Books are listed in their order of appearance in the Series.

1. Corona False Alarm? by Dr. Karina Reiss and Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi (2020): Karina Reiss was born in Germany and studied biology and the University of Kiel where she received her PhD in 2001. She is now an associate professor at the University of Kiel. She has published over 60 articles in the fields of cell biology, biochemistry, inflammation, and infection which have gained international recognitions and received prestigious honors and awards. Sucharit Bhakdi was born in Washington, D.C. and educated at schools in Switzerland, Egypt, and Thailand. He received his MD at the University of Bonn in Germany in 1970. He was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiberg from 1972 to 1976 and at the Protein Laboratory in Copenhagen from 1976 to 1977. He joined the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Giessen University and was a professor there until 1989. He was named chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz in 1990 where he remained until his retirement in 2012. Dr. Bhakdi has published over 300 articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology, and parasitology, for which he has received numerous awards including the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate.

2. World War C by Sanjay Gupta, MD (2021): Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the chief medical correspondent for CNN and host to the acclaimed podcasts Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction and Chasing Life, America’s go-to resources for expert advice on how to stay healthy and safe. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Life, Cheating Death, Monday Mornings, and Keeping Sharp, Dr. Gupta also works as an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

3. Panic Attack by Nicole Saphier, MD (2021): National bestselling author for her first book, Make America Healthy Again, Nicole Saphier is a known medical contributor and regular guest anchor for the Fox News Channel. Dr. Saphier is a full-time practicing, board-certified physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

4. Uncontrolled Spread by Scott Gottlieb, MD (2021). Scott Gottlieb is a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a regular contributor to the business and financial news channel CNBC and the CBS News program Face the Nation. Dr. Gottlieb is a healthcare investing partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates and a director of Pfizer, Inc. and Illumina, Inc. Time magazine has named him one of its “Fifty People Transforming Healthcare,” and Fortune magazine recognized him as one of the “World’s Fifty Greatest Leaders.” Dr. Gottlieb is an internal medicine physician and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

5. Silent Invasion by Dr. Deborah Birx (2022): Dr. Deborah Birx is the former White House Coronavirus Coordinator. She served in public health for the U.S. government for more than 40 years, working for multiple presidential administrations in that time. A former colonel in the U.S. Army, Dr. Birx spent much of her career researching HIV and working around the globe combatting the pandemics of HIV, TB, and malaria. She has held leadership positions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Institute of Research, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, and the State Department as Ambassador-at-Large and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator as part of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). She is currently a senior fellow at the Bush Institute.

6. Covidslayers by Rajesh Mohan, MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI (2020): Dr. Mohan is a quadruple board certified, fellowship trained interventional cardiologist. As the Chief Medical Officer of a hospital located in one of the early epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., and a practicing physician, he led from the front, managing the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

7. COVID Operation by Pamela A. Popper & Shane D. Prier (2020): Pamela A. Popper is an internationally recognized expert on nutrition, medicine and health; and the founder and Executive Director of Wellness Forum Health. She has been featured in many widely distributed documentaries, including Processed People, Making a Killing, Food Choices, and Diet Fiction, and appeared in the acclaimed documentary Forks Over Knives, which played in major theaters throughout North America in 2011. She is the author of Food Over Medicine: The Conversation That Can Save Your Life.  Shane D. Prier is a Wealth Manager and Private Client Advisor. During his 16-year career, he managed over $100,000,000 in assets for his clients.  

8. A Plague Upon Our House by Scott W. Atlas, MD (2021): Scott Atlas is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. As such he investigates the impact of the government and the private sector on access, quality, and pricing in health care, and key issues related to the future of technology-based innovation. He is a frequent policy advisor to policymakers and government officials in the U.S. and other countries. He has served as Senior Advisor for Health Care to several candidates for president, counseled key government officials, and testified before Congress on health care. From August through November 2020, he served as a Special Advisor to President Trump and as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Before his appointment at the Hoover Institute, he was Professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous books, including Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America’s Healthcare and Restoring Quality Health Care; and A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost. He was awarded the 2021 Freedom Leadership Award, Hillsdale College’s highest honor. He also received the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award, the highest career achievement honor for a distinguished alumnus from the University of Illinois. He received his MD degree from the University of Chicago.

9. The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (2021): Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the chairman of the board and chief legal counsel for Children’s Health Defense. He is also counsel to Morgan & Morgan, a nationwide personal injury practice, and the founder of Waterkeeper Alliance. Kennedy is an esteemed author, with a long list of published books including the New York Times bestseller Crimes Against Nature, as well as American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family, and Thimerosal: Let Science Speak. Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine’s “Heros for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. His reputation as a resolute defender of the environment and children’s health stems from a litany of successful legal actions. He received recognition for his role in the landmark victory against Monsanto, as well as in the DuPont case that inspired the movie Dark Waters (2019).

