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An “irresistibly readable” (David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor) collection of love letters by American presidents to their wives—and lovers—revealing an intimate and deeply personal side of our leaders. Our presidents loom so large in history that we often...

From sealing ships to spy planes, secret bases to collapsing glaciers, White Silence tells the story of humanity’s strangest relationship with a place we still barely understand. This isn’t just a nature book. It’s a geopolitical thriller, a Cold War ghost story, and a climate countdown clock — all layered beneath a sheet of ice a mile thick. Because Antarctica isn’t empty. It’s just quiet.

In 1988, Judge Joe O'Kicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States. He was newly remarried, sworn in as the president judge of a Pennsylvania county and on the fast track to a federal bench . . . Silently, however, a state police vice unit was in the midst of covert operation into O'Kicki's personal affairs. The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes, frequenting brothels, and running the county as if he were a "battleship commander." Later he'd concoct a plan to flee the country and exact revenge on his enemies.

With a sweeping forward momentum, this collection of thoughtful, provocative, short essays navigates the complex, sensitive, and often-concealed history of the African American experience. Moving from African ancestry through the underground railroad to Barack Obama, this captivating book journeys through timeline of African American revolution and defining moments in black history.