Newsmax Rising Bestsellers – Week of March 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 March 14, 2022:

1. “Ukraine’s Revolt: Russia’s Revenge” by Christopher M. Smith (Brookings Institution Press) Just weeks after the invasion of Ukraine comes this eyewitness account by a U.S. diplomat of Russia’s brazen attempt to undo the democratic revolution there, during its “Maidan Uprising” in 2013-2014. The book also counters Russia’s disinformation narratives about the revolution and how it used threats, economic pressure, lies and intimidation to crush it. When all of that failed, the Kremlin exacted revenge by annexing Ukraine's territory of Crimea and fomenting and sustaining a hybrid war in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 13,000 people and continues to this day. (Nonfiction)

2. “The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All’’ by Mary Childs (Flatiron Books) From the host of NPR’s “Planet Money’’ is this new biography of Bill Gross, who founded Pimco, one of today’s most powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms, and helped to reshape the American financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession — gaining legions of admirers, and enemies and earning him the nickname “The Bond King.” Like every American antihero, his ambition would also be his undoing. (Nonfiction)

3. “Dragonslayers: Six Presidents and Their War with the Swamp’’ by Larry Schweikart (Bombardier Books) The author, a professor of history at the University of Dayton, says “The Swamp’’ — which President Donald Trump” promised to drain has been around for more than 150 years, and he and five other major presidents have tried to drain it — all with varied success. Trump found a Deep State that had grown, layer upon layer, within the government, but decades previously, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan also fought it. The book explains why these Swamps exist, and why they were — and remain — so hard to defeat. (Nonfiction)

4. “Walking Through the Fire: My Fight for the Heart and Soul of America” by Steve King (Fidelis Publishing) Just two weeks after winning reelection to his ninth term in Congress, King says the “Swamp” unleashed a treacherous media blitzkrieg designed to kill his congressional political career forever. He knew Democrats and the media would pile on. Unfortunately, he writes, the threat was from within his own party and it was far more dangerous: The Republican establishment, RINOs, elitists, globalists, and Never Trumpers needed him out of the way. This memoir, he says, is the full story. (Nonfiction)

5. “Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father’’ by Nancy Rubin Stuart (Beacon Press) Stuart reveals the long-neglected stories behind the women Benjamin Franklin loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. They include Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years; Margaret Stevenson, a widowed landlady; and Catherine Ray, a 23-year-old New Englander with whom he traveled and exchanged passionate letters. (Nonfiction)