"I just finished reading it and am in tears but also filled with joy and awe at the beautiful journey and inspirational story it tells."
"A beautiful story of how we grieve during times of loss and how the love of family and a quirky little bird has the power to bring joy and purpose back into your life."
"Inspiring, amazing and vert sweet."
"This was a very warm story and the photos are beautiful throughout."
"I loved this book and prayed we adopt a little wounded bird someday."
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Best Middle Eastern Politics

The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
“One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq,” (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing ), The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle. “A rare glimpse into the mind of a Navy SEAL,” (Clint Emerson, New York Times bestselling author of 100 Deadly Skills ) Kevin Lacz brings you onto the battlefield and relays the tough realities of war. An instant classic that will be of enormous value to future warriors, scholars, and anyone who cares about our military and our veterans.”. (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing). "[Lacz's] pungent, plain-spoken account has lots of butt-kicking and some tears, and serves to remind civilian readers again that war is another world...an unapologetic tribute to the habits and attitudes of the professional warriors of SEAL Team THREE...a late but worthy arrival to the Navy SEAL memoir genre." The finest story of a SEAL team in combat: alternately violent, thoughtful, funny and raw. Serving with the elite Navy Seals, Kevin faced bullets and bombs to stop terrorists from coming toward us. In The Last Punisher, Kevin tells his story in a compelling and earthy way that brings the challenges of the soldier to every page. "A remarkable tribute to the power of teamwork and a rare honest glimpse into a brotherhood where the stakes are life and death. (John Rocker, retired Major League Baseball pitcher and director of public affairs for Save Homeless Veterans).
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"That said, I've never met Mr. Lacz so I have no personal connection with him though I learned, after reading his book that he apparently lives in my old stomping grounds in the Panhandle. I figured it would be like all the other books out there where authors talks more about their accomplishment, with perhaps some embellishments here and there, mix in a little CDI (chick dig it) lingo and presto "I'm a hero." Mr. Lacz gives the ground truth of war and the warriors who fight to protect our freedoms along with his own experiences, warts and all. The Last Punisher will put you under the helmet and in the books kicking of moon dust as you walk the streets of Ramadi. If you've seen the movies; American Sniper, Lone Survivor, 13 hrs, and so forth, you can easily visualize where Lacz is taking you. (Forgive me Dauber but Amazon censors). Lacz does not get into the politics of war save for the REMFs (get the book for the definition) who were calling the shots putting people in harms way oftentimes with poor judgment."
"A good account of the training and growth of Special operators."
"Continued thoughts and prayers for your fallen Brother's and their families. Be safe Brother!!!!!"
"Having just attended the 10 year anniversary of Marc Lee's death, I can honestly say everyone should definitely read such a touching, authentic and compelling account of one Teamguy's experience."
"After reading the whole book and reflecting on it I felt like Kevin was living in the shadows of Chris Kyle."
"While reading certain parts of the story where I'm caught up in what is happening and on the edge of my seat, the author would throw a description of for example the smell of their quarters that catch me and I laugh out loud."
"Got my kindle on a Friday after Prime Day, had a few books I downloaded to read for a short trip to the West Coast."
"While no man will ever have the legendary story of Chris Kyle I'd actually say The Last Punisher is a more well-written book than American Sniper."
