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• Jane Mayer's July Blockbuster About Bush and Torture Inc -- "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" (Hardcover) By Jane Mayer
• Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated] -- 2008 Paperback Edition Jeremy Scahill
• Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics (Paperback) John R. Talbott
• Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress (Hardcover) Congressman Robert Wexler
• Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians (Hardcover) By Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian
• The World According to Tomdispatch: America and the Age of Empire (Paperback) Edited by Tom Engelhardt
• Machiavelli's Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove (Hardcover). Just Released in June. Paul Alexander
• The Latest from George Lakoff: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (Hardcover) George Lakoff
• Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in America (Paperback) Donna Brazile
• The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Hardcover) Robert Scheer
• Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters (Hardcover) 416 Pages Richard A. Clarke
• Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (Hardcover) 576 pages Ted Sorenson
• Ted Kennedy's America Back on Track (Hardcover): A Good Time to Read It. By Senator Ted Kennedy
• Moyers on Democracy (Hardcover) Bill Moyers
• Bill Richardson's "Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life" (Paperback) Bill Richardson
• Dissent: Voices of Conscience (Paperback) By Ann Wright and Susan Dixon, Foreword by Daniel Ellsberg
• The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington (Hardcover) David Sirota
• The Post-American World (Hardcover) Fareed Zakaria
• Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries) (Hardcover) Jared Bernstein
• The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now (Paperback) Norman MacAfee
• Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left (Hardcover) Nikolas Kozloff
• Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe (Hardcover) Arianna Huffington
• Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism (Hardcover) Kevin Phillips
• Loser Take All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008 (Paperback) Edited by Mark Crispin Miller
• Now in Paperback! Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" Al Gore
• The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn't (Paperback) Cliff Schecter
• Free Ride: John McCain and the Media (Paperback) David Brock and Paul Waldman of Media Matters
• Peace: The Biography of a Symbol on Its 50th Anniversary By Ken Kolsbun, with Michael Sweeney
• Armageddon in Retrospect Kurt Vonnegut, With an Introduction by His Son, Mark Vonnegut
• Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon) (Hardcover) Bill Press
• The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (Hardcover) -- Just Published Nick Turse
• Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" Illustrated Edition -- Just Released (Large Format Paperback) Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle
• Samantha Power's "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World "(Hardcover) Samantha Power
• Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America (Hardcover) Eric Alterman
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback) Samantha Power, Barack Obama's Former Advisor
• So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq (Paperback) Greg Mitchell, Preface by Bruce Springsteen, Foreward by Joseph Galloway
• McCain: The Myth of a Maverick (Hardcover) Matt Welch
• The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (Hardcover) By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes
• Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water (Hardcover) Maude Barlow
• “Still Broken: A Recruit’s Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, From Baghdad to the Pentagon.” A.J. Rossmiller
• What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (Paperback) Edited by Andras Szanto, Introduction by Orville Schell
• The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation Philip Shenon
• God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters (Hardcover) Sarah Posner
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback) Benjamin Franklin
• Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values (Hardcover) Keith Olbermann
• 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes (Paperback) With an Introduction by David Cay Johnston
• Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill) (Hardcover) Autographed by the Author David Cay Johnston
• The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback) By Robert O. Paxton
• Utter Incompetents: Ego and Ideology in the Age of Bush (Hardcover) By Thomas Oliphant
• The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo Bay (Hardcover) By Clive Stafford Smith. Reviewed by Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash.com.
• American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment (Hardcover) By Sasha Abramsky
• Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life (Hardcover) Ted Gup
• Shooting War (Hardcover) "The most-anticipated graphic novel of the year." By Anthony Lappe (Author), Dan Goldman (Author)
• Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth' (Paperback) Robert Parry
• Molly Ivins' Last Book (Just Released Posthumously) "Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights" (Hardcover) By Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
• Liberty and the News (The James Madison Library in American Politics) (Paperback) By Walter Lippman, With a Foreword by Ronald Steel, And an Afterword by Sidney Blumenthal
• Bush on the Couch: Updated Version, (Paperback) -- "Inside the Mind of the President" By Justin A. Frank, M.D.
• Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (Paperback) By Bill McKibben and the "Step It Up Team"
• The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics (Hardcover) By Jonathan Chait
• Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Paperback) By Peter Phillips (Editor), Andrew Roth (Editor), Project Censored (Editor), John Jonik (Illustrator), Dennis Loo (Introduction)
• A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign (Hardcover) By Edward J. Larson
• Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (Hardcover) by Dahr Jamail
• Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate (Hardcover) By Susan Estrich
• The GOP-Hater's Handbook: 378 Reasons Never to Vote for the Party of Reagan, Nixon and Bush Again (Paperback) -- Now Shipping By Jack Huberman
• The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America (Hardcover) By Susan Faludi
• Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision (Hardcover) By Thom Hartmann
• The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party (Hardcover) By Bruce Miroff
• Jimmy Carter's "Beyond the White House" (Hardcover) By Jimmy Carter
• The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (Hardcover) By Peter Dale Scott
• In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire (Paperback) By Mike Davis
• Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change (Hardcover) By Paul Brown
• The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (Hardcover) By Greg Anrig
• A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Paperback) -- Thom Hartmann's Pick of the Month By David Harvey
• Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy (Hardcover) By John Bowe
• The Fall of the House of Bush: How a Group of True Believers Put America on the Road to Armageddon (Hardcover) By Craig Unger
• Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy (Hardcover) By Andrew Cockburn
• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible (Hardcover) By Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun
• The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration (Hardcover) By Jack Goldsmith
• Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (Hardcover) By Norman Solomon
• Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (Hardcover) By Charlie Savage
• Valerie Plame Wilson's "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House" (Hardcover) By Valerie Plame Wilson
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover) By Naomi Klein
• The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot (Paperback) By Naomi Wolf
• Paul Krugman's "The Conscience of a Liberal" (Hardcover) By Paul Krugman
• The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Revised Edition with new preface and afterword) By Tom Engelhardt
• The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR (Paperback) By Jules Archer
• Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South (Hardcover) Thomas F. Schaller
• John Dean's Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches (Hardcover) John Dean
• Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning George Monbiot
• 2008 Peace Calendar (for Wall)
• Propaganda (Paperback) By Edward L. Bernays, With an Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller
• Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law (Paperback) Marjorie Cohn
• Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (Hardcover) by David Cole and Jules Lobel
• Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. (Paperback) By Nikolas Kozloff
• Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's At Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro
• Feingold: A New Democratic Party (Hardcover) By Sanford D. Horwitt
• Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue (Hardcover) By Stephanie Mencimer
• Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush (Paperback) By Robert Parry, Sam Parry and Nat Parry
• Crimes against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy (Paperback) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
• Thom Hartmann's The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight -- Revised and Updated -- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late (Paperback) Thom Hartmann
• No Place to Hide (Paperback) By Robert O'Harrow
• The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (Hardcover) Max Wallace
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Tim Weiner
• Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World (Hardcover) Josh Rushing
• Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food (Paperback) Andrew Kimbrell
• "The Trap": Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker Book of the Month" Review for BuzzFlash.com Daniel Brook
• Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life (Hardcover) Sari Nusseibeh
• AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country (Hardcover) by Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer
• Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops (Paperback) Ilona Meagher
• Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (Paperback) Stephen Duncombe
• Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (Hardcover) Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Aziz Z. Huq
• 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World (Paperback) John Tirman, With a Foreword by Howard Zinn
• You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression (Paperback) Matthew Rothschild
• The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation (Hardcover) Drew Westen
• Who's Watching You? (Paperback) Mike Farren and John Gibbs
• Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War (Hardcover) By Joe Bageant
• Glenn Greenwald: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (Hardcover) Glenn Greenwald
• Bush on the Couch (hardcover) Justin Frank, M.D.
• The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption (Hardcover) By John Perkins
• Fair and Balanced, My Ass!: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News (Paperback) By Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer
• Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Paperback) By Stephen Marshall
• Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It (Paperback Edition) By Thom Hartmann, With New Afterword by Greg Palast. Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller.
