The Great Derangement: A Terrifying T...
Matt TaibbiA REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THE HEARTLANDRolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to descr...
Combining wit and journalistic detail, 'Plan B' follows Strauss' journey toward obtaining a second citizenship in a small Caribbean island. Facing shady lawyers, crippling doubts, governmental corruption, and plane-flying, gun-toting ...
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of...
Christopher HitchensIn the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that per...
All the Trouble in the World: The Lig...
P. J. O'RourkeWith All the Trouble in the World, P. J. O'Rourke once again landed on best-seller lists around the country, confirming his reputation as the pre-eminent political humorist of our time. Attacking fashionable worries - all those terrib...
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from...
Barbara EhrenreichAmerica in the 'aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by one of the country's most prominent social critics Now in paperback, Barbara Ehrenreich's widely acclaimed This Land Is Their Land takes the...
The Three Battles of Wanat: And Other...
Mark BowdenThe Three Battles of Wanat features the best long-form pieces on war, profiles, sports reporting, and essays on culture from one of the nation's top journalists, New York Times bestselling author Mark Bowden.The title story-which begi...
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and ...
Umberto EcoThe time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In this series of provocative, passionate, and ...
The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantl...
David MametAnnotation: The legendary playwright, author, director, and filmmaker pulls no punches in his art or in his politics. And as a former liberal who woke up, Mamet will win over an entirely new audience of others who have grown irate ove...
Letters to a Young Conservative (The ...
Dinesh D'SouzaDinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political corr...
Neal Boortz, the High Priest of the Church of the Painful Truth, has been edifying, infuriating, and entertaining talk radio audiences for more than three decades. Now, the author of the smash New York Times bestsellers The FairTax B...
Constitutional Chaos: What Happens Wh...
Andrew P. NapolitanoIn this incisive and insightful book, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano peels back the legal veneer and shows how politicians, judges, prosecutors, and bureaucrats are trampling the U.S. Constitution in the name of law and order and fighting...
Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stan...
Bill O'ReillyTelevision host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O'Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provocative volume, the author of Cultu...
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches f...
Joe BageantA raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism.Deer Hunting with Jesus is web columnist Joe Bageant's report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-li...
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a...
Charles P. PierceNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe three Great Premises of Idiot America:· Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units· Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough· Fact is that which enough peop...
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Howard ZinnThank you, Howard Zinn. Thank you for telling us what none of our leaders are willing to: The truth. And you tell it with such brilliance, such humanity. It is a personal honor to be able to say I am a better citizen because of you...
Memo to the President: How We Can Res...
Madeleine K. AlbrightThe next president will face the daunting task of repairing America's core relationships and tarnished credibility after the damage caused during the past eight years. In Memo to the President, former secretary of state Madeleine Albr...
What Obama Means: ...for Our Culture,...
Jabari Asim"Provocative and compelling." —New York Newsday "Both entertaining and insightful."—Washington Post Book World"It should be on the required reading list." —Chicago Sun-Times What Obama Means by...
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. When Baker received a MakeWork grant to write about Chattanooga's unheard voices, she had no idea that her project would take her from the homes of Chattanooga's refugees in "Landings" t...
Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary P...
Joanne BambergerHillary Clinton's name is on everyone's lips as we head into the 2016 presidential election. But as we know from the 2008 presidential campaign, and its outcome, Clinton evokes extreme and varied emotions among voters in a way no othe...
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on S...
John BergerFrom one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmma...
Confessions of a Failed Egoist: and O...
Trevor BlakeExplication, rumination and fulmination from Portland author Trevor Blake. Sixteen selections range from a critique of Objectivism to the career of filmmaker Nabil Shaban (focusing on The Skin Horse, a documentary on the sex lives of ...
A Letter to America boldly faces the question of how long the United States, with only six percent of the world's population, can remain a global superpower. University of Oklahoma president David Boren explains with unsparing clarity...
The Time of Our Lives: A conversation...
Tom BrokawbWho we are, where we've been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dreami brNow with a new Foreword by the authorb "The best presentation of the challenges facing the country—and the possible solutions—I'...
Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideolog...
Patrick J. BuchananAmerica is coming apart at the seams. Forces foreign and domestic seek an end to U.S. sovereignty and independence. Before us looms the prospect of an America breaking up along the lines of race, ethnicity, class and culture. In...
Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissoluti...
Noam ChomskyThe Balkans, in particular the turbulent ex-Yugoslav territory, have been among the most important world regions in Noam Chomsky's political reflections and activism over the past couple of decades. Through his articles, public talks,...
The Americas, both North and South, have been in motion with elections and political shifts that Noam Chomsky explores here with his characteristic independence and insight."Popular activism has repeatedly brought about substanti...
Known and Strange Things: Essays
Teju ColeA transcendent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief Teju Cole is the rare writer whose work can stir conversation among opinion makers and become a viral sensation with ...
"A tour de force."—Jeremy Scahill"Tom Engelhardt is the I. F. Stone of the post-9/11 age."—Andrew J. BacevichIn 2008, when the US National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administrat...
Toward the African Revolution (Fanon,...
Frantz FanonThis powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon's landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of emp...
Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democra...
Ben FountainIn a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis Twice before in its history, t...