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Absolute Powerby David BaldacciISBN 0446603589 (0-446-60358-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Absolute Power'Book summary:Can the President get away with murder? The fictional answer to this question results in a fast-paced page turner that combines political intrigue with gritty, hard-boiled suspense [via]
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After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90'sby Marshall Kirk, Hunter MadsenISBN 0452264987 (0-452-26498-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Anarchy, State and Utopiaby Robert NozickISBN 0465002706 (0-465-00270-6)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anarchy, State and Utopia'Book summary:In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, winner of the 1975 National Book Award, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held political and social positions of our ageliberal, socialist, and conservative.
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Anything Goes: What I've Learned from Pundits, Politicians And Presidentsby Larry King, Pat PiperISBN 0446525286 (0-446-52528-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Eliteby Bernard GoldbergISBN 0446693642 (0-446-69364-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Atlas Shruggedby Ayn RandISBN 0451191145 (0-451-19114-5)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas Shrugged'Book summary:At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback.
With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers.
Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man's spirit.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club [via]More editions of Atlas Shrugged:
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The Autobiography and Other Writingsby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0451528107 (0-451-52810-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography and Other Writings'Book summary:One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance Man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat and politician. In his long life of eighty-four years, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure its survival.[via]Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography and Other Writings presents a remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments and additional writings from Benjamin Franklins wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who found himself a legend in his own time.
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Autobiography and Selected Writingsby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0451522028 (0-451-52202-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Babbittby Sinclair LewisISBN 0451527089 (0-451-52708-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babbitt'Book summary:A satire on the small-town American business man. [via]
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The Book of the Courtierby Castiglione, Baldassare, Conte, Virginia CoxISBN 0460875027 (0-460-87502-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicagoby Mike RoykoISBN 0452261678 (0-452-26167-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago'Book summary:This is the story of the late Richard J. Daley, politician and self-promoter extraordinaire, from his inauspicious youth on Chicagos South Side through his rapid climb to the seat of power as mayor and boss of the Democratic Party machine. A bare-all account of Daleys cardinal sins as well as his milestone achievements, this scathing work by Chicago journalist Mike Royko brings to life the most powerful political figure of his time: his laissez-faire policy toward corruption, his unique brand of public relations, and the widespread influence that earned him the epithet of king maker. The politician, the machine, the cityRoyko reveals all with witty insight and unwavering honesty, in this incredible portrait of the last of the backroom Caesars. This new edition includes an Introduction in which the author reflects on Daleys death and the future of Chicago.[via]More editions of Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago:
The Camel Clubby David BaldacciISBN 0446615625 (0-446-61562-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Candide and Other Talesby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0460019368 (0-460-01936-8)
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Capitalismby Ayn RandISBN 0451147952 (0-451-14795-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capitalism'Book summary:The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism. Here is a challenging new look at modern society by one of the most provocative intellectuals on the American scene.[via]This edition includes two articles by Ayn Rand which did not appear in the hardcover edition: The Wreckage of the Consensus," which presents the Objectivists views on Vietnam and the draft; and Requiem for Man," an answer to the Papal encyclical Progresso Populorum.
