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The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
by George Lakoff  Publisher Comments In What's the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank pointed out that a great number of Americans actually vote against their own interests. In The Political Mind, George Lakoff explains why. As it turns out, human beings are not the rational creatures weave...
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Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times
by Amy Goodman Synopsis The award-winning journalists and authors of "The Exception to the Rulers" and "Static" return with this revolutionary work that celebrates the ordinary heroes who have stood up, often at great risk, to defend democracy and change America for the better....
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Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent the past year interviewing over fifty veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation in Iraq. The testimonies of these soldiers--many of who...
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Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
by Tim Shorrock Publisher Comments In Spies for Hire, investigative reporter Tim Shorrock lifts the veil off a major story the government doesn't want us to know about -- the massive outsourcing of top secret intelligence activities to private-sector contractors. Running spy networks...
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Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
by Philippe Sands Publisher Comments On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation--techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo...
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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias
by Andrew D Blechman Publisher Comments When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retirement community in Florida, Andrew D. Blechman is astonished by their stories. Larger than Manhattan, with a golf course for every day of the month, two...
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Fair Game: How a Top Spy Was Betrayed by Her Own Government
by Valerie Plam Wilson Publisher Comments On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his...
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Coronary: A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry
by Stephen Klaidman Publisher Comments A chilling real-life medical thriller, Coronary chronicles the story of two highly respected heart doctors who violated the most sacred principle of their profession: First, do no harm. In the summer of 2002, fifty-five-year-old John Corapi, a Catholic...
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The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
by Robert Scheer Publisher Comments In the course of his forty-year-career as one of America's most admired journalists, Robert Scheer's work has been praised by Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion, who deems him one of the best reporters of our time. Now, Scheer brings a lifetime of...
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Somebody's Gotta Say It
by Neal Boortz Publisher Comments Neal Boortz, the High Priest of the Church of the Painful Truth, has been edifying, infuriating, and entertaining talk radio audiences for more than three decades. Now, the author of the smash New York Times bestsellers The FairTax Book and FairTax: The...
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Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man
by Oliver August Publisher Comments The notorious gangster Lai Changxing started out as an illiterate farmer, but, in the tumult of China's burgeoning economy, he seized the opportunity to remake himself as a bandit king. A newly minted billionaire of outsize personality and even greater...
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The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House
by Nancy Gibbs Synopsis At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public life, "The Preacher and the Presidents" reveals how the world's most powerful men and world's most famous evangelist, Billy Graham, knit faith and politics together....
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The Monster of Florence: A True Story
by Douglas J. Preston and Mario Spezi Publisher Comments In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) and Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills...
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Debunked!: Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, and Evil Plots of the 21st Century
by Richard Roeper Publisher Comments As he did in Urban Legends and Hollywood Urban Legends, and as he has done in dozens of columns for the Chicago Sun-Times over the last decade and a half, Richard Roeper lays out the basics of the conspiracy theory, quotes some of the true believers...
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On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence
by Tyler Drumheller Publisher Comments Though much has been written about the machinations of the Bush Administration and the recent failures of the Central Intelligence Agency, there is still a great deal of information that remains unknown to the American public. In this eye-opening book...
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The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
by Alvin S Felzenberg Publisher Comments It’s a perennial pastime to rate U.S. presidents on an all-time ranking: Certain presidents were “Great,” others were “Near-Great,” and so on down to “Failures” and “Unmitigated Disasters.” (OK, we...
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner Publisher Comments With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and...
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The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry That Defined a Generation
by Steven Gillon Publisher Comments Most Americans saw President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich as staunch foes--"the polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue." But as Steven Gillon reveals in The Pact, these powerful adversaries formed a secret alliance in 1997, a pact that would...
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White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement
by Allan J. Lichtman Publisher Comments Spanning nearly one hundred years of American political history, and abounding with outsize characters--from Lindbergh to Goldwater to Gingrich to Abramoff--White Protestant Nation offers a penetrating look at the origins, evolution, and triumph (at...
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No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner
by Robert Shrum Publisher Comments He was named by The Atlantic Monthly as "the most sought-after strategist in the Democratic party." He was targeted by National Review as the Democratic Party's "poet goon." From his unique perspective, Robert Shrum gives us an epic and personal story of...
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