Newsmax Rising Bestsellers – Week of Feb. 14, 2022

The Newsmax Rising Bestsellers list will do more than stimulate your mind. These reads may challenge your beliefs, broaden your perspectives, excite your curiosities, or widen your imagination.

These books may not necessarily appear on the official New York Times list of bestsellers, but they're the ones our Newsmax audience is reading, talking about, sharing with friends, and buying.

Here are the Newsmax Rising Bestsellers for the week of Feb. 14, 2022:

1. "The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: A Novel" by Allison Pataki (Ballantine Books) This new title from the daughter of former New York Gov. George Pataki imagines the storied life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the heiress to Post cereal fortune and builder of Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach architectural jewel now owned by Donald Trump. A wife four times over, Marjorie’s tastes in men — a blue-blooded party boy, a charismatic financier who betrayed her, an international diplomat with a dark side, and a bon vivant whose shocking secrets would shake Palm Beach society — come to life in the Pataki’s fictionalized behind-the-scenes, high-society drama. (Fiction)

2. "The Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America" by Willard Sterne Randall (Dutton) Randall, a historian and investigative reporter, looks at the private financial affairs of the Founders — and how they waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, he answers the questions: How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? (Nonfiction)

3. "The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism" by Matthew Continetti (Basic Books) Continetti, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and founding editor of the Washington Free Beacon, lays out a sweeping account of conservatism’s evolution, from the Progressive Era through the present, describing how conservatism began as networks of intellectuals, developing and institutionalizing a vision that grew over time, until they began to buckle under new pressures, resembling national populist movements. Drawing out the tensions between the desire for mainstream acceptance and the pull of extremism, the author argues that the more one studies conservatism’s past, the more one becomes convinced of its future. (Nonfiction)

4. "Lincoln and the Fight for Peace" by John Avlon (Simon & Schuster) Avlon, a veteran political analyst, chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to secure lasting peace as the Civil War wound down in 1865. He begins with a dangerous two-week trip with his young son to visit troops on the front lines, see combat up close, meet liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comfort wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. Lincoln, the author reveals, believed decency could be the most practical form of politics — an example of which was Ulysses S. Grant’s famously generous terms of surrender to General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. Lincoln’s vision, he argues, would be vindicated long after his death, inspiring future generations in their own quests to secure a just and lasting peace. (Nonfiction)

5. "The Dark Hours" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) Beloved Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch and fellow cop Renée Ballard have their hands full as they hunt a methodical killer who strikes on New Year’s Eve and a fiendish pair of serial rapists, the Midnight Men, who terrorize women and leave no trace. This is the 23rd entry in the popular Bosch series and the fourth featuring Ballard (Fiction)