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The Liberty Amendments by Mark R. Levin Publisher Comments The long-awaited new book on how to fix our broken government by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Liberty and Tyranny and Ameritopia.... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments The author of Fast Food Nation blends a riveting minute-by-minute account of an H-bomb accident with a chilling assessment of the grave threat we face from nuclear weapons. At the height of the cold war in the American heartland, a combination of human... (read more) Your price: $36.00 New - Hardcover
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky Publisher Comments Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb by William Lanouette Publisher Comments Well-known names such as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller are usually those that surround the creation of the atom bomb. One name that is rarely mentioned is Leo Szilard, known in scientific circles as “father... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving by Leigh Gallagher Publisher Comments The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.” For nearly 70 years, the suburbs... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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So Rich, So Poor (12 Edition) by Peter Edelman Synopsis Income disparities in our wealthy nation are now wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of todays economy has stultified wage growth for half of Americas workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Growth Experiment Revisited: Why Lower, Simpler Taxes Really Are America's Best Hope for Recovery by Lawrence B. Lindsey Publisher Comments The first edition of The Growth Experiment, originally published in 1990 as a response to critics of the Reagan-era tax cuts, became a kind of bible for proponents of supply-side economics. This new and updated edition, which explores the economic... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Trade Paper
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Decline and Fall of the American Republic (98 Edition) by Bruce Ackerman About the Author Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. Yale... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Candidate: What It Takes to Win - And Hold - The White House by Samuel L. Popkin Publisher Comments There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins--such as Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008--and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Glam: The Performance of Style by Darren Pih Publisher Comments Glam, an extravagant, futuristic pop style, emerged in the early 1970s and remains one of the most instantly recognizable but critically derided stylistic phenomena of 20th-century art and cultural history. Known mostly through the music of the era&... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Trade Paper
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Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children by Elisabeth Young-bruehl Review "More than a study of child abuse, [Childism] excavates the psychological foundations of destructive attitudes toward children."—Peter Monaghan, Chronicle of Higher Education Washington... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Jobs with Justice: 25 Years, 25 Voices by Eric Larson Publisher Comments Through a series of interviews and essays, this compendium gives voice to the community, labor, immigrant, student, and faith activists that have built Jobs with Justice (JwJ). The book speaks on both the core principles of the organization for workers... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Rich People's Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) by Isaac Martin Publisher Comments On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrated with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent. Where do protest movements like this come from? Rich people are an unpopular minority with plenty of political... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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November 22, 1963: Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy by Dean Owen Publisher Comments As the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination draws near, the events of that fateful day will undoubtedly be on the minds of many throughout the world. Here Dean Owen curates a fascinating collection of interviews and thought... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic by David N. Dinkins Publisher Comments How did a scrawny black kidthe son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trentonbecome the 106th mayor of New York City? Its a remarkable journey. David Norman Dinkins was born in 1927, joined the Marine Corps in the waning... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann Publisher Comments Congress approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the governments inability to get anything done. In their New York Times bestseller, Its Even Worse Than It Looks, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein present a... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Weed Runners: Travels with the Outlaw Capitalists of America's Medical Marijuana Trade by Nicholas Schou Publisher Comments Drawing on unparalleled access to sources including lawyers, The Weed Runners is both journalistic exposé and adventure story. There is a vast network fueling the ongoing nationwide explosion of medical marijuana, and this book focuses on an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country by Andrew Bacevich Publisher Comments A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power and Washington Rules. The United States has been “at war” for more than a decade. Yet... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy by James Gustave Speth Review "At a time when forgettable blueprints for social change appear almost daily, this one stands out for being remarkably fresh, readable, and incisive."--Solutions Green Book Festival - JM Northern Media... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Hear No Evil: Politics, Science, and the Forensic Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination by Donald Byron Thomas Publisher Comments Did a shot from the “grassy knoll” kill President Kennedy? If so, was Oswald part of a conspiracy or an innocent patsy? Why have scientific experts who examined the evidence failed to put such questions to rest? In 2001, scientist Dr. Donald... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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