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Interviews | November 19, 2009

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The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril
by Al Gore
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THE ASSAULT ON REASON is an indictment of the President Bush-led radical neo-conservative Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a reckoning with the degradation of the public sphere that facilitates their rule of unreason.... (read more)
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The Anatomy of Fascism The Anatomy of Fascism
by Robert O Paxton
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What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they... (read more)
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The Conscience of a Liberal The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman
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This wholly original new work by the best-selling author of The Great Unraveling challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, "the heir apparent to Galbraith" (Alan Blinder) and, today's most... (read more)
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Shock Doctrine : the Rise of Disaster Capitalism (07 Edition) Shock Doctrine : the Rise of Disaster Capitalism (07 Edition)
by Naomi Klein
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In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock... (read more)
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Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
by Valerie Plame Wilson and Laura Rozen
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On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his... (read more)
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The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration
by Jack L Goldsmith
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Goldsmith, head legal counsel to President Bush, found many legal opinions, especially those regulating the treatment of prisoners, were deeply flawed. His analysis shows why Bushs apparent indifference to human rights has damaged his presidency and... (read more)
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Bait and Switch Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Intrigued by reports of increasing poverty and despair within America's white-collar corporate workforce, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to infiltrate their world as an undercover reporter and learn about the problems facing middle-class executives at first... (read more)
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Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
by John W. Dean
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Dean, an outspoken and perceptive critic of the current Bush administration and author of the "New York Times" bestsellers "Conservatives Without Conscience" and "Worse Than Watergate," faults Republican mismanagement for the current government crises.... (read more)
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Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
by Thom Hartmann
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Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It (Bk Currents) Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It (Bk Currents)
by Thom Hartmann
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Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America's middle class?a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book... (read more)
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