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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 Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama Publisher Comments The junior U.S. senator from Illinois speaks out to all Americans on how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can be adapted to such controversial issues as globalization, the function of...
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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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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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...
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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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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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Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama
by Steve Dougherty Publisher Comments The First Biographical Portrait Ever of This Key Political Figure Written by a leading journalist and filled with more than 100 color photographs, this authoritative and up-to-the-moment new biography provides much-needed perspective on one of the most...
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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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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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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 Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
by Paul Rogat Loeb
Publisher Comments People need hope more than ever in difficult political times — like this one. This book brings together the voices of eloquent writers and activists to talk about how we replenish the wells of commitment. It explores what keeps us going as we work...
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The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap
by Amy Sullivan Publisher Comments As late as the 1960s, religion was a decidedly nonpartisan affair in the United States. In the past forty years, however, despite abundant evidence that Americans care about their candidates' personal faith, Democrats have beat a retreat in the...
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Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
by Glenn Greenwald Publisher Comments A takedown of the GOP's deceitful propaganda machine from the hugely popular blogger of Salon.com's Unclaimed Territory and the author of the New York Times bestsellers How Would a Patriot Act? and A Tragic Legacy Long since Americans were wooed by...
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The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
by Matt Taibbi Publisher Comments A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THE HEARTLAND Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi set out to describe the...
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Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans -- Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild
by Greg Palast Publisher Comments A White House spokesman said, "We hate that sonovabitch." They're not alone: From corporate suites to Osama's cave, they fear what Britain's Guardian calls "investigations up there with Woodward and Bernstein — and a lot funnier." But Greg Palast's...
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Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappe — author of sixteen books, including three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet — distills her world...
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The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril
by Al 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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Safire's Political Dictionary
by William Safire Publisher Comments When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for...
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
Publisher Comments Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready...
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America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by Jon Stewart
From Powells.com Why do we love America so much? For the much-celebrated naked pictures of Supreme Court justices? The flashbacks to those stultifyingly dull high school textbooks? Or can it be that seeing the polished irreverence of the Daily Show writers in book form...
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