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by James Hirsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005

Now entering Hollywood Nation—where fact blurs with fiction, virtue with vice Millions of Americans are outraged by the radical politics of self-appointed celebrity pundits like Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon. And actually, these stars’ public pronouncements...
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Just Babies

The Origins of Good and Evil

by Paul Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is...
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Change We Can Believe In

Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise

by Obama for Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008

At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader–one who can bring people together, be honest about the...
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Who's Gonna Take the Weight?

Manhood, Race, and Power in America

by Kevin Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

“A mighty wind of fresh air. His pitiless self-examination—and his equally honest exploration of the racial, sexual, cultural, and class fault lines that thread our psychic and social landscape—is not only brave but necessary if our nation is to survive.” —Michael Eric Dyson “Kevin...
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Acquainted with the Night

A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children

by Paul Raeburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, Acquainted with the Night is a powerful memoir of one man’s struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter. Seven years ago Paul Raeburn’s son, Alex, eleven, was admitted to a...
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The Republican Noise Machine

Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy

by David Brock
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004

In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States. Brock, a former right-wing insider...
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by Paul Slansky
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004

A hilarious “quizography” on the dumbfounding life of George W. Bush Pop Quiz George W. Bush is: the greatest American statesman since Abraham Lincoln. a champion of the underdog and a thorn in the side of the wealthy. articulate, thoughtful, and judicious—a very,...
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by Byron York
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005

“We have to fight back.” —Al Franken The Left is angry—angry at President George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, the “right-wing media,” and more. And as National Review investigative writer Byron York reveals in this stunning, meticulously reported book, liberal activists have harnessed...
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Hot Air

All Talk, All the Time

by Howard Kurtz
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012

America is awash in talk. Loud talk, angry talk, conspiratorial talk that has changed the nature of journalism and politics, producing a high-decibel revolution in the way we communicate. In this fascinating, maddening, behind-the-scenes look at America's powerful talk shows, the author of Media Circus...
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Dixie Rising

How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture

by Peter Applebome
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012

In a provocative exploration of the triumphant South--the region that increasingly defines American politics and values--the former Atlanta bureau chief of The New York Times illuminates the people, places, and passions of this influential section of the country--an area that has effectively decided the outcome of every presidential election in the past 30 years.
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The Physics of Everyday Things

The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day

by James Kakalios
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017

Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital “clouds” to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles. Most of us are clueless when...
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by Michael Beschloss
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executives BILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LIST Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh,...
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First Into Nagasaki

The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

by George Weller, Anthony Weller
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006

George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with...
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How Wars Are Won

The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror

by Bevin Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Even as we head into twenty-first-century warfare, thirteen time-tested rules for waging war remain relevant. Both timely and timeless, How Wars Are Won illuminates the thirteen essential rules for success on the battlefield that have evolved from ancient times until the present day. Acclaimed...
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