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John A. Farrell is a writer and journalist. He previously worked on the Spotlight team at the Boston Globe and has also written biographies of Clarence Darrow and Tip O’Neill. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Richard Nixon: The Life.

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I Alone Can Fix It (2021) is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Donald Trump’s final 12 months in the White House. Drawing on in-depth interviews with participants in the drama, it charts how a president who was on course for reelection ended up presiding over a doomed and bloody attempt to cling on to power. Along the way, it reveals the thinking behind Trump’s dysfunctional responses to the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement.

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Carol Leonnig is an investigative reporter at the Washington Post. The recipient of multiple Pulitzers, her work has covered everything from Russian interference in American elections to government surveillance of ordinary citizens. Leonnig is the author of Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service and is a regular on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.

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Zero Fail (2021) is a no-nonsense account of the ineptitude and recklessness that have plagued the US Secret Service in recent decades. From Kennedy to Trump, the Service has continually covered up for, and even promoted, agents who made impulsive, ill-considered and simply bad decisions.

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In Fear (2018), veteran journalist Bob Woodward explores the inner workings of the Trump administration. His reporting paints a picture of a disturbingly dysfunctional White House, staffed by individuals who are constantly undermining one another, often in an effort to prevent diplomatic and economic catastrophes from unfolding.

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What Happened (2017) is the story of the woman at the center of one of the craziest elections the United States has ever seen: the 2016 presidential election. This is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s account of her experience facing, and eventually losing to, Donald Trump – an opponent like no other – and the road that led her to this historic election.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has had a remarkable career in public service. She became the first First Lady still in the White House to be elected to a public office when she was voted New York’s first female senator in 2001. She went on to become the first woman to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Clinton’s other books include It Takes a Village and her two previous memoirs, Living History and Hard Choices.

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American Kompromat (2021) tells the dark and unsettling tale of how the Russian KGB began cultivating Donald Trump as an asset –⁠ and then hit the jackpot when he became the president of the United States. Drawing connections between Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and a mysterious Catholic sect called Opus Dei, it explores the reasons why Trump repeatedly did Putin’s bidding –⁠ and who enabled him to do so.

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Craig Unger is a journalist who has contributed to Vanity Fair for 15 years and formerly served as editor in chief of Boston magazine. He is the author of several books, including the best sellers House of Bush, House of Saud and House of Trump, House of Putin.

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Saving Justice (2021) is a compilation of the lessons James Comey has learned during his long career both as a lawyer and as an employee of the US Justice Department. In particular, Comey recounts the memorable cases he’s been involved in and how he’s learned the importance of the judicial system being separate from the partisanship of American politics.

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How To Destroy America in Three Easy Steps (2020) is an account of the political forces threatening to tear America in two. Drawing on history, philosophy, and politics past and present, this book emphatically argues that Americans should remember exactly what it is that unites them.

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