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The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Machiavelli Publisher Comments Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "prophets... (read more) List Price $7.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (74 Edition) by Jean Fritz Publisher Comments Everyone knows about Paul Revere's midnight ride. But not everyone knows the harrowing details and narrow escapes that occurred along the way. This timeless and witty book highlights little-known facts about patriot Paul Revere.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision: A Progressive's Handbook by George Lakoff Publisher Comments Two years ago George Lakoff published the bestselling Don't Think of an Elephant Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for more... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear by Paul Rogat Loeb Publisher Comments In The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a phrase borrowed from Billie Holliday, the editor of Soul of a Citizen brings together fifty stories and essays that range across nations, eras, wars, and political movements. Danusha Goska, an Indiana... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others by Robert Blaisdell Publisher Comments This concise anthology presents a broad selection of writings by leading revolutionary figures of the world.... (read more) List Price $4.50 Your price: $2.50 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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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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State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration by James Risen Publisher Comments With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we still might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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It's My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America by Christine Todd Whitman Publisher Comments Leading Republican moderate Christine Todd Whitman emerges in this forceful book as a voice for her partys disenfranchisedthose she calls radical moderatesand an ardent, thoughtful opponent of the GOPs kowtowing to far-right social... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All by Washington Post Publisher Comments The Washington Post’s must-read guide to the health care overhaul What now? Despite the rancorous, divisive, year-long debate in Washington, many Americans still don’t understand what the historic overhaul of the health care system will—... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame Wilson and Laura Rozen Publisher Comments On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy by James M Mccormick Publisher Comments Now in its third edition, this comprehensive survey of the interaction between domestic and international politics shows how public opinion, interest groups, the media, the intelligence establishment, and the different branches of American government... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Stories by Peter Phillips Publisher Comments The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy by Noah Feldman Publisher Comments A brave and timely examination of America's great dilemma in the Muslim world Published just as the United States went to war in Iraq, After Jihad put Noah Feldman "into the center of an unruly brawl now raging in policy circles over what to do with the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Essential Marx (06 Edition) by Leon Trotsky Publisher Comments Shortly before he was assassinated in 1940, Trotsky made this selection from Capital, to which he appended his own lengthy and insightful introduction. Compact and fascinating, this invaluable work not only presents Marx's thoughts in his own words, it... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 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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Media Control : the Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (2ND 02 Edition) by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Noam Chomskys backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy Publisher Comments About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Would a Patriot Act? by Glenn Greenwald Publisher Comments Glenn Greenwald was not a political man. Not liberal, not conservative. Politicians were all the same and it didn't matter which party was in power. Extremists on both ends canceled each other out, and the United States would essentially remain forever... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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