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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Metropolitan Books
May 8, 2001
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Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some goo...
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The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America
Bill O'Reilly
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Broadway
October 16, 2001
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The audience of Fox's top-rated cable news talk show The O'Reilly Factor and of the bestselling book by the same name know that this explosive anchor can be articulate, bombastic, scornful, witty, iconoclastic, passionate, persuasive and sarcastic ("Ca...
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Thomas L. Friedman
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Anchor
May 2, 2000
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One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Pale...
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Washington
Meg Greenfield
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PublicAffairs
April 24, 2001
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Meg Greenfield is one of the legends of Washington, D.C. For more than three decades as a columnist and editor, writes Katharine Graham in a loving foreword, "she helped create the institutional voice of the ...
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The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court
John W. Dean
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Free Press
September 26, 2001
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Garrett Epps The Washington Post Watergate buffs will find [The Rehnquist Choice] jolly nostalgic fun. -- Review...
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The Ten Things You Can't Say In America, Revised Edition
Larry Elder
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St. Martin's Griffin
September 4, 2001
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When Larry Elder talks, sparks fly, and he likes it that way. Fans of the radio talk-show host from Los Angeles, who call themselves Elderados, have dubbed him "the sage from South Central." His critics--and there are many--use names that range from Oreo t...
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Does America Need a Foreign Policy? : Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century
Henry Kissinger
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Simon & Schuster
June 14, 2001
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asks a question in the title of his book ...
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The Federalist Papers
John Jay
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Signet
August 1, 1999
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"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren ... should never be split into a number of unsocial, ...
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Germs : Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
Judith Miller
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Simon & Schuster
October 2, 2001
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Three reporters from The New York Times survey the recent history of biological weapons and sound an alarm about the coming threat of the "poor man's hydrogen bomb." Germs begins ominously enough, recounting the chilling attack by the followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in 1984 on the Dalles, ...
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Democracy in America
Alexis De Tocqueville
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University Of Chicago Press
November 1, 2000
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"[T]he best edition of the best book on America. . . far superior to the old editions." -- ...
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The Almanac of American Politics 2002
Michael Barone
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National Journal Group
November 26, 2002
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From The Washington Post
Indispensable this compendium of statistics and information has gone as far as humanly possible. ...
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Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow! Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History
Jeff Greenfield
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Putnam Adult
May 17, 2001
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From Publishers Weekly
Breezy, witty, urbane, sophisticated and erudite all describe Greenfield's "You Are There"-style chronicle of what it was like to be at the CNN anchor desk election eve 2000. He flawlessly matches laugh-out-loud humor with genuine insight into the factors ...
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Christopher Hitchens
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May 1, 2001
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Christopher Hitchens doesn't mince words when it comes to Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state and national-security advisor: Kissinger deserves vigorous prosecution "for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against com...
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Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
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Houghton Mifflin Company
January 17, 2001
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On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie...
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Empire
Michael Hardt
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Harvard University Press
September 15, 2001
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Empire is a sweeping book with a big-picture vision. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argue that while classical imperialism has largely disappeared, a new empire is emerging in a diffuse blend of technology, economics, and globalization. The book brings together unlikely bedfellows: Hardt, associate professor in Duke University's literature ...
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Power, Politics, and Culture: Edited and with an introduction by Gauri Viswanathan
Edward W. Said
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Pantheon
August 14, 2001
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"I'm the last Jewish intellectual.... The only true follower of Adorno. Let me put it this way: I'm a Jewish-Palestinian," says Said provocatively in a 2000 interview in the leading Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz. A pathbreaking intellectual and renowned poli...
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Free Agent Nation: How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live
Daniel H. Pink
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Warner Books
May 1, 2001
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Not all "free agents" are highly paid athletes whose main skills are dunking a basketball or hitting a baseball. In fact, as Pink (contributing editor, Fast Company) reveals, over 25 million Americans are now self-employed, and fewer than one in ten works ...
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Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs
Peter Schwab
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Palgrave Macmillan
October 5, 2001
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“Offers brief, invaluable descriptions of several countries' circumstances...readers will gain much from this astute analysis.” —Publishers Weekly“Peter Schwab has written this book with courage, honesty, and enormous insight, as well as with a deep sense of humanity. He is forthright enough to tell the truth without qualification. Africa’s profound ...
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Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton
David R. Gergen
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Simon & Schuster
September 6, 2000
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David Gergen is probably the only person to have served at high levels in both the Reagan and Clinton White Houses--not to mention his posts in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He's a consummate Washington insider, a man who appears regularly as a centr...
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The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
Mark Lilla
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New York Review of Books
September 9, 2001
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Lilla ably shows how the profound thinkers of our age allowed themselves to embrace the worst ideological furies. -- ...
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