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Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets
by Robert KuttnerThere's a battle raging inside and outside the halls of Congress for the economic hearts and minds of America. "Reduce the size of big government! Less regulation! Privatization! Market economy!"
El contrato social
by Jean Jacques RousseauEL CONTRATO SOCIAL (1762), ES UNA DE LAS OBRAS MÁS IMPORTANTES DEL PENSAMIENTO POLÍTICO. EL RETO QUE EN ESTE LIBRO LANZA SU AUTOR: SU PROPUESTA DE VIVIR EN LA MÁS ESTRICTA IGUALDAD, SIGUE SIENDO UN IMPORTANTE ACICATE PARA TODOS AQUELLOS QUE SE AVENTURAN A CUESTIONAR EL ORDEN POLÍTICO, ENTENDIENDO QUE NO ES ALGO INAMOVIBLE Y DADO PARA SIEMPRE, SINO HUMANO Y POR ELLO PERFECTIBLE, RECUSABLE O PLAUSIBLE.
The White House Transcripts: Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon
by Gerald Gold Richard M. NixonThe 46 private conversations between President Nixon and his closest advisors, a Who's Who and chronology of events surrounding Watergate, and more.
The Ugly American
by William J. Lederer Eugene BurdickA novel that exposes the opportunism, incompetence and cynical deceit that have become imbedded in the fabric of our top-level diplomats.
The World of Samuel Adams
by Donald Barr ChidseyWho was Samuel Adams? was he a rabble-rouser as some say? Or was he a palseyed man who knew how to wield a pen and use his tongue to organize men? Cousin to the second president of the US, John Adams, when people think of Samuel Adams they think of the rebellions of the American Revolution... But who was Samuel Adams, really?
American Privacy: The 400-year History of Our Most Contested Right
by Frederick S. LaneA page-turning narrative of privacy and the evolution of communication, from broken sealing wax to high-tech wiretapping.
Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution
by Lawrence GoldstoneAn eye-opening examination of America's foundation. On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America’s Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last. Most were driven more by pragmatic, regional interests than by idealistic vision. Many were meeting for the first time, others after years of contention, and the inevitable clash of personalities would be as intense as the advocacy of ideas or ideals. No issue was of greater concern to the delegates than that of slavery: it resounded through debates on the definition of treason, the disposition of the rich lands west of the Alleghenies and the admission of new states, representation and taxation, the need for a national census, and the very make-up of the legislative and executive branches of the new government. As Lawrence Goldstone provocatively makes clear in Dark Bargain, "to a significant and disquieting degree, America’s most sacred document was molded and shaped by the most notorious institution in its history." Goldstone chronicles the forging of the Constitution through the prism of the crucial compromises made by men consumed with the needs of the slave economy. As the daily debates and backroom conferences in inns and taverns stretched through July and August of that hot summer--and as the philosophical leadership of James Madison waned--Goldstone clearly reveals how tenuous the document was, and how an agreement between unlikely collaborators John Rutledge of South Carolina, and Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut--got the delegates past their most difficult point. Dark Bargain recounts an event as dramatic and compelling as any in our nation’s history.
The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy
by David M. BarrettCareful history of the formative years of the Agency.
The Republican War on Science
by Chris Mooneydiscusses why stem-cell research is not supported and other governmental decisions respecting our world and future.
Thomas K. Beecher: Minister to a Changing America
by Myra C. GlennOne of a series entitled Contributions to the Study of Religion
Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo
by Erik Saar Viveca NovakDescribes in vivid detail the conditions and treatment.
