Movies from Dana Perino

Dream Horse

The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Must watch! Family friendly film. Oh I loved it.
Movies from Dana Perino

Tumbledown

A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Ok ladies - next time you have a night alone, great movie - Tumbledown. Beautiful and sweet.
Movies from Dana Perino

Suffragette

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Hit me with a movie recommendation. Suffragette was great but could use something a little different.
Movies from Dana Perino

Stronger

A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Jake Gyllenhaal Stronger: Must-See Movie 2017
Movies from Dana Perino

Hell or High Water

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Watched Hell or Highwater. Very good film. Wowser.
Movies from Dana Perino

Burnt

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Having to tell my husband you can't come into a movie an hour & fifteen minutes late and ask to be brought up to speed. #Burnt good movie
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Wind River

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Dana Perino
TV Host
We are watching Wind River. I can assure you it is NOT a Christmas movie (but good).
Movies from Dana Perino

Brooklyn

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Just watched Brooklyn. What a beautiful movie. As good as the book
Movies from Dana Perino

Marshall

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Just watched Marshall - what a great film. In case you need something to watch!
Movies from Dana Perino

Only the Brave

Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Just saw Only the Brave. Amazing movie. Story of recovery, responsibility & redemption. A must see to understand/appreciate 1st responders.
Books from Dana Perino

The Orphan of Salt Winds

For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us. England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to meet her adoptive parents—practical, dependable Clem and glamorous, mercurial Lorna. The marsh, with its deceptive tides, is a beautiful but threatening place. Virginia’s new parents’ marriage is full of secrets and tensions she doesn’t quite understand, and their wealthy neighbor, Max Deering, drops by too often, taking an unwholesome interest in the family’s affairs. Only Clem offers a true sense of home. War feels far away among the birds and shifting sands—until the day a German fighter plane crashes into the marsh, and Clem ventures out to rescue the airman. What happens next sets into motion a crime so devastating it will haunt Virginia for the rest of her life. Seventy-five years later, she finds herself drawn back to the marsh, and to a teenage girl who appears there, nearly frozen and burdened by her own secrets. In her, Virginia might have a chance at retribution and a way to right a grave mistake she made as a child. Elizabeth Brooks’s gripping debut mirrors its marshy landscape—full of twists and turns and moored in a tangle of family secrets. A gothic, psychological mystery and atmospheric coming-of-age story, The Orphan of Salt Winds is the portrait of a woman haunted by the place she calls home.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Dana Perino recommended this book on Twitter.
Books from Dana Perino

Mr Churchill's Secretary

London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for codebreaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in government, and Maggie finds that working for the prime minister affords her a level of clearance she could never have imagined—and opportunities she will not let pass. In troubled, deadly times, with air-raid sirens sending multitudes underground, access to the War Rooms also exposes Maggie to the machinations of a menacing faction determined to do whatever it takes to change the course of history.Ensnared in a web of spies, murder, and intrigue, Maggie must work quickly to balance her duty to King and Country with her chances for survival. And when she unravels a mystery that points toward her own family’s hidden secrets, she’ll discover that her quick wits are all that stand between an assassin’s murderous plan and Churchill himself.In this thrilling debut, Susan Elia MacNeal blends meticulous research on the era, psychological insight into Winston Churchill, and the creation of a riveting main character, Maggie Hope, into a beautifully crafted mystery.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Dana Perino recommended this book on Twitter.
Books from Dana Perino