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Best Caribbean & Latin American Politics

War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico's history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. “A meticulous and riveting account of the decades-long clash between the Puerto Rican independence movement, led by Pedro Albizu Campos, and the commonwealth's U.S.-appointed stewards, national police force, the FBI and, ultimately, the U.S. Army" —Ray Monell, New York Daily News. "[Nelson Denis] provides scathing insights into Washington's response to Albizu Campos's nationalist party and its violent revolution in 1950 that still has broad implications...his perspective of largely overlooked history could not be more timely." "In searing and well-researched prose, former New York assemblyman and El Diario editorial director Denis covers a much-neglected side of U.S. imperialist and colonial practice in Puerto Rico...The historical account he adeptly weaves unabashedly reveals the government's racist and often predatory actions toward its Caribbean colony...This timely, eye-opening title is as much a must-read as Juan Gonzalez's Harvest of Empire ." Denis provides a more detailed account, thanks to exclusive interviews conducted over a span of decades, as well as thousands of public records, including recently de-classified FBI documents." Here we have a full-throated eulogy of brave heroes, men and women of conviction, who devoted every drop of their blood to a people and a principle...Denis packs 258 pages (plus another 71 pages of notes) with detailed accounts of government corruption, police abuse, Wall Street greed, scientific experimentation, politicking, graft, racism, wholesale slaughter, surveillance, assassinations, eugenics, propaganda, espionage, forgery and falsification — all within the span of half a century, and on an island no bigger than Connecticut." “A patient, calibrated, fully-researched study of the mendacious, hypocritical way the United States treats its Caribbean colony, castrating its leadership, bombarding its villages, experimenting biologically with its population. “As more than a half century of failed US policy toward Cuba comes to a slow end, Nelson Denis's fascinating new book is a timely reminder of that other island in the Caribbean that the United States took possession of in 1898: Puerto Rico.
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"I was stunned and astounded by Nelson Denis’enthralling book, “ War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony.” This book documents a "secret history" of Puerto Rico that is not taught in our schools - not in the US, and definitely not in Puerto Rico. Yet these events did happen, and they are presented this meticulously researched book with nearly 100 pages of footnotes as well as many intriguing photos of that epoch. By the end of the book, the entire US government has been placed on the witness stand, cross-examined, and found guilty of stealing an entire island."
"War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony may very well be "The Definitive Guide" to Puerto Rico's independence movement and Pedro Albizu Campos but it's not for any sense of objective completeness. You'll read about the USA's bombing its own citizens; performing irradiation on political prisoners; systemically purchasing the private property and disenfranchising Puerto Ricans of land ownership; converting the island into a sugar monocrop; the process of sterilization of 1/3 of Puerto Rican women; examples of obvious propagandizing and racism leading up to the invasion of the Puerto Rico; and the assignment of puppet governors on the island to control the people while maintaining the aura of democracy."
"Everybody should read this book, Puerto Ricans and non-Puerto Ricans alike."
"It is a historical book; it exposes the tragic history of my country and how it was raped and pillaged by the US empire."
"This is a comprehensive and enthralling book detailing the injustices endured by Puerto Ricans, particularly during the earlier decades of the American occupation of Puerto Rico."
"This book have gave me a better understanding of the present situation regarding the island status and chaos."
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Best Russian & Former Soviet Union Politics

The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
It was a massive attack on America but the Russian hacks appeared to have a singular goal―elect Donald J. Trump as president of the United States. New York Times bestselling author of Defeating ISIS , Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize finalist for Hacking ISIS , career intelligence officer, and MSNBC terrorism expert correspondent Malcolm Nance’s fast paced real-life spy thriller takes you from Vladimir Putin’s rise through the KGB from junior officer to spymaster-in-chief and spells out the story of how he performed the ultimate political manipulation―convincing Donald Trump to abandon seventy years of American foreign policy including the destruction of NATO, cheering the end of the European Union, allowing Russian domination of Eastern Europe, and destroying the existing global order with America at its lead. The Plot to Hack America is the thrilling true story of how Putin’s spy agency, run by the Russian billionaire class, used the promise of power and influence to cultivate Trump as well as his closest aides, the Kremlin Crew, to become unwitting assets of the Russian government. “ The Plot to Hack America is an essential primer for anyone wanting to be fully informed about the unprecedented events surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Subsequent developments show that Nance, the experienced intelligence operative, was way ahead of the curve .”. –Michael Lipkin, New York Journal of Books. “ Every single assertion Nance offers is backed by material from the PUBLIC record, clearly documented in end notes.”. –Kenneth J. Bernstein, Daily Kos. “If you had read this book as I did in November 2016 after Trump’s surprising, even to him, election, you would have known all this and all the characters now appearing who were in the Trump orbit and campaign… Thanks to the hero of the day, Malcolm Nance, we all now see where Mueller’s investigation is going and how its widening net includes interviewing White House insiders and Trump’s family members... By reading this book, at the urging of some of my key European advisors, I was forewarned of exactly how the Internet and all our media would be used by the Kremlin hackers to exploit the gullibility of US voters, so as to create today’s confusion and further divisions in our society.”. –Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets. “In his detailed and informed study Nance argues that, in effect, America's War on Terror created a new breed of vicious terrorists who wear the mask of Islam like actors in a Kabuki theatre while carrying out horrifically un-Islamic acts.”. ―Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News, from his foreword. The absurd claims were immediately refuted directly by a presidential candidate’s family.”. ―Dmitry Peskov,Russian government spokesman. “In the era of corporate dominated mainstream media and feckless herd reporting, Skyhorse's willingness to tackle tough issues that other publishers won't touch has made it a critical cog in our democracy .”. –Robert F. Kennedy Jr., New York Times bestselling author.
