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In The Senator Next Door, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar chronicles her remarkable heartland journey, from her immigrant grandparents to her middle-class suburban upbringing to her rise in American politics. At a moment when America's government often seems incapable of getting anything done, Amy Klobuchar proves that politics is still the art of the possible.

As a 24 year former member of the United States Congress, Mr. Stearns describes the lessons he learned from getting elected and re-elected, his experience as a legislator and finally the lessons he learned about our Republic. These lessons go to the heart of explaining what must be done to preserve our 240 year experiment in democracy. He describes the tumultuous period of the Speaker Gingrich years, the 2008 Great recession, numerous scandals including the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the loss and regaining of the Republican majority in the United States House of...

As a 24 year former member of the United States Congress, Mr. Stearns describes the lessons he learned from getting elected and re-elected, his experience as a legislator and finally the lessons he learned about our Republic. These lessons go to the heart of explaining what must be done to preserve our 240 year experiment in democracy. He describes the tumultuous period of the Speaker Gingrich years, the 2008 Great recession, numerous scandals including the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the loss and regaining of the Republican majority in the United States House of...

From its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress--or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency's first fifteen years, Congress often monitored the CIA's actions and plans, sometimes aggressively.

Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, research at some two dozen archives, and interviews with former officials, Barrett provides an unprecedented and often colorful...

‘The inability to marshal his own side of the story has always been a bane

of the Jonathan Presidency and has resulted in a vacuum in contemporary

political history accounting of Nigerian. This is the vacuum to which Reno

Omokri has admirably responded.’

-Akin Osuntokun,

ThisDay columnist, former Political Adviser

to President Obasanjo, former MD of NAN.

‘In this book, at once incisive, polemical and brimming with powerful insider

details, Mr. Omokri tries to persuade the reader that the former president

was a victim...

‘The inability to marshal his own side of the story has always been a bane

of the Jonathan Presidency and has resulted in a vacuum in contemporary

political history accounting of Nigerian. This is the vacuum to which Reno

Omokri has admirably responded.’

-Akin Osuntokun,

ThisDay columnist, former Political Adviser

to President Obasanjo, former MD of NAN.

‘In this book, at once incisive, polemical and brimming with powerful insider

details, Mr. Omokri tries to persuade the reader that the former president

was a victim...