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The Truth About Camp David

The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process

By Clayton E. Swisher


"Clayton E. Swisher is the first to research the mistakes and miscalculations made by the Clinton administration that led to the collapse of the Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Any future mediator will have to read this account before the start of any final-status negotiations." --Charles Enderlin, author of Shattered Dreams.

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Thirty Years of Treason

Excerpts From Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968

By Eric Bentley


This absorbing collection reveals with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel investigating potentially subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a monstrous and unrelenting accusatory force from which no one was safe.

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Freedom Next Time

Resisting the Empire

By John Pilger


From one of the world's preeminent investigative journalists comes this examination of five countries whose people have shed blood and dreams in their struggle for freedom--and, decades later are still waiting.

Read the Guardian's review here.
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The Impeachment of George W. Bush

A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens

By Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia L. Cooper


No one is better qualified to call for the impeachment of President George W. Bush than Elizabeth Holtzman, the former Congresswoman and vital member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon.

Read an interview with Elizabeth Holtzman here.

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Denial and Deception

An Insider's View of the CIA

By Melissa Boyle Mahle


Melissa Boyle Mahle was a CIA covert operative in the Middle East from 1988 to 2002, one of a handful of women agents who spoke Arabic, and the top-ranked female Arabist in the agency. This is her revealing take on the CIA from the inside.

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Steal This Vote:

Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America

By Andrew Gumbel


This devastating look at America's dysfunctional electoral system and its history shows that things have only gotten worse since the Florida-based presidential meltdown of 2000. Officials have spent millions of dollars on computer touch-screen systems that are badly designed, poorly programmed and vulnerable to hacking and other mischief.

Read Andrew Gumbel's writing on The Huffington Post.
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The Samaritan's Dilemma

Should Government Help Your Neighbor?

By Deborah Stone


Experts say that too much help makes people passive and dependent, and self-interest is the only motive that spurs us to work and contribute to society. The Samaritan's Dilemma challenges this conventional wisdom. We live by everyday altruism. So when leaders define the ideal citizen as someone who withholds help, good people are repelled by politics.

Read reviews of the book here and here.

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Deborah Stone's Book Tour

July 7 - November 2 | Across the United States
Deborah Stone, a Nation Books author, recently published her fourth book, The Samaritan's Dilemma. Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect calls it "a brilliant and persuasive statement of the case for organized compassion—not out of sentimentality but for the viability of society and our own self regard as a decent people." Listen to her on the radio and get a copy of the book signed at a bookstore on Stone's book tour. Find the schedule here.

August 25 - 28
Jeremy Scahill covers DNC for Democracy Now!
(Democracy Now!)
Watch or listen to Institute Fellow and Nation Books author Jeremy Scahill grill lawmakers on everything from private contractors in Iraq to Afghanistan policy at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. For more information on what times the show airs and when to hear it on the radio in your city, go to the Democracy Now! website. MORE

September 13
2008 ELECTION: What's Really at Stake?
(Cooper Union Auditorium, 30 Cooper Square, NYC)
Come listen to Institute Fellows Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill (also a Nation Books author of Blackwater) speak at a benefit for The Indypendent newspaper at Cooper Union Auditorium in New York City. Additional panelists to be announced; meet the speakers at a special pre-event reception. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit indypendent.org or call (212)-221-0521. MORE