Out of Order
Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Written by Sandra Day O'Connor
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $12.99
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“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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The Art of Controversy
Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power
Written by Victor S Navasky
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $27.95
A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse.
As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and incendiary—cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the...
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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $25.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its...
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Debtors' Prison
The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.95
One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution to a persisting economic crisis like ours or Europe’s, now in its fifth year.
Since the collapse of September 2008, the conversation about economic recovery...
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Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
Written by Tim Weiner
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $17.95
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis...
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Enemies
A History of the FBI
Written by Tim Weiner
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $20.00
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • New York Daily News • Slate“Fast-paced, fair-minded, and fascinating, Tim Weiner’s
Enemies turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today’s headlines.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of
The Oath ...
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Who Stole the American Dream?
Written by Hedrick Smith
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $15.99
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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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a...
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The Triple Agent
The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
Written by Joby Warrick
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $15.95
In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Afghanistan to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian who had infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised...
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