AtlasBooks
Homeland Insecurity (Nov., $24.95) by Terry D. Turchie and Kathleen M. Puckett sounds a warning about unchecked partisan assaults on the FBI.
Berrett-Koehler
Cracking the Code: The Art and Science of Political Persuasion (Nov., $24.95) by Air America radio host Thom Hartmann unpacks the science and technology of effective political communication.
Columbia Univ. Press
Enemies of Intelligence (Sept., $26.95) by Richard K. Betts recommends strategies for better intelligence gathering and assessment. A Caravan Book.
Ivan R. Dee
(dist. by NBN)
The Immigration Solution (Oct., $24.95) by Heather MacDonald et al. outlines a policy to admit skilled, educated people to the U.S. based on what they can offer the country.
Encounter Books
Why the Democrats Are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Fall of the People's Party (Oct., $29.95) by Mark Stricherz argues that a focus on the secular elite has cut off the Democrats from their one-time working-class, religious base.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Sept., $25) by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt expand their argument, originally published as a controversial article in London Review , that American support of Israel is not in its own best interest. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Free Press
Inside the Bush White House: The Presidency of George W. Bush (Sept., $18) by Robert Draper, a longtime observer of his fellow Texan, presents his view of the Bush administration.
Marching Toward Hell (Feb., $27) by Michael Scheuer examines ways the Iraq war has made America less secure and more vulnerable to attack.
Fulcrum
Power of the People: America's Energy Choices for the Future (Jan., $14.95) by Carol Sue Tombari explains and advocates clean, green 21st-century technologies.
HarperCollins
Memo to the President Elect (Jan., $25.95) by Madeleine Albright serves up blunt advice on restoring America's world standing. 150,000 first printing.
HarperOne
Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (and Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don't) (Sept., $26.95) by Michael Gerson. A former speechwriter for George W. Bush states his case.
The Great Awakening (Jan., $25.95) by Jim Wallis chronicles the demise of the religious right and the American legacy of combining personal faith and political justice.
Hill & Wang
Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It) (Feb., $25) by William Poundstone explains the faults in the American electoral system and offers solutions. 50,000 first printing.
Island Press
Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy (Nov., $25.95) by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks, foreword by President Bill Clinton, articulates a plan to revolutionize energy production and save the planet.
Key Porter Books
(dist. by PGW)
American Power: Potential and Limits in the 21st Century (Oct., $26.95), edited by Patrick Luciani and Rudyard Griffiths, collects essays from academics on U.S. foreign policy. Ad/promo.
MIT Press
The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower (Oct., $29.95) by Robert F. Barsky seeks to understand the intense responses to Chomsky's work in language and politics.
Morrow
Kids Are Americans Too: Your Rights to a Good, Safe, Fun Life (Oct., $25.95) by Bill O'Reilly and Charles Flowers. Following the success of The O'Reilly Factor for Kids, the author offers more advice to kids and everyone else in the family. 400,000 first printing.
New York Univ. Press
The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons (Oct., $34.95) by Donald Dewey uses 200 illustrations to depict a history of U.S. political cartooning.
PalGrave MacMillan
A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor, and Country (Sept., $24.95) by Wesley K. Clark reflects on his military past and delivers his vision for the future. 200,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Pocket Books/Threshold Editions
Surrender Is Not an Option (Nov., $26) by John R. Bolton recounts the author's career, his 16-month tenure as U.N. ambassador and his analysis of foreign policy.
Random House
Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault Against America's Fundamental Rights (Oct., $24.95) by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose celebrates ordinary people fighting a freedom-eroding government. Ad/promo.
Life's a Campaign: Everything I've Learned from the Big Shots (Oct., $24.95) by Chris Matthews explains the art of persuasion as learned from political masters. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.
Scribner
Follow the Money: How George W. Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog-tied America (Sept., $26) by John Anderson explains the hijacking of the Texas political system and the country. 150,000 first printing.
The Fall of the House of Bush: How a Group of True Believers Put America on the Road to Armageddon (Oct., $27) by Craig Unger examines the Middle East as a conflict of fundamentalists vs. the modern world. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Sentinel
Primary Mistake: How the Washington Republican Establishment Lost Everything in 2006 (and Sabotaged My Senatorial Campaign) (Sept., $25.95) by Steve Laffey tells all about the shocking 2006 primary.
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage (Sept., $25.95) by Nicholas Wapshott scrutinizes this close relationship.
SourceBooks
Confessions of a Political Hitman (Sept., $23.95) by Stephen Marks details his own career as “opposition researcher,” or political career assassin. 25,000 first printing.
State Univ. of New York Press
When Leaders Learn and When They Don't: Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung at the End of the Cold War (Jan., $65) by Akan Malici develops a new theory of foreign policy decision making and experiential learning.
Univ. OF California Press
Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-based Future (Oct., $24.95) by former Bush administration member John J. DiIulio Jr. debates the separation of church and state.
Univ. of North Carolina Press
American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time (Oct., $29.95) by John McGowan endorses the basic principles, values and commitments of American liberalism.
Univ. of Oklahoma Press
Daschle vs. Thune: Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race (Sept., $24.95) by Jon K. Lauck examines the infamous 2004 South Dakota senate race that unseated a party leader.
Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (Dec., $24.95) by Marc Sageman makes the case that Al Qaeda now operates as small independent groups rather than a unified force.
Viking
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches (Sept., $25.95) by John W. Dean assesses the decline of all three branches since Nixon's time. Ad/promo. 12-city author tour.
A New America: Awakening the National Spirit (Oct., $24.95) by Lou Dobbs describes the folly of sticking by our current domestic and foreign policy. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.
Walker & Co.
A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country (Oct., $24.95) by Larry J. Sabato sets forth changes to reshape the way Americans view their political system. 60,000 first printing.
