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Conservatives, as a matter of policy and strategy, have been waging financial warfare against working-class Americans for 20 years, throughout the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations, according to Kelly, a scholar of communication, ethics, and... (read more)

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Gang of Five is the story of the conservative activists of the babyboom generation, who arrived on campus in the 1970s in rebellion against everything sixties and went on to fight for social and political change in the '80s and '90s. As she redefines the... (read more)

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Listen to Al Franken as interviewed by Dan Susskind of Another Perspective on VoiceAmerica.com! Get the free Real Player Al Franken, one of our “savviest satirists” (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has... (read more)

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In Big Lies, Joe Conason rips through the ten most damaging lies perpetrated by the right wing propaganda machine. This scathing, fact-filled analysis debunks it all: - The myth that Republicans are fiscal geniuses and champions of free enterprise. - The... (read more)

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"They misunderestimated me." – President George W. Bush It seems like too easy a target, too cheap a laugh, but Mark Crispin Miller, with the deftly trenchant wit that always distinguishes his writing, uses the blunders and malapropisms of George... (read more)

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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African... (read more)

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In Thieves in High Places, Jim Hightower takes on the Kleptocrats, Wobblycrats, and Bushites with hilarious results. Digging up behind-the-scenes dirt on stories the corporate news media overlooks (and dont get him started on them!), Hightower... (read more)

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In 1876(1976) we see the return of the narrator of Burr, Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, from Europe, broke and trying to arrange a marriage for his daughter. New York is four times bigger than when he left forty years before, and much changed. As the... (read more)

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When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the... (read more)