Free Press: 1051 books
by Stanley Kutler
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
Richard Nixon said he wanted his administration to be "the best chronicled in history." But when Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a voice-activated taping system to a Senate committee in July 1973, Nixon's White House and its recordings quickly became the most infamous in American...
Overblown
How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Why have there been no terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11? It is ridiculously easy for a single person with a bomb-filled backpack, or a single explosives-laden automobile, to launch an attack. So why hasn't it happened? The answer is surely not the Department of Homeland Security,...
Your 15th Club
The Inner Secret to Great Golf
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
All golfers have fourteen clubs in their bag, but the real winners have a little something extra -- that mental attitude that puts their game above the others. Dr. Bob Rotella, author of the bestselling book Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, brings together his skills and years of experience as a golf...
Above the Law
Police and the Excessive Use of Force
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today.
by Joseph G. Rayback
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Joseph Rayback’s history of the American labor movement.
A compact and comprehensive chronicle of where labor has been and where it is today.
The Threat Closer to Home
Hugo Chavez and the War Against America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
A chilling account of Hugo Chávez's shadow war on the United States
The American government has shrugged off South American politics for nearly forty years. In the meantime, our neighbor to the south has grown into an unprecedented threat. Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezuela and...
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,...
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...