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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators <p><b>One of the Best Books of the Year</b></p> <p><b><i>Time </i></b><b>*</b> <b>NPR</b> <b>*</b> <b><i>Washington Post</i></b> <b>*</b> <b>Bloomberg News</b> <b>*</b> <b><i>Chicago Tribune</i></b> <b>*</b> <b>Chicago Public Library</b> <b>*</b> <b><i>Fortune</i></b> <b>*</b> <b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b> <b>*</b> <b><i>E! News</i></b> <b>*</b> <b><i>The Telegraph</i></b> <b>*</b> <b>Apple</b> <b>*</b> <b><i>Library Journal</i></b></p> <p><b>In this newly updated edition of the “meticulous and devastating” (Associated Press) account of violence and espionage that spent months on the</b> <b><i>New York Times</i></b> <b>Best Sellers list, Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost - from Hollywood to Washington and beyond.</b></p> <p>In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood’s most power­ful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family. This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it’s the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement.</p> <p><b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b> <b>Book Prize Finalist</b><br /> <b> Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography</b><br /> <b> IndieBound number one best seller</b><br /> <b><i>USA Today</i></b> <b>best seller</b><br /> <b><i>Wall Street Journal</i></b> <b>best seller</b></p> Why We're Polarized <b>This <i>New York Times</i> and <i>Wall Street Journal </i>bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (<i>The Washington Post</i>) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and how we are polarizing it—with disastrous results. </b><br /><br />“The American political system—which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president—is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,” writes political analyst Ezra Klein. “We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole.”<br /> <br />“A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), <i>Why We’re Polarized</i> reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture.<br /> <br />America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together.<br /> <br />Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis.<br /> <br />“Well worth reading” (<i>New York</i> magazine), this is an “eye-opening” (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>) book that will change how you look at politics—and perhaps at yourself. Das Ende der Diplomatie: Warum der Wandel der amerikanischen Außenpolitik für die Welt so gefährlich ist (German Edition) Amerikas Außenpolitik dankt ab. Immer mehr Diplomaten-Büros im State Department stehen leer. Die Außenpolitik des klassischen Typs - zivile Kanäle zum Zwecke von Friedenspolitik aufzubauen und zu pflegen - steht vor dem Ende. Und damit auch die Qualität der USA als westliche Führungsmacht. Weil zivile Optionen schwinden, bleibt am Ende nur die militärische. Die Kriegsgefahr wächst. Davor warnt der Ex-Diplomat Ronan Farrow in diesem Buch, das die desaströsen Folgen dieser Politik an verstörenden Beispielen aus Afghanistan und Irak, Somalia, Syrien und Ägypten nachzeichnet. Die USA entwickeln sich zu einer Nation, die in Krisenlagen schießt und erst danach Fragen stellt. Ein Warnruf, der gerade auch Europäer und Deutsche aufschrecken muss. May 7, 2018 - Ronan Farrow The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason <p><b>The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated - politically, culturally, and economically - by the bloodless Wall Street centrism of the Democrats and the lizard-brained atavism of the right: there is a better way, the Chapo Way.</b></p> <p>In a manifesto that renders all previous attempts at political satire obsolete, <i>The Chapo Guide to Revolution </i>shows you that you don’t have to side with either the pear-shaped vampires of the right or the craven, lanyard-wearing wonks of contemporary liberalism. These self-described “assholes from the Internet” offer a fully ironic ideology for all who feel politically hopeless and prefer broadsides and tirades to reasoned debate.</p> <p>Learn the “secret” history of the world, politics, media, and everything in-between that <i>they </i>don’t want you to know and chart a course from our wretched present to a utopian future where one can post in the morning, game in the afternoon, and podcast after dinner without ever becoming a poster, gamer, or podcaster.</p> <p><i>The Chapo Guide to Revolution</i> features biographies of important thought leaders and the 10 new laws that govern Chapo Year Zero (everyone gets a dog, billionaires are turned into Soylent, and logic is outlawed). If you’re a fan of sacred cows, prisoners being taken, and holds being barred, then this book is <i>not </i>for you. However, if you feel disenfranchised from the political and cultural nightmare we’re in, then Chapo, let’s go....</p> To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope <b>“An insightful study of a president who listened to even his harshest critics with grace and humility.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br /><br /><b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>GLAMOUR</i></b><br /><br /> Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters written by ordinary American citizens—the unfiltered voice of a nation—from his Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was the first president to interact daily with constituent mail and to archive it in its entirety. The letters affected not only the president and his policies but also the deeply committed people who were tasked with opening and reading the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous, and apologies that landed in the White House mailroom.<br /><br /> In <i>To Obama, </i>Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter writers themselves, and the White House staff who sifted through the powerful, moving, and incredibly intimate narrative of America during the Obama years: There is Kelli, who saw her grandfathers finally marry—legally—after thirty-five years together; Bill, a lifelong Republican whose attitude toward immigration reform was transformed when he met a boy escaping MS-13 gang leaders in El Salvador; Heba, a Syrian refugee who wants to forget the day the tanks rolled into her village; Marjorie, who grappled with disturbing feelings of racial bias lurking within her during the George Zimmerman trial; and Vicki, whose family was torn apart by those who voted for Trump and those who did not.<br /><br /> They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of need, in search of connection. They wrote with anger, fear, and respect. And together, this chorus of voices achieves a kind of beautiful harmony. <i>To Obama</i> is an intimate look at one man’s relationship to the American people, and at a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.<br /><br /><b>Praise for <i>To Obama</i></b><br /><br /> “I cried several times.”<b>—Pete Souza<br /></b><br /> “Beautifully researched and written . . . A moving and inevitably nostalgic or even elegiac read, redolent of the human grace and statesmanship of the Obama presidency.”<b>—<i>The Guardian</i></b><br /><br /> “These stories, when you read them all together, tell the American story. They’re inspirational, they’re frustrating, they’re angry, they’re grateful, they’re resilient.”<b>—Valerie Jarrett</b> Catch and Kill Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators & War on Peace By Ronan Farrow 2 Books Collection Set <b>Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:</b> <br> <br> <b>Catch and Kill Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators & War on Peace By Ronan Farrow 2 Books Collection Set:</b> <br> <br> <b>Catch and Kill Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators:</b> <br> In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance that could not be explained - until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood, to Washington, and beyond. <br> <br> <b>War on Peace:</b> <br> In an astonishing journey from the corridors of power in Washington, DC, to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth - Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Korea among them acclaimed investigative journalist Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most consequential and poorly understood changes in American history. His first-hand experience as a former State Department official affords a personal look at some of the last standard bearers of traditional statecraft, including Richard Holbrooke, who made peace in Bosnia and died while trying to do so in Afghanistan. Drawing on newly unearthed documents, and richly informed by rare interviews with warlords, whistle-blowers, and policymakers - including every living secretary of state from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson - War on Peace makes a powerful case for an endangered profession. War and Peace Arcturus Publishing The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House