BOOKS MODERN



Ackerman, Elliot, The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan, Penguin Press, 2022

 

Adayfi, Mansoor, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo, Hachette Books, 2021

 

Allison, Graham, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017

 

Anderson, Perry, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers, Verso; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Anderson, Scott, The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts, Doubleday, 2020

 

Andreas, Joel, Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism, AK Press; Revised Edition, 2015

 

Andrews, Kehinde, The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World, Bold Type Books, 2021

 

Bacevich, Andrew, After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed (American Empire Project), Metropolitan Books, 2021

 

Bacevich, Andrew J., America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Bacevich, Andrew J., The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Holt Paperbacks, 2009

 

Bacevich, Andrew, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory, Picador Paper; Reprint edition, 2021

 

Bailey, Beth, Richard H. Immerman, Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, NYU Press; Edition Unstated, 2015

 

Bass, Gary J., The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Beckley, Michael, Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs), Cornell University Press; Unabridged edition, 2018

 

Bergen, Peter L., The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader, Free Press, 2006

 

Berwick, Jeff, Charlie Robinson, The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire, Independently published, 2020

 

Bessner, Daniel, Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (The United States in the World), Cornell University Press, 2018

 

Bevins, Vincent, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, PublicAffairs, 2021

 

Blackwill, Ambassador Robert D., Jennifer M. Harris, War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Blumenthal, Max, The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump, Verso, 2020

 

Brose, Christian, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, Hachette Books; Reprint edition, 2022

 

Browning, Christopher S., International Security: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Oxford University Press, 2013

 

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2020

 

Burns, William J., The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal, Random House, 2019

 

Carroll, Michael C., Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory, William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2005

 

Chambers II, John Whiteclay, G. Kurt Piehler, Major Problems in American Military History: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series), Houghton Mifflin, 1998

 

Clapper, James R., Trey Brown, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence (Random House Large Print), Viking, 2018

 

Cockburn, Andrew, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, Verso (September 21, 2021

 

Coll, Steve, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Coll, Steve, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2004

 

Conant, Jennet, Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist, Simon & Schuster; Illustrated Edition, 2017

 

Cooley, Alexander, Daniel Nexon, Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Cooper, Andrew Scott, The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Corera, Gordon, Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies, William Morrow, 2020

 

Crist, David, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Cull, Nicholas J., Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age (Contemporary Political Communication), Polity, 2019

 

Dempsey, Martin, No Time For Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point To The West Wing, Missionday, 2020

 

Dimaggio, Anthony R., Selling War, Selling Hope: Presidential Rhetoric, the News Media, and US Foreign Policy Since 9/11, State Univ of New York Pr, 2015

 

Draper, Robert, To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq, Penguin Press, 2020

 

Edwards, Sebastian, The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Engdahl, F. William, Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance, mine.books, 2018

 

Engdahl, F. William, Myths, Lies and Oil Wars, Gertrud Engdahl, 2012

 

Engelhardt, Tom, Glenn Greenwald (Foreword), Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World, Haymarket Books; Illustrated edition, 2014

 

Ferguson, Charles, No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos, PublicAffairs, 2008

 

Foglesong, David S., America's Secret War against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920, The University of North Carolina Press; Illustrated edition, 2001

 

Friedman, George, America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies, Anchor; Reprint edition, 2005

 

Gates, Robert M., A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Gates, Robert M., Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World, Knopf, 2020

 

Gellman, Barton, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, Penguin Press, 2021

 

Gewen, Barry, The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World, W. W. Norton & Company, 2021

 

Gordon, Philip H., Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, St. Martin's Press, 2020

 

Gordon, Rebecca, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes, Hot Books, 2016

 

Grandin, Greg, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (American Empire Project), Holt Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2007

 

Grandin, Greg, Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman, Picador; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Greenberg, Andy, Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers, Anchor, 2020

 

Gustafson, Kristian, Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964–1974, POTOMAC BOOKS; Illustrated edition, 2007

 

Hanhimäki, Jussi M., The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Oxford University Press; 2nd edition, 2015

 

Harding, Luke, The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (Vintage), Vintage, 2014

 

Harman, Jane, Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe, St. Martin's Press, 2021

 

Hartung, William D., Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex, Bold Type Books; First Trade Paper Edition, 2012

 

Hastings, Michael, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan, Plume, 2012

 

Helms, Richard, William Hood, Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency, Presidio ss; Revised ed. Edition, 2004

 

Hersh, Seymour M., Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 2005

 

Hickman, Joseph, David Talbot, The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers, Hot Books; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Hoffman, David, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, Anchor, 2010

 

Horton, Scott, Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

 

Hossein-zadeh, Ismael, The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

 

Ikenberry, G. John, A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order, Yale University Press, 2020

 

Immerwahr, Daniel, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Picador; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Isaacson, Walter, Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition, 2013

 

Jacobsen, Annie, Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America, Back Bay Books; Illustrated edition, 2015

 

Jacobsen, Annie, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency, Back Bay Books; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Jankowicz, Nina, How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict, I.B. Tauris, 2020

 

Jones, Bruce, To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers, Scribner; Reprint edition, 2022

 

Kinzer, Stephen, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, Henry Holt and Co., 2019

 

