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Boomer Nation
The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How I
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, form the single largest demographic spike in American history. Never before or since have birth rates shot up and remained so high so long, with some obvious results: when the Boomers were kids, American culture revolved around families and schools; when...
Run the Other Way
Fixing the Two-Party System, One Campaign at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
Bill Hillsman is simply, in the words of Slate.com, "the world's greatest political adman." With his groundbreaking consulting work on Paul Wellstone's senatorial, Jesse Ventura's gubernatorial, and Ralph Nader's presidential campaigns, he was the first to publicly challenge the conventional strategies...
Reality Show
Inside the Last Great Television News War
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings: They were on a first-name basis with the country for a generation, leading viewers through moments of triumph and tragedy. But now that a new generation has succeeded them, the once-glittering job of network anchor seems unmistakably tarnished. In an age of...
The Control Room
How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1999
"Thirty-five years ago, sad to say, CBS, NBC, and ABC created the modern New Hampshire primary." So says The Control Room, a gritty look at how network news has come to dominate every stage of presidential selection from the earliest announcements to the final swearing in. As we embark on another...
Peddling Peril
How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemie
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
**“THE UNLEASHED POWER OF THE ATOM HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING SAVE OUR MODES OF THINKING, AND WE THUS DRIFT TOWARD UNPARALLELED CATASTROPHE.” —ALBERT EINSTEIN
W**ith the revelation of Iran’s secret uranium enrichment facilities, North Korea’s brazen testing of missiles and nuclear weapons,...
Sneaking Into the Flying Circus
How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Alexandra Pelosi, creator of the Emmy award-winning film Journeys with George and of Diary of a Political Tourist, makes her literary debut with an intimate look at the frenzied and grueling underbelly of presidential campaigning and the puppet role of the media. Pelosi went along on the campaign...
by Steven W. Mosher
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
An anthropologist and Sinologist, Stephen W. Mosher, lived and worked in rural China in late 1979 and early 1980. His shocking revelations about conditions there have earned him the condemnation of the Beijing (Peking) government, which denounces him as a "foreign spy."
Tempting Faith
An Inside Story of Political Seduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2006
David Kuo came to Washington wanting to use his Christian faith to end abortion, strengthen marriage, and help the poor. He reached the heights of political power, ultimately serving in the White House under George W. Bush, after being policy adviser to John Ashcroft and speechwriter for Ralph Reed,...
Transforming Paris
The Life and Labors of Baron Haussman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In this brief period, whole neighborhoods of medieval and revolutionary Paris -- over-crowded, dangerous, and filthy...
White House Daze
The Unmaming Domestic Policy in the Bush Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Throughout his presidency, George Bush was accused by both Republicans and Democrats of having an administration utterly without a domestic policy agenda. Kolb, who served as the President's Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy, tried to push the Bush administration toward a more vigorous reform agenda....
The Mommy Myth
The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2004
Susan Douglas first took on the media's misrepresentation of women in her funny, scathing social commentary Where the Girls Are. Now, she and Meredith Michaels, have turned a sardonic (but never jaundiced) eye toward the cult of the new momism: a trend in American culture that is causing women to...
American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War On America
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses,...
by George F. Will
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Biblical Christianity was originally a sect of Judaism that believed in Jesus and revered the Torah as the core of her scriptures. Restoration is a riveting argument for a return to that original biblical expression of faith in Jesus.
Discover for yourself the profound beauty of Torah life, the celebration...
In the Shadow of the Dam
The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. In just thirty minutes, the Mill River flood left 139 people dead and 740 homeless -- and a nation...