It’s time for a history lesson! Get ready for an Anne Boleyn you never knew, and a celebration of the golden age of running. 

THE CREATION OF ANNE BOLEYN:  A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo. A ground-breaking retelling and reclaiming of Anne Boleyn’s life and legacy from a preeminent cultural thinker puts old questions to rest and raises some surprising new ones.

KINGS OF THE ROAD: How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar Made Running Go Boom by Cameron Stracher. For fans of The Perfect Mile and Born to Run, a riveting, three-pronged narrative about the golden era of running in America—the 1970s—as seen through the fascinating lives and careers of running greats, Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar. 

BLUE ASYLUM by Kathy Hepinstall. Now in paperbackIn the midst of the American Civil War, a southern plantation owner’s wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for interfering with his slaves. She is sent to an island mental asylum to come to terms with her wrongdoing, but instead finds love and escape with a war-haunted Confederate soldier. 

KILL OR CAPTURE: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency by Daniel Klaidman. Now in paperback. From one of the most respected investigative journalists in Washington, a revelatory look at the Obama administration’s internal workings, showing the fractures, competing cliques, and, ultimately, the deepest divides within the president’s own mind as he has struggled to define national security policy differently than his predecessor. 

Happy reading!

Dan Klaidman talks Guantanamo Bay and drones on The Colbert Report. 

Read KILL OR CAPTURE for a revelatory look at the Obama administration’s internal workings.

Available now, top investigative reporter Dan Klaidman’s inside look, KILL OR CAPTURE: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency. 
Read an excerpt. 
Is Barack Obama an idealist or a ruthless pragmatist? He vowed to close Guantánamo, put an end to coercive interrogation and military tribunals, and restore American principles of justice, yet in his first term he has backtracked on each of these promises, ramping up the secret war of drone strikes and covert operations. Behind the scenes, wrenching debates between hawks and doves—those who would kill versus those who  
Dan Klaidman has spoken to dozens of sources to piece together a riveting Washington story packed with revelations. As the president’s inner circle debated secret programs, new legal frontiers, and the disjuncture between principles and down-and-dirty politics, Obama vacillated, sometimes lashed out, and spoke in lofty tones while approving a mounting toll of assassinations and kinetic-war operations. Klaidman’s fly-on-the-wall reporting reveals who has his ear, how key national security decisions are really made, and whether or not President Obama has lived up to the promise of candidate Obama. Readers making up their minds about him during the 2012 election year will turn to KILL OR CAPTURE to decide.

Available now, top investigative reporter Dan Klaidman’s inside look, KILL OR CAPTURE: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency

Read an excerpt

Is Barack Obama an idealist or a ruthless pragmatist? He vowed to close Guantánamo, put an end to coercive interrogation and military tribunals, and restore American principles of justice, yet in his first term he has backtracked on each of these promises, ramping up the secret war of drone strikes and covert operations. Behind the scenes, wrenching debates between hawks and doves—those who would kill versus those who  

Dan Klaidman has spoken to dozens of sources to piece together a riveting Washington story packed with revelations. As the president’s inner circle debated secret programs, new legal frontiers, and the disjuncture between principles and down-and-dirty politics, Obama vacillated, sometimes lashed out, and spoke in lofty tones while approving a mounting toll of assassinations and kinetic-war operations. Klaidman’s fly-on-the-wall reporting reveals who has his ear, how key national security decisions are really made, and whether or not President Obama has lived up to the promise of candidate Obama. Readers making up their minds about him during the 2012 election year will turn to KILL OR CAPTURE to decide.

Obama’s secret ‘kill list’? Learn more in Daniel Klaidman’s KILL OR CAPTURE, out June 5.  

Now available, Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer!
One of the biggest scandals in American politics is waiting to explode:  the full story of the inside game in Washington shows how the permanent  political class enriches itself at the expense of the rest of us.  Insider trading is illegal on Wall Street, yet it is routine among  members of Congress. Normal individuals cannot get in on IPOs at the  asking price, but politicians do so routinely. The Obama administration  has been able to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to its  supporters, ensuring yet more campaign donations. An entire class of  investors now makes all of its profits based on influence and access in  Washington. Peter Schweizer has doggedly researched through mountains of  financial records, tracking complicated deals and stock trades back to  the timing of briefings, votes on bills, and every other point of  leverage for politicians in Washington. The result is a manifesto for  revolution: the Permanent Political Class must go.
And check out some of the author’s recent media appearances!
Newsweek
60 Minutes
The Early Show

Now available, Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer!

One of the biggest scandals in American politics is waiting to explode: the full story of the inside game in Washington shows how the permanent political class enriches itself at the expense of the rest of us. Insider trading is illegal on Wall Street, yet it is routine among members of Congress. Normal individuals cannot get in on IPOs at the asking price, but politicians do so routinely. The Obama administration has been able to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to its supporters, ensuring yet more campaign donations. An entire class of investors now makes all of its profits based on influence and access in Washington. Peter Schweizer has doggedly researched through mountains of financial records, tracking complicated deals and stock trades back to the timing of briefings, votes on bills, and every other point of leverage for politicians in Washington. The result is a manifesto for revolution: the Permanent Political Class must go.

And check out some of the author’s recent media appearances!

Newsweek

60 Minutes

The Early Show

Steven Rattner’s Overhaul is new in paperback!
In Overhaul, Steven Rattner delivers an inside account of the  Obama administration’s bold bid to save the auto industry.  From his  vantage point at the helm of the intervention, Rattner crafts a tightly  plotted narrative of political brinksmanship, corporate incompetence,  and personalities under pressure in a high-stakes drama of Washington  and Detroit. He also explains the tough choices he and his team made to  keep Chrysler and GM in operation — while working against the clock in  the face of intense lobbying from staunch Democratic allies and vocal  opposition from free market partisans.Overhaul is a candid,  gripping story of one of the most difficult crises of President Obama’s  first year in office, with lessons relevant for all managers and  executives.

Steven Rattner’s Overhaul is new in paperback!

In Overhaul, Steven Rattner delivers an inside account of the Obama administration’s bold bid to save the auto industry.  From his vantage point at the helm of the intervention, Rattner crafts a tightly plotted narrative of political brinksmanship, corporate incompetence, and personalities under pressure in a high-stakes drama of Washington and Detroit. He also explains the tough choices he and his team made to keep Chrysler and GM in operation — while working against the clock in the face of intense lobbying from staunch Democratic allies and vocal opposition from free market partisans.

Overhaul is a candid, gripping story of one of the most difficult crises of President Obama’s first year in office, with lessons relevant for all managers and executives.