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The Children of Menby P. D. JamesISBN 0446364622 (0-446-36462-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children of Men'Book summary:Told with P. D. James' s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, "The Children of Men" is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race. [via]
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The Clinton Warsby Sidney BlumenthalISBN 0452285275 (0-452-28527-5)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clinton Wars'Book summary:The title of journalist turned-embattled-White House aide Sidney Blumenthal's memoir/history of his tumultuous years inside the Clinton presidency is both literal and figurative, if something of an understatement; "apocalypse" would seem more to the point. Erudite and fiercely unapologetic, Blumenthal belatedly provides the overwrought saga's protagonists what they so often publicly lacked in its historical context: passionate advocacy and precious perspective. No mere presidential history, the battles chronicled here transcend politics as usual, bitter partisan campaigns whose roots Blumenthal forcefully argues extend beneath lingering class and generational resentments into the darkest heart of America's Southern racist past. Hillary Clinton's accusations of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" garnered cynical chuckles in its heyday; Blumenthal (whose own teasing White House nickname was "Grassy Knoll") merely cuts its treachery down to size, documenting the usual suspects, dates, and places with amply footnoted vengeance. There's irony to burn, from unexpected early Clinton supporters (former GOP standard bearer Barry Goldwater) and the blatant moral hypocrisy of his Congressional accusers to the Supreme Court's sole dissenting voice in arguments to reinstate the Special Prosecutor statute, Justice Scalia (who presciently warned it could easily become the tool of political witch hunts), and the heretical notion that the Clintons may have been the least cynical players in the entire drama; they certainly seem it's most tragically human. It's hardly surprising that much of the Washington news establishment has attacked Blumenthal's tome with equal ferocity; in Blumenthal's telling, the D.C. press corps that zealously safeguarded democracy during Watergate had by the advent of Clinton devolved into an insular faux aristocracy resentful of perceived carpetbaggers (especially from Arkansas) and suckers for any politically-motivated leak, rumor, or innuendo that might give them a leg up on the competition. The media's inept handling of the story is even more ironic considering much of what Blumenthal does here derives from the simple advice Watergate informer "Deep Throat" gave reporters during that crisis: "Follow the money." --Jerry McCulley [via]
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Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U. S. Militaryby Randy ShiltsISBN 0449909174 (0-449-90917-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U. S. Military'Book summary:When Randy Shilts's Conduct Unbecoming was published in 1995, it was greeted as the major analysis of homosexuality and the U.S. military to date; this continues to be true. Shilts's collage of historical research, interviews, and U.S. military documents (both public and confidential) portrays in detail the vital role that gay men and lesbians have always played in the armed forces, and painstakingly--and painfully--exposes how homophobic and often irrational government policies have demonized them through lies, witch-hunts, and antigay purges. As he did in And the Band Played On, his documentary history of the AIDS epidemic, Shilts takes large issues and histories and renders them into readable, understandable narratives. In Conduct Unbecoming he has uncovered new information about homosexuality and the military and has woven it together in a seamless fashion that combines the personal and the political in such a vibrant way that the arguments for basic gay civil rights become irrefutable. Particularly interesting is the story of Dr. Tom Dooley, a gay man who became a folk-legend praised for his humanitarian and anticommunist work in the 1950s, while at the same time persecuted for his refusal to hide his homosexuality. Conduct Unbecoming is a milestone in gay history and social theory; compelling, readable, and always illuminating, it is invaluable in understanding contemporary gay and lesbian politics and culture. --Michael Bronski [via]
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Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians V. the Supreme Courtby Deb Price, Joyce MurdochISBN 046501514X (0-465-01514-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians V. the Supreme Court'Book summary:If this meticulously documented and compellingly narrated chronicle of the gay-related cases before the nation's highest court over the past fifty-odd years were even half as good as it is--or, ideally, half as long--it would still be terrific. Lending heft to the notion that the couple that investigates together domesticates together, veteran D.C. journalists Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price, life partners since 1985, have composed the gay bookend to Bob Woodward's The Brethren--with all the epic sweep, painstaking research and intimate storytelling of such nonfiction classics as And the Band Played On and Common Ground. Two cases here provide the book's anchors: 1986's Bowers v. Hardwick, which upheld Georgia's law against homosexual sodomy and provided an astonishingly hostile climax to two decades of high-court homophobia, and 1992's ruling that found unconstitutional Colorado's ban on equal protection of any sort for gays--the Court's greatest and most respectful affirmation of gay rights, if not much of a promise that the court would rule with equal sensitivity on future gay-related cases.
