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The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics
The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics
by Thomas Byrne Edsall
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One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years — and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from... (read more)

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Out of the Ruins - A New York Record: Lower Manhattan, Autumn 2001
Out of the Ruins - A New York Record: Lower Manhattan, Autumn 2001
by Jean Holabird
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Soon after the attacks of September 11th, artist Jean Holabird, who has lived just four blocks from the WTC for 27 years, started to record the wreckage visible from the perimeter of Ground Zero. Driven by instinct, she was determined to chronicle the... (read more)

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The Fall of Baghdad
The Fall of Baghdad
by Jon Lee Anderson
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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)

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Covering Catastrophe
Covering Catastrophe
by Allison Gilbert
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Covering Catastrophe tells what it was like for TV and radio journalists to report the most terrifying story of their lives-and our time.... (read more)

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Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World
Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World
by David Bosco
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From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always... (read more)

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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
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Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Time,... (read more)

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The American Spirit: Meeting the Challenge of September 11
The American Spirit: Meeting the Challenge of September 11
by Editors of Life Magazine
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September 11, 2001, began a new era in the United States of America. The attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., and the courage exhibited in those cities and in the skies over Pennsylvania, changed forever the way Americans viewed their security... (read more)

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