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• Amy Goodman's New Book "Breaking the Sound Barrier" (Paperback) By Amy Goodman, Foreward by Bill Moyers
• Shadow Elite: How the Worlds New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market (Hardcover) Janine R. Wedel
• Thom Hartmann's Autographed Edition for BuzzFlash Readers of "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights" (Paperback) The Seminal Book on How Corporations Came to Have the Same "Rights" as People, Leading to an Oppression of Individual Power in America. Brilliant. Autographed Edition Orders Limited Through December 2nd. By Thom Hartmann
• The Real Inside Story of the Obama Campaign, With the Juicy Stuff. The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory (Hardcover). Released on November 3rd. David Plouffe Ran a 1 Billion Dollar Start-up Company to Elect the President of the United States. By David Plouffe, Obama Campaign Manager
• "False Witness!" The Second Edition of the Michele Bachmann Story: A Comic Book that is Chilling. She's Not Funny; She's a Radical Nut Case with Power and Media Attraction. Autographed by the Author. Conceived and Written by Bill Prendergast and Comic Book Artists.
• The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights (October, 2009) -- By the Head of Amnesty International By Irene Kahn
• Helen Thomas is Back! "Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do" (Hardcover). With Co-Author Craig Crawford. By Helen Thomas, Co-Authored by Craig Crawford
• Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (Hardcover) -- Released on September 22, 2009 By Peter Maass
• The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 (Hardcover) By John Farmer
• The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (Hardcover -- Sep. 29, 2009)- 729 Pages of Previously Unreleased Conversations of Bill Clinton with Pulitzer-Prize Winning and Noted MLK Biographer Taylor Branch. A Windfall of Candid Observations and Wistful Thoughts Recorded Over the Course of the Years of His Presidency, And Just Now Released! By Taylor Branch
• Buzzflash Gift Certificate for a Progressive America BuzzFlash
• Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (Paperback) By David Swanson
• True Compass: A Memoir (Hardcover) -- Published Posthumously on September 14, 2009 By Ted Kennedy
• The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (Hardcover) Amazon Bestseller. Want a Great Assessment of Healthcare Systems Around the World? This is It. By a NYT Reporter Who Supports Universal Coverage and Was Censored by PBS for Criticizing For-Profit Health Insurance Companies. Released on August 20, 2009. By T.R. Reid
• Limited Autographed Copies for BuzzFlash Readers, Signed by Max Blumenthal: Do You Want to Understand the Underlying Pathology of the Right Wing? Read Max Blumenthal's in "Republican Gommorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party." Includes Free Shipping and Handling. "The Republican infrastructure is so honeycombed with closeted homosexuals that any attempt by homophobes to ferret them out would be impossible." By Max Blumenthal
• "Marijuana is Safer: So Why are We Driving People to Drink" (Paperback) -- Released on July 27, 2009 By Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, Mason Tvert, and Norm Stamper. From Chelsea Green, One of BuzzFlash's Favorite Progressive Publishers.
• The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (July, 2009 Paperback Edition). Sen Ensign is Only the Latest Errant Bad Boy to Receive the "Spiritual" Support for His Sin from this Capitol Hill Elitist Fundy "Fellowship." They are Also Called the "C Street" Brethern. We Call Them Contemptible Hypocrites. Even Mark "Dick Wad" Sanford Found "Solace" With Them. Featured July 9th, 10th, and 15th on the Rachel Maddow Show and Politically Scary as All Hell. Jeff Sharlet
• A Campy Must Have! "False Witness: The Michele Bachmann Story" 1st Edition Comic Book: Only It's Real. It Reads Like Sci-Fi or a Horror Story, Although It's All True! Sure to Become a Political Collector's Item. Written and Overseen by Bill Prendergast and Assorted Artists. Cover Art by Ken Avidor.
