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Bill of Wrongs
The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Throughout her long career of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” the cause closest to Molly Ivins’s heart was working to protect the freedoms we all value. Sadly, today we’re living in a time when dissent is equated with giving aid to terrorists, when any of us can...
unSpun
Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The founders of FactCheck.org teach you how to identify and debunk spin, hype, and fake news in this essential guide to informed citizenship in an age of misinformation.
Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading...
Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful...
Monsoon
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal...
Reversal of Fortune
Inside the Von Bulow Case
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Defense attorney and Harvard law professor provides an insider's account of the trial, appeal, subsequent retrial, and acquittal in the murder case of Claus von Bulow, profiling the people involved.
NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
Comeback America
Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us avoid the approaching economic abyss and put the country back on track again.
As comptroller...
The Glass Palace
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES
“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland— a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our globalized culture, as it was when the sun...
Declaring Independence
The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
• A 2006 survey revealed that two thirds of Americans consider themselves “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.”
• In recent polls, 60 to 80 percent of registered voters say they want an independent presidential candidate.
• Independent voters now constitute the largest...
The First Emancipator
The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed...
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to...
To Obama
With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
“An insightful study of a president who listened to even his harshest critics with grace and humility.”—The Washington Post
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GLAMOUR
Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters written...
Shalimar the Clown
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story.
Max Ophuls’ memorablelife ends violently in Los Angeles...
The Relevance of Religion
How Faithful People Can Change Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Former United States senator and ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth offers a fascinating, thoughtful, and deeply personal look at the state of American politics today—and how religion can be a bridge over our bitter partisan divide.
In an era of extreme partisanship, when running...
by Bill Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
“Politics is stuck,” writes Bill Bradley, in this insightful, informative, and provocative book about America at a crossroads, but “idealism isn’t dead. It can be reawakened.”
What will it take to make America a better, stronger, truer country? asks the bestselling author, former...