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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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Trickle Down Tyranny: Crushing Obama's Dream of the Socialist States of America by Michael Savage Publisher Comments This One Book Can Stop Obama's Tyranny The USA or the USSA? The United States of America or the Union of Socialist States of America? That is the question. Will President Obama transform the greatest engine of freedom the world has ever known into a... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf 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... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg Publisher Comments Replacing myths with research, Goldberg shows that the original fascists were really on the Left and that liberals, from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton, have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitlers National... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity by Roland Marchand Publisher Comments It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American Dream looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways to... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Palinisms: The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Sarah Palin by Jacob Weisberg Publisher Comments "I don't know if I should Buenos Aires or Bonjour, or... this is such a melting pot. This is so beautiful. I love this diversity. Yeah. There were a whole bunch of guys named Tony in the photo line, I know that." "We used to hustle over the border for... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G Johnson Publisher Comments This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable... (read more) List Price $50.80 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society by Arthur M Jr Schlesinger Publisher Comments A New York Times... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Amusing Ourselves To Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business ((Rev)05 Edition) by Neil Postman Publisher Comments Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America by Daniel J Flynn Publisher Comments Stupid is the new smart—but it wasn’t always so Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play?... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Death of Liberalism by R Emmett Jr Tyrrell Publisher Comments An insider's investigation of the decline and impending death of the American Liberal movement in the United States today. As a political movement, Liberalism is dead. Its acolytes do not have the numbers. They do not have the policies. After the 2008... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments From Puritans to heathens-Sarah Vowell takes on Hawaii in this New York Times bestseller. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Sarah Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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