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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell ...

Thomas L. Friedman

America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of...

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Published: Sep 2011

Drift

Rachel Maddow

"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found­ers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2012

The Assault on Reason

Al Gore

An indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a reckoning with the degradation of the public sphere that facilitates their rule of unreason.

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Published: Jun 2007

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

Michael Lewis

The New York Times Bestseller, with a new afterword "[Michael Lewis's] most ambitious and important book." ―Joe Klein, New York TimesMichael Lewis's brilliant narrative of the Trump administration's botched presidential tr...

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Published: Dec 2019

One Nation: What We Can All Do to Sav...

Ben Carson

Dear Reader,  In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles...

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Published: May 2014

Conform: Exposing the Truth About Com...

Glenn Beck

Now on Encore! #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal soluti...

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Published: Aug 2015

A More Perfect Union: What We the Peo...

Ben Carson

Dear Reader,Many people have wondered why I've been speaking out on controversial issues for the last few years. They say I've never held political office. I'm not a constitutional scholar. I'm not even a lawyer. All I can say to ...

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Published: Oct 2015

Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Gov...

Garrett M. Graff

The shocking truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil—even if the rest of us die—is "a frightening eye-opener" (Kirkus Reviews) that spans the dawn of the nuclear age to today...

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Published: May 2018

This Town: Two Parties and a Funeralâ...

Mark Leibovich

The #1 national bestseller, Mark Leibovich's This Town, now in paperback-with a new Introduction by the author.

Paperback
Published: Apr 2014

The New American Story

Bill Bradley

Politics is stuck,' writes Bill Bradley, in this insightful, informative, and provocative book about America at a crossroads, but 'idealism isn't dead. It can be reawakened.' What will it take to make America a better, stronger, tr...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2007

The Federalist Papers: Selected Essay...

Alexander Hamilton

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles, written between 1787 and 1788, advocating for the ratification of the United States Constitution. They serve as a primary source for interpretation of the Constitution, as they outlin...

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Published: Oct 2016

Has Anyone Seen the President?

Michael Lewis

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Published: Jun 2018

Secret Empires: How the American Poli...

Peter Schweizer

From the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!

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Published: Mar 2019

The Divide: American Injustice in the...

Matt Taibbi

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis  Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Assault on Reason

Albert Gore

A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason. At the time George W. Bush ordered Am...

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Published: May 2008

The Smear: How Shady Political Operat...

Sharyl Attkisson

Ever wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power us...

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Published: May 2017

Controlling Education: Exposing the T...

Glenn Beck

PUBLIC EDUCATION IS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE CONSTITUTION. WHY? BECAUSE OUR FOUNDERS KNEW THAT IT WAS AN ISSUE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS--NOT THE FEDERAL ONE.It's not a coincidence that the more the federal government has inserted...

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Published: May 2014

One Nation: What We Can All Do to Sav...

Ben Carson

Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles th...

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Published: Sep 2015

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Le...

James Comey

"Comey's conversational tone instantly connects with the listener, and hearing him deliver the book's highly charged contents in his own voice brings authenticity and immediacy to the presentation...This greatly anticipated, reve...

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Published: May 2018

A Republic No More: Big Government an...

Jay Cost

After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?" Franklin's response: "A Republic-if you can keep it."This book argues: we couldn't keep i...

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Published: Jul 2016

Falling in Love with America Again

Jim Demint

Serving within the supposed pinnacles of power as a respected and influential U.S. Senator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint often felt frustrated and powerless to fight against the frightening growth of the federal bureaucracy and refu...

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Published: Jan 2015

Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatis...

E. J. Dionne

From the author of Why Americans Hate Politics, the New York Times bestselling and "notably fair-minded" (The New York Times Book Review), story of the GOP's fracturing—from the 1964 Goldwater takeover to the Trump spectac...

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Published: Sep 2016

Composite Nation (Applewood's Great A...

Frederick Douglass

“The voice of civilization speaks an unmistakable language against the isolation of families, nations and races, and pleads for composite nationality as essential to her triumphs.”—Frederick Douglass Renowned activi...

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Published: Jan 2023

The Decadent Society: America Before ...

Ross Douthat

From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure and private despair. The era of the ...

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Published: Mar 2021

Downsizing Federal Government Spendin...

Chris Edwards

Downsizing Federal Government Spending is a clear and essential guide for policymakers and voters alike on reducing federal spending and on preventing a massive budget crisis that could crush the generations ahead. It provides a deta...

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Published: Oct 2017

It's Even Worse Than You Think: What ...

David Cay Johnston

From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies will affect our jobs, savings, ...

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Published: Jan 2019

Draining the Swamp: Can the Us Surviv...

David L. R. Stein

What is happening in the ostensible "Land of the Free"? At a time when the freedoms of assembly and speech no longer exist on college and university campuses across the US, when students are swept up into violent protests organized an...

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Published: Nov 2017

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Michael Lewis

New York Times Bestseller For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortuna...

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Published: Apr 2022

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Michael Lewis

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those amon...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2022

Two Treatises of Government

John Locke

Originally published in 1960, this analysis of all of Locke's publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in its own right.

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Published: Jun 2023
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