Beyond those two seminal rulings, Murdoch and Price cover what seems like, and may well be, every gay-oriented case to so much as petition the Court since the Eisenhower years. That comprehensiveness can become a little exhausting, amounting as it does largely to a dispiriting archive of the myriad ways the Court has found of blithely dismissing or even scoffing at the basic rights of gay Americans. Drawing on everything from scrawled notes in the justices' personal archives to in-depth interviews with the justices' former clerks, Murdoch and Price provide a fascinating window into how each justice's individual experience and temperament--not to mention the intricate, ever shifting power plays among them--influenced his or her decisions. The most heart-wrenching, haunting portrait is of Justice Lewis Powell, by the 1980s an frail, aging Southern gentleman who had an uncanny knack for hiring gay clerks yet claimed he'd never met a homosexual. He made a valiant but failed effort to understand gays, and ultimately changed his mind at the last minute to cast the damning, deciding vote in Bowers--an about-face he fretted over up until his death. Rehnquist and Scalia clearly emerge here as the homophobic bullies, with Thomas as their silent yes man, O'Connor as spinelessly concerned with voting in the majority, and Ginsburg, Stevens, Souter and sometimes Kennedy as the usual pro-gay "count-on" votes. Undeniably, Brennan, Marshall, and Blackmun (who wrote Bowers's stirring dissent) are portrayed as the heroes on the bench.
But the real heroes here are in the pageant of gay men and lesbians who took their demands for justice to the nation's highest court, many in an era when it was considered absurd to think they had any rights at all in an America that saw them as child molesters, psychopaths, or--at best--pitifully "afflicted with homosexuality." Very few of them were vindicated, and many more lost nearly everything--their jobs, homes, income, privacy, reputation, and sometimes children--for the fight they waged. Their diversely fascinating stories are told here, in a volume whose ultimate triumph is the emotional punch it packs. I kept thinking of Dorothy and her friends petitioning the Wizard: Their firm belief that he would do right by them, their fear and awe before his mysterious majesty, their rage and grief when he welshed on his promise, and, finally, their astonishment to learn that the great and mighty Oz, who had the last say in the highest tribunal in the land, was really just a man, with the same capacity for both ignorance and enlightenment as the rest of us. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 046000476X (0-460-00476-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Governmentby James MoroneISBN 0465016030 (0-465-01603-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of Governmentby James A. MoroneISBN 0465016022 (0-465-01602-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Winby Elaine ShannonISBN 0451822072 (0-451-82207-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Disraeli, Portrait of a Romanticby David ButlerISBN 0446857769 (0-446-85776-9)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc
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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of Americaby Thomas FlemingISBN 0465017371 (0-465-01737-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America'Book summary:To judge by many standard histories, the revolutionary founders of the United States came equipped with wings and haloes. They were anything but saintly, however; their behavior, public and private, was often scandalous. One of the most outrageous men of the day was Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist leader and architect of the American banking and judiciary systems, whose amorous exploits and political maneuverings alike were the stuff of legend. Tangled in a succession of failed business ventures and personal intrigues, and convinced that the might of the United States should not be hampered by such inconveniences as checks and balances, Hamilton fell afoul of just about everyone he encountered in his quest for influence and wealth.
