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Conservatives Without Conscience [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by John Dean
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  John Dean takes a sobering look at how radical elements are destroying the Republican Party along with the very foundations of American democracy. John Dean's last New York Times bestseller, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, offered the former White House insider's unique and telling perspective on George W. Bush's presidency. Once again, Dean employs his distinctive knowledge and understanding of Washington politics and process to examine the conservative movement's... more info>>
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Crime Beat [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Michael Connelly
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From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell th... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Culture Warrior [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Bill O'Reilly
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Bill O'Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior--and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness at his command. He sees that America is in the midst of a fierce culture war between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to change America into a "secular-progressive" country. This is a conflict that differs in many ways from the usual liberal/conservative divide, but it is no less heated, and the stakes are e... more info>>
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Dragon Rising: An Inside Look at China Today [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jasper Becker
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Jasper Becker's book, The Chinese, was hailed as the best single-volume introduction to this enormous, inscrutable society. The Washington Post said, "He has been everywhere and asked every question," describing his conclusions as "right in both details and analysis." Since then, China's role in world affairs has only grown greater. No nation on Earth is as newsworthy as 21st-century China--and no book could be timelier than Dragon Rising, appearing just as world attention begins to focus on the... more info>>
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Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, and the World [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Liza Mundy
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Skyrocketing infertility rates and the accompanying explosion in reproductive technology are revolutionizing the American family and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself. In this riveting work of investigative reporting, Liza Mundy, an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post, captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind what is today a controversial, multibillion-dollar industry, and examines how the huge social experiment that is assi... more info>>
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Foxes in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must Do to Run 'em Out [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Steve Jarding, Dave Saunders
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Like a newly discovered treasure map offering a path to buried riches, Foxes in the Henhouse is a hard-hitting political blueprint for how the Democrats can win again in the South and rural America. The authors document the Republicans' rise in the South and Midwest, expose the hypocrisy that marked their ascent, and offer a take-no-prisoners plan to kick them out. The authors know of what they speak. "Rural strategists" Steve Jarding and Dave "Mudcat" Saunders are famous for securing Democratic... more info>>
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Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by John Stossel
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Ballooning government? Millionaire welfare queens? Tort lawyers run amok? A $330,000 outhouse, paid for with your tax dollars? John Stossel says, "Give me a break." When he hit the airwaves thirty years ago, Stossel helped create a whole new category of news, dedicated to protecting and informing consumers. As a crusading reporter, he chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers. But along the way, he noticed that there was something far mo... more info>>
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Godless: The Church of Liberalism [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ann Coulter
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Godless is the most explosive book yet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Coulter. In this completely original and thoroughly controversial work, Coulter writes, "Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious,' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview,... more info>>
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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terrorism [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Mahmood Mamdani
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In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Mamdani dispels the idea of "good" (secular, westernized) and "bad" (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities. The presumption that there are "good" Muslims readily... more info>>
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Thomas L. Friedman
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Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America’s surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis, which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests. In this groundbreaking account of where we stand now, he s... more info>>
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In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr
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John Haynes and Harvey Klehr were the first U.S. historians who used the newly opened archives of the former Soviet Union to examine the history of American communism. In Denial is the record of what they discovered. The authors focus on what they call "lying about spying." Haynes and Klehr examine the ways in which revisionist scholars have ignored or distorted the new archival evidence about espionage links between Moscow and the CPUSA. They analyze the mythology that continues to suggest, ag... more info>>
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Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Dalton Fury
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The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--an operation of such magnitude that it couldn't be handled by just any military or intelligence force. The best America had to offer was needed. As such, the task was handed to roughly forty members of America's supersecret counterterrorist unit formerly known as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta; more popularly, the elite and mysterious unit Delta Force. The American generals were flexible. A swatch of hair, a drop o... more info>>
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Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall: A Closer Look at Women, Violence, and Aggression [PRE-ORDER ONLY: Available: Nov 29, 2009] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Rene Denfeld
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  In her controversial first book, The New Victorians, Rene Denfeld dared to challenge the ideas of New Age and Old Guard feminists. Now, using boxing as a springboard to tackle issues of primary importance to all women, she attacks our culture's myths about feminine anger and violence--and reveals the complex, liberating truth.