Just Tyrus

New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Pro wrestler and political commentator Tyrus goes deep into his wild but triumphant life story, from his painfully dysfunctional upbringing to bodyguarding for Snoop Dogg, to becoming a wrestling icon and one of the most provocative on-air voices today. “The author relates all of his adventures through a series of vividly memorable anecdotes…. A revealing glimpse of a multifaceted entertainer who defies easy labeling.” —Kirkus “I loved Just Tyrus. I read it in one day and cheered for him when I got to the end. Tyrus has written a book that is at once raw, tender, intelligent, candid, and hilarious. Tyrus took a very rough start to his life and used perseverance, confident humility, and accountability to land firmly on his feet. What a triumph!” —Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary to George W. Bush and Fox News anchor and hostThe product of a 1970s mixed marriage, George Murdoch learned to fight early in life, fending off both race-baiting bullies and the demons of a dysfunctional home. Couch surfing all through high school and most of college, the quick-witted, sharp-tongued giant played football, ran drugs, and bounced at clubs to try to survive. After a false start with the WWE, he eventually became Snoop Dogg’s bodyguard and traveled the world with the hip hop legend, biding his time and honing his rap. When the WWE urged him to return, George became “Brodus Clay” and, for the next several years, reinvented himself numerous times under the watchful mentorship of the legendary Dusty Rhodes, “the American Dream.” He was eventually christened “Tyrus,” and shortly after, a chance social media encounter with Greg Gutfeld at Fox News resulted in Tyrus finding a new skill: sage social commentator. Ferociously funny, blunt, and tenacious, Just Tyrus traces his unlikely and spectacular rise. As always with Tyrus, it’s in-your-face and offers no apologies. “George aka Tyrus aka the realest most blunt human being on the face of planet earth. Never had a problem telling you what was on his mind or how he felt, good or bad. Tough exterior but a heart of gold. Front liner, great friend, and excellent coach for my youth football team. His work ethic is obvious, taking him from football to bodyguard to pro wrestler to a superb personality on Fox News. I’ve seen him climb the ladder of success, and I’m happy that I was along for the journey.” —Snoop Dogg
Dana Perino
TV Host
"Can’t recommend it enough!" - Dana Perino
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Uncontrolled Spread

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPhysician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything?In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America’s pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps that must be taken to protect against the next outbreak. As the pandemic unfolded, Gottlieb was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and diagnostic industries. He provides an inside account of how level after level of American government crumbled as the COVID-19 crisis advanced.A system-wide failure across government institutions left the nation blind to the threat, and unable to mount an effective response. We’d prepared for the wrong virus. We failed to identify the contagion early enough and became overly reliant on costly and sometimes divisive tactics that couldn’t fully slow the spread. We never considered asymptomatic transmission and we assumed people would follow public health guidance. Key bureaucracies like the CDC were hidebound and outmatched. Weak political leadership aggravated these woes. We didn’t view a public health disaster as a threat to our national security.Many of the woes sprung from the CDC, which has very little real-time reporting capability to inform us of Covid’s twists and turns or assess our defenses. The agency lacked an operational capacity and mindset to mobilize the kind of national response that was needed. To guard against future pandemic risks, we must remake the CDC and properly equip it to better confront crises. We must also get our intelligence services more engaged in the global public health mission, to gather information and uncover emerging risks before they hit our shores so we can head them off. For this role, our clandestine agencies have tools and capabilities that the CDC lacks.Uncontrolled Spread argues we must fix our systems and prepare for a deadlier coronavirus variant, a flu pandemic, or whatever else nature -- or those wishing us harm -- may threaten us with. Gottlieb outlines policies and investments that are essential to prepare the United States and the world for future threats.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Check out the interview below, then go to the store nearest you to buy his new book, "Uncontrolled Spread." Highly recommend!
Books from Dana Perino

The Authoritarian Moment

New York Times BestsellerHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism; that conservatives have allowed authoritarianism to bloom in their midst, creating a grave danger for the republic.But what if the true authoritarian threat to America doesn’t come from the political right, but from the supposedly anti-fascist left?There are certainly totalitarians on the political right. But statistically, they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The authoritarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant in nearly every area of American life. A small number of leftists—college-educated, coastal, and uncompromising—have not just taken over the Democratic Party but our corporations, our universities, our scientific establishment, our cultural institutions. And they have used their newfound power to silence their opposition.The authoritarian Left is aggressively insistent that everyone must conform to its values, demanding submission and conformity. The dogmatic Left is obsessed with putting people in categories and changing human nature. Everyone who opposes it must be destroyed.Ben Shapiro looks at everything from pop culture to the Frankfurt school, social media to the Founding Fathers, to explain the origins of our turn to tyranny, and why so many seem blind to it.More than a catalog of bad actors and intemperate acts, The Authoritarian Moment lays bare the intolerance and rigidity creeping into all American ideology – and prescribes the solution to ending the authoritarianism that threatens our future.
Dana Perino
TV Host
If you're looking for tips on how to navigate The Woke Revolution, look no further! Ben has you covered. Check it out!
Books from Dana Perino

