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When Camel Club member Caleb Shaw nearly falls victim to one of a series of mysterious deaths targeting the elite of Washington, D.C., the members of the Camel Club attempt to unravel a secret conspiracy that threatens all of America.

The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life.

John Glenn describes his life, including his childhood, World War II activities, work as a test pilot and astronaut, career as a senator, and return to space in 1998.

Kennedy's life reads like a Greek tragedy....In many ways, this is a fable disguised as narrative history. Its moral is that the journey of Kennedy's life, his commitment to public service, to the poor and the disadvantaged, should be seen as an inspiring account of what it was like to be at Robert Kennedy's side and why he and many like him felt that vision and virtue walked with them."

Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days in Congress to his years in the Oval Office, she made Hope and Change happen through blood, sweat, tears, and lots of briefing binders. But for every historic occasion-meeting the queen at Buckingham Palace, bursting in on secret climate talks, or nailing a campaign speech in a hailstorm-there were dozens of less-than-perfect...