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Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home
Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home
Written by Kim Chernin
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781556438202
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Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home
A New Vision of Israel and Palestine
Written by Kim Chernin


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $14.95

The title of this book is a phrase often used to describe the fate of the Jewish people in the world and invokes one of the central arguments for the creation of the state of Israel. In this thoughtful collection of essays, Kim Chernin suggests that the Zionist struggle has left... Read more >
Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307388681
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Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

Written by Gore Vidal


Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $17.00

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.

This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary... Read more >
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Edited by John Brown Childs
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781556437922
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Hurricane Katrina
Response and Responsibilities, Second Edition
Edited by John Brown Childs


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $10.00

The voices gathered in this book represent critical and personal responses to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. They are a second volley following the immediate journalism, and suggest the kind of dialogue, critical analysis and hopeful spirit that will be necessary in the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast. All essays were... Read more >
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Written by Gore Vidal, Edited by Jay Parini
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385526821
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

Written by Gore Vidal
Edited by Jay Parini


Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $17.00

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his forays into criticism, reviewing, political... Read more >
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Written by Gore Vidal, Edited by Jay Parini
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385524841
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

Written by Gore Vidal
Edited by Jay Parini


Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $27.50

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his forays into criticism, reviewing, political...

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Virginity or Death!
Virginity or Death!
Written by Katha Pollitt
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307432858
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Virginity or Death!
And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
Written by Katha Pollitt


Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

“As this book, which is greater than the sum of its brilliant parts makes clear, Katha Pollitt, who is famously a feminist, is also a humorist, a moralist and a most hilarious, wise, and incisive observer.”
–Victor Navasky, author of A Matter of Opinion

Through presidential administrations Democratic and Republican, Katha Pollitt has... Read more >
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Virginity or Death!
Virginity or Death!
Written by Katha Pollitt
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812976380
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Virginity or Death!
And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
Written by Katha Pollitt


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $13.95

“As this book, which is greater than the sum of its brilliant parts makes clear, Katha Pollitt, who is famously a feminist, is also a humorist, a moralist and a most hilarious, wise, and incisive observer.”
–Victor Navasky, author of A Matter of Opinion

Through presidential administrations Democratic and Republican, Katha Pollitt has... Read more >
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Abu Ghraib
Abu Ghraib
Contribution by David Levi Strauss, Barbara Ehrenreich and Mark Danner, Compiled by North Atlantic Books
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781556435508
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Abu Ghraib
The Politics of Torture
Contribution by David Levi Strauss, Barbara Ehrenreich and Mark Danner
Compiled by North Atlantic Books


Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $9.95

Abu Ghraib unveiled a lengthy list of disastrous actions and cover-ups by the Bush administration and the American military. Abu Ghraib examines the problem from many different perspectives, gathering together timely essays on the prison scandal from prominent progressive writers. Barbara Ehrenreich looks at the story through the lens of feminism... Read more >
The Last Empire
The Last Empire
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781400032990
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The Last Empire
Essays 1992-2000
Written by Gore Vidal


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $17.95

Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of... Read more >
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Shrub
Shrub
Written by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781400033133
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Shrub
The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
Written by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $11.00


When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has nicknamed Bush the Younger.
        
A candidate of vague speeches and... Read more >
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The Last Empire
The Last Empire
Written by Gore Vidal
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ISBN: 9780375726392
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The Last Empire
Essays 1992-2000
Written by Gore Vidal


Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $17.95

Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of... Read more >
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Political Fictions
Political Fictions
Written by Joan Didion
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780375414268
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Political Fictions

Written by Joan Didion


Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $14.00

In 1988, Joan Didion began looking at the American political process for The New York Review of Books. What she found was not a mechanism that offered the nation’s citizens a voice in its affairs but one designed by—and for—“that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the... Read more >
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Draft Dodger and the Democrats
Draft Dodger and the Democrats
Written by Donald Katz, Read by Joe Morton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739300206
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Draft Dodger and the Democrats

Written by Donald Katz
Read by Joe Morton


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
Price: $3.28

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Drawing Fire
Drawing Fire
Written by Donald Katz, Read by Joe Morton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739300213
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Drawing Fire

Written by Donald Katz
Read by Joe Morton


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
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Great White Photographer
Great White Photographer
Written by Donald Katz, Read by Joe Morton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739300220
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Great White Photographer

Written by Donald Katz
Read by Joe Morton


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
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Guru of the New Economy
Guru of the New Economy
Written by Donald Katz, Read by Joe Morton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739300237
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Guru of the New Economy

Written by Donald Katz
Read by Joe Morton


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
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King of the Ferret Leggers
King of the Ferret Leggers
Written by Donald Katz, Read by Donald Katz and Joe Morton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739300343
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King of the Ferret Leggers
And Other True Stories
Written by Donald Katz
Read by Donald Katz and Joe Morton


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
Price: $12.50

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