The Perfect Other

“Shines a light on the stigma surrounding mental health and schizophrenia. This deeply personal memoir will give readers greater empathy and understanding in supporting those who are oftentimes misunderstood.” —Sheryl SandbergAs a child, all Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, she and Kait were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle, and comfort her. To Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world.But as Kait entered adolescence, her personality changed. She began lashing out emotionally and physically and sometimes lost touch with reality, behavior that worsened after a traumatic head injury. The family struggled to keep this terrifying, often violent, side of Kait private—at school and in her social life, she was still the gorgeous, effervescent life of the party. Powerless to help, Kyleigh watched in horror as her perfect sibling’s world began to collapse and Kait was diagnosed with schizophrenia.Then, in January 2014, twenty-two-year-old Kait disappeared. Though her body was never found, security footage showed her walking to the peak of Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Bridge, where it is presumed that she jumped. In this extraordinary memoir— a story of hope, grief, mental illness, and enduring love—a grieving Kyleigh reflects on her sister and their life together, honoring their bond and searching for answers and a way to find meaning in this devastating loss.
Dana Perino
TV Host
This new book was recommended to me by a friend who knows good books - she said this is one of the best memoirs she has ever read.
Books from Dana Perino

Haven Point

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER"The book equivalent of a beach getaway." —PopSugar"A stunning debut." —BookRiotA sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Beatriz Williams, and Sarah Blake.1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort––and to see the world beyond her family’s cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she’s swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community on the rocky coast of Maine.1970: As the nation grapples with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who has fallen for a young man they don’t approve of. Before the summer is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests––and in the aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point.2008: Annie’s daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother’s ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie’s view of Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place––and the people––snobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that fateful summer.Over seven decades of a changing America, through wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Haven Point explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its secrets.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Haven Point is an excellent book. What a read. And a debut novel for @virginiahume! Amazing. Highly recommend. I still think about those characters.
Books from Dana Perino

Fearless

Take your rightful place in the driver’s seat of your own life and career through focused and fearless business strategies.Luxury fashion mogul and social activist Rebecca Minkoff built a fashion empire through hard work and a relentless drive to live her dream. It wasn’t easy and took tremendous resolve to remain hungry and persevere. By never giving up, she has created a space for herself on the shelves of luxury department stores across the world.In Fearless, Minkoff helps you learn how to:Face challenges head on, using Rebecca’s fearless approach to push yourself.Overcome the fear and trials female entrepreneurs often face.Break the rules and find success in places they previously thought to be inaccessible.Reach their goals, no matter how unattainable they may seem.Through this book, Rebecca shares her own stories and teaches you how she was able to reach her goals to become the successful fashion designer she is today.She shows that if you remain hungry, work hard, and face the unspoken rules that have held women back for centuries, you can make success happen for yourself.
Dana Perino
TV Host
ICYMI: @RebeccaMinkoff joined us today on @AmericaNewsroom to celebrate the launch of her new book, "Fearless." Tune in below to hear Rebecca's tips on how women can find success in post-pandemic world!
Books from Dana Perino

Smart Brevity

THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO SAYING MORE WITH LESS--NOW A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER--Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format. Now, the co-founders of Axios have created an essential guide for communicating effectively and efficiently using Smart Brevity - think Strunk and White's Elements of Style for the digital age.In SMART BREVITY: The Power of Saying More with Less, Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz teach readers how to say more with less in virtually any format. They also share communications lessons learned from their decades of experience in media, business and communications.
Dana Perino
TV Host
ABL - always be learning! New book by @axios on how they’re trying to adapt presentations and articles to the evolving ways of news consumption. 📚
Books from Dana Perino

The Nazi Conspiracy

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An absolute home run! You will never look at WWII the same way again." —Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author"Meltzer and Mensch are masters." —Jon Meacham, author The Soul of America"A true story that reads like a thriller." —Alexander S. Vindman, LT. Col., U.S. Army (Ret.)"An outstanding and memorable reading experience....a true page-turner from beginning to end." —Bookreporter.comFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II.In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt had a critical goal: a face-to-face sit-down with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This first-ever meeting of the Big Three in Tehran, Iran, would decide some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. Yet when the Nazis found out about the meeting, their own secret plan took shape—an assassination plot that would’ve changed history.A true story filled with daring rescues, body doubles, and political intrigue, The Nazi Conspiracy details FDR’s pivotal meeting in Tehran and the deadly Nazi plot against the heads of state of the three major Allied powers who attended it.With all the hallmarks of a Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch page-turner, The Nazi Conspiracy explores the great political minds of the twentieth century, investigating the pivotal years of the war in gripping detail. This meeting of the Big Three changed the course of World War II. Here’s the inside story of how it almost led to a world-shattering disaster.
Dana Perino
TV Host
My friend ’s new book The Nazi Conspiracy is out today. Winston Churchill is naked in it.
Music from Dana Perino

Rules for Boys — Kyle Jennings

Dana Perino
TV Host
New song - recommend it! Rules for Boys By Kyle Jennings
Music from Dana Perino

Humble & Kind — Lori McKenna

Dana Perino
TV Host
Lori McKenna - well deserved! Download her version of Humble & Kind - nothing like hearing the songwriter sing one of your favorite songs
Music from Dana Perino

The Mountain

Dana Perino
TV Host
I absolutely love the new @DierksBentley album “The Mountain” - has made the weekend so memorable, can’t decide on a favorite song.
Podcasts from Dana Perino

The Arthur Brooks Show - Arthur C. Brooks | Love Your Enemies

The Arthur Brooks Show Arthur Brooks is back with a new season on love: why you need it and how to get it—but not just romantic love. Featuring episodes on our longing for better friendships in an age of loneliness, learning to find meaning in our work, the significance of loving one’s country
Dana Perino
TV Host
- What is the name of the podcast that talked about social media impacting our ability to talk/debate with people with opposing views? - The Arthur brooks show
Articles from Dana Perino

Opinion | Purdue Is Number One

The school keeps tuition flat and innovates to reduce student debt.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Check out this piece about how tuition has stayed flat for 8 years and an income sharing arrangement between students and future employers is keeping costs AND student loans down. Innovation works.
Articles from Dana Perino

He searched for his Japanese birth mother. He found her — and the restaurant she had named after him.

Once he found his birth mother, he learned she named her restaurant Bruce after him, and always believed he would come back to her.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Oh do read this. Please - it is such a special story.
Articles from Dana Perino

LABASH: Don't Care Less, Care About What Matters

Dana Perino
TV Host
A good lunchtime read.
Articles from Dana Perino

Michigan Journal, Part I | National Review

Jay Nordlinger heads to the land of Gerald Ford.
Dana Perino
TV Host
A favorite way to ease into a new week - reading Impromptus by @jaynordlinger - this time, he takes us to MI.
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How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet

They’re turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse
Dana Perino
TV Host
How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet - article in TIME Mostly AGREE!
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Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation of children

Julie Lythcott-Haims left Stanford to write a parenting manifesto.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Article on over-parenting hurting children when they get to college "they're breathless" - suggests ways to fix
Articles from Dana Perino

Your Dog Feels No Shame

The myth of canine guilt
Dana Perino
TV Host
Dog owners will not believe this article
Articles from Dana Perino

‘She Pulled a Book Out of Her Bag to Show Him What She Was Reading’

Watching two people meet on a downtown No. 1, left behind on New Year’s Eve and other reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Dana Perino
TV Host
Another great reason to read a lot of books...you never know who you’ll meet!