10. Pandemic Blunder: Fauci and Public Health Blocked Early Home COVID Treatment by Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn (2021): Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn has a long history of working on health issues. He was a full professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he directed a medical research program between colleges of engineering and medicine. As a senior official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Governors Association, he directed major studies on health-related issues from toxic waste sites, and he testified at over 50 US Senate and House hearings. His nonfiction books include From Pollution to Prevention, Sprawl Kills, and Delusional Democracy.

11. Rapid Virus Recovery by Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD (2021): Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD is a board-certified cardiologist. This is his 13th in a string of ground-breaking books including Curing the Incurable, Stop America’s #1 Killer!, Primal Panacea, Death by Calcium and Magnesium, Reversing Disease. He is the leading vitamin C expert in the world, and he frequently lectures about the proper role of vitamin C and antioxidants in the treatment of a host of medical conditions.
12. Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History by Steve Deace and Todd Erzen (2021). Steve Deace and Todd Erzen team up for the Steve Deace Show  each weekday on The Blaze media platform. This is Deace’s seventh book he’s either written or co-authored, and Erzen’s first. Both of them had a background in newspaper reporting before crossing over into broadcasting.

13. Covid – 19 Lockdowns on Trial by Michael Betrus (2020): Michael Betrus has authored fifteen business books, six of which have reached the bestsellers list. Witnessing the surge in unemployment during the lockdowns triggered his research and writing of this book. Michael is a graduate of Michigan State University.

14. The Defeat of COVID by Colleen Huber, NMD (2021):  Colleen Huber is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor. She was the Keynote Speaker at the 2015 Euro Cancer Summit, the 2016 World Congress on Cancer Therapy, and the 2016 and 2017 World Congress on Breast Cancer. Dr. Huber is the President of the Naturopathic Cancer Society. She is a Naturopathic Oncologist and Fellow of the Naturopathic Oncology Research Institute. Her research interests have been in the use of therapeutic approaches targeting metabolic aspects of cancer. Since the spring of 2020, Dr. Huber’s research interests have focused on the health hazards of masks and lockdowns. Her academic writing has appeared in The Lancet and Cancer Strategies Journal and other medical journals.

15. COVID: Why Most of What You Know is Wrong by Dr. Sebastian Rushworth (2021): Sebastian Rushworth is a recently graduated front-line doctor in Sweden who started working as an emergency room physician just prior to the pandemic. He chronicled some of his resultant learning about Covid in his blog in the form of an article which he sent to Malcom Kendrick, a British doctor he admired. Dr. Kendrick asked permission to re-post the article. The article immediately went viral with a half a million visits in the next two weeks. The British newspaper The Spectator contacted Sebastian asking for permission to reprint the article as did several other newspapers and blogs. Multiple TV and radio channels followed with requests to interview him. Subsequently he was contacted by a Swedish publisher who asked Dr. Rushworth to write a book about Covid which is the source of some excerpts for this series.

16: United States of Fear by Mark McDonald, MD (2021): Born and raised in Los Angeles, Dr. Mark McDonald graduated from UC Berkely before attending medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Trained in both adult and child and adolescent psychiatry at UCLA, he now works primarily with children in private practice in west Los Angeles. Dr. McDonald has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and Central America. His opinions on topics such as the need to re-open America’s schools, and the pandemic of fear in the United States today, have been widely published in local and national news including the Wall Street Journal and The Federalist.

17. COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science by Marc Siegel, MD (2020): Marc Siegel, M.D. is a leading medical expert on the global COVID-19 pandemic and a medical contributor for FOX News. President Trump, in an exclusive interview, calls Dr. Siegel one of his primary “guides” to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Siegel is a member of the board of contributors at USA Today, a columnist for The Hill, a contributor for The Wall Street Journal, a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and the medical director for Doctor Radio on Sirius XM. Dr. Siegel is also the author of False Alarm, The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear, The Inner Pulse, Unlocking the Secret Code of Sickness and Health, the novel Bellevue, as well as other books on the flu. With over 30 years of experience in the medical field, Dr. Siegel has written extensively on health, outbreaks, and pandemics.   

18. Pandemia by Alex Berenson (2021): Alex Berenson covered the drug industry and financial fraud as a reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of Tell Your Children: The Truth about Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, an Edgar Award-winning writer of bestselling thrillers, and a freelance journalist. A graduate of Yale University, he lives with his family in New Jersey and publishes (uncensored) at alexberenson.substack.com.

