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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
by Joe Bageant  
Powells.com Staff Pick Deer Hunting with Jesus is a hilarious, depressing, and painfully honest chronicle of an America often cited but rarely listened to: rural lower-class whites. With brilliant, spot-on detail, Joe Bageant reports on the historical, economic, and...
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer Synopsis "The Dark Side" is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the U.S. has made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that have not only violated the Constitution and American values, but...
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Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers Are Unhappier Than Ever
by David Kusnet Publisher Comments Praise for Love the Work, Hate the Job With energy, fine reporting, and a sure grasp of the realities of people's working lives, David Kusnet has written one of the most important studies of how people do their jobs since Daniel Bell's Work and Its...
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The Political Mind Signed
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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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today,...
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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 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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Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice
by Bill Fletcher Publisher Comments The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor'...
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The End of Food
by Paul Roberts Publisher Comments Paul Roberts, best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic needs is failing dramatically. In this carefully researched, vividly recounted narrative...
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Empires of Trust: How Rome Built--And America Is Building--A New World
by Thomas F. Madden Publisher Comments A tale of two superpowers unique in the history of the world, offering a totally original comparison of the United States and ancient Rome: celebrating similarities and delivering urgent insights into Americaas current crises. Does America face the same...
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Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent the past year interviewing over fifty veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation in Iraq. The testimonies of these soldiers—many of...
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A More Perfect Constitution: Why the Constitution Must Be Revised: Ideas to Inspire a New Generation
by Larry J. Sabato Publisher Comments The political book of the year, from the acclaimed founder and director of the Center for politics at the University of Virginia. A More Perfect Constitution presents creative and dynamic proposals from one of the most visionary and fertile political...
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High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
by Peter Gosselin Publisher Comments The U.S. economy is wrapping up twenty-five years of some of the strongest, smoothest growth in its history-a performance so sweet economists have given it a name: “the Great Moderation.” So why have so many of us, even those making hundreds...
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The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
by Shari MacDonald Strong Publisher Comments Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features more than 40 powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families — both...
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This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments America in the 'aughts — hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate"* of Jonathan Swift. Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of...
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Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
by Raja Shehadeh Publisher Comments Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is...
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The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector
by Aidan Delgado Publisher Comments A young man's transformation from Army Reserve volunteer to Buddhist conscientious objector and critic of the war in Iraq In 2003 Aidan Delgado was deployed to Nasiriyah and Abu Ghraib with the U.S. Army Reserve. When his colleagues learned that he spoke...
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Spanish Politics: Democracy After Dictatorship
by Omar Guillermo Encarnacion Publisher Comments Since the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1977 Spain has emerged as one of the worlds most successful new democracies. But what accounts for the remarkable process of democratization in Spain, a country infamous for its long history of civil wars...
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Immigrants' Rights After 9/11 (Point/Counterpoint)
by Wendy Biddle Publisher Comments Each book in this series offers all of the statutes, legal opinions, and studies a student needs to structure a cohesive argument on a given controversial topic. Issues are presented from multiple points of view; sidebars cite laws and opinions to aid in...
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A World of Polities
by Yale H. Ferguson Publisher Comments P Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach have made a significant contribution to our contemporary understanding of global politics. This collection contains some of their classic essays and many unpublished articles which have been edited into a...
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