To his eventual misfortune, one of those he crossed was Thomas Jefferson's vice president, Aaron Burr. Many histories of their tangled relationship personalize their differences, and, to be sure, they disliked each other with splendid fervor. Thomas Fleming's contribution to the often-told tale is to ground the Hamilton-Burr rivalry in the politics of the day--a politics complicated by many contending ideological factions, powerful interest groups, and lobbyists. Writing with vigor and clarity, Fleming points to the clay feet on which Hamilton and Burr marched to their sad destiny, and he crafts an exceptionally interesting portrait of the early Republic. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Emileby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, P.D. JimackISBN 0460873806 (0-460-87380-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile'Book summary:This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library. [via]
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Emile or Educationby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0460015184 (0-460-01518-4)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile or Education'Book summary:This philosophical romance called by Lord Morley 'one of the seminal books' and by others 'the child's charter,' has a new introduction by Andre Coutet de Monvel, Professor of French Literature, Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni. The work 'has been the inspirational source of every great educational reformer since the eighteenth century,' says Proffesor Boutet de Monvel but its influence has extended far beyond the confines of education, and its effect upon the ideas of several generations has covered a much wider sphere. Emile became indeed one of the major textbooks of the French Evolution and of European Romanticism, and Mirabeau ranked it among the masterpieces of the age. [via]
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Gibbon's the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby M. HadasISBN 0449300560 (0-449-30056-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gibbon's the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:"Its theme is the most overwhelming phenomenon in recorded history -- the disintegration not of a nation, but of an old and rich and apparently indestructible civilization." --Moses Hadas, editor. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0451527321 (0-451-52732-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Swifts complex references and vocabulary. First published anonymously in 1727, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels created a storm of criticismfrom those who believed the stories to be true and knew exactly who Lemuel Gulliver was, to those who demanded that the writer of the seditious tales be hunted down and executed for high treason. Even today, Swifts vitriolic attacks on politics, culture, and human nature itself have earned him the reputation of a crazed misanthrope. Swift, through his hero, consistently rails against political whims, human follies, and the bestial behaviors of the human race: In Lilliput, Gulliver is twelve times the size of the European-like natives. In Brobdingnag, he is one-twelfth the size of the primitive but moral inhabitants. In Laputa, buildings collapse and clothing does not fit, although constructed by the most modern and reasonable means. Finally, in the land of the horse-like Houyhnhnms Gulliver realizes that he and his race are nothing but a brood of Yahoos. [via]
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Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0451511697 (0-451-51169-7)
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In Search of Historyby Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 0446346578 (0-446-34657-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabiaby Carmen Bin LadinISBN 0446577081 (0-446-57708-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabiaby Ruth Marshall, Carmen Bin LadinISBN 0446694886 (0-446-69488-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nationby Sandra MacKeyISBN 0452275636 (0-452-27563-6)
Softcover, Plume
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J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secretsby Curt GentryISBN 0452269040 (0-452-26904-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Letters from an American Farmerby J. H. De CrevecoeurISBN 0460016407 (0-460-01640-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from an American Farmer'Book summary:Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and issues of identity, the Letters celebrates personal determination, freedom from institutional oppression and the largeness and fertility of the land, and also raises darker and more symbolic elements, particularly slavery. This is the only critical edition available of what is regarded as the first ever work of American literature. [via]
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Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas HardyISBN 0451525191 (0-451-52519-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides and puts him on the trail ofa cop-killer whose victims are selected all to carefully. Not only that, but they all leave suicide notes drawn from the poems of writer Edgar Allan Poe in their wake. More frightening still the killer appears to know that Jack is getting nearer and nearer. An investigation that looks like being the story of alifetime, might be Jack's ticket to a lonely end. [via]
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The Life of Samuel Johnsonby James BoswellISBN 0460000012 (0-460-00001-2)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Jay Parini, John SutherlandISBN 0451527356 (0-451-52735-6)
Softcover, Signet
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Murder in Georgetownby Margaret TrumanISBN 0449213323 (0-449-21332-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in Georgetown'Book summary:"The oil of inside knowledge lubricates the asembled whole into a smooth-running, fast-moving narrative." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Beautiful twenty-year old Valerie Frolich, a Senator's daughter, is killed at a posh Georgetown party. And when Joe Potamos, of the Washington Post's police beat, is assigned to report the murder, he finds out a number of things about Valerie which lead him to a number of startling questions about Georgetown's most powerful men and women--questions whose answers have the power of life or death.... [via]
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Murder in the CIAby Margaret TrumanISBN 0449212750 (0-449-21275-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Murder in the Supreme Courtby Margaret TrumanISBN 0449209695 (0-449-20969-5)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Nikolai Gogol's Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0451525205 (0-451-52520-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand 0003195542by Leonard PeikoffISBN 0452011019 (0-452-01101-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Oedipus Plays of Sophoclesby Paul RocheISBN 0451628470 (0-451-62847-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, Paul RocheISBN 0452011671 (0-452-01167-1)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone'Book summary:Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down from wealth and power by pride, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder. [via]
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0451527097 (0-451-52709-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Ralph Parker, Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0451523105 (0-451-52310-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hallby William L. Riordon, George Washington PlunkittISBN 0451526201 (0-451-52620-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plunkitt of Tammany Hall'Book summary:This classic work offers the unblushing, unvarnished wit and wisdom of one of the most fascinating figures ever to play the American political game and win. George Washington Plunkitt rose from impoverished beginnings to become ward boss of the Fifteenth Assembly District in New York, a key player in the powerhouse political team of Tammany Hall, and a millionaire.[via]
In a series of utterly frank talks given at his headquarters at Grazianos bootblack stand inside the New York County Court House, he revealed to a sharp-eared and sympathetic reporter named William L. Riordon the secrets of political success as practiced and perfected by Tammany Hall titans.