19. The Truth About COVID-19 by Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins (2021): Dr. Joseph Mercola is the founder of Mercola.com. A family physician, best-selling author, and recipient of multiple awards in the field of natural health, as well as primary author of the recently published peer-reviewed paper, “Evidence of COVID – 19 and It Severity,” Dr. Mercola’s vision is to change the modern health paradigm by providing people with a valuable resource to help them take control of their health. He has authored 11 health related books prior to this one. Ronnie Cummins is founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, a nonprofit, US-based network of more than two million consumers dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a health, just, and regenerative system of food, farming, and commerce. He has written two books on food and a five-book series titled “Children of the World.”

20. Economics in One Virus by Ryan A. Bourne (2021): Ryan Bourne occupies the R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics at the Cato Institute and is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Conservative Home. He has written on a number of economic issues, including fiscal policy, inequality, price and wage controls, and infrastructure spending. He is coauthor along with Kwasi Kwarteng and Jonathan Dupont, of A Time for Choosing: Free Enterprise in Twenty-First Century Britain. Before joining Cato, Bourne was Head of Public Policy at the Institute of Economic Affairs and head of Economic Research at the Center for Policy Studies (both in the UK). He has extensive broadcast and print media experience and has appeared on BBC News, CNN, Sky News, CNBC, and Fox Business Network. Bourne holds a BA and an MPhil in economics from the University of Cambridge.

21. Unmasked by Ian Miller (2022):   As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, author Ian Miller realized that his extensive background in data management and analysis made him remarkably well suited to track the data behind the outbreak. He began using publicly available data to create charts as a clear alternative for those seeking accurate information and data such as Rational Ground instead of sensationalized news stories and political posturing. His work and analysis have been featured in numerous media outlets such as Fox News and City Journal, referred to in many books, and used by national politicians to evaluate the potential impact of COVID-related policies. He is the author of 91 different books.

22. The COVID – 19 Pandemic by Laurie Collier Hillstrom (2021): Laurie Collier Hillstrom is a freelance writer and editor based in Michigan. She is the author of 50 books in the areas of American history, biography, and current events. Her published works include five previous volumes in the 21st Century Turning Points series as well as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A Biography; Black Lives Matter: From a Moment to a Movement; and Defining Moments: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

23. The Great Reset by Glenn Beck (2022): Glenn Beck, radio and television host and founder of TheBlaze.com, has written 21 bestselling books and is one of the few authors in history to have had #1 national bestsellers in the fiction, nonfiction, self-help, and children’s picture book genres. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a popular talk-radio nationally syndicated on Premier Radio Networks as well as hosting the Glenn Beck television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on Fox News, and now airs on TheBlaze. Beck is also the producer of For the Record on TheBlaze.

24. The COVID-19 Vaccine Guide by Kathryn M. Edwards, MD; Walter A. Orenstein, MD; David S. Stevens, MD (2021): Kathryn M. Edwards, MD the Sarah H. Sell and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University of Medicine, has conducted pivotal trials of vaccines licensed in the past several decades and has led the CDC-funded Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) site. She has served on many CDC, NIH, FDA, WHO, and IDSA committees. Walter A Orenstein, MD is a Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, Global Health, and Pediatrics at Emory University. From 2008 through 2011, he was Deputy Director for Immunization Programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From 1988 to 2004, he was the Director of the United States Immunization Program. He is former Assistant Surgeon General of the USPHS. David S. Stephens, MD, is the Stephen W. Schwarzmann Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Epidemiology at Emory University. He is Vice President for Research at Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Health and Sciences Center and is Chair of the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine.

25. The COVID- 19 Vaccine: An Expert’s Guide for All by Zeil Rosenberg, MD (2020): Zeil Rosenberg M.D. is a Board-Certified Preventive Medicine specialist who has devoted much of his life’s work to the development and delivery of safe and effective vaccines. Dr. Rosenberg is now immersed in the design and execution of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials. Dr. Rosenberg obtained his B.A. from Stanford, earned his MD at the UC, San Francisco, and completed his Residency at Cornell and has a degree in Public Health from Columbia.

26. Operation Warp Speed by Dr. Richard M. Fleming (2020): Dr. Fleming has received degrees in Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Psychology. He attended the University of Iowa College of Medicine and graduated with High Honors. Following medical college, he began a research career publishing several research papers on QCA, diets and heart disease and obtaining training in Nuclear Cardiology. Most recently he obtained a law degree which he has used in several Federal case filings including Civil Rights litigation and patent development. He has attempted to address some of the problems with Big Pharma – an area of his life where he states he has met with his greatest failures but which he continues to fight in an effort to expose what he considers to be moral wrongs. He has written at least 11 books.

27. Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine by David Heath (2022): David Heath is an award-winning investigative journalist. He has worked at several news organizations including CNN, USA Today, and the Center for Public Integrity. His work has helped to change policies and laws and has even led to criminal indictments. His articles have exposed illegal insider trading in drug research, questionable medical research, and the political influence used to derail tougher toxic-chemical standards. His work has appeared in PBS Frontline, PBS NewsHour, the CBS Evening News, the Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, Vice News, Scientific American and Mother Jones. He has won more than two dozen national journalism awards, including the Goldsmith, the Gerald Loch, and George Polk. His work with others has been nominated for a national Emmy, and he is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times.

