Social science / Political science

After the Fall: The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)

by Kevin Phillips

A fascinating up-to-date look at the roots of our financial crisis from the New York Times bestselling author Kevin Phillips Kevin Phillips's Bad Money revealed the roots of the financial malignance that led...

Why America Must Not Follow Europe

by Daniel Hannan

Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative Member of the European Parliament, calls on Americans to avoid Europe's future. He traces the common roots of British and American liberty, and describes how both countries...

You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America

by Howard Dean & Judith Warner

If you are worried about the way America is being governed and want to reclaim the country you know and love, now is the time to take it back. Governor Howard Dean argues that you have the power not just to...

You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics

by Kinky Friedman

And Kinky Said Unto the People: Why the Hell Not?

So the good people of Texas weren't able to get the Kinkster into the Governor's Mansion in 2006. It was a solid race, and he fought the good fight. Getting on...

Spin This!

by Bill Press & Bill Maher

We're all familiar with the warning, "Don't believe everything you see or hear." Bill Press, the popular co-host of CNN's Crossfire, will have you wondering whether you should believe anything at all.

Spin...

Nine Months at Ground Zero: The Story of the Brotherhood of Workers Who Took on a Job Like No Other

by Glenn Stout, Charles Vitchers & Robert Gray

Hours after two airplanes hit the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, Charlie Vitchers, a construction superintendent, and Bobby Gray, a crane operator, headed downtown. They knew their...

The Obama Nation

by Jerome R Corsi

In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama...

From Bush to Bush: The Lazlo Toth Letters

by Don Novello

The passionate correspondence of a proud (if concerned) American!

From the reign of Bush the First through the hilarious Clinton Years and to the restoration of the Bush Dynasty with Dubya, one lone crusader,...

Why Israel Can't Wait: The Coming War Between Israel and Iran

by Jerome R Corsi

The new Israeli government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly declared that a primary foreign policy objective is to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability.

Israel is...

A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track

by Andy Stern

Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans' hard work is rewarded in today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president...

President Ronald Reagan's Initial Actions Project

by White House Staff & Arthur B. Laffer

When Ronald Reagan took office, he was facing an economic downturn similar to the one our country is currently experiencing. Key members of Reagan’s staff prepared an Initial Actions Project, which takes every...

Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush: More Political Subversion from Jim Hightower

by Jim Hightower

America in 2004 is color coded-and it's not just a matter of red, white, and blue. The terror alert bounces from yellow to orange. The economy offers up a hundred shades of red ink. The environment is turning...

What We Could Have Done With the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We've Spent on Iraq

by Rob Simpson

The war in Iraq is not only controversial, it's also astronomically expensive. Now Rob Simpson answers the question many concerned Americans have been asking: Wasn't there some other way the government could...

Three Weeks in October

by Charles Moose & Charles Fleming

In this New York Times bestseller, Charles A. Moose-the police chief who led one of the most suspenseful manhunts in American history-takes readers behind the headlines into the notorious "D.C. sniper" case...

The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America

by Eric Alterman & Mark Green

When George W. Bush became president in January 2001, he took office with a comfortably familiar surname, bipartisan rhetoric, and the promise of calming a public shaken by the convulsions of impeachment and...

The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics

by Ted Halstead & Michael Lind

Record numbers of Americans describe themselves as “independents” and reject the conventional agendas of Left and Right. In this widely acclaimed book, Ted Halstead and Michael Lind explain why today’s...

Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy

by Lewis Lapham

From one of America's most important voices of protest, an urgent new polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent—the lifeblood of our democracy—at the hands of a government and media increasingly...

How the Democrats Can Win by Leading America to a Better Future in 2010and Beyond: An Update to The Audacity to Win (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Pen

by David Plouffe

Since David Plouffe helped design the plan that brought candidate Obama to the White House, the lessons of that plan have become only more relevant. Today, conservative forces led by figures like Sarah Palin...

America Back on Track

by Senator Edward M. Kennedy

From one of America's most respected progressive voices comes an inspiring vision of reform and renewal

In a Senate career spanning more than four decades, Edward M. Kennedy has become one of the most authoritative...

The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq

by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber

The war in Iraq may be remembered as the point at which the propaganda model perfected in the twentieth century stopped working: the world is too complex, information is too plentiful, and-as events in Iraq...