The result is not only a volume that reveals more about our political system than does a shelf load of civics textbooks, but also an irresistible portrait of a man who would feel happily at home playing ball with todays lobbyists and kingmakers, trading votes for political and financial favors.
Doing for twentieth-century America what Machiavelli did for Renaissance Italy, and as entertaining as it is instructive, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall is essential reading for those who prefer twenty-twenty vision to rose-colored glasses in viewing how our government works and why.
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The Politics of Energy: The Development and Implementation of the NEPby G. Bruce Doern, Glen B. TonerISBN 0458989207 (0-458-98920-7)
Softcover, Methuen
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Ronnie And Nancy: The Long Climb, 1911 To 1980by Bob ColacelloISBN 044653272X (0-446-53272-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Sayings of Confuciusby James WareISBN 0451627636 (0-451-62763-6)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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Smart About the Presidentsby Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Susan Schade, Dana Regan, Joan Holub, Jill Weber, Jon BullerISBN 0448433729 (0-448-43372-9)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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The Spectatorby Joseph AddisonISBN 0460001647 (0-460-00164-7)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Spousal Equivalent Handbook: A Legal and Financial Guide to Living Togetherby Johnette Duff, George G. TruittISBN 0452268907 (0-452-26890-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Starship Troopersby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0450025764 (0-450-02576-4)
Hardcover, New English Library
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The Sword and the Shieldby Christopher Andrew, Vasill MitrohhinISBN 0465003125 (0-465-00312-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sword and the Shield'Book summary:In early 1992, a Russian man walked into the British embassy in a newly independent Baltic republic and asked to "speak to someone in authority." As he sipped his first cup of proper English tea, he handed over a small file of notes. Eight months later, the man, his family, and his enormous archive had been safely exfiltrated to Britain. When news that a KGB officer had defected with the names of hundreds of undercover agents leaked out in 1996, a spokesperson for the SVR (Russia's foreign intelligence service, heir of the KGB) said, "Hundreds of people! That just doesn't happen! Any defector could get the name of one, two, perhaps three agents--but not hundreds!"
Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin worked as chief archivist for the FCD, the foreign-intelligence arm of the KGB. Mitrokhin was responsible for checking and sealing approximately 300,000 files, allowing him unrestricted access to one of the world's most closely guarded archives. He had lost faith in the Soviet system over the years, and was especially disturbed by the KGB's systematic silencing of dissidents at home and abroad. Faced with tough choices--stay silent, resign, or undermine the system from within--Mitrokhin decided to compile a record of the foreign operations of the KGB. Every day for 12 years, he smuggled notes out of the archive. He started by hiding scraps of paper covered with miniscule handwriting in his shoes, but later wrote notes on ordinary office paper, which he took home in his pockets. He hid the notes under his mattress, and on weekends took them to his dacha, where he typed them and hid them in containers buried under the floor. When he escaped to Britain, his archive contained tens of thousands of pages of notes.
