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Addicted To War: Why The U.s. Can't Kick Militarismby Joel AndreasISBN 1904859011 (1-904859-01-1)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Addicted To War: Why The U.s. Can't Kick Militarism'Book summary:Addicted to War takes on the most active, powerful, and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented, and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read Addicted to War to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays-and who dies.
"Political comics at its best."-Michael Parenti
Joel Andreas wrote and illustrated The Incredible Rocky, a satire that introduced more than 100,000 people to the unsavory activities of the Rockefeller family. In between drawing illustrated exposes, he investigates the trajectory and fate of the Chinese Revolution.
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The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.by Richard HofstadterISBN 1597400580 (1-59740-058-0)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.'Book summary:This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. [via]More editions of The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.:
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Al-qaeda: A True Story Of Radical Islamby Jason BurkeISBN 1850436665 (1-85043-666-5)
Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Al-qaeda: A True Story Of Radical Islam'Book summary:Award-winning reporter Jason Burke shows how the threat from Islamic terrorism comes not from a single criminal mastermind, or even from one group. In this revealing account, he characterizes it is a broad movement with profound roots in the politics, societies and history of the Islamic world. Using hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Burke shows how "Al-Qaeda" is a convenient label applied misleadingly to a diverse, disorganized global movement dedicated to fighting a "cosmic battle" with the West. This is the definitive account of the mysterious organization, retelling its story from scratch and challenging many myths that threaten the very foundations of the "War on Terror."[via]More editions of Al-qaeda: A True Story Of Radical Islam:
Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terrorby Jason BurkeISBN 1850433968 (1-85043-396-8)
Hardcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd
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Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bushby Frank BruniISBN 0060937823 (0-06-093782-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956-1980by Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 0060390077 (0-06-039007-7)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Animal Liberationby Peter SingerISBN 0060011572 (0-06-001157-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Liberation'Book summary:The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past.
In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory forms" and product-testing procedures -- offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, Animal Liberation is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.
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An Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments With Truthby M.K. GandhiISBN 8172290810 (81-7229-081-0)
Hardcover, South Asia Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments With Truth'Book summary:Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians, instituting his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915 he returned to British-controlled India, bringing to a country in the throes of independence his commitment to non-violent change, and his belief always in the power of truth. Under Gandhi's lead, millions of protesters would engage in mass campaigns of civil disobedience, seeking change through ahimsa or non-violence. For Gandhi, the long path towards Indian independence would lead to imprisonment and hardship, yet he never once forgot the principles of truth and non-violence so dear to him. Written in the 1920s, Gandhi's autobiography tells of his struggles and his inspirations; a powerful and enduring statement of an extraordinary life. [via]
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Black Rednecks And White Liberalsby Thomas SowellISBN 1594031436 (1-59403-143-6)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060898526 (0-06-089852-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World Revisited'Book summary:When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.
Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.
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The Bush - Haters Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Yearsby Jack HubermanISBN 1560255692 (1-56025-569-2)
Softcover, Nation Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bush - Haters Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years'Book summary:The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record from a liberal perspective, or those who want to arm themselves with talking points, facts, and figures for debates with conservatives, and at those seeking the perfect holiday gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their livesor for a Bush-lover they hope to rescue from the outer darkness. Summarizing, detailing, and bewailing all of the more important Bush administration outrages, and some of the more trivial ones, this book is the brainchild of Jack Huberman, a former Canadian who took up U.S. citizenship just so he could vote against Dubya in 2000. Topics range from abortion, AIDS, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and Ashcroft, to women and workplace safety. Other major topics include budget and taxes, civil liberties, death penalty, defense spending, education, environment, gun control, health care, homeland security, Iraq, judicial nominations, "nucular" weapons, patients' rights, privacy, public land, September 11 and the war on terror, and social security. In between are a variety of smaller topics, such as Bush's language abilities (featuring a selection of priceless Bushisms). The pages are also enlivened by sidebars, "boxed" lists, and political cartoons.[via]More editions of The Bush - Haters Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years:
The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers--And What They Expect in Returnby Charles LewisISBN 0060548533 (0-06-054853-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Case Against Hillary Clintonby Peggy NoonanISBN 0060393408 (0-06-039340-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Chomsky On Anarchismby Noam Chomsky, Barry PatemanISBN 1904859208 (1-904859-20-8)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1406501778 (1-4065-0177-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civil Disobedience'Book summary:One of the most important texts of American political thought, Civil Disobediance eloquently states a position that has influenced the thinking of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and many figures of the protests in the 1960s against the Vietnam War. Thoreau argues that "the progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual." "There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."[via]
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Civil Disobedience And Other Essays the Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1420925229 (1-4209-2522-9)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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Civilising Global Capital: New Thinking for Australian Laborby Mark LathamISBN 1864486686 (1-86448-668-6)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Backby Andrew SullivanISBN 0060188774 (0-06-018877-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Waveby Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler, Newt GingrichISBN 1570362238 (1-57036-223-8)
Softcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave'Book summary:Publisher: Turner Publishing, Incorporated Publication date: 2/15/1995 Edition description: 1st ed Edition number: 1 Pages: 112 Product dimensions: 5.52 (w) x 8.23 (h) x 0.38 (d) [via]
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Deception Pointby Dan BrownISBN 1416524800 (1-4165-2480-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deception Point'Book summary:Penzler Pick, December 2001: In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book, Digital Fortress, almost passed me by, he wrote Angels and Demons, which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting, believable, and just plain unputdownable.
The time is now and President Zachary Herney is facing a very tough reelection. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a powerful man with powerful friends and a mission: to reduce NASA's spending and move space exploration into the private sector. He has numerous supporters, including many beyond the businesses who will profit from this because of the embarrassment of 1996, when the Clinton administration was informed by NASA that proof existed of life on other planets. That information turned out to be premature, if not incorrect. (This story is true; I repeat, Dan Brown's research is very, very good.) The embattled president is assured that a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice will prove to have far-reaching implications on America's space program. The find, however, needs to be verified.
Enter Rachel Sexton, a gister for the National Reconnaissance Office. Gisters reduce complex reports into single-page briefs, and in this case the president needs that confirmation before he broadcasts to the nation, probably ensuring his reelection. It's tricky because Rachel is the daughter of his opponent. Rachel is thrilled to be on the team traveling to the Arctic circle. She is a realist about her father's politics and has little respect for his stand on NASA, but Senator Sexton cannot help but have a problem with her involvement.
Adventure, romance, murder, skullduggery, and nail-biting tension ensue. By the end of Deception Point, the reader will be much better informed about how our space program works and how our politicians react to new information. Bring on the next Dan Brown thriller! --Otto Penzler [via]
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Discours Sur L'Origine Et Les Fondements De L'Inegalite Parmi Les Hommesby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 2070325415 (2-07-032541-5)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discours Sur L'Origine Et Les Fondements De L'Inegalite Parmi Les Hommes'Book summary:Qu'y a-t-il de naturel en l'homme ? Jean-Jacques Rousseau, dans son Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, publié en 1755, imagine l'humanité dans sa condition primitive, à une époque où elle ne vivait encore que d'après sa constitution première. Le tableau qu'il dresse de cet état de nature originel fait ressortir l'existence de différences physiques mais d'aucune distribution inégale de droits entre les hommes. C'est l'institution sociale et l'invention du droit qui fera naître les inégalités. Rousseau nous raconte l'enchaînement des circonstances qui dut conduire le genre humain à s'éloigner de son heureuse condition originelle et à devoir recourir à l'autorité d'un État pour sauvegarder la vie et la liberté de chacun.
Au cours de l'histoire, l'homme se socialise, apprend à parler, à aimer ; il s'humanise en s'éloignant de sa première condition, simple, heureuse mais quasi animale. Une manière pour Rousseau de formuler la contradiction de la condition humaine : historique, insatisfaite, mais aussi hantée par le rêve de la nature et du bonheur.
