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After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story by Michael Hainey Publisher Comments A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son’s quest to understand the mystery of his father’s death — a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us who we are. Michael Hainey had just... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Roger Ailes: Off Camera by Zev Chafets Publisher Comments When youve got Roger Ailes on your side, you do not lose.”Rush Limbaugh Roger Ailes is the quintessential man behind the curtain. He more or less invented modern politi­cal consulting and helped Richard Nixon, Ronald... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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In Suspect Terrain by John Mcphee Publisher Comments From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indianas drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three othersa biography; a set piece about a fragment... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Arguably collects the finest work by America's foremost rhetorical Pugilist (the Village Voice) in one volume for the first time. Spanning four remarkable decades, this collection includes the author's masterful early writings on civil rights, Vietnam... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things by Bob Dotson Publisher Comments The host of the NBC Today Show’s popular segment shares his favorite stories of citizens making a difference around the country For the six million people who watch the Emmy Award–winning “American Story with Bob Dotson” on NBC... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Crofter and the Laird by John Mcphee Publisher Comments When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestorsColonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainlanda hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression by David Wallis Publisher Comments Think you live in a society with a free press? These celebrated cartoonists and illustrators found out otherwise. Whether blasting Bush for his "Bring 'em on!" speech, spanking pedophile priests, questioning capital punishment, debating the disputed 2000... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols Publisher Comments American journalism is collapsing as newspapers and magazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across the country. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, but veteran journalists and media critics Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else by Associated Press Publisher Comments The Associated Press throws open its archives and invites readers into its news bureaus and out into the field to witness first hand its groundbreaking reporting that made the AP the worlds largest news organization.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? by Molly Ivins Publisher Comments Whether she's writing about redneck politics in her native Texas or the discreet charms of Bushwazee, Molly Ivins in never less than devastatingly honest—and hilarious. Our toughest, funniest, and savviest columnist delivers the goods on:... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews by Lionel Barber Publisher Comments A selection of Financial Times interviews with high-profile figures in business, politics, the arts, science and more, illustrated in full color. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by Robert Waterman McChesney Publisher Comments Robert McChesney argues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide.<P>Rich Media, Poor Democracy addresses the... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms by Ron Rosenbaum Publisher Comments One part intellectual and one part private eye, Ron Rosenbaum takes readers into "the secret parts" of the great mysteries, controversies, and enigmas of our time, including:the occult rituals of Skull and Bones, the legendary Yale secret society that... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hell's Angels (99 Edition) by Thompson Publisher Comments "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media by Brooke Gladstone Publisher Comments A million listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the complexities of the modern media. Bursting onto the page in vivid comics by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld, this brilliant radio personality guides us through two millennia of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison Publisher Comments A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors.--The Philadelphia Inquirer Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty Americans--from the famous to the unknown--completing the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan Staff Pick I love collections of essays. I almost always have one (or two or three) in a pile on my bedside table. But not since I first read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace have I loved a book of essays as much as I loved... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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