Newsmax Rising Bestsellers – Week of Sept. 5, 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 Sept. 5, 2022:

1. ‘‘Crisis of Command: How We Lost Trust and Confidence in America’s Generals and Politicians” by Stuart Scheller (Knox Press)

Former U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller’s new book, Crisis of Com-mand, lays bare the damning faults in our military, revealing how incom-petence, politics and a lack of accountability has corroded the military from within. In harrowing detail, Scheller describes the military’s failures in withdrawing from Afghanistan, and the crises that led him to speak out. Putting his own career in serious jeopardy, Scheller put his princi-ples over existing protocols, and holds generals’ responsible for “a dec-ades-long and still-ongoing betrayal” from top leadership. In a riveting, yet sobering book, the hood is pulled back as readers can fully under-stand what’s gone deeply wrong inside our military, and what can be done about it. (Nonfiction)

2. ‘‘The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan” by Elliot Ackerman (Penguin Press)

Twenty years of American presence in Afghanistan ended in one disas-trous week in August 2021, when the Taliban swept back into Kabul. The ensuing chaos, from the Kabul airport suicide bombing to the exodus of refugees, is harrowingly described by former CIA officer Elliot Acker-man in “The Fifth Act.” Ackerman pulls back the curtain on the U.S. government’s bureaucratic failures, how the intelligence on the Taliban’s advancements were wrong, and what really happened at the Kabul air-port. Ackerman reveals the actions he took on the ground in Kabul with colleagues, and how the end to U.S. presence in Afghanistan means a much darker future for the country. (Nonfiction)

3. ‘‘Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis” by Beth Macy (Little, Brown and Company)

Award-winning author Beth Macy, who wrote extensively about the opioid crisis in her 2018 book, “Dopesick,” is back with a heartbreaking new book on the next stage of the overdose crisis. The latest phase of the crisis is more threatening and more widespread, as Macy shines a light on the families affected by the crisis, yet so often forgotten. The book takes readers to the epicenter, additionally showcasing the heroes such as law enforcement officials, activists, and medical personnel saving lives. The curtain is peeled back on the villains of the opioid crisis, including Big Pharma and dark money groups, as overdoses hit all-time highs caused by the pandemic. Riveting yet infuriating, “Raising Lazarus” is the critical next chapter detailing the nation’s worst health disaster, one that is in its most deadly phase yet. (Nonfiction)

4. “Uncommon Influence: Saying Yes to a Purposeful Life” by Tony and Lauren Dungy (Compassion)

Pro Football Hall of Famer and former head coach of the Indianapolis Colts Tony Dungy has a lot of accomplishments in his storied career. Yet the actions of philanthropy and giving back may be the most powerful achievement of all for Dungy and his wife, Lauren. The influential cou-ple tells of their own compelling journey, and how you can follow in their footsteps to create lasting, positive change. The book teaches you 11 specific ways to positively use your influence and serves as a guide to not just become a better person, but to spread good deeds to those around you. The Dungys’ book is a roadmap to living a more fulfilling life, mak-ing a difference, and building compassion, and the ways to do it are mas-terfully described in “Uncommon Influence.” (Nonfiction)

5. “Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard’s Story” by Lee Sansum (Diver-sion Books)

Twenty-five years after Princess Diana’s death, ex-Royal Military Po-liceman and bodyguard to Princess Diana, Lee Sansum, tells the story of protecting one of the world’s most influential women. Sansum reveals his relationship with the Princess and her two sons, William and Harry, Di-ana’s plans for the future, what made Diana stand out, and why Diana was so deeply loved worldwide. Sansum was not traveling with Diana on the night of her fateful car accident in Paris, an event that stunned mil-lions and transformed his own life. After her death, Sansum tells of other prominent figures he’s protected, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Sylvester Stallone. From stories of his training in martial arts to de-scriptions of those fateful weeks in France with Diana and her lover, Dodi Fayed, Sansum’s book is all-engrossing and takes you along for the adventure. (Nonfiction)