Un texte d'une grande éloquence qui ne peut que toucher son lecteur. --Emilio Balturi [via]
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Discourse On Inequalityby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 1419116169 (1-4191-1616-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Early Writingsby Karl MarxISBN 0140445749 (0-14-044574-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Writings'Book summary:Marx was barely 25 when he produced this astonishing rich body of workincluding economic and Philosophical Manuscripts and On the Jewish Question.[via]More editions of Early Writings:
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Early Writings [of] Karl Marxby Karl MarxISBN 0140216685 (0-14-021668-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Ex Machina 3: Fact V. Fictionby Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, Tom FeisterISBN 1401209882 (1-4012-0988-2)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRSby Neal Boortz, John LinderISBN 0060875410 (0-06-087541-0)
Hardcover, Regan Books
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The Fire Next Timeby James BaldwinISBN 003055442X (0-03-055442-X)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fire Next Time'Book summary:It's shocking how little has changed between the races in this country since 1963, when James Baldwin published this coolly impassioned plea to "end the racial nightmare." The Fire Next Time--even the title is beautiful, resonant, and incendiary. "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" Baldwin demands, flicking aside the central race issue of his day and calling instead for full and shared acceptance of the fact that America is and always has been a multiracial society. Without this acceptance, he argues, the nation dooms itself to "sterility and decay" and to eventual destruction at the hands of the oppressed: "The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power, but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream."
Baldwin's seething insights and directives, so disturbing to the white liberals and black moderates of his day, have become the starting point for discussions of American race relations: that debasement and oppression of one people by another is "a recipe for murder"; that "color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality"; that whites can only truly liberate themselves when they liberate blacks, indeed when they "become black" symbolically and spiritually; that blacks and whites "deeply need each other here" in order for America to realize its identity as a nation.
Yet despite its edgy tone and the strong undercurrent of violence, The Fire Next Time is ultimately a hopeful and healing essay. Baldwin ranges far in these hundred pages--from a memoir of his abortive teenage religious awakening in Harlem (an interesting commentary on his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain) to a disturbing encounter with Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. But what binds it all together is the eloquence, intimacy, and controlled urgency of the voice. Baldwin clearly paid in sweat and shame for every word in this text. What's incredible is that he managed to keep his cool. --David Laskin [via]
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Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britainby Jeremy PaxmanISBN 0140156003 (0-14-015600-3)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Grundrisseby Karl MarxISBN 0060128283 (0-06-012828-3)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft)by Karl MarxISBN 0140216677 (0-14-021667-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft)'Book summary:Written during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work "Capital". Here, for the first time, Marx set out his own version of Hegel's dialectics and developed his mature views on labour, surplus value and profit, offering many fresh insights into alienation, automation and the dangers of capitalist society. Yet while the theories in "Grundrisse" make it a vital precursor to "Capital", it also provides invaluable descriptions of Marx's wider-ranging philosophy, making it a unique insight into his beliefs and hopes for the foundation of a communist state. [via]
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Gulag Archipelagoby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 006080503X (0-06-080503-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 an Experiment in Literby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060139110 (0-06-013911-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060007761 (0-06-000776-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation'Book summary:The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyns attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953. Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulags victims by Soviet authorities over four decades. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyns own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment.Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet press. Despite the intense interest in his fate that was shown in the West, he was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day.[via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation:
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Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Parts I-VIIby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060912804 (0-06-091280-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Parts I-VII:
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-IIby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 000262253X (0-00-262253-X)
Hardcover, Collins : Harvill Press
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II:
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The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1by Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060803320 (0-06-080332-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1'Book summary:The Soviet Union had the largest secret political prison system of its time, scattered into the most remote corners of Eastern Europe and Asia. When Solzhenitsyn came out, he told the stories of shattered lives in a shattered nation. [via]
