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by Eric Schlosser  
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Al Franken Publisher Comments Updated with more on the real race in 2000! First came Theodore White's The Making of the President, 1960. Then All the President's Men. Now the searing chronicle that will forever change the way we view the man and the office... Why Not Me... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dana Priest Publisher Comments Walk with America's generals, grunts, and Green Berets through the maze of unconventional wars and unsettled peace. Four-star generals who lead the military during wartime reign like proconsuls abroad in peacetime. Secretive Green Berets trained to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Krugman
Powells.com Staff Pick Though Paul Krugman has been sounding the alarm twice a week in his New York Times column, he is no alarmst. That such a distinguished economist has become so distressed about current policies should concern citizens of all political persuasions. That he... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Souad Publisher Comments I suddenly felt a cold liquid running over my head and instantly I was on fire. It is like a movie that has been speeded up, images racing past. I start to run in the garden, barefoot. I slap my hair, I scream. I feel my dress billow out behind me. Was... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Crispin Miller Publisher Comments Read a newspaper or catch the news on television, and you might get the impression that America's current leadership is "mainstream": perhaps a bit more conservative and in its foreign policy more belligerent than its predecessors, but still a federal... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Clinton
Publisher Comments President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It shows us the progress... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sally Bedell Smith Publisher Comments In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214).... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Greg Palast Publisher Comments Investigative journalist Greg Palast has uncovered scandal, fraud, corruption, and lies in the highest seats of power — from the White House to corporate America. Known in Britain as "the greatest investigative reporter of our time" (Tribune... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Salam Pax Publisher Comments Salam Pax has attracted a huge worldwide readership for the Internet diary he kept during the buildup, prosecution, and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Bringing his incisive and sharply funny Web postings together in print for the first time, Salam Pax... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Huberman Publisher Comments This is an A-Z guide to the most appalling presidency of the past 100 years. Books like Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men," Greg Palast's "Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and Vincent Bugliosi's "The Betrayal of America" show that strongly polemical books... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Baer Publisher Comments In his powerful new book, Baer reveals how the U.S. government's cynical relationship with Saudi Arabia and its dependence on their oil make the country increasingly vulnerable to economic disaster and further acts of terrorism.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor. Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John W. Dean
Publisher Comments Former White House counsel and New York Times bestselling author John Dean reveals how the Bush White House has set America back decades - employing a worldview and tactics of deception that will do more damage to the nation than Nixon at his worst.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Schweizer Publisher Comments Get the inside story on America’s most powerful political dynasty. President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Osgood Publisher Comments The notable journalist offers a funny, nostalgic, autobiographical slice of American life and a moving look at World War II from the perspective of a child far away from the fighting, but very conscious of the reverberations.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
Publisher Comments The acclaimed host of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! challenges the corporate and political hypocrisy that has silenced America. Her comments turned Charlie Rose red in the face. Bill Clinton called her "hostile, combative, and even disrespectful."... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert B. Reich Publisher Comments From Robert B. Reich, passionate believer in American democracy, and public servant in both Democratic and Republican administrations–an urgent call to liberals to reclaim their political clout. Reason is a guide to confronting and derailing what... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Zucchino Publisher Comments Thunder Run is the story of the bold assault on Baghdad by the Spartan Brigade of the Third Infantry Division. It was one of the most decisive battles in American combat history, and the biggest armored battle involving American troops since the Vietnam... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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