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Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
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Fareed Zakaria · 304 pages
Examines the influence of democracy on politics, business and economics, law, culture, and religion in different regions of the world; explores the dark side of the democratic process; and reflects on the future of world democracy.
Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off of Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison
Peter Schweizer · 211 pages
Schweizer, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, discusses the state of government and the depths of its political corruption.
The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
T.R. Reid · 312 pages
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren · 352 pages
"Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing indictment
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
John B. Judis · 182 pages
"Is the West witnessing a huge political upheaval? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and passionately backed a socialist named Bernie Sanders; the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, in a stunning rebuke; the vituperative billionaire Donald Trump became the presidential nominee of the Republican Party; and a slew of rebellious parties continued to win election after election i
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein · 264 pages
Journalist Naomi Klein explains that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half-century.
The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Michael Grunwald · 518 pages
A riveting story about change in the Obama era--and an essential handbook for voters who want the truth about the president, his record, and his enemies by "Time" senior correspondent Grunwald.
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Robert D. Kaplan · 437 pages
Kaplan is a realist. This book is about the physical facts of the world we live on and what those facts mean for cultures and nations. Take for example, the two oceans that insulate the isolationist United States from any credible threats and compare this with the non-existence of any mountains or other barriers around Russia that make its’ land easy to invade and the Russians perennially insecure
The Common Good
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian, Arthur Naiman · 190 pages
This illusion-shattering masterpiece discusses Aristotle, the U.S. left, postmodernism and everything in between, based on interviews conducted in 1996 and 1997. Includes a list of 160 progressive organizations worth supporting.
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama · 384 pages
Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the power
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
Kevin Phillips · 499 pages
From America's premier political analyst, an explosive examination of the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nationIn his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling—and imperiling—the United States.
World Orders, Old and New
Noam Chomsky · 327 pages
**World Orders Old and New** is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 1994 and updated in 1996 by Columbia University Press. In the book, Chomsky writes about the international scene since 1945, devoting particular attention to events following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He critiques Western government, from imperialist foreign policies to the Clinton administration's promises to the p
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt · 256 pages
In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we must look to our not so distant past and to socia
The Price of Politics
Bob Woodward · 428 pages
This book examines the struggle between President Obama and the United States Congress to manage federal spending and tax policy for the three and one half years between 2009 and the summer of 2012. More than half the book focuses on the intense 44-day crisis in June and July 2011 when the United States came to the brink of a potentially catastrophic default on its debt. Based on eighteen months o
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
Arianna Huffington · 276 pages
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
Michael C. Ruppert · 512 pages
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. This book claims to discover and identify key suspects--some in the highest echelons of American government--by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee the desired result. The author offers an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and m
Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix them
Robert B. Reich · 151 pages
Argues that real change can only come when party lines are ignored and people from both sides of the aisle band together to enact common sense policies.
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
Martin Jacques · 699 pages
Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.
Cuentos Chinos: El engaño de Washington, la mentira populista y la esperanza de América Latina
Andres Oppenheimer · 352 pages
Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry
Dylan Ratigan · 245 pages
To combat the "vampires" of our society and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached, Ratigan provides readers with a set of values that together form the answer for how each of us can not only understand what has gone wrong--but join together to make it right.
The Conservative Heart: How To Build A Fairer, Happier, And More Prosperous America
Arthur C. Brooks · 246 pages
"The prominent economist and president of the American Enterprise Institute--the leading intellectual think tank on the right--offers a bold new vision for conservatism as a movement for social and economic justice. In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing on economic growth and traditional social values, it is time for a new kind of conservatism--one that
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum · 400 pages
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges -- globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its patt
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Amy Chua · 346 pages
The New York Times bestseller. In the current affairs/globalisation tradition of Naomi Klein and Noreena Hertz; the most original contribution to the globalisation debate in years.Amy Chua's remarkable and provocative book explores the tensions of the post-Cold War globalising world. As global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and democracy in developing nations can turn ugly and violent. Chua