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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser

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"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)
 
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Middle East

Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
by Robert Baer

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In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politics drastically compromised the CIA's efforts to fight global terrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil, Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our government's cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally and America's dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerable to economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts of terrorism....(read more)
 
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George W Bush

The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
by Ron Suskind

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times. This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that has been written about the... (read more)
 
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Military

In the Company of Heroes
by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov

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"Durant's experience is one of the most harrowing in the history of the American military, and one of the most compelling ever told." -from the introduction by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk over... (read more)
 
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Law

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- And Cheat Everybody Else
by David Cay Johnston

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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)
 
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Humor

Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel
by Aaron McGruder

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This scathingly hilarious political satire—produced from a collaboration of three of our funniest humorists—answers the burning question: Would anyone care if East St. Louis seceded from the Union? East St. Louis, Illinois (“the inner... (read more)
 
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Foreign Policy

The Sorrows of Empire: An Empire Project
by Chalmers Johnson

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-366) and index.... (read more)
 
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Presidential Elections

No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
by George Farah

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The presidential debates are the "Super Bowl of politics": the democratic centerpiece of the election season. These quadrennial confrontations — broadcast to tens of millions of Americans — are the only decisive political discussion between the... (read more)
 
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Middle East

Sleeping With the Devil : How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude (03 Edition)
by Robert Baer

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“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is... (read more)
 
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The Flame Keepers: The True Story of an American Soldier's Survival Inside Stalag 17 The Flame Keepers: The True Story of an American Soldier's Survival Inside Stalag 17
by Edward A. Handy

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Starting all over, for Ned Handy, meant capture and imprisonment in Stalag 17, one of Nazi Germany's most notorious prisoner-of-war compounds. In April 1994, Handy, a 21-year-old B-24 top-turret gunner on his fourth bombing mission, saw the darkness that... (read more)
 
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Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order
by Mark Crispin Miller

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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)
 
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Politics

Secrets of Temple : How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country (87 Edition)
by William Greider

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This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates -- and how it manipulated and transformed both the American economy and the world's during the last eight crucial years. Based on... (read more)
 
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Presidents

My Life: Audio
by Bill Clinton

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Former president Bill Clinton's highly anticipated memoirs will be published in June. <I> My Life, <I> an account of Clinton's life through the White House years, is one of the most eagerly awaited books of recent years. The book will go on... (read more)
 
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Gender

Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex
by Marita Golden

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In a hard-hitting meditation on the role that color plays among African Americans and in wider society, Marita Golden dares to put herself on the line, expressing her fears and rage about how she has navigated through the color complex. To be sure... (read more)
 
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Law

The 9/11 Commission Report: The Full Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

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Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its... (read more)
 
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Humor

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
by Al Franken

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Al Franken, one of our "savviest satirists" (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of "slander," "bias," and even "treason." He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus... (read more)
 
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Law

A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath
by Jeanine Cummins

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When my parents packed my brother, sister and me into the family van and drove us to Missouri for Spring Break, we brought our entirely imagined city-hardness with us. The hard truth that we were about to learn was that, in fact, we weren't tough kids at... (read more)
 
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