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Hell in a Handbasket: Dispatches from the Country Formerly Known As Americaby Tom TomorrowISBN 1585424587 (1-58542-458-7)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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History of the Peloponnesian Warby ThucydidesISBN 1406809845 (1-4068-0984-5)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Thucydides recreates the often savage events of the war and brings to life its chief protagonists: Pericles, Nicias, Cleon, Alcibiades, and others. The first of the "scientific" historians, Thucydides makes use of documentary material and relies on eyewitness accounts; even where direct documentary evidence is lacking, his keen understanding of human nature helps him to uncover the truth of what actually happened. [via]More editions of History of the Peloponnesian War:
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Karl Marx Early Writingsby Karl MarxISBN 0070406715 (0-07-040671-5)
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The Line Of Beautyby Alan HollinghurstISBN 1582346100 (1-58234-610-0)
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Alan Hollinghurst's extraordinarily rich novel The Line of Beauty. has garnered a new level of acclaim for the author after winning the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Hollinghurst speaks about his work in our interview.More editions of The Line Of Beauty:
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Looking Backwardby Edward Bellamy, Alex MacdonaldISBN 1551114062 (1-55111-406-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward'Book summary:Set in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millennium. Addressing moral and material concerns of late nineteenth century industrial America through romantic narrative, Bellamy suggests a fictionalized society in which war, poverty, and malice do not exist.[via] -
Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 1404313834 (1-4043-1383-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward, 2000-1887'Book summary:"Looking Backward: 2000-1887" is considered to be one of the greatest and most widely read of the utopian novels. It is the story of a young gentleman from Boston who mysteriously wakes from a sleep of over a hundred years to find himself transplanted to a utopian futuristic world. This future world is one of prosperity, cooperation, and harmony. Edward Bellamy's classic novel inspired a rebirth of the utopian novel genre and has been an inspiration to the many forward-looking thinkers who have read it. [via]
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Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying Americaby Mark LevinISBN 1596980095 (1-59698-009-5)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovoby Noam ChomskyISBN 1567511767 (1-56751-176-7)
Softcover, Common Courage Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo'Book summary:Scarcely had the dust settled on NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia when prolific political commentator Noam Chomsky brought out The New Military Humanism, which raises incisive, unsettling questions about the motives of the United States and England--the two most vocal proponents of Operation Allied Forces--and the efficacy of their handiwork. Chomsky pulls together much damning evidence, including testimony from the military commander who led the attack, to demonstrate that the assault was not intended to bring an end to Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic's "ethnic cleansing" of the disputed territory in Kosovo; it seems very likely, in fact, that President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair knew full well that their actions would ultimately exacerbate the situation. Chomsky also points out that if the United States was genuinely concerned with ending the horrors of genocide, its continued financial and military support of repressive regimes in countries like Turkey and Indonesia is at the very least extremely puzzling. (The New Military Humanism was written and published before the international community decided in September 1999 to intervene in East Timor, which had been subject to Indonesian occupation for over 20 years.) Ultimately, Chomsky suggests, such contradictions exist because what the United States claims to be a "humanitarian" mission is--no matter how glowingly the mass media portrays it--nothing more than American muscle flexing. "The contempt of the world's leading power for the framework of world order," he concludes, "has become so extreme that there is little left to discuss." --Ron Hogan [via]
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Walden)by Henry David ThoreauISBN 1406809756 (1-4068-0975-6)
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On the Origin of Inequalityby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 1596055480 (1-59605-548-0)
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The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speechesby Brian MacArthurISBN 0140285008 (0-14-028500-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches'Book summary:Some men speak and change the world. Sometimes for better, often for worse. As Hitler rallied the Germans for war, and twenty years later - John Kennedy sounded the bugle for the new frontier, their visions, gilded and articulated by the power of their oratory, stirred men's hearts and summoned nations to action. 'History will absolve me, ' declared Fidel Castro. 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country, ' said Kennedy. 'I have a dream, ' announced Martin Luther King. 