With "Fleeced", their June 2008 attack on Barack Obama, congressional corruption, liberal tax policies, teachers unions, and much more, political analysts Dick Morris and Eileen McGann scored their biggest bestseller ever-debuting at number two on the "New York Times" bestseller list and riding high on the list for eight weeks and counting. Thanks ...
"The Dark Side" is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the U.S. has made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that have not only violated the Constitution and American values, but have also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda.
The best way to understand Congressman Ron Paul is to take a look at his voting record. He has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget. He has never voted to raise congressional pay. He has never taken a government-paid junket. He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch. He voted against the ...
An intimate, investigative portrait of how the purveyors of the politics of personal crisis and redemption brought down the GOP--and why they're still calling the shots for the party
With sharp, detail-filled style Morris and McGann are sure to stir up controversy with the hard facts laid out in this book. From claims about the slave state of Dubai; secretly buying everything from MGM to the Queen Mary to credit card companies abuse; charging interest every way they can, Screen-Studios product; and, placing tobacco in PG films ...
Kurt Vonnegut's first new book in nearly 10 years is a collection of the essays he has published during that time, illustrated with his inimitable--and often hilarious--line drawings. Vonnegut writes on such topics as death, literature, the state of the American soul, the necessity for making art, and, of course, the administration of George W. ...
With unparalleled intimacy and detail, Woodward's fourth book on the Bush administration offers a gripping account of a president at war and describes a period of distress and uncertainty within the U.S. government from 2006 through mid-2008.
Barack Obama stepped onto the national political stage when the then-Illinois State senator addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, author Jerome Corsi began researching Obama's personal and political background. Scrupulously sourced with more than 600 footnotes, The Obama Nation is the ...
Plain-speaking commentator Bill O'Reilly looks with outrage at corporate and political entities that he sees as failing the common person. He also looks at the absence of altruism and personal responsibility on the part of individuals. O'Reilly connects the dots and points out how all this adds up to a society in which greed, venality, and ...
America's canniest conservative political analyst takes on the State of the Nation, 2007-8 ...and finds new outrages around every corner. Now, in his liveliest and most entertaining book yet, Morris wages his most ambitious campaign since Bill Clinton's reelection in 1996: An all-encompassing, no-holds-barred assault on the villains who live to ...
Balz and Johnson offer a riveting account of the 2008 presidential election, which shattered political barriers; illuminated undercurrents of race, gender, and class; and ignited an extraordinary battle among some of the most formidable political rivals ever to seek the presidency.
To his fans, radio commentator Michael Savage is an astute and witty sage who speaks on serious issues of the day. If he is sometimes outrageous, it is because he is outraged at what he sees around him. In his third book, this modern day Swift addresses topics such as homeland security ("We need more Patton and less patent leather") and rails ...
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the ...
Perfect for an election year, and bound to provoke controversy, this scathingly funny, audaciously reported, and genuinely illuminating narrative of what America has become at the end of the Bush Era is written by a major new voice in political journalism.
In this provocative new book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology - of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. This perilous union, Bacevich argues, commits ...
In this fascinating book, Darwish speaks out against the dark side of her native culture--women abused by Islamic traditions, the poor and uneducated mistreated by the elites, and bribery and corruption as a way of life. She calls on the Arab world to embrace the values of democracy, respect for women, and tolerance for all religions.
Feith details how the Administration launched a global effort to attack and disrupt terrorist networks; how it decided to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime by force; how it came to impose an occupation on Iraq even though it had avoided one in Afghanistan; how some officials postponed or impeded important early steps that could have averted ...
To many, geography is a high-school subject that is little regarded in everyday life. Selecting three front-burner issues--terrorism, China, and climate change--geographer Harm de Blij applies the geographic lens, highlighting relevant facts and fascinating perspectives that illuminate the issues at hand and also underscore his thesis that ...
The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known--a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points ...
The essays in this collection, by the Foreign Affairs columnist for the New York Times, provide analysis and perspective on issues and events relating to September 11. Most were written during Friedman's extensive travels throughout the Middle East and the world. Included is the never-before-published "Diary: Travels in a World Without Walls." A ...
This insider's view of the George W. Bush administration draws heavily (but not solely) on former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill as a source. O'Neill, who was asked to step down by Bush in 2002, offers several damning allegations that made headlines upon this book's publication--including charges that Bush was not intellectually engaged at ...
From one of the most respected combat reporters in America comes a gripping battlefield history of how the U.S. military corrected its mistakes in Iraq and opened a path to victory. b&w photo insert.
"New York Times" bestselling author Goldberg is at it again, this time skewering both sides of the cultural and political debate in America: the lunatic liberals on the left and the spineless Republicans on the right.
It was supposed to be quick and easy. The Bush Administration even promised that it wouldn't cost American taxpayers a thing-Iraqi oil revenues would pay for it all. But billions and billions of dollars, and thousands of lives, later, the Iraqi reconstruction is an undeniable failure. Iraq pumps out less oil now than it did under Saddam. At best, ...
Is it any wonder that Americans have become so dissatisfied with government today? Politicians have given us soaring federal spending, rampant violations of our constitutional rights, a futile war in Iraq, corruption, incompetence, and a growing nanny state. Now one of the leading libertarian critics of big government raises the flag of freedom. ...
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The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America
