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David Ignatius Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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David Ignatius is a columnist for the Washington Post. I am a columnist for the Washington Post, a former Harvard Kennedy School fellow and author of eleven espionage thrillers.

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Book Cover for: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J. D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J. D. Vance
David IgnatiusDavid Ignatius

As we think about racial division in America, here's a fascinating July post by Steve Hammons about shared experience of poor Blacks and Whites in the Middletown Ohio area where "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance and columnist Clarence Page both grew up. https://t.co/folQw5e1TA

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Book Cover for: Artificial Intelligencia, Richard A. Clarke

Artificial Intelligencia

Richard A. Clarke
David IgnatiusDavid Ignatius

Richard A. Clarke in-conversation with David Ignatius: Artificial Intelligencia – Crowdcast https://t.co/FeRoDDnnsq

Hardcover, 2022

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China, Ralph D. Sawyer

Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China

Ralph D. Sawyer
David IgnatiusDavid Ignatius

Shameless plug dept.: I've been writing about the spy world in my journalism and fiction since the 1980s, but the "summer spy serial" we launched in the Post today, "The Tao of Deception," was a fun new twist. Hope readers enjoy it. Here's link to Part I. https://t.co/kFFiW9UCPW

Hardcover, 2007

$44.00$22.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II, Evan Thomas

Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

Evan Thomas
David IgnatiusDavid Ignatius

Must read at a moment when Russia threatens tactical nukes is Evan Thomas’s new historical thriller about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II https://t.co/aDSz0tWuPT #Amazon

Paperback, Large Print, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Every War Must End, Fred Charles Iklé

Every War Must End

Fred Charles Iklé
David IgnatiusDavid Ignatius

In the agonizing final years of the Vietnam War, a strategist named Fred Iklé wrote a treatise titled “Every War Must End.” His basic theme was that “wars are easier to start than to stop” — a message that applies powerfully now to the conflict in Ukraine. https://t.co/8MF5Nh1lmO

Paperback, 2005

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Quantum Spy: A Thriller, David Ignatius

The Quantum Spy: A Thriller

David Ignatius
David IgnatiusDavid Ignatius

Super-exciting that @TheLewisTan wants to star in a television version of my novel “The Quantum Spy,” with the superb Chinese American screenwriter Dave Kalstein as show runner. Just wow. https://t.co/89Rpgn3CI3

Paperback, 2018

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale, Simon Clark

The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

Simon Clark
David IgnatiusDavid Ignatius

For an astonishing story of how the globalized economy can be manipulated, read the devastating account in “The Key Man” by @SimonWSJ and Will Louch of machinations of financier Arif Naqvi. #The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Wa... https://t.co/ygyNxY0Dbl #Amazon

Hardcover, 2021

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut, Nicholas Schmidle

Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

Nicholas Schmidle
David IgnatiusDavid Ignatius

Looking forward to talking Tuesday with @nickschmidle about his amazing new book. Test Gods. https://t.co/hWqEzBN4x6

Paperback, 2022

$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Paladin: A Spy Novel, David Ignatius

The Paladin: A Spy Novel

David Ignatius
David IgnatiusDavid Ignatius

From Adam LeBor's review today in @FT: "For Michael Dunne, protagonist of David Ignatius’s enthralling new thriller The Paladin, abandonment by the agency is just the start. His family life collapses, his intimate secrets are blasted across the internet and he is imprisoned.

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