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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
by David A. Stockman
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
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by Eugene Bardach
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
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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 (ed.) Loeb
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
by Frances Fox Piven
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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
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Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell
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Unfamiliar Fishes is a lively examination of America's influence in the Hawaiian Islands, from the early-19th-century conversion efforts of Christian missionaries to the coup led by their grandchildren. Vowell keeps the story moving with rich... (read more)

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The Power Elite
by C Wright Mills
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Artists in Times of War (Seven Stories' Open Media Book)
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Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
by Tom Juravich
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