'It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die, ' said Nelson Mandela. Few who were born during the Second World War and who came of age in the sixties will ever forget Kennedy's rousing exhortations or the cries for justice from King and Castro. Their words gave form to dreams and hope to men and women. There are those who claim that the age of oratory is over, that the ubiquitous 'soundbite' and our neglect of the classics and the Bible have destroyed it. Yet wherever misery and oppression exist, and while men and women uphold ideals, oratory still flourishes. Now, in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-century Speeches, Brian MacArthur has collected the great speeches which shaped this century - from Theodore Roosevelt's call to the 'strenuous life' in 1899 to Lyndon Johnson's summons to the Great Society in 1964; from Lloyd George's 'People's Budget' of 1909 to Geoffrey Howe's thrusting of the dagger into Margaret Thatcher in 1990; from Roger Casement in the dock in 1914 to Salman Rushdie in the dock in 1991; from Emmeline Pankhurst to Betty Friedan; from Mahatma Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru; and from Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky to Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn. There are presidents and prime ministers, soldiers and poets, dreamers and destroyers. The Penguin Book of Twentieth-century Speeches is the perfect source book for those engaged in making speeches themselves, for students and for anyone wishing to read precisely what was said during a half-remembered speech. Yet [via]
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The Portable Karl Marxby Eugene KamenkaISBN 014015096X (0-14-015096-X)
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Revolution For The Hell Of Itby Abbie Hoffman, Harvey Wasserman, Reverend BillyISBN 1560256907 (1-56025-690-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolution For The Hell Of It'Book summary:While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a guidebook for today's social and political activist. Hoffman pioneered the use of humor, theater, and shock value to drive home his points, and in Revolution for the Hell of It he gives firsthand accounts of his legendary adventures, from the activism that led to the founding of the Youth International Partyor "Yippies!to the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests ("a Perfect Mess") that resulted in his conviction as part of the Chicago Seven. Also chronicled are the mass demonstrations he led in which over fifty thousand people attempted to levitate the Pentagon using psychic energy, and the time he threw fistfuls of dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and watched the traders scramble. With antiwar sentiment once again in a furor and an incendiary political climate not seen since the book's original printing, Abbie Hoffman's voice is more essential than ever.[via]More editions of Revolution For The Hell Of It:
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reichby William ShirerISBN 1567311636 (1-56731-163-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'Book summary:It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known. William Shirer is one of the very few historians to have gained full access to the secret German archives which the Allies captured intact. He was also present at the Nuremberg trials. This is his authoritative historical account of the years 1933-45, when the Nazis, under the rule of their desporic leader Adolf Hitler, ruled Germany. They commandeered the Holocaust, one of the most shocking acts of evil in modern history, plunged the world into a second war, and changed the face of modern history and modern Europe forever. [via]
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938by Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas G. BrinkleyISBN 0140268316 (0-14-026831-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Saturdayby Ian McEwanISBN 1400076196 (1-4000-7619-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saturday'Book summary:In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement, follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne-a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children-plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him. [via]
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Servants of the Peopleby Andrew RawnsleyISBN 0140278508 (0-14-027850-8)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Silencing Political Dissentby Nancy Chang, Howard ZinnISBN 1583224947 (1-58322-494-7)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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The Spirit of Lawsby C. De MontisquieuISBN 1573929492 (1-57392-949-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spirit of Laws'Book summary:One of the most influential books of all time, this masterpiece of political philosophy was widely read throughout Europe, attracted an especially enthusiastic readership in England, and had a profound effect on the framers of the American Constitution. The scope of this masterful work is truly prodigious. Montesquieu explores the essentials of good government; compares and contrasts despotism, monarchy, and democracy; and discusses the factors that lead to corruption of governments. Among the many other topics considered are education of the citizenry, crime and punishment, abuse of power and of liberty, individual rights, taxation, slavery, the role of women, the influence of climate on the temper of a people and their form of government, commerce, religion, and a host of additional subjects. "The Spirit of Laws" is essential and genuinely enjoyable reading for anyone interested in the development of democracy. [via]
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The Spirit of Lawsby Charles De Secondat MontesquieuISBN 1584776072 (1-58477-607-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spirit of Laws'Book summary:Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de. The Spirit of Laws.
Translated from the French. With Corrections and Additions Communicated by the Author. Dublin: Printed for G. and A. Ewing and G. Faulkner, 1751. 2 Vols. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-607-9. ISBN-10: 1-58477-607-2. Cloth. $170.
