Out of Order
Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Written by Sandra Day O'Connor
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give...
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Who Stole the American Dream?
Written by Hedrick Smith
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $30.00
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
In his bestselling
The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In
The Power...
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Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $30.00
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply...
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world. Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking
The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan...
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The Joy of Hate
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.00
From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.
Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most...
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $16.00
NOW AN HBO DOCUMENTARY
In Manhunt, Peter Bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American forces came startlingly close to capturing him...
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Embers of War
The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Written by Fredrik Logevall
Format: Hardcover, 864 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $40.00
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • A GLOBE AND MAIL “BEST READS” SELECTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades...
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of
Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America...
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Through the Perilous Fight
Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
Written by Steve Vogel
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history,
Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem.
In the summer of 1814, the...
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