Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the power of the media--that can stifle even the best-intentioned...

When Illinois senator Lyle Simmons returns from a political fundraiser to find his wife murdered, Detective Charles Chang is assigned to the investigation, in a case that draws him into the dangerous world of political lobbyists with whom the senator has a close relationship.

Hillary Rodham Clinton tells her life story, describing her dedication to social causes, her relationship with her husband, and her accomplishments and difficult periods as First Lady.

A memoir in which John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, tells the story of his life, from his childhood in New Concord, Ohio, to his return to space in 1998 at age seventy-seven as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle.

She's the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It's a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party -...

In Mississippi, strategist Tom Quinlan is ordered to make a senator's second wife less threatening. Ronnie has a body, is younger than the senator's children and voters don't like her. As Tom molds Ronnie, they fall in love, then the senator is shot and Ronnie becomes a suspect. Fortunately, a prostitute does like Ronnie and identifies the real killer.

A profile of Hillary Rodham Clinton, discussing her midwestern girlhood, the development of her religious faith and political ideals, her education, her marriage to Bill Clinton, and her strengths and weaknesses as a politician and presidential candidate.

HEnry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly--a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. his new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart, and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sundya make a formidable team of sleuths-- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occuring among their friends...

Two neighbors, Meri, a recently married thirty-seven-year-old, and Delia, the wife of an adulterous senator, find their lives and marriages are not as different as they once thought.