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The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
by Alvin S Felzenberg  Publisher Comments It’s a perennial pastime to rate U.S. presidents on an all-time ranking: Certain presidents were “Great,” others were “Near-Great,” and so on down to “Failures” and “Unmitigated Disasters.” (OK, we...
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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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Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times
by Amy Goodman Synopsis The award-winning journalists and authors of "The Exception to the Rulers" and "Static" return with this revolutionary work that celebrates the ordinary heroes who have stood up, often at great risk, to defend democracy and change America for the better....
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A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
by Nathan Hodge Publisher Comments Two Washington, D.C., defense reporters do for nukes what Sarah Vowell did for presidential assassinations in this fascinating, kaleidoscopic portrait of nuclear weaponry. In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Sharon Weinberger and...
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
by Chris Hedges
Powells.com Staff Pick Radical religion has been a source of destruction for many nations throughout history. In Hedges's powerful critique of the political forces that seek to rule — and imperil — the United States he traces the alarming path of the emerging...
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner Publisher Comments With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and...
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The Assault on Reason
by Albert Gore
Powells.com Staff Pick More astute and timely observations from my favorite candidate who isn't running for President. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda
by H Keith Melton Publisher Comments From two men who know better than anyone how espionage really works, an unprecedented historyheavily illustrated with neverbefore- seen imagesof the CIA's most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible. It is a world where the intrigue...
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Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow
by Jim Hightower and Susan DeMarco Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author and America's funniest activist gives the lowdown on how to put up-not shut up-in the fight for our future. Hightower, the country's #1 populist, has picked up some useful advice over the years, from never eat at...
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The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster has enthralled readers with his incisive blend of culinary, cultural, and social history. Now, in his most colorful, personal, and important book to date, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a...
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American Nerd: The Story of My People
by Benjamin Nugent Publisher Comments Most people know a nerd when they see one but can't define just what a nerd is. American Nerd: The Story of My People gives us the history of the concept of nerdiness and of the subcultures we consider nerdy. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the archetypal...
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I Don't Believe in Atheists
by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism...
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A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
by Dudley Clendinen Publisher Comments Old age in America is not what it used to be In 1994 New York Times writer Dudley Clendinen's mothera Southern matron of iron will but creaking bonessold her house and moved to Canterbury Tower, a geriatric apartment building with full services and a...
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The True Patriot
by Eric Liu Publisher Comments It’s been hijacked by the right and abandoned by the left, but the principles of true patriotism — country above self, responsible stewardship, equality, shared sacrifice and service — are inherently progressive. The True Patriot...
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In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration
by David Iglesias Publisher Comments The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush...
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A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America--One State Quarter at a Time
by Jim Noles Publisher Comments The U.S. Mint’s Fifty State Quarters Program-its most ambitious program to date-has been a huge popular success. When the final state quarters are released in 2008, many thousands of individuals will have collected one commemorative quarter for...
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White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement
by Allan Lichtman Publisher Comments Spanning nearly one hundred years of American political history, and abounding with outsize characters--from Lindbergh to Goldwater to Gingrich to Abramoff--White Protestant Nation offers a penetrating look at the origins, evolution, and triumph (at...
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Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling author provides a shocking analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West. Ahmed Rashid is "Pakistan's best and bravest reporter" (Christopher Hitchens). His unique...
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Fair Game: How a Top Spy Was Betrayed by Her Own Government
by Valerie Plam Wilson Publisher Comments On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became...
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