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Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism
by Al Regnery  Publisher Comments Alfred S. Regnery, the publisher of The American Spectator, has been a part of the American conservative movement since childhood, when his father founded The Henry Regnery Company, which subsequently became Regnery Publishing -- the preeminent...
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Machiavelli's Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove
by Paul Alexander Publisher Comments Karl Rove has come to personify scorched earth political tactics and merciless, win-at-any-cost trickery. His status as the so-called architect behind Bush’s election victories has elevated him to a mythic kingmaker in the...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updated Acclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Chosen for “one book”...
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Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town
by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met and talked to everyone involved in the...
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Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
by Benazir Bhutto Publisher Comments Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. Upon a tumultuous reception, she survived a suicide-bomb attack that killed nearly two hundred of her countrymen. But she...
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Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
by Charlie Savage Synopsis Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield enormous powers, unchecked by Congres or the courts--an agenda that links warrantless wiretapping and...
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Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
by Robert Frank Publisher Comments THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in the heart of America, populated entirely by millionaires, most of whom acquired their wealth during the new Gilded Age of the past twenty years. 2. a country with a population...
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Statecraft: and How To Restore America's Standing in the World (07 Edition)
by Dennis Ross Publisher Comments In this wise and thought-provoking book, the renowned peace negotiator Dennis Ross shows that America’s current foreign policy problems stem from the Bush administration’s inability to use the tools of statecraft to advance our national...
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21: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich Publisher Comments The long-running New York Times bestseller that has become a cultural phenomenon, Bringing Down the House is an action-filled caper carried out by the unlikeliest of cons -- supersmart geeks. Gambling pervaded the M.I.T. campus, and genius kids with...
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Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters
by Richard A Clarke Publisher Comments Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families during the 9/11 Commission hearings touched a raw nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks, but it has proven itself, time and again...
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The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
by Teresa Rodriguez Publisher Comments For more than twelve years, the city of Juárez, Mexico -- just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas -- has been the center of a horrific crime wave against women and girls. Consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, most of the...
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Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin Into a Global Business
by James Harding Publisher Comments Alpha Dogs is the story of the men from an enormously influential campaign business called Sawyer Miller who served as backroom strategists on every presidential contest from Richard Nixon’s to George W. Bush’s. David Sawyer was a New England...
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When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back
by Stephen Singular Publisher Comments In When Men Become Gods, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular casts a light on a dark corner of religious extremism. He reveals a group of fundamentalists operating in the present-day United States, where teenage girls are kept in virtual...
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E, the Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy
by Tim Pilcher Publisher Comments Disco biscuits, happy pills, doves, wobbly eggs, burgers, X, Adam, e, ecstasy-however you refer to it, MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) has been a life-changing force, for both good and bad, in millions of people’s lives. Not since LSD and...
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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
by Ammon Shea Publisher Comments An obsessive word lover's account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. "I'm reading the OED so you don't have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on..." So reports...
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Rethinking Wic: an Evaluation of the Women, Infants, and Children Program
by Douglas J. Besharov Publisher Comments This book analyzes the research on the effectiveness of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children....
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The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
by John Maclean Publisher Comments “Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting.”—National Geographic Adventure The Thirtymile Fire in the North Cascade Range near the Canadian border of Washington began as a simple mop-up operation; in a...
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The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation
by Jeff Goldsmith Publisher Comments In 2006, the first baby boomers turned 60, unleashing a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. In The Long Baby Boom, Jeff Goldsmith counters the predictions of such...
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In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker
by David Brody Publisher Comments These extended essays by one of the preeminent scholars in U.S. labor history discuss central questions in the field, from the colonial period to the present: What do the first demands for a fixed workday tell us about how early American workers...
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Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds
by Ben Mezrich Publisher Comments He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine -- but it would nearly cost him his life. Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was...
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