In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America...

A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason ...

Beginning with his appointment as Director of Central Intelligence in 1997, Tenet unfolds the momentous events that led...

Two years ago, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of...

A parallel army lives on the margins of the Iraq war---nearly 100,000 armed men, invisible yet in plain sight, doing jobs the overstretched and understaffed military can't or won't do. The U.S....

The diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood...

Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. George Crile tells how Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman...

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a...

In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical...

In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, Anderson Cooper offers an unstinting, up-close view of the...