The United States V. I. Lewis Libby
by Murray Waas


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Washington scandals come and go, but the one surrounding the investigation into the leaking of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity — now in its fourth year — has had unprecedented staying power. In October 2005, when I. Lewis Libby... (read more)

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The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
by Ron Suskind


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Updated with a new afterword and including a selection of key documents, this is the explosive account of how the Bush administration makes policy on war, taxes, and politics — its true agenda exposed by a member of the Bush cabinet. This vivid,... (read more)

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Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating
by Thomas P M Barnett


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Military analyst Barnett provides a fundamental reexamination of war and peace in the post 9/11 world and a compelling vision of the future. Paying particular attention to the Middle and Far East, Africa, and Latin America, he outlines strategies to... (read more)

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What We Could Have Done with the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We've Spent on Iraq
by Robert Simpson


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The war in Iraq is not only controversial, it's also astronomically expensive. Simpson answers the question many concerned Americans have been asking: Wasn't there some other way the government could have spent one trillion tax dollars?... (read more)

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner


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For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world... (read more)

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Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush
by Robert Draper


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In this ambitious work of political narrative, Robert Draper takes us inside the Bush White House and delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and an embattled administration. Virtually every page of this book crackles with scenes, anecdotes,... (read more)

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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
by Thomas Frank


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From the author of the landmark bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate—and lucrative—conservative misrule In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America... (read more)

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Introducing Machiavelli 2ND Edition
by Patrick Curry


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 174) and index.... (read more)

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The good listener :Helen Bamber, a life against cruelty
by Neil Belton


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A magisterial achievement: part biography, part history, part moral meditation on the resurrection of torture as an instrument of political power in the twentieth century, The Good Listener tells the story of Helen Bamber, a good but complex woman now in... (read more)

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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
by Francis Fukuyama


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Francis Fukuyama's criticism of the Iraq war put him at odds with neoconservative friends both within and outside the Bush administration. Here he explains how, in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American... (read more)

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Identity Mania: Fundamentalism and the Politicization of Cultural Differences
by Thomas Meyer


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A critically important question confronts many countries in the post-Cold War epoch: are culturally determined political conflicts inevitable? While acknowledging people's need for identity, and that different cultures necessarily produce differentiated... (read more)

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Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
by Bruce Watson


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A rousing history with the narrative drive of a novel, this is the true-to-life tale of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that became the fabric of a community and an inspiration to workers around the world. High school & older.... (read more)

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Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
by Samantha Power


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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes an epic tale--part thriller, part tragedy--of the political career of humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello and his tragic death in 2003 in a terrorist attack on UN Headquarters in Iraq.... (read more)

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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
by Joe Bageant


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After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a "dirt-poor" childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W... (read more)

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Teach Yourself Marx (Teach Yourself)
by Gill Hands


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Understand Marx inside and out Groundbreaking and far-reaching as they are, the theories and ideas of Karl Marx are often confusing. "Teach Yourself Marx," however, makes clear sense of them all, providing you with easy-to-understand explanations of... (read more)

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Mission Accomplished! or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak
by Christopher Cerf


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Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq is the definitive collection -- systematically categorized, indexed, and footnoted for your convenience -- of authoritative misinformation, disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious... (read more)

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No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner
by Robert Shrum


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He was named by The Atlantic Monthly as "the most sought-after strategist in the Democratic party." He was targeted by National Review as the Democratic Party's "poet goon." From his unique perspective, Robert Shrum gives us an epic and personal story of... (read more)

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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
by Willia Langewiesche




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In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. This is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the... (read more)

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