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That Used To Be Us
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and foreign policy expert Michael Mandlebaum make recommendations for meeting four major challenges facing the United States: globalization, the information-technology revolution, chronic deficits and unbalanced energy consumption.NPR Bestseller
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Subversives
The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
A narrative report on the FBI's covert involvement with future President Ronald Reagan, radical Mario Savio and liberal university president Clark Kerr to suppress the 1960s student movement at Berkeley reveals acts designed to undermine the Democratic party.
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The Secrets of the FBI
This expose from the author ofIn the President's Secret Service takes a look inside the secrets of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as some of the secrets it has uncovered about famous personalities over the years.
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The Betrayal of the American Dream
The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the best-selling America: What Went Wrong? present a scathing indictment of the formidable challenges facing the middle class, calling for fundamental changes while surveying the extent of the problem and identifying the people and agencies they believe to be responsible.
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The Eighteen-Day Running Mate
McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis
Joshua M. Glasser recounts Thomas Eagleton's brief tenure as the Democratic vice presidential candidate to George McGovern in 1972, before revelations of his history of electroshock therapy derailed the campaign.
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Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire of Illusion and an American Book Award-winning cartoonist present a scathing graphic report on the crises facing America's poor as reflected in the city of Camden, N.J. The book traces the city's descent from an industrial giant to a region torn by unemployment, open-air drug markets and budget cuts.NPR Bestseller
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Winning the War on War
The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
An award-winning expert on international affairs and military history presents balanced facts about the military-civilian death ratio in modern warfare while explaining how a general decline in armed conflict is revealing the effectiveness of peace, in an account that also outlines illustrative peace-keeping successes and failures.
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A Season in Hell
My 130 Days in the Sahara With Al Qaeda
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Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering
Japan in the Modern World
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Red Ink
Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of In Fed We Trust presents a narrative analysis of the federal budget that reveals how funds were actually spent in 2011, evaluating the roles of such contributors as Jacob Lew, Douglas Elmendorf and Pete Peterson.
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The Twilight War
The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran
David Crist reveals the covert operations that have brought the United States and Iran to the brink of open war, including Iran's proposal for peace after 9/11, which was rejected by President Bush, and Iran's secret army in post-U.S. invasion Iraq.
