The Skies Belong to Us
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.99
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to...
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Theodore Rex
Written by Edmund Morris
Format: eBook, 792 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
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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Our Political Nature
The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
Written by Avi Tuschman
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 3, 2013
Price: $12.99
The first book to tell the natural history of political orientations.
Our Political Nature is the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits. These clusters entail opposing attitudes...
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Who Stole the American Dream?
Written by Hedrick Smith
Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $13.99
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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Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $22.95
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to...
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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Read by Rachel Maddow
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $17.50
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 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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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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