Kinzer, Stephen, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Klare, Michael T., Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (American Empire Project), Holt Paperbacks; 2nd Printing edition, 2005

 

Klay, Phil, Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War, Penguin Press, 2022

 

Kupchan, Charles A., Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Lacey, James, The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II, Bantam, 2020

 

Ledbetter, James, Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex (Icons of America), Yale University Press, 2011

 

Loftus, John, America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History, Trine Day; Second Edition, 2010

 

Lowenthal, Mark M., Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, CQ Press; Eighth edition, 2019

 

MacMillan, Margaret, War: How Conflict Shaped Us, Random House, 2020

 

Martyanov, Andrei, Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning, Clarity Press, Inc., 2018

 

Martyanov, Andrei, The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs, Clarity Press, 2019

 

Mattis, Jim, Bing West, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, Random House, 2019

 

Mazarr, Michael J., Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy, PublicAffairs, 2019

 

Mazzetti, Mark, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2014

 

McCoy, Alfred W., In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books), Haymarket Books, 2017

 

McCoy, Alfred W., Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies), University of Wisconsin Press, 2009

 

McCoy, Alfred W., The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Lawrence Hill Books; Revised edition, 2003

 

McDougall, Walter A., The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America's Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest, Yale University Press, 2016

 

McKinney, Cynthia PhD, Sena Mike Gravel, How the US Creates "Sh*thole" Countries, Clarity Press, Inc., 2018

 

McMaster, H. R., Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, Harper; Illustrated Edition, 2020

 

Mearsheimer, John J., Sebastian Rosato, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy, Yale University Press, 2023

 

Mearsheimer, John J., The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (Henry L. Stimson Letures), Yale University Press; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Mendez, Antonio J., Jonna Mendez, The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War, PublicAffairs; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Miller, Judith, William J Broad, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2002

 

Mitter, Rana, Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945, Mariner Books; Illustrated edition, 2014

 

Moyn, Samuel, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, Picador, 2022

 

National Coission on Terrorist Attacks, The 9/11 Coission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition), W. W. Norton & Company; Authorized Edition, 2004

 

Naylon IV, Maurice L., The New Ministry of Truth: Combat Advisors in Afghanistan and America's Great Betrayal, Hellgate Press, 2019

 

Olson, James M., Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying, Potomac Books, 2007

 

Otis, Cindy L., True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News, Feiwel & Friends; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Packer, George, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, Vintage, 2020

 

Packer, George, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

 

Perlroth, Nicole, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

 

Rejali, Darius, Torture and Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2009

 

Reus-Smit, Christian, Duncan Snidal, The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (Oxford Handbooks), Oxford University Press, 2010

 

Ricks Thomas E., Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005, Penguin Books, 2007

 

Ricks Thomas E., Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005, Penguin Books, 2007

 

Ricks, Thomas E., The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Risen, James, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, Mariner Books; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Risen, James, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, Free Press, 2006

 

Rohde, David, In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State", W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

 

Ross, Dennis, Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Rothkopf, David, Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, PublicAffairs, 2006

 

Rovner, Joshua, Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs), Cornell University Press; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Sachs, Jeffrey D., A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, Columbia University Press, 2018

 

Sarotte, M. E., Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate, Yale University Press, 2021 

 

Scahill, Jeremy, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, Nation Books, 2013

 

Schlosser, Eric, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults), Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Schmitz, David F., Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War: The End of the American Century (Vietnam: America in the War Years), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Schmitz, David F., The Sailor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of American Foreign Policy (Studies In Conflict Diplomacy Peace), University Press of Kentucky, 2021

 

Schmitz, David F., The Triumph of Internationalism: Franklin D. Roosevelt and a World in Crisis, 1933-1941, POTOMAC BOOKS, 2007

 

Schueman, Thomas, Zainullah Zaki, Always Faithful: A Story of the War in Afghanistan, the Fall of Kabul, and the Unshakable Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter, William Morrow, 2022

 

Sciubba, Jennifer Dabbs, The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security (Praeger Security International), Praeger; Illustrated edition, 2010

 

Sciutto, Jim, The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America, Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Snowden, Edward, Permanent Record, Metropolitan Books, 2019

 

Steil, Benn, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Tamir, Yael, Why Nationalism  Princeton University Press (November 3, 2020

 

Tinsman, Heidi, Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States (American Encounters/Global Interactions), Duke University Press Books; UNK edition, 2014

 

Vine, David, United States of War (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 48), University of California Press, 2021

 

Vitalis, Robert, White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (The United States in the World), Cornell University Press; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Walsh, Lawrence E., Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

 

Weiner, Tim, The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020, Holt Paperbacks, 2022

 

Weir, Alison, Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

 

WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire, Verso; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Wilford, Hugh, America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East, Basic Books, 2017

 

Wilford, Hugh, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America, Harvard University Press, 2009

 

Williams, Brian Glyn, Counter Jihad: America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria (Haney Foundation Series), University of Pennsylvania Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Williams, Susan, White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, PublicAffairs, 2021

 

Woodward, Bob, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987, Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition, 2005

 

Zegart, Amy B., Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Zeihan, Mr. Peter, The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder, Twelve; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Zeihan, Peter, The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America, Zeihan on Geopolitics, 2017

 

Zoellick, Robert B., America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, Twelve; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

 


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