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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
by Dmitry Orlov  
Publisher Comments In the waning days of the American empire, we find ourselves mired in political crisis, with our foreign policy coming under sharp criticism and our economy in steep decline. These trends mirror the experience of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s...
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
by Paul Rogat Loeb
Publisher Comments In this "Chicken Soup for the Liberal Soul," the most eloquent writers of our time offer words of inspiration and hope. Includes contributions from Maya Angelou, Tony Kushner, Pablo Neruda, Henri Nouwen, Marge Piercy, Desmond Tutu and others....
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage)
by Barack Obama Publisher Comments A government that truly represents these Americans-that truly serves these Americans-will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won't be pre-packaged, ready to pull off the shelf....
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The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
by George Lakoff Publisher Comments In What's the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank pointed out that a great number of Americans actually vote against their own interests. In The Political Mind, George Lakoff explains why. As it turns out, human beings are not the rational creatures weave...
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Moyers on Democracy
by Bill Moyers Publisher Comments Bill Moyers on America today: “Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of our...
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A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America
by Jim Webb Publisher Comments “I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos." Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—...
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Rules for Radicals
by Saul D Alinsky Publisher Comments This primers tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy....
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The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna
Powells.com Staff Pick "The Second World will be the definitive guide to world politics for years to come," says the flap copy. Clearly Random House is very high on this book. Could it be publishing's next The World Is Flat? You'd have to read more geopolitical economic theory...
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Thinking Points : Communicating Our American Values and Vision (06 Edition)
by Lakoff Publisher Comments Two years ago George Lakoff published the bestselling Don’t Think of an Elephant! Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for...
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris Publisher Comments Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes....
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Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe
by Arianna Huffington Publisher Comments With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country. Huffington...
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Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do about It
by Thom Hartmann Publisher Comments The American middle class is on its deathbed. People who put in a solid day's work can no longer afford to buy a house, send their kids to college, or even get sick. If you’re not a CEO, you’re probably screwed. As Air...
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John Adams
by David McCullough
From Powells.com David McCullough is our most dependable presidential biographer. Each of his efforts has been a resounding success, combining popular appeal with literary accolades. Mornings on Horseback, about Teddy Roosevelt, won the National Book Award, his...
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48 Laws of Power (98 Edition)
by Robert Greene Publisher Comments Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws...
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner Publisher Comments For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world...
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Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It (Bk Currents)
by Thom Hartmann Publisher Comments Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America's middle class?a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book...
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Publisher Comments The world of business is changing — fast. The prevailing model for creating wealth — which has its roots in the industrial revolution and which dominated the last century — no longer applies. Natural Capitalism introduces an alternative, a...
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
by George Crile
Publisher Comments From an award-winning 60 Minutes reporter comes the extraordinary story of the largest and most successful CIA operation in history-the arming of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, pressure mounted for the...
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War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General
by Smedley D Butler Publisher Comments A new edition of this anti-war classic written by America's most decorated General....
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Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 20002008
by Mark Crispin (edt) Miller Publisher Comments Heading into another presidential race, We the People have to face the fact that our election system is a shambles, run by private corporations with a partisan agenda, and largely based on a technology that anyone can rig. This great book will tell you...
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