* Reprint of the first Dublin edition which followed the first English edition by one year. One of the landmark works of the eighteenth century, De L'Esprit des Lois had an immeasurable influence on jurisprudence and political thought, especially in America. It contained provocative and wide-ranging ideas on the sociology of law, the separation of political powers and the need for checks on a powerful executive office. First published in Geneva in 1748, it remains one of the most significant studies of political and legal theory ever written. [via]More editions of The Spirit of Laws:
Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing Worldby Margaret ThatcherISBN 0060959126 (0-06-095912-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World'Book summary:Lady Thatcher, a unique figure in global politics, shares her views about the dangers and opportunities of the new millennium. In her own words: "I wanted to write one more book and I wanted it to be about the future. In this age of spin-doctors and soundbites, the ever present danger is that leaders will follow fashion and not their instincts and beliefs. That was not how the West won the Cold War, not how we created the basis for today's freedom and prosperity. If we wish to make our achievements secure for our children and grandchildren, the West must stay vigilant and strong. In this book it will be my purpose to show that it can - and must - be done." [via]
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Thank You for Smokingby Christopher BuckleyISBN 0060976624 (0-06-097662-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thank You for Smoking'Book summary:"Nick Naylor had been called many things since becoming chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies. But until now no one had actually compared him to Satan." They might as well have, though. "Gucci Goebbels," "yuppie Mephistopheles," and "death merchant" are just a few endearments Naylor has earned himself as the tobacco lobby's premier spin doctor. The hero of Thank You for Smoking does of course have his fans. His arguments against the neo-puritanical antismoking trends of the '90s have made him a repeat guest on Larry King, and the granddaddy of Winston-Salem wants him to be the anointed heir. Still, his newfound notoriety has unleashed a deluge of death threats.
Christopher Buckley's satirical gift shines in this hilarious look at the ironies of "personal freedom" and the unbearable smugness of political correctness. Bracing in its cynicism, Thank You for Smoking is a delightful meander off the beaten path of mainstream American ethics. And despite his hypertension-inducing, slander-splattered, morally bankrupt behavior--which leads one Larry King listener to describe him as "lower than whale crap"--you'll find yourself rooting for smoking's mass enabler. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeriaby Karl MaierISBN 1891620606 (1-891620-60-6)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White Houseby Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., David SobelISBN 1579124496 (1-57912-449-6)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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Under Fire: An American Storyby Oliver L. NorthISBN 0061090565 (0-06-109056-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomskyby Noam Chomsky, John SchoeffelISBN 1565847032 (1-56584-703-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky'Book summary:Understanding Power is a wide-ranging collection of transcribed and previously unpublished discussions and seminars (from 1989 to 1999) with sociopolitical analyst Noam Chomsky.
The chapters, each covering discrete sessions with Chomsky, arrive in a question-and-answer format that at times becomes delightfully contentious. Chomsky holds forth on such disparate topics as American third-party politics, the stifling of true dissent, the illusion of a muscular media, heavy-handed American imperialism (from Southeast Asia to Mexico), a dysfunctional and self-destructing United States political left, the gilding of the Kennedy and Carter administrations, and the impotent state of labor unions.
The relatively accessibility of Understanding Power is a welcome balance to Chomsky's often formidable scholarly writings. This is a book best taken in doses: a sort of bedside reader. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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Wild Swansby Jung ChangISBN 0002153572 (0-00-215357-2)
Hardcover, Harper Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Swans'Book summary:Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century China. At times scarcely credible in the details it reveals of the suffering of millions of ordinary Chinese people, it is an unforgettable record of tyranny, hope and ultimate survival under conditions of extreme harshness. In 1924, at the age of 15, the author's grandmother became the concubine of a powerful warlord, whom she was seldom to see during the 10 years of their "marriage". Her daughter, born in 1931, experienced the horrors of Japanese occupation in Manchuria as a schoolgirl, and after their surrender joined the Communist-led underground fighting Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang. She rose to be a senior Communist official, but was imprisoned three times. Her husband, also a high official and one of the very first to join the Communists, was relentlessly persecuted, imprisoned and finally sent to a labour camp where, physically broken and disillusioned, he lost his sanity. The author herself grew up during the Cultural Revolution, at the time of the personality cult of Mao and the worst excesses of the Gang of Four. She joined the Red Guard but after Mao's death she was to become one of the first Chinese students to study abroad. [via]
