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Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program by Stephen Grey Publisher Comments On June 10th, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the US had captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to explode a "dirty bomb" on American soil. That alleged terrorist was José Padilla who was finally charged in 2005... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Targeting Iran (City Lights Open Media) by David Barsamian Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Political Science. Iran and the United States are on a collision course. Washington's saber rattling in response to Iran's hardline Islamic government eerily evokes U.S. rhetoric prior to the invasion of Iraq. Iran's strategic position,... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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After 9/11: America's War on Terror (2001- ) by Sid Jacobson Publisher Comments Having made The 9/11 Commission Report understandable for everyone, the award-winning, bestselling graphic novel team of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón use all their considerable talents to explain the post-9/11 world. Working from news reports drawn... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Another World Is Possible by Jee Kim Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Subtitled "Conversations in a Time of Terror," this anthology "is a collection of writings that gives voice to the diverse perspectives that the American people did not have an opportunity to hear despite three days of commercial-free... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf Staff Pick 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) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia by Alexander Cockburn Publisher Comments The political and human carnage of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia are chronicled in this book, featuring entries from the authors, former marines, historians, a psychologist, an economist, a human rights lawyer, and former CIA analysts.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The First Writings of Karl Marx by Karl Marx Publisher Comments A work of incalculable historical and cultural significance, The First Writings of Karl Marx is the first complete single-volume edition of Karl Marx's doctoral dissertation to appear in English. This collection includes the full text of Marx's... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831 to 1965 (Power, Conflict, & Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century) by Russell Riley Publisher Comments From the abolition of slavery to the civil rights movement one hundred years later, one of the primary characteristics of America's development as a nation has been the steady struggle for and expansion of the horizons of citizenship. Pivotal in any... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.60 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right by Michele Wucker Publisher Comments We are essentially a nation of people who once belonged elsewhere, yet have long been deeply ambivalent about this part of our history. After World War I, the fear of the stranger overwhelmed America's confidence in our ability to create one nation out... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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America Back on Track by Edward M Kennedy Publisher Comments In his first major book in more than 20 years, Senator Kennedy argues that this nation has departed more deeply from its fundamental ideals than at any time in modern history. From a dangerous foreign policy to constitutional concerns, Kennedy tackles... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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John McCain: An American Odyssey by Robert Timberg Publisher Comments This reissue of the penetrating biography of Senator John McCain, the man who may be the next president of the United States, by celebrated author Robert Timberg now has a new foreword that updates readers on the politician's life since this book's... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Consequences to Come: American Power After Bush (New York Review Books) by Robert B Silvers Publisher Comments For the past seven years The New York Review of Books has critically examined the Bush administrations policies at home and abroad. In this collection of essays, nine of the Reviews contributors assess the human and political costs of the war on terror... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer Publisher Comments The author takes a look into the life of Abbie Hoffman. The focus is on Abbie's life as an activist: the social, cultural, and political milieu in which he worked; the ideas that inspired his work; and what happened to America when he put his ideas into... (read more) List Price $27.75 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pentagon: A History by Steve Vogel Publisher Comments The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. In astonishingly short order, Brigadier... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's blockbusting bestseller on the United States in the twenty-first century. How can Americans understand this rapidly changing... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin Great Ideas) by Thorstein Veblen Publisher Comments The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguins Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historys most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Mass Market
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The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy by Si Kahn Publisher Comments This narrative presents an analysis of privatization that helps readers understand what is happening to them and what they can do about it. It gives people on all sides the arguments that have been used to dominate the public debate.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Changing Boundaries of the Political: Essays on the Evolving Balance Between the State & Society, Public & Private in Europe by Charles Maier Publisher Comments A new understanding of the nature of advanced industrial economies is derived from this extensive investigation of the ways in which the boundaries of the political have changed in Europe since the 1960s.... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $10.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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