The World America Made
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $14.95
Robert Kagan, the New York Times bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, reaffirms the importance of United States’s global leadership in this timely and important book.
Upon its initial publication, The World America Made became one of the most talked about political...
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Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2002
Price: $19.95
In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political...
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The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $11.99
In
The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at...
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The Rise of Rome
The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $30.00
From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian
, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known.
Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill...
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Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Foreword by Richard Holbrooke
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $20.00
National Bestseller
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Relations
Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardFor six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end...
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The Democracy Project
A History, a Crisis, a Movement
Written by David Graeber
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $26.00
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system...
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Theodore Rex
Written by Edmund Morris
Format: Trade Paperback, 792 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $18.00
Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken...
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American Lion
Andrew Jackson in the White House
Written by Jon Meacham
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $13.99
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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