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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $20.99 Sale - Hardcover
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What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution by Gar Alperovitz Publisher Comments Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming.But just what is this thing called a... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti Publisher Comments A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s explosive account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special forces into competing covert manhunting and killing operations — the new American way of war Osama bin Laden’s... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washingtons craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz Publisher Comments America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize–... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service by Henry A. Crumpton Publisher Comments A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career Revelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, American intelligence, and... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It by Tom Diaz Synopsis Newtown, Connecticut. Aurora, Colorado. Both have entered our collective memory as sites of unimaginable heartbreak and mass slaughter perpetrated by lone gunmen. Meanwhile, cities such as Chicago and Washington, D.C., are dealing with the painful... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Control: Exposing the Truth about Guns by Glenn Beck Publisher Comments When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of Rights. So why... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States by Michael Lind Publisher Comments How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus? From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Marijuanamerica: One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed by Alfred Ryan Nerz Publisher Comments Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He is also a longtime pot smoker who wanted to better understand the drugs use and abuse in the United States. Marijuanamerica is the story of his trek across the country, where he... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard Publisher Comments Was our countryandrsquo;s economic success before the Crash of andlsquo;08 built on false pretenses? Did we simply borrow and spend too much, or was something else really going on?and#160;The conventional wisdom now accuses Wall Street and the mortgage... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--And Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel Publisher Comments Veteran journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles give the fullest account yet of the Oklahoma City bombing plot and investigation, with unprecedented access to government documents, voluminous correspondence with Timothy McVeigh's partner, Terry... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility by Robert Kuttner Publisher Comments One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution to a persisting economic... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--And What We Can Do about It by Riva Froymovich Publisher Comments Generation Y faces the bleakest economic landscape in modern history. The recent spikes in unemployment and debt, alongside a drop in marriage, home-buying, and childbearing rates, will have long-term consequences for a group that had no hand in creating... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry by Marc Ambinder Publisher Comments There is a hidden country within the United States. It was formed from the astonishing number of secrets held by the government and the growing ranks of secret-keepers given charge over them. The government secrecy industry speaks in a private language... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas by Jonah Goldberg Publisher Comments An indispensable and enduring field guide to the arguments the left makesand the ones it tries to avoid.” The Claremont Review of Books According to Jonah Goldberg, if the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power by Kim Ghattas Publisher Comments The first inside account to be published about Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State, anchored by Ghattas' own perspective and her quest to understand America's place in the world. From Beirut to Washington is the first book of its kind: A foreign... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives by Jose A. Rodriguez Publisher Comments AS SEEN ON 60 MINUTES The explosive New York Times bestseller by the pioneer of the CIAs highly controversial “enhanced interrogation techniques” Former Chief of the CIAs Counterterrorism Center, Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., reveals how, in the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State by Robert C Post Publisher Comments A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the “marketplace of... (read more) Your price: $23.50 New - Trade Paper
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