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Learning from the Cold War [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jonathan Stevenson
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An ingenious look at the Cold War--and how it can help America move forward Adding a fresh perspective to the debate about America's options in the "war on terror," this lucid retrospective by one of the most admired voices in the national security arena answers an important and largely ignored question: How can the brilliance and energy of the great Cold War thinkers be recaptured and applied to the strategic challenges posed by transnational terrorism? In recounting the failures and successes ... more info>>
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Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Robert Young Pelton
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Robert Young Pelton first became aware of the phenomenon of hired guns in the War on Terror when he met a covert team of contractors on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in the fall of 2003. Pelton soon embarked on a globe-spanning odyssey to penetrate and understand this shadowy world, ultimately delivering stunning insights into the way private soldiers are used. Enter a blood-soaked world of South African mercenaries and tribal fighters backed by ruthless financiers. Drop into Baghdad's Green Z... more info>>
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Lincoln on Leadership [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Donald T. Phillips
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An insightful look at how Lincoln's expertise in leadership transformed a nation describes how these skills can be incorporated into today's society by following his examples and wisdom.
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Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Bob Woodward
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On eight Tuesdays each year, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan convenes a small committee to set the short-term interest rate that can move through the American and world economies like an electric jolt. As much as any, the committee's actions determine the well-being of every American. The availability of money for business or consumer loans, mortgages, job creation, and overall national economic growth all flows from those decisions. Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal ... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Obamanos! [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Hendrik Hertzberg
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The most critical election in living memory, viewed in real time through the eyes of one of our most trusted political commentators. Celebrated political analyst for The New Yorker Hendrik Hertzberg watches the long presidential campaign of 2007 and 2008 as it unfolds to reveal the transformation of the Democratic Party, the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, and other seismic shifts in our national political consciousness. Hertbzerg wrote about the events that culminated in the victory of Barack Ob... more info>>
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Plan of Attack [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Bob Woodward
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Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering over two years, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam. Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three and a h... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by James Fallows
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"Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic, environmental, political, and social goals they care about defending as Chinese influence grows." --from "China Makes, the World Takes" Since December 2006, The Atlantic Magazine's James Fallows h... more info>>
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Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Steve Levine
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The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in Imperial/Czarist times and firmly established during the Soviet era. Though Russia has a new president, Dmitri Medvedev, Putin remains in control, rendering the democratic reforms of the post-Soviet order irrelevant. Now, in Putin's Labyrinth, acclaimed journalis... more info>>
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Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Michael Medved
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Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers--and more than his share of enemies--by advancing controversial, often counterintuitive arguments, including: Liberals love losing because it makes them feel virtuous; America isn't normal--it's bizarrely blessed; Hollywood has lost touch with America--and punishes people who point that out;... more info>>
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Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate 1974-1999 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Bob Woodward
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After Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford delcared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered. ... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Molly Ivins
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When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has nicknamed Bush the Younger. A candidate of vague speeches and an ambiguous platform, Bush leads the pack of GOP 2000 presidential hopefuls; "Dubya" could very well be our next president. What voters need now is an original, smart, and accessible analysi... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Slave Hunter: One Man's Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Aaron Cohen
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From living the rock star life to wading through the world's war zones, refugee camps, and brothels, Aaron Cohen left behind his closest friends, his dying father, and his partnership with a legendary musician to take on treacherous rescue missions in search of modern-day slaves. Years of drug addiction and late-night partying led Aaron Cohen, one-time best friend and business partner to Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, on a path of spiritual discovery that has both transformed and endan... more info>>
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