Books like The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Frank Rich

A former senator argues for a politics of faith, inclusiveness, and justice, examining money, media, economic insecurity, racial tensions, and global threats while urging a return to constitutional principles to heal America.

Noam Chomsky argues that the United States itself is a failed state, critiquing its interventionist policies, nuclear risks, Iraq occupation, and democratic deficits in both foreign and domestic arenas.

Hillary Rodham Clinton recounts her historic 2016 presidential campaign, examining the sexism, criticism, and double standards she faced as the first woman nominated by a major party and reflecting on her coping strategies after the loss.

Seymour M. Hersh exposes how the Bush administration’s decisions turned the September 11 attacks into a divisive Iraq war, revealing the links between early intelligence failures, political ideology, and the Abu Ghraib scandal.

Collected speeches and essays.

James Carroll’s *Crusade* is a collection of critical columns that confront the Bush administration’s war on terror, Iraq policy, and faith‑based foreign agenda, offering moral and historical scrutiny of U.S. military imperialism.

At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than ever. In over thirty timely, accessible and urgent essays, Chomsky cogently examines the burning issues of our post-9/11 world, covering the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. This is an essential collection, from a vital and authoritative perspective.

The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader contains the full screenplay of Michael Moore’s documentary, along with extensive documentation—articles, letters, photographs, and cartoons—supporting its exploration of 9/11, the Iraq War, and U.S. foreign policy.

"The former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine brilliantly revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the intersection of American media and politics. In 1987, Gary Hart--articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive--seemed a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for president and led George H.W. Bush comfortably in the polls. And then: rumors of marital infidelity, an indelible photo of Hart and a model snapped near a fatefully named yacht (Monkey Business), and it all came crashing down in a blaze of flashbulbs, the birth of 24-hour news cycles, tabloid speculation, and late-night farce. Matt Bai shows how the Hart affair marked a crucial turning point in the ethos of political media--and, by extension, politics itself--when candidates' 'character' began to draw more fixation than their political experience. Bai offers a poignant, highly original, and news-making reappraisal of Hart's fall from grace (and overlooked political legacy) as he makes the compelling case that this was the moment when the paradigm shifted--private lives became public, news became entertainment, and politics became the stuff of Page Six"--