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A Short History of Nuclear Folly by Rudolph Herzog Publisher Comments In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA by Randall B Woods Publisher Comments World War II commando, Cold War spy, and CIA director under presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown Publisher Comments While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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America the Philosophical (Vintage) by Carlin Romano Publisher Comments This bold, insightful book argues that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate. With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Political Tone: How Leaders Talk and Why (Chicago Studies in American Politics) by Roderick P Hart Publisher Comments It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician’s career. Yet very little has been said in political science about... (read more) Your price: $25.00 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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The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich Publisher Comments In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, both conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology, of unprecedented military might wed to a blind... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Nation of Moochers: America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing by Charles J. Sykes Publisher Comments Have we reached a tipping point where more Americans depend on the efforts of others than on their own? Are we becoming a nation of moochers? In A Nation of Moochers, Charles J. Sykes argues that we are already very close to that point, if we have not... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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What's the Matter with White People?: Finding Our Way in the Next America by Joan Walsh Publisher Comments A CLEAR-EYED, COGENT CLARION CALL FOR ENDING THE DIVISIVE CLASS WARS THAT THREATEN THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS DREAM In Whats the Matter with White People? Walsh argues that the biggest divide in America today is based not on party or ideology but on two... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Simpler: The Future of Government by Cass R. Sunstein Publisher Comments Simpler government arrived four years ago. It helped put money in your pocket. It saved hours of your time. It improved your childrens diet, lengthened your life span, and benefited businesses large and small. It did so by issuing fewer regulations, by... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda by Gail Collins Publisher Comments As Texas Goes... provides a trenchant yet often hilarious look into American politics and the disproportional influence of Texas, which has become the model for not just the Tea Party but also the Republican Party. Now with an expanded introduction and a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea by Dana Becker Publisher Comments Stress. Everyone is talking about it, suffering from it, trying desperately to manage it-now more than ever. From 1970 to 1980, 2,326 academic articles appeared with the word "stress" in the title. In the decade between 2000 and 2010 that number jumped... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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What the (Bleep) Just Happened... Again?: The Happy Warrior's Guide to the Great American Comeback by Monica Crowley Publisher Comments What the @$%&! just happened to America? That's the question that Monica Crowley, bestselling author, Fox News political analyst, columnist, and popular nationally syndicated radio host, asks—and answers—in this fast-paced... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (Vintage) by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (11 Edition) by Timothy Pachirat Publisher Comments This is an account of industrialized killing from a participants point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day—... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation by Deneen Borelli Publisher Comments One of the most visible and outspoken black conservatives in the country stands up against the destructive progressive tyrants whose politics threaten to send America into a nosedive. This country is at a crossroads. We can either reverse direction or... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber Publisher Comments A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—as seen through the lens of the most transformative political movements of our time and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America ... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti Publisher Comments "A persuasive look at why some U.S. cities have prospered in recent decades while others have declined."—Bloomberg Businessweek We’re used to thinking of the United States in opposing terms: red versus blue, haves versus have-nots... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution by Jeb Bush Publisher Comments The immigration debate has challenged our nation since its founding. But today, it divides Americans more stridently than ever, due to a chronic failure of national leadership by both parties. Here at last is an attainable resolution guided by two core... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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While America Sleeps: A Wake-Up Call for the Post-9/11 Era by Russ Feingold Publisher Comments CHAMPION OF PROGRESSIVES AND LIBERALS, FORMER SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD EXPLAINS FROM HIS UNIQUE VIEW WHERE AMERICA WENT WRONG AFTER 9/11 AND HOW WE CAN REVERSE OUR MISSTEPS. Known for sticking to his convictions and revered across party lines, Russ Feingold... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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