The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $28.95
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the...
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The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $14.99
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the...
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The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $45.00
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the...
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The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the...
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The Age of Austerity
How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics
Written by Thomas Byrne Edsall
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $15.95
One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles. In a matter of just three years, a bitter...
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Cracking the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam, 2013 Edition
Written by Princeton Review
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $18.99
If you need to know it, it’s in this book! Cracking the AP U.S. Government and Politics Exam, 2013 Edition, includes:
• 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations for each multiple-choice question, plus full breakdowns of how to tackle the free-response questions
• In-depth reviews of all AP U.S. Government & Politics topics, including the institutions of government, elections...
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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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The Rise of Rome
The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.99
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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Red Ink
Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
Written by David Wessel
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2012
Price: $22.00
David Wessel, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, columnist, and bestselling author of In Fed We Trust, dissects the federal budget: a topic that is fiercely debated today in the halls of Congress and the media, and yet is misunderstood by the American public.
Now a New York Times bestseller.
In a sweeping narrative about the...
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Red Ink
Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
Written by David Wessel
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2012
Price: $11.99
David Wessel, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, columnist, and bestselling author of In Fed We Trust, dissects the federal budget: a topic that is fiercely debated today in the halls of Congress and the media, and yet is misunderstood by the American public.
Now a New York Times bestseller.
In a sweeping narrative about the...
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Real Common Sense
Using Our Founding Values to Reclaim Our Nation for the 99%
Written by Brian Kahn
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
Real Common Sense insists that America, plagued with consumerism and private interests, has strayed from its Founding principles and the vision for America of our forefathers. Brian Kahn exposes the deceptions of the extreme Right and reminds us of the real Tom Paine who would be baffled to have "inspired" this...
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Muzzled
The Assault on Honest Debate
Written by Juan Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.00
“You can’t say that. You’re fired.” Prize-winning Washington journalist Juan Williams was unceremoniously dismissed by NPR for speaking his mind and saying what many Americans feel—that he gets nervous when boarding airplanes with passengers dressed in Muslim garb. NPR banished the veteran journalist in an act of political correctness that ultimately sparked...
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The Book of Obama
From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt
Written by Ted Rall
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $14.95
How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size...
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Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Written by Christopher Hayes
Read by Christopher Hayes
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $35.00
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball...
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Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Written by Christopher Hayes
Read by Christopher Hayes
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $22.50
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball...
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Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Written by Christopher Hayes
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $26.00
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball...
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Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Written by Christopher Hayes
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $12.99
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball...
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The Book of Obama
From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt
Written by Ted Rall
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $14.95
How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size...
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In Defense of Women
Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate
Written by Nancy Gertner
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $18.00
Nancy Gertner launched her legal career by defending antiwar activist Susan Saxe, who was on trial for her role in a robbery that resulted in the murder of a police officer. After this high-profile, highly charged case, Gertner continued to cause a stir in case after riveting case. She threw herself...
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Two Americans
Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $30.00
Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed. Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came from small towns in the Missouri–Mississippi River Valley—in the midst of cows and wheat...
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