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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser  
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-first Century
by Robert W. McChesney Publisher Comments The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known--a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney...
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A Fist in the Hornet's Nest: On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During, and After the War
by Richard Engel Publisher Comments On the ground in Baghdad before, during and after the war....
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Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times
by Ellen Goodman Publisher Comments In this rich and savvy collection of commentaries on the events, people and issues that shape and define our world, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Goodman cuts to the heart of the stories and controversies...
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
by Paul Krugman
Powells.com Staff Pick Though Paul Krugman has been sounding the alarm twice a week in his New York Times column, he is no alarmst. That such a distinguished economist has become so distressed about current policies should concern citizens of all political persuasions. That he...
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Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
by David Brock Publisher Comments In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler's The God That Failed, David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it....
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Global Village Idiot: Dubya, Dumb Jokes, and One Last Word Before You Vote
by John Ofarrell Publisher Comments Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars' Awards, and Britain's finest satirist, O'Farrell takes dead aim in Global Village Idiot at cell phones, awards ceremonies, genetic sheep splicers, America's right-wing cabal of dunces...
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II
by Charles Osgood Publisher Comments The notable journalist offers a funny, nostalgic, autobiographical slice of American life and a moving look at World War II from the perspective of a child far away from the fighting, but very conscious of the reverberations....
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The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and The Media That Love Them
by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
Publisher Comments The acclaimed host of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! challenges the corporate and political hypocrisy that has silenced America. Her comments turned Charlie Rose red in the face. Bill Clinton called her "hostile, combative, and even disrespectful."...
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Sore Winners: And the Rest of Us in George Bush's America
by John Powers
Publisher Comments The dollars are green. The terror level is orange. And everybody's seeing red. Welcome to Bush World. Rich, scary, and insanely polarized, America is living through one of the wildest eras in its history. In this delicious hybrid of pop mythology and...
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Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War
by Philip M Seib Publisher Comments "Philip Seib is a journalist, a student of journalism, and a teacher of journalists, who has the rare talent of asking the right questions. His book, Beyond the Front Lines, has to be helpful to anyone who worries about the place of the news media in an...
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy : An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Corporate Cons, Globalization, and High-Finance Fraudsters
by Greg Palast Publisher Comments Investigative journalist Greg Palast has uncovered scandal, fraud, corruption, and lies in the highest seats of power — from the White House to corporate America. Known in Britain as "the greatest investigative reporter of our time" (Tribune...
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A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl
by Mariane Pearl
Publisher Comments In A Mighty Heart, an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about Danny Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped in...
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The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy
by David Brock Publisher Comments In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United...
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Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You
by Paul Waldman Publisher Comments In Fraud, leading political and media analyst Paul Waldman exposes the truth behind the rise of George W. Bush. What is revealed is more shocking than just a pattern of lies and incompetence. It is the story of how a clever political machine built a high-...
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Homeland
by Dale Maharidge Publisher Comments Homeland is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Maharidge's biggest and most ambitious book yet, weaving together the disparate and contradictory strands of contemporary American society-common decency alongside race rage, the range of dissenting voices, and...
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