In 1995, Mitrokhin, by then a British citizen, contacted Christopher Andrew (For the President's Eyes Only), head of the faculty of history at Cambridge University and one of the world's foremost historians of international intelligence. Andrew was allowed to examine the archive Mitrokhin created "to ensure that the truth was not forgotten, that posterity might some day come to know of it." The Sword and the Shield is the earthshaking result. The book details the KGB's foreign-intelligence operations, most notably those aimed at Great Britain and the "Main Adversary"--the United States. In the 700-page book, Andrew reveals operations aimed at discrediting high-profile Americans, from Martin Luther King to Ronald Reagan; secret arms caches still hidden--and boobytrapped--throughout the West; disinformation efforts, including forging a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald in an attempt to implicate the CIA in the assassination of JFK; attempts to stir up racial tensions in the U.S. by sending hate mail and even bombs; and the existence of deep-cover agents in North America and Europe--some of whom were effectively "outed" when the book was published.
Mitrokhin's detailed notes are well served by Andrew, who writes forcefully and clearly. The Sword and the Shield represents a remarkable intelligence coup--one that will have serious repercussions for years to come. As Andrew notes, "No one who spied for the Soviet Union at any period between the October Revolution and the eve of the Gorbachev era can now be confident that his or her secrets are still secure." --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGBby Christopher M. Andrew, Vasili MitrokhinISBN 0465003109 (0-465-00310-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB'Book summary:In early 1992, a Russian man walked into the British embassy in a newly independent Baltic republic and asked to "speak to someone in authority." As he sipped his first cup of proper English tea, he handed over a small file of notes. Eight months later, the man, his family, and his enormous archive had been safely exfiltrated to Britain. When news that a KGB officer had defected with the names of hundreds of undercover agents leaked out in 1996, a spokesperson for the SVR (Russia's foreign intelligence service, heir of the KGB) said, "Hundreds of people! That just doesn't happen! Any defector could get the name of one, two, perhaps three agents--but not hundreds!"
Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin worked as chief archivist for the FCD, the foreign-intelligence arm of the KGB. Mitrokhin was responsible for checking and sealing approximately 300,000 files, allowing him unrestricted access to one of the world's most closely guarded archives. He had lost faith in the Soviet system over the years, and was especially disturbed by the KGB's systematic silencing of dissidents at home and abroad. Faced with tough choices--stay silent, resign, or undermine the system from within--Mitrokhin decided to compile a record of the foreign operations of the KGB. Every day for 12 years, he smuggled notes out of the archive. He started by hiding scraps of paper covered with miniscule handwriting in his shoes, but later wrote notes on ordinary office paper, which he took home in his pockets. He hid the notes under his mattress, and on weekends took them to his dacha, where he typed them and hid them in containers buried under the floor. When he escaped to Britain, his archive contained tens of thousands of pages of notes.
In 1995, Mitrokhin, by then a British citizen, contacted Christopher Andrew (For the President's Eyes Only), head of the faculty of history at Cambridge University and one of the world's foremost historians of international intelligence. Andrew was allowed to examine the archive Mitrokhin created "to ensure that the truth was not forgotten, that posterity might some day come to know of it." The Sword and the Shield is the earthshaking result. The book details the KGB's foreign-intelligence operations, most notably those aimed at Great Britain and the "Main Adversary"--the United States. In the 700-page book, Andrew reveals operations aimed at discrediting high-profile Americans, from Martin Luther King to Ronald Reagan; secret arms caches still hidden--and boobytrapped--throughout the West; disinformation efforts, including forging a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald in an attempt to implicate the CIA in the assassination of JFK; attempts to stir up racial tensions in the U.S. by sending hate mail and even bombs; and the existence of deep-cover agents in North America and Europe--some of whom were effectively "outed" when the book was published.
