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The Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History, 1775-1865 by John Grafton (Editor)
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly by Joseph Minton Amann, Tom Breuer
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History by Mark Danner
What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa Rossi
The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right by Michael Lerner
Divine Destruction: Dominion Theology and American Environmental Policy by Stephenie Hendricks
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America by Howard Dean
Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush by Center for Constitutional Rights
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics by Jerome Armstrong, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
The Little Money Book by David Boyle
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness--Modern History from the Sports Desk by Hunter S. Thompson
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everythin by Joe Trippi
How The Pro-choice Movement Saved America: Freedom Politics and the War on Sex by Christina Page
Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy by Lewis Lapham
The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush by Peter Singer
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia by Erik Reece
Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity by James C. Cobb
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us by James Rudin
A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred McCoy
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson
Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate by Andrew Rudalevige
Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
Bushit: An A-Z Guide to the Bush Attack on Truth, Justice, Equality and the American Way by Jack Huberman
Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future by James Carville and Paul Begala
An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana Uncovered a National Scandal by Andrew Schneider and David McCumber
State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration by James Risen
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind
Born to Kvetch : Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods by Michael Wex
Parting Shots From My Brittle Bow: Reflections On American Politics And Life (Paperback) by Eugene J. McCarthy
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol
Actions Speak Louder Than Bumper Stickers
America, Fascism, And God: Sermons from a Heretical Preacher by Davidson Loehr
The Death of Media: And the Fight to Save Democracy by Danny Schechter
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas by Diane Wilson
God And Caesar in America: An Essay on Religion and Politics by Senator Gary Hart - November 29, 2005
Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK by Thom Hartmann and Lamar Waldron - November 28, 2005
Clueless George Goes To War by Pat Bagley - November 25, 2005
The Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11 by James Ridgeway - November 16, 2005
Not One More Mother's Child by Cindy Sheehan - November 15, 2005
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter - November 11, 2005
Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power by Mary Mapes - November 9, 2005
The Dictionary of Republicanisms by Katrina Vanden Heuvel - November 8, 2005
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic - November 3, 2005
Feet to the Fire: The Media After 9/11, Top Journalists Speak Out - November 2, 2005
Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) - October 28, 2005
Contempt: How the Right Is Wronging American Justice - October 27, 2005
Jesus Land, A Memoir - October 26, 2005
The Truth, With Jokes - October 21, 2005
I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight - October 19, 2005
Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy - October 18, 2005
Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin - October 14, 2005
Travellers and Magicians - October 13, 2005
The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy - October 11, 2005
Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein - October 6, 2005
Unfit Commander: Texans for Truth Take On George W. Bush - October 4, 2005
The Battle of Venezuela - September 30, 2005
The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now - September 29, 2005
Special Plans: The Blogs On Douglas Feith And The Faulty Intelligence That Led To War - September 28, 2005
Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues - September 21, 2005
The Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal - September 20, 2005
Misuse of Power: How the Far Right Gained and Misuses Power - September 16, 2005
A Man Without a Country - September 14, 2005
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality - September 13, 2005
Citizen You: The Ultimate Patriotic Handbook - September 8, 2005
Paul Wellstone: The Life of a Passionate Progressive - September 6, 2005
War is a Racket - August 30, 2005
The Republican War on Science - August 26, 2005
Dying to Win - June 2005
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations - May 2005
Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture - August 23, 2005
War Made Easy - August 2005
The Agronomist - August 2005
Sutton Impact: The Political Cartoons of Ward Sutton - July 2005
Finding George Orwell in Burma - July 2005
Fed Up - July 2005
Life + Debt - July 2005
Downfall: The Last Days Inside Hitler's Bunker - July 2005
We Know What You Want: How They Change Your Mind - June 2005
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late - May 2005
Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero - January 2005
Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture - July 2005
Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 - July 2005
Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream - April 2005
The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity - February 2005
News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News - March 2005
The Man Who Planted Trees - June 2005
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America - June 2005
The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them - April 2005
Crusade - June 2005
It Can Happen Here: A Fascist Christian America - June 2005
Start Making Sense: Turning the Lessons of Election 2004 into Winning Progressive Politics - June 2005
Assassination Vacation - May 2005
The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation - June 2005
The United States of Wal-Mart - June 2005
Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python by Terry Jones - April 2005
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis - April 2005
"America 2014: An Orwellian Tale" by Dawn Blair - November 2004
George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" - June 2005
POLS: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan - January 2005
It Can Happen Here: A Fascist Christian America - June 2005
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq (Paperback) - April 2005
How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism
Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (Book)
God Willing?: Political Fundamentalism in the White House, the 'War on Terror' and the Echoing Press
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader
News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership And Its Threat To Democracy by Elliot D. Cohen
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
The Separation of Church and State: Writings on a Fundamental Freedom by America's Founders
Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Stories
The New Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian