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Under the Banner of Heaven : Story of Violent Faith (03 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer

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How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime
by Sidney Blumenthal

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"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)
 
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by George Packer

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Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001
by Mitchell Fink

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, shock waves rippled through the country as the United States came under terrorist attack. In New York, Washington, D.C., and Somerset County, Pennsylvania, four planes piloted by members of the Al Qaeda terrorist... (read more)
 
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben

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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf

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The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move... (read more)
 
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Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times
by Amy Goodman

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The award-winning journalists and authors of "The Exception to the Rulers" and "Static" return with this revolutionary work that celebrates the ordinary heroes who have stood up, often at great risk, to defend democracy and change America for the better.... (read more)
 
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The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby

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Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she... (read more)
 
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez

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Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills– as doctors, nurses, and therapists– seemed... (read more)
 
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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
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America's leading expert on democracy delivers the first insider's account of the U.S. occupation of Iraq — a sobering and critical assessment of America's effort to implant democracy. In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a... (read more)
 
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The Fall of Baghdad The Fall of Baghdad
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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
by Daoud Hari

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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
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Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe
by Arianna Huffington

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With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country. Huffington... (read more)
 
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Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)
by Bill Press

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One of the country's most well-known progressive commentators on how — and why — the conservative movement went off the rails. According to even Newt Gingrich, Republicans have lost their way. "Always better with one-liners than worthwhile... (read more)
 
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : a Savage Journey To the Heart of the American Dream (71 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson

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The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria

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One of our most distinguished thinkers argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on... (read more)
 
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