28. A Shot to Save the World by Gregory Zuckerman (2021): Gregory Zuckerman is the author of The Man Who Solved the Market, The Frackers, and The Greatest Trade Ever. He is a special writer and investigative reported at the Wall Street Journal who writes about business, economic, and investing topics. He’s a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb award, the highest honor is business journalism. Zuckerman also appears regularly on CNBC, Fox Business, and other networks and radio stations around the globe.

29. The Case FOR Vaccine Mandates by Alan Dershowitz (2021): Alan Dershowitz is an American lawyer known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Currently Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst. He is the author of several books about politics and the law, including Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bulow Case (1985), the basis of the 1990 film Chutzpah; Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O. J. Simpson Case (1996); The Case for Israel (2003); and The Case for Peace (2005). His two recent works are The Case Against Impeaching Trump (2018) and Guilt by Accusation” The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo (2019).

30. The Case AGAINST Vaccine Mandates by Kent Heckenlively, JD (2021): Kent Hickenlively is an attorney, high school science teacher and a New York Times bestselling author of the book Plague of Corruption. Heckenlively has courageously taken on Big Pharma, Google, and Facebook in eight different books. After starting as a lawyer, he states that he was drawn to his original love of science which led him to becoming a science teacher. He comments that he teaches science during the day and writes about it at night.  

31. Where Covid Came From by Nicolas Wade (2021): Nicolas Wade has worked at Nature, Science, and for many years The New York Times, where he was an editorial writer, science reporter, and science editor. He was born in England and educated at Eton College. He earned a B.A. in Natural Science from King’s College, Cambridge in 1964, and immigrated to the United States in 1970.

32. What Really Happened in Wuhan by Sharri Markson (2021): Sharri Markson is a two-time Walkley Award-winning journalist, investigations writer at The Australian and host of Sharri on Sky News Australia. She has been at the forefront of breaking news regarding the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic since early 2020. Sharri was previously national political editor at The Daily Telegraph, media editor at Cleo magazine, news editor at Seven News, and political reporter and chief of staff at The Sunday Telegraph. She was the recipient of the 2018 Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism; the winner of the 2020 News Award for Investigative Journalism; a winner of four Kennedy Awards; 2018 Journalist of the Year, Political Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year; 2019 Columnist of the Year, and joint winner of the 2019 Press Gallery Political Journalist of the Year award. She lives in Sydney, Australia.

33. Fauci: Expect the Unexpected – quotes by Dr. Anthony Fauci with his permission by National Geographic (2021). This small (5”x7”) 94-page book is composed of 10 powerful lessons that have shaped Fauci’s life philosophy: above all empathize; honor your community; pursue your passion; expect the unexpected; persist, persevere, prevail; live to serve; lead by example; be a lifelong learner; forge partnerships; revere the truth. Anthony Fauci is one of the most celebrated doctors in the world. Appointed director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984, he has advised six presidents on HIV/AIDS. Dr. Fauci is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and National Medal of Science.  In 2020 he was the Federal Employee of the Year (considered the Oscars of government service). 

34. COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey by Peter R Breggin MD and Ginger Ross Breggin (2021): Dr. Breggin is a physician with 70+ scientific articles and 30+ medical texts and popular books. He is among the world’s most experienced medical experts in landmark legal cases in psychiatry and neurosurgery, and now in COVID-19. He is an expert in evaluating controlled clinical trials the most famous of which was Eli Lilly’s Prozac where there were allegations of maleficence in 150 lawsuits. His professional website www.breggin.com and his YouTube video channel reach millions annually. The co-author and Breggin’s wife Ginger, has a background in journalism. She has co-authored several books with Peter including their bestsellers Toxic Psychiatry (1991), Talking Back to Prozac (1994) [which reports on the Eli Lilly Prozac case] and The War Against Children of Color: Psychiatry Targets Inner City Youth (1998). She did extensive research on COVID-19.
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35. The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human by Naomi Wolf (2022): Dr. Naomi Wolf doesn’t just comment on the world’s most pervasive problems, she aims to solve them. Dr. Wolf is a bestselling author, columnist and professor. She is a graduate of Yale University and received a doctorate from Oxford. She is co-founder and CEO of Daily Clout, a successful civic tech company. A charismatic personality with a passion for activism, Dr. Wolf has long challenged conventional narratives on gender, foreign policy, economics and journalism. In her speeches and seminars, she exposes the threats to liberty and democracy, providing audiences with the tools to fight back against powerful institutional forces. Wolf has written eight bestselling works of nonfiction, including The Beauty Myth, Give Me Liberty and The End of America.  

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