American Lion
Andrew Jackson in the White House
Written by Jon Meacham
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2009
Price: $18.00
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power...
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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 Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the former vice president and #1
New York Times bestselling author comes
An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history...
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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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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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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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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
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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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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Rules for Radicals
Written by Saul Alinsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.95
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the...
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