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These United States

Original Essays by Leading American Writers on the State of their State Within the Union

By John Leonard

"[John Leonard] has edited a wonderful array of writers who have produced for Nation Books a reminder of just how much we need our maverick voices. " --Bill Moyers

Tainted Legacy

9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights

By William Schulz

The executive director of Amnesty International USA examines the relationship between the growth of terror around the world and the violation of human rights. "In these times of trouble, terror, and confusion, we need guidance more than ever about how to ensure that humanity's struggle for its basic rights will continue to advance. Tainted Legacy provides that guidance."
--Ariel Dorfman

The Gun and the Olive Branch

The Roots of Violence in the Middle East

By David Hirst

The Gun and the Olive Branch is the classic, controversial account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by David Hirst, veteran Middle East correspondent for The Guardian who has been called one of the greatest foreign correspondents of our time.

Unsustainable

How Economic Dogma is Destroying American Prosperity

By Eamonn Fingleton

When financial journalist Eamonn Fingleton anticipated the meltdown of the New Economy in the late 1990s, his predictions were dismissed by mainstream economic writers as "far-fetched." Now, with the New Economy in ruins and America mired in recession, Fingleton's contrarian take on mainstream ecomonic thinking seems ever more prescient.

Prayer for America

By Dennis Kucinich

A collection of speeches and essays by presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich that demonstrate how his strong ethical and philosophical outlook springs from childhood struggles with poverty, battles fought as Cleveland's youngest-ever mayor. The book illuminates his passionate commitment to public service, peace, human rights, workers' rights and the environment.

The Full Rudy

The Man, the Myth, the Mania

By Jack Newfield

In this concise, myth-busting portrait, veteran New York journalist Jack Newfield takes on America's mayor--Rudolph Giuliani--restoring the balance between Rudy's present, heroic, image and his more complex and controversial past.

Agony in the Garden

Sex, Lies and Redemption From the Troubled Heart of the American Catholic Church

By John van der Zee

A charismatic bishop with a secret life... A monsignor who founded a youth camp that he used as a stalking ground for boys... A financial house of cards erected by a priest-entrepreneur, using diocesan funds to operate a de facto bank...

Welcome to the diocese of Santa Rosa, California.

Napoleon's Glance

The Secret of Strategy

By William Duggan

From Picasso to Patton, from the Suffragettes to the Samurai, the provocative, surprising and original Napoleon's Glance shows how the secret of Napoleon's success on the battlefields of Europe has affected the achievements of other heroic figures from the worlds of politics, war and culture.

Don't You Know There's A War On?

The American Home Front 1941-1945

By Richard Lingeman

A long-overdue reissue of Richard Lingeman's classic history of the American home front during World War II, with a new introduction that explores the parallels between our contemporary world and the 1940s.

Occupied Voices

Stories of Everyday Life From the Second Intifada

By Wendy Pearlman

As the Middle East peace process disintegrated and the second Intifada began, Wendy Pearlman, a young Jewish woman from the American Midwest, traveled to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in a quest to talk to ordinary Palestinians.

Dark Harbor

Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island

By Ved Mehta

When Ved Mehta was first invited to Islesboro, a narrow, thirteen-mile-long island off the coast of Maine, he could not have imagined the far-reaching consequences of his visit. Seduced by a dream of putting down roots in the New World, he finds himself buying a fifteen-acre parcel of land in the rugged terrain of Dark Harbor...

Poets Against the War

Edited by Sam Hamill with Sally Anderson and others

By Sam Hamill

This landmark anthology of original poetry registers each contributor's opposition to the Iraq War. Poets include Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, Katha Pollitt, Jane Hirshfield, Tess Gallagher, Carolyn Kizer, Jim Harrison, Terry Tempest Williams, Julia Alvarez, Alfred Corn, Martin Espada, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and former Poet Laureate Rita Dove.

Al Qaeda

In Search of the Terror Network That Shook the World

By Jane Corbin

The result of five years of research by the renowned British journalist Jane Corbin, Al Qaeda is the definitive study of Osama bin Laden's terror network. From the jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan to the attack on the Twin Towers, Corbin explains the history and complex mechanisms of the world's most infamous terrorist organization.

It's a Free Country

Personal Freedom in America After September 11

By Danny Goldberg , Victor Goldberg and Robert Greenwald

"A terrific collection of personal stories, legal arguments and historical reminders about civil liberties in our society. We must never forget that we live in our faith and our many beliefs, but we also live under the law--and those legal rights must never be suspended or curtailed." --The Rev. Jesse Jackson

Shaking the Foundations

200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America

By Bruce Shapiro and Pete Hamill

"Arriving shortly after the New York Times's fall from grace at the hands of a fraudulent staff reporter, this collection of America's best investigative reporting may redeem not only that paper but the entire profession of journalism.... It's been said that journalism is the first draft of history--if so, then this is a history of the writing of history." --Publishers Weekly

RFK

A Memoir

By Jack Newfield

"A masterpiece.... Whether this book is taken to be a biography, a political synopsis or a character analysis, it will not be taken lightly... By the end, the reader feels that he knew Robert Kennedy, not that he knew of him.... Unforgettable reading." --Denver Post

"A deeply moving and affectionate tribute... the best book on Robert Kennedy to date." --New York Times

Genocide of the Mind

New Native American Writing

By MariJo Moore and Vine Deloria Jr.

Introduced by Vine Deloria Jr., author of the bestselling Custer Died for Your Sins, this collection compiles writing from over twenty-five different Indian Nations, vividly illustrating their struggle to survive in contemporary America.

Superpower Syndrome

America's Apocalyptic Confrontation With the World

By Robert Jay Lifton

National Book Award winner Robert Jay Lifton writes a devastating profile of America's new apocalyptic identity--its superpower syndrome--warning of present dangers, and arguing that the United States must renounce its claim on total power.

The Red and the Blacklist

By Norma Barzman