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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank Publisher Comments With a New Afterword by the Author The New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" (Molly Ivins) Hailed as... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips Publisher Comments From America's premier political analyst, an explosive examination of the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nation. In his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Palinisms: The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Sarah Palin by Jacob Weisberg Publisher Comments "I don't know if I should Buenos Aires or Bonjour, or... this is such a melting pot. This is so beautiful. I love this diversity. Yeah. There were a whole bunch of guys named Tony in the photo line, I know that." "We used to hustle over the border for... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society by Arthur M Jr Schlesinger Publisher Comments A New York Times... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (A Progressive Guide to Action) by George Lakoff Publisher Comments Don't Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing?s stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States. Author George Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blow by Bruce Porter Publisher Comments BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments A preeminent political essayist writes about the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush and makes a compelling case for impeachment.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock Publisher Comments In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler's The God That Failed, David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Over America by Richard A Viguerie Publisher Comments Liberal media activists beware! Richard A. Viguerie, venture capitalist of the conservative movement (described as the funding father of the right) and David Franke, a founder of the conservative movement, detail how conservatives--shut out by the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ashes to ashes :America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger Publisher Comments No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Hardcover
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Americas black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Working by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments Studs Turkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Turkel has created a rich and unique document that is as... (read more) Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Take Back the Right: How the Neo-Cons and the Religious Right Have Hijacked the Conservative Movement by Philip Gold Publisher Comments From the days of Barry Goldwater through his work for presidential candidate Steve Forbes, Philip Gold was an active and influential conservative. The Great Society of the ‘60s seemed like a scam to this poor Jewish kid from Pittsburgh, so off he... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Storming Heaven by Jay Stevens Publisher Comments For Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of humankind (a belief that led to his being branded "the most dangerous man in America"); for Ken... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner Publisher Comments There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The American Landscape by Stephen F Mills Publisher Comments This book explores the changing face of the American environment, tracing the way in which the American landscape--Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, the Manhattan skyline--has come about, and how these changes have been reflected upon, painted, and turned... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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