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Journalism Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 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) Your Price $4.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Sale Books Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore Publisher Comments When the powers-that-be succeeded in ignoring and then silencing the nation's widespread dissent over war, one man stood on an Oscar stage and, in front of a billion people, outed the commander in chief for his fictitious presidency and his fictitious... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Hardcover) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty 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) Your Price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) Browse more featured Used titles Middle East Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments A devastating critique of America's military occupation of Iraq by one of the leaders of the global antiwar movement, Tariq Ali. Eschewing the liberal option of hand-wringing and the fashionable lurch to the right by some former leftists, Bush in Babylon... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Middle East Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer Publisher Comments 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)   Your price $13.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for other copies   Humor Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-367).... (read more) Your Price $3.25 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Law Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- And Cheat Everybody Else 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) Your Price $8.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Presidents Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House 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) Your Price $7.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Politics Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $10.50 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies George W Bush Dick: The Man Who Is President by John Nichols Publisher Comments When a lone gunman started shooting outside the White House on a weekday morning two years ago, Secret Service agents rushed to secure the leaders of the free world. They found Dick Cheney in his office talking on a speakerphone, reviewing material on a... (read more) Your Price $23.95 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Foreign Policy The Sorrows of Empire: An Empire Project by Chalmers Johnson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-366) and index.... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Presidential Elections Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America by Arianna Huffington Publisher Comments As America's leaders fight pre-emptive wars abroad and ordinary Americans fight to keep their heads above water here at home, Arianna Huffington offers a no-holds-barred account of where we stand and a clear and remarkable vision of where we should be... (read more) Your Price $7.46 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies

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