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From the New York Times Bestseller Lists

Hardcover Political Books

  • #1

    AMERITOPIA

    Mark R Levin

    A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the utopian movement and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty.

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  • #2

    AMERICAN SNIPER

    Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice

    A member of the Navy Seals who has the most career sniper kills in United States military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.

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  • #3

    KILLING LINCOLN

    Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

    The commentator looks at the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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  • #4

    UNBROKEN

    Laura Hillenbrand

    An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

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  • #5

    CATHERINE THE GREAT

    Robert K Massie

    The author of “Nicholas and Alexandra” provides a sweeping narrative of the life of the minor 18th-century German princess who, thanks to ambition, luck, wiles and a strategic marriage, became Empress of All the Russias.

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  • #6

    IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS

    Erik Larson

    This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazi Party concentrates on William E. Dodd, who became the U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933, and his daughter, Martha.

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  • #7

    THE OBAMAS

    Jodi Kantor

    The ups and downs of building a life in the White House.

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  • #8

    HOW DO YOU KILL 11 MILLION PEOPLE?

    Andy Andrews

    Citing the Holocaust to show the need for truth in America.

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  • #9

    ELIZABETH THE QUEEN

    Sally Bedell Smith

    The public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II as she approaches her Diamond Jubilee.

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  • #10

    JACK KENNEDY

    Chris Matthews

    An admiring portrait.

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  • #11

    BOOMERANG

    Michael Lewis

    A look at some of the places — Greece, Ireland, Iceland — hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008, and at how it happened.

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  • #12

    BEING GEORGE WASHINGTON

    Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe

    How Washington turned himself into the indispensable (if imperfect) man.

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  • #13

    GREEDY BASTARDS

    Dylan Ratigan

    The host of MSNBC’s “Dylan Ratigan Show” proposes solutions to problems of banking, education, health care and dependence on foreign oil.

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  • #14

    PITY THE BILLIONAIRE

    Thomas Frank

    The author of “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” mocks powerful conservatives’ claims that they are victims of the liberal establishment.

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  • #15

    DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC

    Candice Millard

    The life and death by assassination (and medical malpratice) of President James A. Garfield.

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