• The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-Hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship (Paperback) By Elliot D. Cohen and Bruce W. Fraser
• The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught (Hardcover) A Team of Copley News Reporters
• Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire (Hardcover) By Morris Berman
• Political Low Roads: American Demagoguery and the Rise of the New Right (Paperback) By P.M. Carpenter
• What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America (Paperback) By Melissa Rossi
• Sons and Brothers: The Inside Story of Bobby and Jack (Paperback) Richard D. Mahoney
• The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis (Paperback) by Greg Pahl
• Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (Hardcover) By John Ghazvinian
• The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq (Hardcover) By Peter Eisner and Knut Royce
• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (Hardcover) By Paul Hawken
• Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" (Hardcover) -- Now Shipping By Al Gore
• The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (Hardcover) By Sarah Chayes
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover) By Ishmael Beah
• Framing the Debate (Paperback) By Jeffrey Feldman, Introduction by George Lakoff
• Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics (Paperback) Conversations with Howard Zinn
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Hardcover) By Bill McKibben
• Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (Now in Paperback) Noam Chomsky
• Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild. Expanded Paperback Edition Greg Palast
• Bill Bradley's Latest Book: The New American Story (2007 Hardcover) Bill Bradley
• Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water (Hardcover) By Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, and Michael Fox
• Ted Kennedy's America Back on Track (Hardcover): A Good Time to Read It By Senator Ted Kennedy
• Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster (Hardcover) By Ross Gelbspan
• Help at Any Cost (Hardcover) By Maia Szalavitz
• The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (Hardcover) By Max Wallace
• The Next Twenty-Five Years: The New Supreme Court and What it Means for Americans (Hardcover) By Martin Garbus
• Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy (Paperback) By Marcy Wheeler
• Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (Hardcover Edition) By Cornel West
• Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed (Hardcover) By Sherrod Brown, Now a U.S. Senator from Ohio
• Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources (Paperback) By Dilip Hiro
• Dark Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (Paperback) By Gary Webb, With a Forward by Congresswoman Maxine Waters
• "In Debt We Trust": America Before the Bubble Bursts (DVD) Danny Schechter
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover) By Harriet A. Washington
• A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (Paperback) By Howard Zinn
• Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) (Paperback) Noam Chomsky
• The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (Hardcover) by Antonia Juhasz
• Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney Dr. Dennis D. Loo, Peter Phillips
• United States v. George W. Bush et al. (Paperback) By Elizabeth de la Vega
• Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (Hardcover) Philippe Sands
• The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Paperback) By Peter Rost
• On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence (Hardcover) by Tyler Drumheller (Former Chief of CIA Clandenstine Operations: Europe)
• Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program (Hardcover) Stephen Grey
• Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (Hardcover) By Robert Young Pelton
• Ultimate Punishment : A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty Scott Turow
• Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision -- A Progressive Handbook (Paperback) by George Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute
• Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Paperback) By Tom Engelhardt
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover) Barack Obama
• Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now (Paperback) George McGovern and William R. Polk
• State of Denial: Bush at War Bob Woodward
• George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, And Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying Compiled at the Direction of Congressman John Conyers, With an Introduction by Ambassador Joe Wilson
• Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights (Hardcover) Trevor Paglen and AC Thompson
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Hardcover) Rajiv Chandrasekaran
• Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow (Hardcover) Kristen Breitweiser
• The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats (Hardcover) Gary Hart
• Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers(DVD) A Robert Greenwald/Brave New Films Production
• Jacked: How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not) (Paperback) Nomi Prins
• A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America Saul Cornell, Ph.D.
• How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime (Hardcover) Sidney Blumenthal
• Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain Dead Politics are Selling Out America Senator Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND)
• The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress (DVD) A Robert Greenwald "Brave New Films" Production
• The Boys of Baraka (DVD)
• Planet of Slums (Hardcover) by Mike Davis
• The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (Hardcover) by Jonathan Alter
• Why Mommy is a Democrat (Paperback) by Jeremy Zilber, illustrated by Yuliya Firsova
• Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) -- New Expanded Paperback By Mark Crispin Miller
• Born Into Brothels (DVD)
• Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (Hardcover) by Jimmy Carter
• Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (DVD)
• The Future of Food (DVD)
• Photo of Rupert Murdoch and his Gun, Signed by Director Robert Pappas
• Bushit: An A-Z Guide to the Bush Attack on Truth, Justice, Equality and the American Way (Paperback) by Jack Huberman
• Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (Hardcover) by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
• The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us (Hardcover) by James Rudin
• Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family (Paperback) by Charles Bowden
• Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And the Color of Disaster (Hardcover) by Michael Eric Dyson
• Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy (Hardcover) by Lewis Lapham
• How The Pro-choice Movement Saved America: Freedom Politics and the War on Sex (Hardcover) by Cristina Page
• The Little Money Book (Paperback) by David Boyle
• All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated (Hardcover) by Nell Bernstein
• Capote (DVD)