The best of America and its worst are examined in this week’s Newsmax Rising Bestsellers. The best goes from suggesting how America’s youth — Generation Z — can restore the country to greatness by following conservative values of limited government and personal responsibility to describing the valor of U.S. Marines in a little-known battle to arguing that to defeat China the U.S. only needs the same strategy as that which subdued the Soviets. Another, however, describes, through interviews, what drives radical activists to think the way they do. And in fiction, there is the latest installment of the adventures of an old fictional friend.

“The Atlas Maneuver,” by Steve Berry (Grand Central Publishing)

This is the 18th installment of New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry’s popular Cotton Malone series of novels. In “Atlas,” he unravels a legend known as Yamashita’s Gold, a vast cache of bullion and other valuables worth billions, hidden by Japan in the closing days of World War II. “I’ve been a fan of Berry’s Cotton Malone series from the beginning. And the books featuring Cassiopeia Witt are just that much better,” wrote Todd, reviewing for GoodReads. “Fun, adventure and murder make this one of the best Malone books in the series.” [Fiction]“The End of the Alphabet: How Gen Z Can Save America,” by Isabel Brown (Center Street)

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