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Adicto A La Guerra: Por QuT El EEUU No Puede Librarse Del Militarismoby Joel AndreasISBN 190485902X (1-904859-02-X)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adicto A La Guerra: Por QuT El EEUU No Puede Librarse Del Militarismo'Book summary:[via]The first Spanish-language edition of the illustrated exposé of U.S. military policy, Addicted to War. Political comics at its best. Bitterly amusing, lively and richly informative. For people of all ages who want to understand the link between U.S. militarism, foreign policy and corporate greed at home and abroad. Michael Parenti
Addicted to War . . . shows that the current war dance by the Bush administration is just the latest in a long series of foreign adventures that cause more damage than reward for us as a country. This book is one of the best tools we could hope for in making a transition from the U.S. being an empire to being just one nation in a community of nations. Medea Benjamin and Kevin Danaher, co-founders of Global Exchange
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Autobiografia Mahatma Ghandi/ Mahatma Ghandi Auto Biographyby M GhandiISBN 8489897492 (84-89897-49-2)
Softcover, Arkano Books
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La Conspiracion / Deception Pointby Dan Brown, Alejandro PalomasISBN 8495618826 (84-95618-82-6)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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La rabia y el orgullo/ Rage and Prideby Oriana FallaciISBN 9500286823 (950-02-8682-3)
Softcover, El Ateneo Editorial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La rabia y el orgullo/ Rage and Pride'Book summary:Con esta obra Oriana Fallaci rompe un silencio de diez años, y lo hace tomando como punto de partida el apocalipsis que la mañana del 11 de septiembre de 2001, no muy lejos de su casa de Manhattan, desintegró las Torres Gemelas y redujo a cenizas a miles de personas. Precedido por el asombro que provocó la publicación parcial de su texto, días después de la terrible tragedia, el libro se presenta por fin en su versión íntegra y original y enriquecido con un dramático prólogo en el que Fallaci muestra por qué el terrorismo islámico no acaba con la derrota de los talibanes y describe la realidad global de la Guerra Santa. Un prólogo en el que, tomándonos por sorpresa, la escritora italiana habla también de sí misma: de su trabajo, su hermético aislamiento, y de sus elecciones rigurosas y despiadadas. Con su notable valentía, lanza acusaciones durísimas y dispara invectivas furibundas. Con brutal sinceridad expone las ideas, las pasiones y las reflexiones que, durante estos años de obstinado silencio, quiso callar. Es un libro que sacude las conciencias e incluso las perturba. Pero también es el retrato de un alma, de su alma. [via]
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La Rabbia E L'orgoglioby Oriana FallaciISBN 881786983X (88-17-86983-X)
Hardcover, Rizzoli
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Rabbia E L'orgoglio'Book summary:Con La Rabbia e lOrgoglio (2001), Oriana Fallaci rompe un silenzio durato dieci anni, dalla pubblicazione di Insciallah, epico romanzo sulla missione occidentale di pace nella Beirut dilaniata dallo scontro tra cristiani e musulmani e dalle faide con Israele. Dieci anni in cui la Fallaci sceglie di vivere ritirata nella sua casa newyorchese, come in esilio, a combattere il cancro. Ma non smette mai di lavorare al testo narrativo dedicato alla sua famiglia, quello che lei chiama il-miobambino , pubblicato postumo nel 2008, Un cappello pieno di ciliege.LUndici Settembre le impone di tornare con furia alla macchina da scrivere per dar voce a quelle idee che ha sempre coltivato nelle interviste, nei reportage, nei romanzi, ma che ha poi imprigionato dentro il cuore e dentro il cervello dicendosi tanto-la-gente-non-vuole-ascoltare . Il risultato è un articolo sul Corriere della Sera del 29 settembre 2001, un sermone lo definisce lei stessa, accolto con enorme clamore in Italia e allestero. Esce in forma di libro nella versione originaria e integrale, preceduto da una prefazione in cui la Fallaci affronta alle radici la questione del terrorismo islamico e parla di sé, del suo isolamento, delle sue scelte rigorose e spietate. La risposta è esplosiva, le polemiche feroci. Mentre i critici si dividono, ladesione dei lettori, in tutto il mondo, è unanime di fronte alla passione che anima queste pagine. La Rabbia e lOrgoglio, imprescindibile per capire i nostri tempi e quelli a venire, è pubblicato nella collana BUR delle Opere di Oriana Fallaci con la prefazione di Ferruccio de Bortoli che, direttore del Corriere nel 2001, chiese a Oriana larticolo sullabbattimento delle due Torri a Manhattan. In Appendice, due testi scritti dalla Fallaci a commento delle edizioni francese e americana. [via]
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