NYT Hardcover Political Books
Bestseller List for January 15, 2017
KILLING THE RISING SUN
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Holt
9781627790628
1-62779-062-4
The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II.
HILLBILLY ELEGY
J.D. Vance
HarperCollins
9780062300546
0-06-230054-7
A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his own childhood in the Rust Belt.
SETTLE FOR MORE
Megyn Kelly
Harper/HarperCollins
9780062494603
0-06-249460-0
The anchor of Fox News’s “The Kelly File” discusses why she left a succesful career as a lawyer, the value of hard work, the personal and professional challenges she has faced.
THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE
Thomas L Friedman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
9780374273538
0-374-27353-7
How the accelerating pace of technology, globalization and climate change are reshaping the world, and what we can do about it.
ALL THE GALLANT MEN
Donald Stratton with Ken Gire
Morrow
9780062645357
0-06-264535-8
An eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor by a 94-year-old veteran.
OUR REVOLUTION
Bernie Sanders
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s
9781250132925
1-250-13292-4
The Vermont senator and former candidate for the Democratic nomination for president delivers his message of social and economic justice.
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Spiegel & Grau
9780812993547
0-8129-9354-3
A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story by the national correspondent of The Atlantic, framed as a letter to his teenage son.
WHITE TRASH
Nancy Isenberg
Viking
9780670785971
0-670-78597-0
The role of the white poor in American history.
THE NEW JIM CROW
Michelle Alexander
New Press
9781595586438
1-59558-643-1
A law professor takes aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men. Originally published in 2010.
JUST MERCY
Bryan Stevenson
Spiegel & Grau
9780812984965
0-8129-8496-X
A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.