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American Theocracy - The Peril
and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed
Money in the 21st Century
Author: Kevin Phillips
From America’s premier political analyst,
an explosive examination of the axis of religion,politics,
and borrowed money that threatens to destroy
the nation
In his two most recent New York Times bestselling
books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy,
Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful
critic of the political and economic forces
that are ruling—and imperiling—the United States.
Now, Phillips takes an uncompromising view of
the political coalition, led by radical religion,
that is driving America to the brink of disaster.
From Ancient Rome to the British
Empire, Phillips demonstrates that every world-dominating
power has been brought down by a related set of
causes: a lethal combination of global over- reach,
militant religion, resource problems, and ballooning
debt. It is this same axis of ills that has come
to define America’s political and economic identity
in the past decade. Military miscalculations in
the Middle East, the surge of fundamentalist religion,
the staggering national debt, the costs of U.S.
oil dependence—together these factors are undermining
our nation’s security, solvency, and standing
in the world. If left unchecked, the same forces
will bring a debt- bloated, preachy, energy-starved
America to its knees. With an eye on the past
and a searing vision of the future, Phillips has
written a book that no American can afford to
ignore.
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The New American Story
Author: Bill Bradley Staff
What will it take to make America a better,
stronger, truer country? asks the bestselling
author, former Knicks star, and onetime presidential
candidate. Bill Bradley believes that America
is at a teachable moment when we are compelled
to reevaluate our political system, our leadership,
our agenda as a nation, and ourselves as citizens.
With clarity and urgency, Bradley shows why
the story we are being told now about who we
are as a people is not true. He then offers
a new story about our nation, based on America’s
rich heritage and his belief in the character
of the American people. Bradley explores what
changes need to be made in our parties, in our
politics, and in citizen activism to ensure
America’s future. He asserts that the American
people are ready for the truth and suggests
that the party that chooses to embrace this
new story will be in power for a generation.
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New Rules
- Polite Musings from a Timid Obsserver
Author: Bill Maher
Bill Maher's popular new HBO
television show, Real Time, has put Maher more
front and center than ever before. Particularly
one regular segment on the show, entitled "New
Rules," has been a hit with his ever-growing
legion of fans. It is the part of the show during
which Maher takes serious aim, bringing all of
his intelligence, incisiveness, wit, and his signature
exasperation to bear on topics ranging from cell
phones ("I don't need my cell phone to take
pictures or access the Internet. I just need it
to make a phone call. From everywhere! Not just
the places it likes!") to fast food ("No
McDonald's in hospitals. I'm not kidding!) to
the conservative agenda ("Stop claiming it's
an agenda. It's not an agenda. It's a random collection
of laws that your corporate donors paid you to
pass.")
His new book, the first since
his bestselling When You Ride Alone You Ride with
bin Laden, brings these brilliantly conceived
riffs and rants to the written page. Appropriately
titled New Rules, the book will collect some of
the best of the rules derived from previously
written material and will also contain substantial
new material, including some longer form "editorials"--of
course with a twist and bite that only Bill Maher
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An Inconvenient
Truth
Author: Al Gore
Al Gore’s groundbreaking book, An Inconvenient
Truth, brings together leading-edge research from
top scientists around the world, as well as photographs,
charts, and other illustrations to document the
reality of global warming--and to sound a warning
bell for action before it’s too late. Filled with
personal anecdotes and observations about how
this issue has become a central focus in Mr. Gore’s
life--and why he believes it is the crucial issue
of our time--AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH argues that
global warming is not just about science, nor
is it just a political issue: it is a moral issue
and we have a responsibility to do something about
it. Destined to become a classic, this accessible,
entertaining, and thorough book is a unique reference
for anyone who wants more information about global
warming as well a guidebook for those who want
to join the fight.
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No Place to Hide - Behind the Scenes
of Our Emerging Surveillance Society
Author: Robert O'Harrow Jr.
In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington
Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out
in unnerving detail the post-9/11 marriage of
private data and technology companies and government
anti-terror initiatives to create something
entirely new: a security-industrial complex.
Drawing on his years of investigation, O'Harrow
shows how the government now depends on burgeoning
private reservoirs of information about almost
every aspect of our lives to promote homeland
security and fight the war on terror.
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: John Perkins
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man reveals
a game that, according to John Perkins, is "as
old as Empire" but has taken on new and
terrifying dimensions in an era of globalization.
And Perkins should know. For many years he worked
for an international consulting firm where his
main job was to convince LDCs (less developed
countries) around the world to accept multibillion-dollar
loans for infrastructure projects and to see
to it that most of this money ended up at Halliburton,
Bechtel, Brown and Root, and other United States
engineering and construction companies. This
book, which many people warned Perkins not to
write, is a blistering attack on a little-known
phenomenon that has had dire consequences on
both the victimized countries and the U.S
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Bush's Brain - How
Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential
Author: James Moore and Wayne Slater
Political consultants are nothing new in American
politics; they are the big guns called in to
work on a campaign or deal with the occasional
crisis, then dismissed for another day. Not
so with White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove.
Due to his close personal relationship and unlimited
access to George W. Bush, as well as his control
of the information that reaches the president,
this "permanent consultant" occupies
a unique spot in Bush's inner circle and in
history. "His influence marks a transcendent
moment in American politics: the rise of an
unelected consultant to a position of unprecedented
power," write authors Moore and Slater.
Since Rove is ultimately responsible to Bush
only, not to American citizens, he is not required
to work openly. As a result, Rove is hardly
a household name, despite his considerable clout.
This intriguing and important book seeks to
remedy this by offering a comprehensive look
at this behind-the-scenes political guru.
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Crimes Against Nature - How George
W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering
the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
Author: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
In this powerful and far-reaching indictment
of George W. Bush's White House, Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr., the country's most prominent environmental
attorney, charges that this administration has
taken corporate cronyism to such unprecedented
heights that it now threatens our health, our
national security, and democracy as we know
it. In a headlong pursuit of private profit
and personal power, Kennedy writes, George Bush
and his administration have eviscerated the
laws that have protected our nation's air,water,
public lands, and wildlife for the past thirty
years, enriching the president's political contributors
whilelowering the quality of life for the rest
of us.
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