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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. 		bookone

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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 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.

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The Age of the Warrior

Selected Essays

By Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk, Britain's most celebrated foreign correspondent, takes us from the London bombings to the streets of Lebanon, from war-torn Iraq to the horrors of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, offering courageous, eyewitness accounts of our blood-stained past and present. A collection of remarkable breadth and power, The Age of the Warrior is indispensable reading for our complex, battle-scarred world.

"Robert Fisk is one of the outstanding reporters of this generation. As a war correspondent he is unrivalled."
—Financial Times

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Backstabbing for Beginners

My Crash Course in International Diplomacy

By Michael Soussan

In 1997, Michael Soussan accepted his dream job at the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, the largest humanitarian operation in the organization's history. On March 8, 2004, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, he became the first insider to call for "an independent investigation" of the UN's dealings with Saddam Hussein. Backstabbing for Beginners is at once the darkly comic tale of one man's political coming of age, and a stinging indictment of the hypocrisy that prevailed at the heart of the world's most idealistic institution.

The Wall Street Journal listed Backstabbing for Beginners as one of the 12 best books of 2008.

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After Empire

The Birth of a Multipolar World

By Dilip Hiro

After Empire sketches the contours of a complex world system emerging during the late imperial phase of U.S. history and examines the events that prepared the ground for the world to move from the tutelage of the sole superpower, America, to a multipolar, post-imperial global order. Realistic and nuanced in its assessment of global politics, shorn of an ideological bias or soft corner for the United States, After Empire abounds in unsettling and stimulating insights on politics, history, hard and soft power, political economy and democracy.



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