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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
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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
The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
T.R. Reid · 312 pages
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 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 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
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
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.
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
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
Thomas Frank · 368 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
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
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
John R. Lott Jr. · 321 pages
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.
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
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.
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
Yanis Varoufakis · 560 pages
"After being swept into power with the left-wing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempts to renegotiate Greece's relationship with the EU--and sparks a spectacular battle, with global implications. Varoufakis's new position sends him ricocheting between mass demonstrations in Athens, closed-door negotiations in drab EU and IMF offices, and furtive meetings with power brokers in Washington, D.C. He consu
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
Broke : The Plan to Restore our Trust, Truth and Treasure
Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Slavoj Zizek · 166 pages
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] o
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.
Confidence Men
Ron Suskind · 515 pages
Draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and in-depth research to relate the complete story of the nation's financial meltdown, from the trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway.
Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Ann Coulter · 326 pages