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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsigh

Fiasco, Thomas E. RicksA's #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in IraqA-The Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours

A bestselling author’s innovative history of the civil rights movement, stressing its unexpected affinities with military strategy and lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world.When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, she set the struggle for racial justice in America on a new and momentous course. Why did the civil rights movement in its heyday succeed in expanding rights and galvanizing a nation? And what lessons can today’s nonviolent activists learn from its practitioners’ strategies, tactics, and decisions made at key junctures?In Waging a Good War, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks presents new insight into America’s defining social justice campaign, using the unlikely prism of military history and thought. He deftly follows Martin Luther King Jr. and other key figures from one campaign to another, demonstrating that the philosophy of nonviolence was an active and even aggressive method of confronting foes and achieving victory. I

From the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble, an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to IraqHistory has been kind to the American generals of Worl