Living Inside Our Hope
by Staughton LyndThe photograph of three men spattered with red paint, their arms linked, marching to protest the Vietnam War, is an icon of the 1960s movement for social justice. David Dellinger is on one side, Robert Moses on the other. In the middle is Staughton Lynd, chairperson of the first march on Washington against the war, and former director of the Mississippi Freedom Schools. Thirty years later, Staughton Lynd here reaffirms ideas central to the New Left of the sixties: nonviolence, participatory democracy, an experiential approach to education, and anti-capitalism. In essays written between 1970 and 1995, he passionately defends the intellectual contribution of a movement often dismissed as mindlessly activist. In addition, he advocates direct, sustained involvement in meeting the needs of the working class and the poor. Each section of the book identifies major influences on Lynd's life as teacher, historian, lawyer, and organizer. In the section entitled "Accompaniment," Lynd suggests the relevance to the United States of the concepts of liberation theology which have revolutionized Central America. In "Socialism with a Human Face," he expresses continued allegiance to the socialist ideals exemplified by Simone Weil and E. P. Thompson. The final section, "Solidarity Unionism," deals with the self-activity of rank-and-file workers. Living Inside Our Hope will reach out to everyone who remembers the ideals of the sixties with nostalgia and to those, too young to remember, who are seeking a foundation on which to build their own social activism.
Eyewitness: Spy
by Richard PlattThe most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
Spies
by Richard PlattExamines the history, motives, and actions of various spies, both criminal and governmental.
The Conscience of a Conservative
by Barry GoldwaterIn 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only remarkable, but radical.
Catherine of Aragon
by Garrett MattinglyBiography about Henry VIII's first wife, the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon
The Secret Kingdom
by Pat Robertson Bob SlosserThe author of New York Times bestseller The New World Order confronts the tougest issues of the '90s by setting forth ten principles to help obtain peace, love, and financial security. A classic work, now revised, this book has sold in excess of 500,000 copies.
The Drums of December (The Fires of July #2)
by Sharon SalvatoThe saga of an American family divided by revolution continues in this stunning sequel to The Fires of July. As Drew Manning and his passionate young wife, Gwynne Templeton, enjoy a happy new life together, political matters in the Colonies threaten to explode in revolution and tear their families apart. The cry for liberty rings throughout South Carolina, and Drew openly supports the Patriots, while his aristocratic parents, and even his brother, remain staunchly loyal to the Crown. But soon the very foundations of his life will be shaken by more than revolution—Joanna Templeton Townshend, Gwynne’s sister and Drew’s spurned fiancee, stands ready to betray her own blood for the sake of vengeance. Together with her British soldier husband, she masterminds a slave uprising on the Manning estate, killing many faithful slaves and several family members, and ultimately gaining a victory for the British king. But Drew and Gwynne will live through this bloody insurgency to continue America’s fight for freedom, and Drew, torn between ties of blood and the rousing challenge of war, will come face to face with his own father and brother across a bloody battlefield.
The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the War in Bosnia
by Carole RogelA brief but careful history of the period.
Quotations from Speaker Newt: The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution
by Amy D. Bernstein Peter W. BernsteinA book devoted to gaining a better understanding of Newt Gingrich, American politician.
The War Against Parents
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett Cornel WestSylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, a white woman and a black man, join to address the burning social issue of our time: the virtual abandonment of parents-poor and middle class-by America's business, political, and cultural elites. In what is both a visionary and intimate book, Hewlett and West present a blueprint for parent empowerment, which they call the Parents' Bill of Rights for the 21st century, which gives new value and dignity to the parental role and restores America's commitment to the well-being of children. With candor and hope for the future, the authors seek to unite America's 62 million parents behind an agenda that spans the divides of race, gender, and class.
Liberal Racism
by Jim Sleeperthis is a tough-minded, provocative indictment of the failure of liberalism in the post-Civil Rights era. As Sleeper sees it, liberals once held the moral high ground because they "fought nobly to help this country rise above color." Now, however, liberals have become blinded by race and have abandoned the fight to create what Sleeper calls the "transracial belonging and civic faith for which Americans of all colors so obviously yearn." Much of what Sleeper has to say here flies in the face of politically correct received wisdom about race, but as an effort to remind Americans that all of us are fundamentally responsible for our fates, this is a much-needed corrective to race-based thinking that has proven unproductive.
War on the Middle Class
by Lou DobbsHow The Government, big business, and special interest groups are waging war on the American dream, and how to fight back.
Living God's Politics
by Jim Wallis Chuck GutensonA companion book for God's Politics by Jim Wallis