Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists...
Dylan RatiganThe host of the eponymous MSNBC show, Dylan Ratigan offers a bold and original post-partisan program to resuscitate the American Dream. At a time of deep concern with the state of America's economy and government, it seems that all t...
Bill Moyers on America today:“Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the ...
If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Pro...
Eric Metaxas#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.In 1787, when...
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth ...
Jonah GoldbergNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Now updated with a new pref...
The Way to Win: Taking the White Hous...
Mark HalperinTwo astute political reporters examine the prospects for the 2008 election through their analyses of two masters who set the standards for campaigning strategy: Karl Rove, aka Bush's brain, and Bill Clinton, survivor over all others....
Democracy: Stories from the Long Road...
Condoleezza Ricep.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human ...
In 1831, a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States officially to appraise the country's penal system but with a higher personal goal in mind. Looking to America's unique democratic system as a pos...
There are hundreds of excellent books about democracy, written by well-educated, intelligent people from all corners of our political life. One, however, is missing and that is the one that focuses on how Americans are living in this ...
Being in Time: A Post-Political Manif...
Gilad AtzmonThe events of 2016 - Brexit and Trump - broke the mould which shaped ideas of democracy, politics and social identity. In this book Gilad Atzmon argues that Left and Right have become indistinguishable and meaningless in the post-poli...
The concentration of wealth and power, held in the hands of a few, has influenced the political landscape of America since its inception. Today, the campaign financing of the political elites consistently ensures the agenda of the rul...
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision...
Adam BuckoThe Occupy Wall Street movement and protest movements around the world are evidence of a new era of intergenerational activists seeking deeper spiritual meaning in their quest for peace and justice.This book is a call to action for a ...
Canceling Comedians While the World B...
Ben Burgis'Ben Burgis has written a clarifying, humorous and sharp as hell wake up call for the left, and political culture at large. Read this book...'Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks ShowBetween the decline of the labor movement, t...
On Corruption in America: And What Is...
Sarah ChayesFrom the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world, comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of c...
Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectur...
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated audiences with his luc...
Economics after Neoliberalism (Boston...
Joshua CohenHow we can look beyond the tyranny of market logic in our public lives to reimagine the fundamentals of democracy.Bringing together thirty-two world-class economists, Economics After Neoliberalism offers a powerful case for a new bran...
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of...
Anand GiridharadasNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black ...
American Nightmare: Facing the Challe...
Henry a. GirouxAre we in the beginning of a new fascist era?As white supremacy, ultra-nationalism, rabid misogyny and anti-immigrant fervor coalesce, a new and uniquely American form of fascism looms. Could our current moment actually bring about th...
The Violence of Organized Forgetting:...
Henry A. Giroux"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."--Bill Moyers"Henry Giroux has accomplis...
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why...
The Rage and the Shame: Facing Oursel...
Bud Harris"We don't need to speak truth to power. We need to speak it to ourselves." In The Rage and the Shame: Facing Ourselves after the 2016 Election and Reclaiming the Heart of Our Democracy, Jungian analyst and author Bud Harris,...
The World as It Is: Dispatches on the...
Chris HedgesAcclaimed journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges is one of the great moral voices of our age. He has the rare combination of decades of experience reporting from conflict zones in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, a...
Their Democracy and Ours: A Socialist...
Danny KatchThe election of Donald Trump has sent U.S. and the world into uncharted waters, with a bigoted, petty man-child at the head of the planet's most powerful empire. Danny Katch indicts the hollowness of U.S. political system which led to...
Fight for Liberty: Defending Democrac...
Mark LasswellAnne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy---reinvigorating its central values in an age of doubt and discord.Liberal democracy is in crisi...
The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian ...
Ryszard LegutkoRyszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades--and he fought with the Polish ant-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two poli...
Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wago...
Bill McKibbenOne of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben—award-winning author, activist, educator—is fiercely curious. “I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American fai...
"An important work of scholarship that should be read by anyone concerned with America’s future." Fareed Zakaria, author ofThe Post-American WorldAn urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors th...
Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal ...
Henry MintzbergEnough of the imbalance that is causing the degradation of our environment, the demise of our democracies, and the denigration of ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right and paralysis in the political center. We r...
Informing the News: The Need for Know...
Thomas E. PattersonAs the journalist Walter Lippmann noted nearly a century ago, democracy falters "if there is no steady supply of trustworthy and relevant news." Today's journalists are not providing it. Too often, reporters give equal weigh...
A Times Top 10 Bestseller'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Vernon Bogdanor, Financial TimesAs with his p...
America's Empty Throne and President ...
Michael ReaganAs an American citizen, the biggest question you must ask yourself isn't what political party or side of an issue you favor. It is does the majority of American citizens rule or does the representative government rule? If you think th...