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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington's craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore Staff Pick The Other Wes Moore is the fascinating tale of two men who shared a name and a birthplace; their lives started out in similar circumstances and ended up very differently (one a Rhodes Scholar, the other serving a life sentence in jail). A moving... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer Publisher Comments A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, 3rd Edition by Eugene Bardach Book News Annotation Drawing upon his experience teaching graduate-level workshops at UC Berkeley, Bardach uses real-world examples to illustrate his eight steps for producing a policy analysis report, from defining the problem through projecting outcomes and presenting... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home by Susan Clark Publisher Comments Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities.Slow Democracy chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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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 Publisher Comments What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we keep on working for a more humane world, no matter how hard it sometimes seems? In a time when our involvement has never been needed more, this anthology of political hope will help readers with the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail by Frances Fox Piven Publisher Comments Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this... (read more) List Price $15.85 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow Publisher Comments "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning Signed Edition by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments It is often said that war is hell. But for many of the people who experience war first hand--civilians and soldiers alike--it is an emotionally intense and even exhilarating experience. War is an intoxicating and addictive elixir. It gives us purpose... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America by Jim Marrs Publisher Comments Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government. The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the truth about... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments For decades the liberal class was a defense against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class — the press, universities, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions — have collapsed. In... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism (12 Edition) by Thomas E. Mann Publisher Comments Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America’s two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick 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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Power Elite by C Wright Mills Publisher Comments First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Artists in Times of War (Seven Stories' Open Media Book) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments "Political power," says Howard Zinn, "is controlled by the corporate elite, and the arts are the locale for a kind of guerilla warfare in the sense that guerillas look for apertures and opportunities where they can have an effect." In his new book... (read more) List Price $13.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor by Tom Juravich Publisher Comments On November 1, 1990, just as its contract with the United Steelworkers of America was about to expire, Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation locked out its seventeen hundred employees and hired permanent replacements. Despite deteriorating conditions that had... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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