Mitrokhin's detailed notes are well served by Andrew, who writes forcefully and clearly. The Sword and the Shield represents a remarkable intelligence coup--one that will have serious repercussions for years to come. As Andrew notes, "No one who spied for the Soviet Union at any period between the October Revolution and the eve of the Gorbachev era can now be confident that his or her secrets are still secure." --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Backby Jim HightowerISBN 0452285658 (0-452-28565-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Back'Book summary:Author, populist, and radio commentator Jim Hightower is nothing if not direct. In Thieves in High Places, Hightower lambastes the current American power structure and exhorts his readers to fight against it. Hightower's indignation runs deep in this "us versus them" exposé of corporate malfeasance, governmental abuse, the militarization of American society, and the Bush administration's empire building. In the first part of the book, Hightower illustrates how the Bush administration and Congress work with major corporations (including our nation's vast media conglomerates) to add to their obscene wealth at the expense of America's working class, our environment, and (most lamentably) our rights and liberties. "The elites have pulled off a slow-motion coup, radically wrenching America's power balance from a people's democracy to Kleptocrat Nation."
Hightower defines "Kleptocrat Nation" as "a body of people ruled by thieves...a government characterized by the practice of transferring money and power from the many to the few...[and] a ruling class of moneyed elites that usurps liberty, justice, sovereignty, and other, democratic rights from the people." His catalogue of corporate greed and governmental complicity is breathtaking in scope, and though he admits that the fusion of business and government is not new, he persuasively states that "never have so few done so much for so few." Unfortunately, Hightower's serious message is delivered in such a "down home" style, it may lose its impact on the more brainy among us. Also, one wishes there were more documentation for the copious examples and facts in the book. Still, Hightower's call to action is sincere, and his descriptions of the triumphs of average people over corporate power might give some fledgling activists some hope. Thieves in High Places urges Americans to reclaim control of our government--Hightower thinks we can with community organization and grass-roots movements. However, judging from his description of the current power structure, we are going to need all the help we can get. -- Silvana Tropea [via]More editions of Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Back:
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Barbara Rosen, William RosenISBN 0451526899 (0-451-52689-9)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Up Countryby Nelson DemilleISBN 0446611913 (0-446-61191-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up Country'Book summary:In Up Country, Nelson DeMille cannily revives the army career of Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, the cynical, hardworking Criminal Investigation Division man who was forcibly retired after solving the high-profile killing in The General's Daughter. Brenner's called back to investigate the murder of a young army lieutenant by his captain. The catch is, the crime took place during the heat of the Tet Offensive, and the only living witness was a North Vietnamese soldier who described the incident in a 30-year-old letter that has only recently come to light. Soon Brenner, a Vietnam vet, is on an ostensible nostalgia tour of his old stomping grounds. The trip immediately turns dangerous as he heads "up country" to search for the letter writer, accompanied by a gorgeous American businesswoman, who's hiding more than even the smartest CID officer could imagine.
DeMille, who saw his own tour of duty in Vietnam (and even found a letter on a dead Vietnamese soldier), intersperses historical facts and chilling political possibilities with enough local color to provide some serious flashbacks for his fellow veterans. To non-vets the book may seem very long, but the payoff at the end is worth a couple hundred extra pages. --Barrie Trinkle [via]
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The Vaudevillesby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ann DunniganISBN 0451522702 (0-451-52270-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vaudevilles'Book summary:Newly repackaged, here are the five masterpieces by one of the world's greatest playwrights, in translation by Ann Dunnigan. As Robert Brustein declares in the foreword to this edition: "in the modern theater...there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role." [via]
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjectsby Mary Wollstonecraft, Ashley TauchertISBN 0460876155 (0-460-87615-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects'Book summary:This is Mary Wollstonecraft's most famous work. While she does not seek to undermine the family, she argues strongly for a woman's right to enter any sphere of activity she chooses, affirming a woman's right to fulfilment as a human and not merely as a sexual being. This was a view inevitably limited by the age in which she wrote, and this edition incorporates as appendices writings by contemporary philosophers such as Rousseau, Locke and Kant, thereby placing Wollstonecraft's thinking in context. [via]
