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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
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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)

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What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
by Gar Alperovitz
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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)

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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
by Mark Mazzetti
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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)

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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
by David A. Stockman
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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)

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The Price of Inequality
The Price of Inequality
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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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)

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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
by Rachel Maddow
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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)

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The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
by Henry A. Crumpton
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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)

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The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It
The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It
by Tom Diaz
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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)

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Control: Exposing the Truth about Guns
Control: Exposing the Truth about Guns
by Glenn Beck
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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)

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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
by Michael Lind
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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)

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Marijuanamerica: One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed
Marijuanamerica: One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed
by Alfred Ryan Nerz
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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)

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Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong
Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong
by Edward Conard
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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)

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Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--And Why It Still Matters
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--And Why It Still Matters
by Andrew Gumbel
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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)

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Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
by Robert Kuttner
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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)

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End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--And What We Can Do about It
End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--And What We Can Do about It
by Riva Froymovich
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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)

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Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
by Marc Ambinder
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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)

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The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
by Jonah Goldberg
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“An indispensable and enduring field guide to the arguments the left makes—and 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)

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The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power
The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power
by Kim Ghattas
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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)

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Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives
Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives
by Jose A. Rodriguez
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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)

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Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State
Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State
by Robert C Post
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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)

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