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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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Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America by Dan Balz Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Battle for America 2008 and longtime Washington Post correspondent, an inside view and analysis of the Obama-Romney presidential race. Four years ago, a bright young presidential candidate named Barack Obama campaigned... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover
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Aftershock(inequality for All--Movie Tie-In Edition) (Vintage) by Robert B. Reich Publisher Comments Updated and With a New Introduction When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy, suggests another... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself by Sheila Bair Publisher Comments Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, Sheila Bair witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 became--along with Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner--one of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Activist's Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century by Randy Shaw Publisher Comments A must read for grassroots activists, Shaw offers indispensable insights into the strategies and tactics necessary to overcome powerful interests. This new edition significantly expands and updates the original, which is an organizing classic... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Robert O. Self Publisher Comments In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnsons Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of “family values” and promised to keep government... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Victory Lab (13 Edition) by Sasha Issenberg Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Price of Politics (12 Edition) by Woodward Publisher Comments See how and why Washington is not functioning.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Bob Woodward's freshly reported, thirty-five-page Afterword to his national bestseller, andlt;Iandgt;The Price of Politicsandlt;/Iandgt;, provides a detailed, often verbatim... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Why We Drive: The Past, Present, and Future of Automobiles in America by Andy Singer Publisher Comments Taking the position that Americas love affair with cars and highways is not a cultural phenomenon but a problem of entrenched economic and political forces, this manifesto chronicles the rise of the U.S. highway system from its orchestrated genesis to... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era by Michael Grunwald Publisher Comments Drawing on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind one of the most important and least understood laws in U.S. history, President Obama's $800 billion stimulus... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Political Corruption and American Culture by Alexander Cockburn Publisher Comments US... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Free Market Revolution by Yaron Brook Publisher Comments Already a National Bestseller, in Free Market Revolution, the keepers of Ayn Rands legacy argue that the answer to our current economic woes lies not in "trickle-down government" but in Rand's inspiring philosophy of capitalism and self-interest&... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home (Occupied Media Pamphlet) by Laura Gottesdiener Publisher Comments Told through the eyes of four homeownersa grandmother in Detroit, an entrepreneur in rural North Carolina, a disabled man in Chattanooga, and a mother in ChicagoA Dream Foreclosed presents a peoples history of the U.S. financial crisis and... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Revised and Expanded Edition) (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) by Nelson Lichtenstein Publisher Comments "Scholars have come to look to Nelson Lichtenstein for state-of-the-art work on American labor history. Now he has synthesized his immense learning into a powerful narrative of the ups and downs of unions since the New Deal. Elegiac, sympathetic, and... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America by Jonathan Kozol Publisher Comments In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History's Forgotten Battlegrounds by Robert Sullivan Publisher Comments Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama by Ann Coulter Publisher Comments Few things are as rare as an honest book about race. This is one of the very few, and one of the very best.” Thomas Sowell For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments A bestselling authors shocking analysis of the many ways we are victimized by corporations David Cay Johnston, the bestselling author of Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch, is famous for exposing the perfidies of our biggest institutions. Now he turns... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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