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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism. Americans are a positive people — cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image... (read more)

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Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
by Seymour M Hersh
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Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his explosive stories in The New Yorker, including his headline-making pieces on the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Now, Hersh brings... (read more)

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Eating the Dinosaur
Eating the Dinosaur
by Chuck Klosterman
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Klosterman quotes the late Kurt Cobain as saying, "Give the kids what they want," and this book does just that. Eating the Dinosaur includes entertaining pieces about pop-culture subjects from Ralph Sampson to Weezer. Also, Klosterman gets bonus points... (read more)

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
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You wouldn't expect the author of the searing bestseller No Logo to pull any... (read more)

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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
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Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside... (read more)

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Strength in What Remains
Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more)

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The Post-American World
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria
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'Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West.' '"Boston Sunday... (read more)

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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by T. R. Reid
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Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform. In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other... (read more)

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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
by Larry Jay Diamond
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America's leading expert on democracy delivers the first insider's account of the U.S. occupation of Iraq — a sobering and critical assessment of America's effort to implant democracy. In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a... (read more)

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Longitudes and Attitudes: America in the Age of Terrorism
Longitudes and Attitudes: America in the Age of Terrorism
by Thomas L. Friedman
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America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11th--before, during and after As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the... (read more)

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