Reviews
"In chapter five, the author discusses Russia’s new model of coordinating all aspects of intelligence, propaganda, and cyber operations, which he calls “hybrid warfare.” We learn about advanced persistent threats or APTs, which are “a description of malware toolkits used by hackers.” These hacker groups have been active in other countries as well, such as Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, and others. For example, we have the leaks prior to the Democratic National Convention which ended up pitting Bernie supporters against Hillary supporters; after Trump’s speech on immigration after the Mexico visit, DCCC documents from Pelosi’s computer on immigration and other items were released; within days of the NY Times stating that anything Trump said needed fact-checking, the Cyber Bears hacked the news organization; a similar thing occurred with Newsweek, and we could go on. Nance concludes by saying that, “Russian use of cyber weapons to perform criminal acts and damage our electoral process was intended to remove faith in America itself.” He sees politics itself under attack due to hacking and demagoguery."
"OMG Malcolm nailed it."
"They REPORT the news they DON'T MANUFACTURE the news."
"Mr. Nance nailed the factual truth with supportive information."
"This book makes me afraid and angry at the same time."
"Wow."
"It has never been more important to use critical thinking in the consumption of information."
"People still fawn over Obama and Hillary thinking Trump is the problem."
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Best International Political Treaties

Undemocratic: Rogue, Reckless and Renegade: How the Government is Stealing Democracy One Agency at a Time
Jay Sekulow—one of America’s most influential attorneys—explores a post Obama landscape where bureaucracy has taken over our government and provides a practical roadmap to help take back our personal liberties. The bureaucracy violates the rights of Americans without accountability—persecuting adoptive parents, denying veterans quality healthcare, discriminating against conservatives and Christians for partisan purposes, and damaging our economy with job-killing rules. Jay Sekulow is widely regarded as one of the foremost free speech and religious liberties litigators in the United States, having argued twelve times before the US Supreme Court in some of the most groundbreaking First Amendment cases of the past quarter century.
Reviews
"Every American who is concerned about the direction of the country in the midst of almost unimaginable change can learn a great deal from Sekulow's careful, scholarly and nonpartisan analysis of the. bureaucracy that grows more powerful daily."
"Love the ability to listen while I drive."
"I consider myself a well informed American but my socks were blown off when I started reading this book."
"This book explains, in easy to understand detail, what our current government has plunged our country into and the steps we need to take to reclaim our American Heritage."
"Do all you can to save this country; the LORD could use your time, your talents and your treasure to Jesus the evil are numerous: but "the laborers are few, PRAY ye the LORD of the harvest to send laborers (paraphrase-of which you need to be one) into HIS harvest field."."
"Jay "tells it like it is" in a "no-holds-barred" fashion."
"The style of writing is engaging and easy to follow considering the complexities and intrigue that characterize the massive exploitation by government agencies. It will be an invaluable tool for those of us who want to shrink the massive growth of the federal government and restore checks and balances that will not allow executive agencies to have so much unconstitutional power."
"We are losing our freedoms and thank the Lord we have someone like Jay Sekulow fighting for us."