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Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widowby Kristen BreitweiserISBN 0446579327 (0-446-57932-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Washington: The Indispensable Manby James Thomas FlexnerISBN 0451628381 (0-451-62838-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Washington: The Indispensable Man'Book summary:'The Washington on these pages is no marble statue or picture on a dollar bill. He is a youth forced to earn his way in the wilderness to gain entry to a world of privilege. A young war hero secretly brooding over the costly error of his inexperience. A great and complex man is described in this biography.' [via]
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What Liberal Media: The Truth About Bias and the Newsby Eric AltermanISBN 0465001777 (0-465-00177-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News'Book summary:The incredulity begins with the title What Liberal Media?, journalist Eric Alterman's refutation of widely flung charges of left-wing bias, and never lets up. The book is unlikely to make many friends among conservative media talking heads. Alterman picks apart charges made by Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Sean Hannity, and others (even the subtitle refers to a popular book by former CBS producer Bernard Goldberg that argues a lefty slant in news coverage). But the perspectives of less-incendiary figures, including David Broder and Howard Kurtz, are also dissected in Alterman's quest to prove that not only do the media lack a liberal slant but that quite the opposite is true. Much of Alterman's argument comes down to this: the conservatives in the newspapers, television, talk radio, and the Republican party are lying about liberal bias and repeating the same lies long enough that they've taken on a patina of truth. Further, the perception of such a bias has cowed many media outlets into presenting more conservative opinions to counterbalance a bias, which does not, in fact, exist, says Alterman. In methodically shooting down conservative charges, Alterman employs extensive endnotes, all of which are referenced with superscript numbers throughout the body of the book. Those little numbers seem to say, "Look, I've done my homework." What Liberal Media? is a book very much of 2003 and will likely lose some relevance as political powers and media arrangements evolve. But it's likely to be a tonic for anyone who has suspected that in a media environment overflowing with conservatives, the charges of bias are hard to swallow. For liberals hoping someone will take off the gloves and mix it up with the verbal brawlers of the right, Eric Alterman is a champion. --John Moe [via]
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What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answersby Richard BrookhiserISBN 0465008194 (0-465-00819-4)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers'Book summary:Why do Americans care so much about the Founding Fathers? After all, the French don't ask themselves, "What would Napoleon do?" But Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Adams built our country, wrote our user's manuals--the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution--and ran the nation while it was still under warranty and could be returned to the manufacturer. If anyone knows how the U.S.A. should work, they did and they still do. Richard Brookhiser has been writing, talking, and thinking about the Founders for years. Now he channels them. What would Hamilton think about free trade? What would Franklin make of the national obsession with values? What would Washington say about gays in the military? Examining a host of issues from terrorism to women's rights to gun control, Brookhiser reveals why we still turn to the Founders in moments of struggle, farce, or disaster--just as Lincoln, FDR, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bill Clinton have done before us. Written with Brookhiser's trademark eloquence--and a good dose of wit--while drawing on his deep knowledge of American history, What Would the Founders Do? sheds new light on the disagreements and debates that have shaped our country from the beginning. Brookhiser challenges us to think and act with the clarity that the Founders brought to the task of making a democratic country. Now, more than ever, we need these creators of America--argumentative, expansive, funny know-it-alls--to help us solve the issues that threaten to divide us.[via]More editions of What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers:
While Reagan Sleptby Art BuchwaldISBN 0449127621 (0-449-12762-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Why Marriage?: The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equalityby George ChaunceyISBN 0465009581 (0-465-00958-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Woman Hatingby Andrea DworkinISBN 0452268273 (0-452-26827-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Zero Gameby Brad MeltzerISBN 0446612111 (0-446-61211-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Zero Game'Book summary:The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Wash-ington, D.C., with the story of an insider's game that turns deadly. Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they're bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine Zero Game. It starts out as good fun-a simple wager between friends. But when someone close to them ends up dead, Harris and Matthew realize the game is far more sinister than they ever imagined-and that they're about to be the game's next victims. On the run, they turn to the only person they can trust: a 16-year-old Senate page who can move around the Capitol undetected. As a ruthless killer creeps closer, this idealistic page not only holds the key to saving their lives, but is also determined to redeem them in the process. Come play The Zero Game-you can bet your life on it. [via]
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