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When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
Bill Maher · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorDude, Where's My Country?
Michael Moore · 249 pages
M. Moore sévit encore une fois avec humour et provocation. Le détonateur : G.W. Bush préparant sa réélection en 2004. Les armes : la dérision massive. Il s'attaque notamment aux mensonges et à la propagande dont est victime son pays depuis le 11 septembre, ainsi qu'aux secrets et aux combines de Bush avec ses amis saoudiens concernant le pétrole.
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
Matt Taibbi · 352 pages
"Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. The 2016 presidential contest as told by Matt Taibbi, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion, is in fact the story of Western civilization's very own train wreck. Years before the clown car of candida
How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter · 432 pages
Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental bestsellers Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual in years--and certainly the most controversial. Now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, she offers her most comprehensive analysis of the America
The Obama Diaries
Laura Ingraham · 394 pages
Purports to contain the secret thoughts of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, and Rahm Emanuel during the first year of the Obama administration.
Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
Al Franken · 421 pages
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Hunter S. Thompson · 500 pages
An unorthodox account of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption
In the Shadow of No Towers
Art Spiegelman · 48 pages
"For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is an account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day." "Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborho
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Charles P. Pierce · 293 pages
The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have WonA veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. Wearing a saddle.... But worse than this was when th
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital
Mark Leibovich · 401 pages
"A book about contemporary political culture in Washington, DC"-- Washington funerals can make great networking opportunities. Disgraced Hill aides can overcome ignominy and emerge with a more potent "brand" than many elected members of Congress. There are no Democrats and Republicans anymore in the nation's capital, just millionaires. That is the grubby secret of the place in the twenty-first ce
How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016
P.J. O'Rourke · 228 pages
"No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Or, as celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O'Rourke put it in his endorsement of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton: "America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials of
The Rise of Islamic State
Patrick Cockburn · 172 pages
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more successful than Al Qaeda ever were, taking territory that reaches across borders and includes the city of Mosul. The reports of their military coordination and
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid · 281 pages
The terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. The author turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan.
And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel · 241 pages
"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab new
The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Greg Gutfeld · 256 pages
Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism
Thomas L. Friedman · 399 pages
*Longitudes and Attitudes* contains the columns Friedman has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his experiences and reactions during this period of crisis. As the author writes, the book is "not meant to be a comprehensive study of September 11 and all the factors that went into it. Rather, my hope is that it will constitute a 'word album' that capture
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Mark Mazzetti · 400 pages
An account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war.
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran · 336 pages
An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
Gore Vidal · 192 pages
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Ron Suskind · 431 pages
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of "The Price of Loyalty" and "The One Percent Doctrine" returns with an election year account of the looming national security crisis that America faces right now.
500 Days: Decisions and Deceptions in the Shadow of 9/11
Kurt Eichenwald · 611 pages
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan · 341 pages
"How did a group of religious fanatics, clad in black pajamas and armed to the teeth, manage to carve out a violent, fundamentalist "Islamic state" in wide swaths of Syria and Iraq? How did the widely celebrated revolution against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad descend into a movement led by a psychopathically violent band of jihadists dedicated to the destruction of America? And just who are these
9-11
Noam Chomsky · 134 pages
**9-11** is a collection of essays by and interviews with Noam Chomsky first published in November 2001 in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The revised edition of 2011, 9-11: *Was There an Alternative?*, includes the entire text of the original book, together with a new essay by Chomsky, "Was There an Alternative?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-11_(Noam_Chomsk