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Best Political Trades and Tariffs

For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the British East India Company faced the loss of its monopoly on the fantastically lucrative tea trade with China, forcing it to make the drastic decision of sending Scottish botanist Robert Fortune to steal the crop from deep within China and bring it back to British plantations in India. "The plot for Sarah Rose's For All the Tea in China seems tailor-made for a Hollywood thriller...a story that should appeal to readers who want to be transported on a historic journey laced with suspense, science and adventure." "In For All the Tea in China , the most eventful era of the tea plant gets the inspired treatment it deserves." "In this lively account of the adventures (and misadventures) that lay behind Robert Fortune's bold acquisition of Chinese tea seedlings for transplanting in British India, Sarah Rose demonstrates in engaging detail how botany and empire- building went hand in hand." Sarah Rose conjures up the time and tales as British Legacy Teas are created before our eyes. " For All The Tea In China is a rousing Victorian adventure story chronicling the exploits of botanical thief Robert Fortune, who nearly single- handedly made the British tea industry possible in India.
Reviews
"Methinks the reviewers who attack the book on scholarly grounds have no concept of the Journalistic license popularized, but not invented, by Truman Capote ["In Cold Blood"] in the non-fiction novel genre. [The non-fiction novel is a literary genre which, broadly speaking, depicts real historical figures and actual events narrated woven together with fictitious allegations and using the storytelling techniques of fiction."
"I'm only half way through but this a wonderful book on so many levels: history, natural history, scientific history, economics, botany and not the least of all, a must for any tea lover."
"This book tells the story of a botanist who traveled through portions of China digging up tea plants, learning how best to cultivate them and how to make the best tea."
"This is an entertaining book which covers botany, tea, and the history of the English "theft" of tea."
"Loved this book."
"I drink a cup of tea w/new respect and knowledge."
"In the 1840s the British Empire and the British East India Company were rising powers, while China was in the first stages of a century long decline. Tea was a drink which had become increasingly important to Europeans, especially the British, and a small group of opportunistic and amoralofficials in the East India Company engaged in some skulldeggery and outright theft to obtain tea plants which could then be cultivated in Britain's "jewel in the crown," India."
"I liked the fact that this book had two titles, for the sole reason to advertise and appeal to United States verses European audiences."
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Best International Diplomacy

When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history—the end of the Cold War. Amazingly, when the Soviet Union--with its 20,000 or so nuclear weapons--collapsed, the world became (for a time, anyway) more peaceful and prosperous, thanks in no small part to the wisdom, vision, and restraint of President George H.W. Bush. “The Cold War’s end offered peril and promise, and Jeffrey A. Engel’s revealing and deeply researched new history demonstrates that George H.W.
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"As the rumors spread, the flailing Communist regime was suddenly gripped by terror that controlling the thousands of East Berliners at the gate, and the thousands of West Berliners waiting to embrace them, could end in a river of blood as it had in Tienanmen Square just weeks earlier. But more than anything the story that Engel weaves is of President Bush, in the face of Right Wing resistance, cautiously embracing the realization that the end of the Cold War was at hand and the challenge of not getting in it's way.When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War."
"It is subtitled ‘George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War’ but actually reviews Bush’s overall record on the world stage, which also includes the US interventions in Panama and Somalia; the First Gulf War; and negotiations for NAFTA and the expansion of NATO, although Engel regards Bush’s keeping lines of communication open with China despite the horrors of Tiananmen Square as “his single greatest diplomatic achievement”. Now it is obviously perfectly possible to make out this case if, like Engel, you admit that others (most notably Gorbachev) may have had as great, or even a greater, impact upon events; if you characterise Bush’s vision in relatively modest terms; if you admit that Bush was fallible; and if you are flexible regarding the application of time-scales in which to assess his achievements. And so, we don't need to be out there trying to micromanage the desire for change.”. That is to say, it is central to Engel’s revisionist appreciation of Bush that a large part of his success consisted of benign inactivity and specifically in counselling no crowing over America’s “winning” of the Cold War and the spreading of “its” democratic values, yet in making the case for Bush Engel cannot always resist the temptation to express patriotic pride. Thus one sentence (ignoring the British Empire) postulates that “If one ranks the American empire as the world’s most powerful, rivalled only by imperial Rome in its heyday, then for a brief moment … George H. W. Bush was the most powerful man in human history.” More tellingly still, Engel at one point refers to the Soviet Union having “surrendered”. Since we did not, a moral outrage was committed and Saddam Hussein stayed in power, and the US had to keep forces in Saudi Arabia to defend against a renewed strike on Kuwait by a reconstituted Republican Guard.”. In short, Engel puts up a spirited defence of Bush which makes interesting reading but ultimately his attempted enhancement of Bush’s reputation on the world stage is achieved by dodging some difficult questions. In bigging up Bush, Engel is thus sometimes guilty of beating around the bush."
