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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 Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington
by David Sirota Publisher Comments An All-Access Pass to the Populist. Insurrection Brewing Across the Country. Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank Publisher Comments With a new afterword by the author The New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny...the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" (Molly Ivins) Hailed as...
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner
Publisher Comments There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear...
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What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy
by Thom Hartmann Publisher Comments When the Founding Fathers were searching for the best and fairest form of government, they studied the models of Athenian democracy, the Roman republic, and the Iroquois Confederacy and created what is now called a modern liberal democracy. Today, 81...
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The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country
by Howard Fineman Publisher Comments Howard Fineman is one of our best-known and most trusted political journalists. Mixing vivid scenes and figures from the campaign trail with forays into four hundred years of American history, Fineman shows that every debate, from our nation’s...
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by Kevin Phillips
Publisher Comments From America's premier political analyst, an explosive examination of the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nation. In his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and...
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There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion
by Jim Hightower Publisher Comments < CENTER> Revised, and with a New Introduction by the Author< /CENTER> < P> < BLOCKQUOTE> I am an agitator, and an agitator is the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out.< BR> --Jim Hightower< /BLOCKQUOTE&...
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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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The True Patriot
by Eric Liu Publisher Comments It’s been hijacked by the right and abandoned by the left, but the principles of true patriotism — country above self, responsible stewardship, equality, shared sacrifice and service — are inherently progressive. The True Patriot...
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Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, C
by Dick Morris Publisher Comments Here are the facts: The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantanamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they're fiscally responsible. But each has called for...
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Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
by Kevin Phillips Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-455) and index....
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The Twilight of American Culture
by Morris Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index....
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Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy
by Michael J. Sandel Publisher Comments The defect, Sandel maintains, lies in the impoverished vision of citizenship and community shared by Democrats and Republicans alike. American politics has lost its civic voice, leaving both liberals and conservatives unable to inspire the sense of...
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