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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf  
Powells.com Staff Pick The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move...
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
Powells.com Staff Pick To be honest, I could not finish this book. It made me too angry. These are the stories about our country you don't want to know. Naomi Klein has cast a spotlight on the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the American dream. The Shock Doctrine...
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Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision: A Progressive's Handbook
by George 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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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 Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
by Joseph E. Stiglitz Publisher Comments The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel...
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips Publisher Comments The bestselling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put Americaas global future at risk In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing...
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Truman
by David McCullough
Publisher Comments The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this...
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Them: Adventures with Extremists
by Jon Ronson
Publisher Comments AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF FRINGE-DWELLERS Islamic fundamentalists, Ku Klux Klansmen, Christian separatists, and certain members of British Parliament would seem to have very little in common, but they do in fact share one crucial...
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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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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments One of our most distinguished thinkers argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on...
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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (A Progressive Guide to Action)
by George Lakoff
Powells.com Staff Pick Now more than ever, Don't Think of an Elephant is an important resource for progressives in this country. George Lakoff submits that for progressive values to reclaim mainstream America we must transform the language of American politics. "Frames are...
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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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Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize Winner -- and Now an Epic PBS Series The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Powells.com Staff Pick "What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques — the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook — and applies them to seemingly unexplainable...
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The Strategy of Conflict
by Thomas C. Schelling Review Against the backdrop of the nuclear arms race in the late 1950s, Thomas Schelling's book The Strategy of Conflictset forth his vision of game theory as a unifying framework for the social sciences. Schelling showed that a party can strengthen its...
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris Publisher Comments This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher Comments When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence...
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Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 2nd Ed
by George Lakoff Publisher Comments conversion in...
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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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