• How the Republicans are Screwing up Sex in America. Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics (Hardcover) Dagmar Herzog
• Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream (Hardcover): New, The Book That Explains Why We are Under Threat as a Nation from the Enemies Within Our Own Country. To Understand the Holocaust Museum and Tiller Murders, Read This Book. 672 Pages By Leonard Zeskind
• Renegade: The Making of a President (Hardcover) -- The Politically Hot Account of the Obama Campaign that Obama Fully Cooperated With. Released June 2, 2009. By Richard Wolffe, With the Cooperation and Approval of Barack Obama
• Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail (Hardcover) -- Released June 2, 2009 By Bob Coen and Eric Nadler
• A New Acclaimed Book by the Author of the Book Hugo Chavez Gave to Barack Obama: "Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone" (Hardcover) By Eduardo Galeano
• Second Biography of I.F. Stone, the Icon of Internet Investigative Journalism 50 Years Before the Internet. "American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone" (Hardcover). Released on May 26th. 592 Pages. By D.D. Guttenplan
• Thanks for the Memories, George: What Eight Years of Bush Will Do to a Country (Paperback) (Bitter Humor) By Mike Loew of the Onion, Released on May 5, 2009
• "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)." This is Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" May Book Review for BuzzFlash. This is the Book that Hugo Chavez Personally Gave to Barack Obama in April 2009. By Eduardo Galeano. Translated by Cedric Belfrage. New Introduction by Isabel Allende.
• All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone (Paperback). I.F. Stone is the Patron Saint of "Truth to Power" Journalism. By Myra MacPherson
• "Moyers on Democracy" (5/5/09 Paperback Edition) By Bill Moyers
• Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book (Hardcover) -- Large Format Coffee Table Keepsake (11.7 x 9.3 x 0.8 inches). Released on May 1, 2009. By David Hume Kennerly (Photographer), Robert McNeely (Photographer), Pete Souza (Photographer), Tom Brokaw (Introduction), John Lewis (Foreword), Douglas Brinkley (Contributor)
• The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House (Paperback) By Larry Sabato, With Chapters by Other Election and Political Science Experts
• Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback). This is the Book that Hugo Chavez Personally Gave to Barack Obama in April 2009. By Eduardo Galeano. Translated by Cedric Belfrage. New Introduction by Isabel Allende.
• Capitol Hell Political Monsters Postcard Book: Hysterical and You Can Send the 26 Postcards to Friends! A Very Special BuzzFlash Price. By Peter Von Sholly
• The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right (Paperback) -- Fascism on the Airwaves Could be the Downfall of Democracy and a Shooting Rebellion in Which We are the Enemy By David Neiwert
• Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country (Hardcover) -- Featured on Bill Moyers on March 28th By William Greider
• Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (Hardcover) -- The Right Wing Jihad Started During New Deal By Kim Phillips-Fein
• In the Jaws of the Dragon: America's Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Hegemony (Hardcover) -- Reviewed Exclusively for BuzzFlash by Thom Hartmann By Eamonn Fingleton
• Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Paperback): A Must Read for Progressives to Understand the Rise of the Right Wing in America (Paperback Published March 16, 2009) Rick Perlstein
• Frank Schaeffer was "Crazy for God," But Then He Came to His Senses: Schaeffer Has Become a Key, Articulate Debunker of the Wingers, From Someone Whose Been There and Back. (Paperback) By Frank Schaeffer
• Blast from the Past at a Special Price: Senator Al Franken, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" (Hardcover) By Now Senator Al Franken
• The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America By William Kleinknecht
• Obama: The Historic Front Pages -- Hardcover by David Elliot Cohen (Created by), Mark Greenberg (Created by), Howard Dodson (Introduction)
• Oliver Stone's "W" on DVD -- 129 Minutes (Released on Feb. 10). Widescreen Version. Starring Josh Brolin as George W. Bush
• Why Obama Won: The Making of a President 2008 (Paperback) -- Autographed by the Author By Greg Mitchell
• The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be (Hardcover) By Michael Lux, Reviewed for BuzzFlash by Thom Hartmann
• We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work (Hardcover) -- Just Released by Former President Jimmy Carter By Nobel Laureate and Former President Jimmy Carter
• Banana Republic: Adventures in Amnesia, the small backward Third World nation with hearts of silver and mines of gold (Large Format Paperback) A Political Satire/Graphic Novel
• Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future (Hardcover) By Will Bunch
• Dave Zirin's People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play Dave Zirin
• Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover (Paperback) By the Staff of The Nation
• George W. Bush, War Criminal? The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes. (Hardcover) By Professor Michael Haas
• Sale: Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Secret History of the Last Fifty Years (Revised Paperback). Russ Baker
• A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties (Hardcover) By Bill Eppridge, With an Essay by Pete Hamill
• Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme (Hardcover) By Calvin Trillin
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Paperback) By President-elect Barack Obama
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback). The Book Barack Obama Uses as His Historical Guide in Putting Together a Cabinet. By Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign in Stunning Full-Color Photographs. Photographed by Scout Tufankjian
• "P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening" (Paperback) -- Studs Terkel's Newest and Last Book (Studs Passed Away on October 31, 2008) By Studs Terkel
• The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (Hardcover) By James K. Galbraith
• Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008 (New, Expanded Edition of the Satiric Classic) By David Rees, With an Introduction by Matt Taibbi
• Greg Palast, RFK Jr., Hip Comic Book on How the Republicans Steal Elections Greg Palast, RFK Jr, -- Illustrated by Ted Rall, Lloyd Dangle, & Lukas Ketner
• Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08 (Paperback) By Project Censored
• Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency (Paperback) By Robert Kuttner
• Yeah , Right, "This Economy is Strong" and Other Tall Republican Tales By Jim Oleske
• Mama Voted for Obama (By the Author of "Why Mommy is a Democrat") By Zeremy Zilber with Illustrations by Greg Bonnell
• Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal (Paperback) by Danny Schechter
• "We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now" (Paperback) Edited by Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
• Third Term: Why George W. Bush (Hearts) John McCain (Paperback) By Paul Begala
• Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries (Paperback) -- Autographed, Only 10 Copies With the Word "Liberty" and Naomi's Signature!! Naomi Wolf
• Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries (Paperback) By Naomi Wolf
• Hillary Clinton Says, "No Way, No How, No McCain" 3.5" Button (Jumbo Size)
• Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency (Paperback) By Robert Kuttner
• How The Rich Are Destroying the Earth (Paperback) By Herve' Kempf (Author), Greg Palast (Foreword)
• Michael Moore's Election Guide 2008 -- Just Released By Michael Moore
• Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise (Paperback) By Barack Obama and His Campaign Team
• Hopes and Dreams:The Story of Barack Obama. Revised And Updated (Paperback) By Steve Dougherty
• This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation Barbara Ehrenreich
• The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule (Hardcover) By Thomas Frank, Author of What's The Matter with Kansas
• Muhajababes: Meet the New Middle East--Young, Sexy, and Devout Allegra Stratton
• 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
• In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration (Hardcover) David Iglesias
• 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
• Obama Dog Collar and Leash! .
• Grandmothers Against the War: How We Got Off Our Fannies and Stood Up for Peace (Paperback) Joan Wile, with an Introduction by Malachy McCourt
• The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (July, 2009 Paperback Edition). Sen Ensign is Only the Latest Errant Bad Boy to Receive the "Spiritual" Support for His Sin from this Capitol Hill Elitist Fundy "Fellowship." They are Also Called the "C Street" Brethern. We Call Them Contemptible Hypocrites. Even Mark "Dick Wad" Sanford Found "Solace" With Them. Featured July 9th and 10th on the Rachel Maddow Show and Politically Scary as All Hell. Jeff Sharlet
• Machiavelli's Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove (Hardcover). Just Released in June. Paul Alexander
• Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in America (Paperback) Donna Brazile
• Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President Harold Holzer
• The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Hardcover) Robert Scheer
• Just Released, a New Adult Classic Adaptation of a Beloved Children's Book: "Goodnight Bush" Gan Golan and Erich Origen
• 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
• Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak (Paperback) Christopher Cerf (Author), Victor S. Navasky (Author), Robert Grossman (Illustrator)
• 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 Post-American World (Hardcover) Fareed Zakaria
• The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire (Paperback 1/13/09) Matt Taibbi
• The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now (Paperback) Norman MacAfee
• Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Paperback - A Whopping 896 Pages) Rick Perlstein
• The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Hardcover) Vincent Bugliosi
• Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left (Hardcover) Nikolas Kozloff
• Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy (Paperback) Jeffrey Feldman
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups: The 100 Most Terrifying Conspiracies of All Time (Paperback) Jon E. Lewis
• 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
• Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right and Built an American Kingdom (Hardcover) John Gorenfeld
• 50 "Mission Accomplished" (Dog Poop) Bags Dogs4Democrats
• At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 Taylor Branch
• One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic (Paperback) By Arnold Grossman