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Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
by Lewis Lapham  Publisher Comments A preeminent political essayist writes about the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush and makes a compelling case for impeachment....
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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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Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 2nd Ed
by George Lakoff Publisher Comments conversion in...
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Call To Conscience : the Landmark Speeches of DR. Martin Luther King, JR. (01 Edition)
by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments Featuring contributions from Andrew Young, Congressman John Lewis, George McGovern, Rosa Parks, and others, this inspiring collection features the milestone speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest orators of the 20th century....
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The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom
by David Kupelian Publisher Comments This meticulously researched book reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold back to them by highly skilled marketers....
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Vets Under Siege: How America Deceives and Dishonors Those Who Fight Our Battles
by Martin Schram Publisher Comments After members of our armed forces bravely serve their nation, they sometimes come home to find themselves battling another enemy---within their own government. Using decades of case histories, statistics, and firsthand accounts, Martin Schram exposes a...
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Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
by Marjorie Cohn Publisher Comments In "Cowboy Republic," Marjorie Cohn offers a penetrating analysis of the six most important ways in which the Bush administration has weakened the rule of law. Cohn, a respected legal scholar, details the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq; the...
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb Publisher Comments Dark Alliance is a book that should be fiction, whose characters seem to come straight out of central casting: the international drug lord, Norwin Meneses; the Contra cocaine broker with an MBA in marketing, Danilo Blandon; and the illiterate teenager...
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A Civil Action
by Jonathan Harr 
Publisher Comments In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant, Porsche-driving lawyer...
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Obama: From Promise to Power
by David Mendell Publisher Comments Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more...
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The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
by Drew Westen Publisher Comments The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind...
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The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments This wholly original new work by the best-selling author of The Great Unraveling challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, "the heir apparent to Galbraith" (Alan Blinder) and, today's most...
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Patriotism and the American Land
by Richard Nelson and Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments Terrorism. Homeland Security. Patriotism. Since September 11, 2001, these terms have emerged as a fundamental part of our cultural lexicon, with their unsaid assumptions and attendant emotions being used to inspire and buttress a varied set of...
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In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration
by David Iglesias Publisher Comments The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush...
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The Campaign Manager: Running and Winning Local Elections
by Catherine M. Shaw Publisher Comments The Campaign Manager is a clear and concise, must-have handbook that is based on the author's three terms as mayor of Ashland, Oregon, and her numerous successes in managing campaigns. Supportive of both candidates and issues, this handbook gives...
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Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth about the American Voter
by Rick Shenkman Publisher Comments Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics....
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Publisher Comments In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their...
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Who Governs? (2ND 05 Edition)
by Robert Dahl Publisher Comments In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of the location of political power in American urban communities. For this new edition, Robert A. Dahl has written a new...
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Fair Game: How a Top Spy Was Betrayed by Her Own Government
by Valerie Plam Wilson Publisher Comments On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his...
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Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy
by Jeffrey Feldman Publisher Comments Outright Barbarous turns the spotlight on the rhetorical thuggery of the Right, exposing how the verbal excesses are being perpetrated not just by media blowhards like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh but by conservative thought leaders. But Feldman does...
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