by Naomi Klein  
Powells.com Staff Pick To be honest, I could not finish this book. It made me too angry. These are the stories about our country you don't want to know. Naomi Klein has cast a spotlight on the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the American dream. The Shock Doctrine... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Sidney Blumenthal  Publisher Comments "To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson, Sidney Blumenthal has been on the inside shooting out and now he's on the outside shooting in. He's hitting his target — the Bush administration — better than anyone else. He sets his sights on the entire Bush agenda — the blundering war in Iraq, a reckless economic policy, a corrupt Congress, and the little-noticed but highly destructive war on honest and objective national security career professionals in the CIA, the State Department, and the military. The result is a devastating account of a radical presidency." James Carville...(read more) Your price $26.95 (New - Hardcover) check for other copies 
by Jon Lee Anderson Publisher Comments For every great historical event, there is seemingly always one reporter whose eyewitness accounts are infused with such power and literary impact that they become joined with the subject in our minds. Widely considered the on-the-ground authority by... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Nancy Chang Publisher Comments Nancy Chang of the Center for Constitutional Rights examines how the USA Patriot Act endows the executive branch of the U.S. government with vast unchecked powers, erodes civil liberties and privacy, and impacts the lives of immigrants.... (read more) Your Price $0.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Joe Bageant
Powells.com Staff Pick Deer Hunting with Jesus is a hilarious, depressing, and painfully honest chronicle of an America often cited but rarely listened to: rural lower-class whites. With brilliant, spot-on detail, Joe Bageant reports on the historical, economic, and... (read more) Your Price $13.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Jeremy Scahill
Powells.com Staff Pick Enter the secretive world of the most powerful private army on the planet. Here Scahill exposes the disturbing story of Blackwater, a shadowy private company offering specialized military services for hire. A dark study of both the organization and the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $11.86 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Bill McKibben
Powells.com Staff Pick "Timely and useful. This valuable benchmark is a substantial contribution to the rethinking of unlimited economic expansion." Recommended by Ted, Powells.com... (read more) Your Price $14.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Jon Krakauer
Powells.com Staff Pick "Under the Banner of Heaven is not a typical Krakauer book that takes you on an adventure into the wilderness. Instead, it delves into a world that is misunderstood by most of America, the world of Mormonism and Fundamental Mormonism... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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by Hunter S Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments America in the 'aughts — hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate"* of Jonathan Swift. Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Paul Roberts Publisher Comments Paul Roberts, best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic needs is failing dramatically. In this carefully researched, vividly recounted narrative... (read more) Your Price $26.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Albert Gore
Powells.com Staff Pick More astute and timely observations from my favorite candidate who isn't running for President. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Steven T Wax Publisher Comments OUR GOVERNMENT CAN MAKE YOU DISAPPEAR. Those were words Steven T. Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his thirty-four years as a lawyer, Wax didn't have to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a... (read more) Your Price $25.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Ammon Shea Publisher Comments An obsessive word lover's account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. "I'm reading the OED so you don't have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on..." So reports... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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