The view that America is on a dangerous path dominates this week’s Newsmax Rising Bestsellers. In the first, a renowned investigative author warns that the country is in a hot war with China, and losing. The second one reminds that today’s dangerous push toward globalism is nothing new. A third is a warning that the push for ESG investing is a roadmap to the bottom, and in the fourth, a popular TV psychologist charts a path out from the division America finds itself in today. The fiction selection takes the reader back to pre-war Nazi Germany in a compelling historical tale.

“Played: The Games of the 1936 Berlin Olympics,” by Glenn Allen & Richard Kaufman (Independently published)

This is a historical novel centered on real events and real people who made headlines nearly 90 years ago. Adolph Hitler wanted the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games to be a showcase for the superiority of the new German Aryan youth, and his politics and human rights violations prompted calls for an American boycott of the games. But U.S. Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage didn’t care about politics. He only wanted to send America’s best to Berlin — black, white, Christian or Jew, he didn’t care, as long as they performed. “A brilliantly written, absorbing book which puts the full impact of the ’36 Olympic games — and its aftermath — into proper perspective,” New York Times bestselling author Erik Sherman wrote. “Seldom does a book immediately draw you in like this one does. An important book about a critical time in world history.” [Fiction]“Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” by Peter Schweizer (Harper)

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