"Interesting bit on page 390 that the end of the Cold War was rather in 1990, than 1991, when the Soviet Union decided not to help Iraq."
"Bush's foreign policy and underlying strategic views."
"I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s, which meant I knew there was once a Cold War, I knew the west had won, and every history professor I ever had assumed I knew how it happened because I was alive when it occurred - never mind that I was three years old when the Berlin Wall Fell."
"In this time of upheaval in the American presidency, and antagonism on the world stage, it is refreshing to read about a time when the President acted presidential, understood the ramifications of his actions, and worked to avoid (rather than encourage) international upheaval."
"I found this to be both an insightful and entertaining read."
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Best Arms Control

The Conscience of a Conservative
The book reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star.
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"All conservatives must have this book."
"To me, it's clear Goldwater is not advocating victory through force, but is suggesting the US should collaborate with policies that would be illegal for us, and should not support a system that truly was inhumane."
"It says Conscience of a Conservative, but reads like Conscience of a Libertarian."
"When I first read the subject book years ago I thought it read like a manifesto for the liberal philosophical position."
"This is an excellent book that lays out sound reasons why we should favor private markets over the welfare state and why capitalism is the moral system that respects human dignity and the human spirit."
"I found the basis of a lot of conservative thought that exist today within the text of this writing."
"This was during the height of the cold war and his foreign policy is remarkably relevant to our current international political scene."
"Goldwater made a Conservative out of this Liberal, some fifty or sixty years ago...."
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Best National & International Security

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C.
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"This is the best book for understanding the roll of the CIA in Afghanistan and the war on terror."
"There were no apparent gaps in the connected dots and most connections made solid sense."
"If you have interest in covert operations and the intelligence agencies of the united States, this is an amazing book."
"Great product, would definitely recommend to others."
""Ghost Wars" is a fresh, detailed, and fascinating assessment of the United States' experience with Afghanistan from 1979 to the eve of 9/11/2001. Coll's recounting of this twenty year saga goes far to explain the roots and development of the United States's inability to deter the danger that became so graphically evident the day after this book's narrative ends. Yes, the book is detailed, but it would be a disservice to back away from the intricacies of the story -- just as it has proven to be a mistake for the United States to have backed away from the complexities of Afghanistan once the Soviets withdrew. While one might wish to disengage from such interwoven complexities, the risk of ignoring a failing state such as Afghanistan is to allow the creation of a untamed country in which an extreme regime such as the Taliban and a group as dangerous as that sponsored by Osama bin Laden can take root and thrive. I do wish that Coll had carried through with an epilogue to shed light on the events in Afghanistan of the past two to three years and the relationship of the U.S. to that sad country today. I know Coll has more to say about how the United States' response to 9/11 in Afghanistan has affected our relations with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia."
"If you want to know what really happened, you need to read this book."
"There are no 'Ghosts' to be found but a lot of hauntings as Coll brings into focus a series of turns and events in a troubled part of the world where tribal histories and passions have produced and fueled some very determined fighters."
"Steve Coll has done an outstanding job in presenting the history of our relationship with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the Afghan freedom fighters and shows how that history foretells what is occurring in the world today."
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