Social science / Political science

Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

by Robert B. Reich

America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make...

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War

by Michael Isikoff & David Corn

March 2003: The United States invades Iraq.

October 2006: The world finds out why.

What was really behind the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq? As George W. Bush steered the nation to war, who spoke the truth and who...

The Communist Manifesto

by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx & Vladimir Pozner

"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but...

The People v. the Democratic Party

by Michael Walsh

Since the day Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers, the Democratic Party has been at war with America. With a history that...

Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent

by Fred Burton

For decades, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, has secretly been on the front lines in the fight to keep Americans safe around the world. Now, in this hard-hitting...

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir

by Bill O'Reilly

The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade...

The Communist

by Paul Kengor

“I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people… As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor...

The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

by Mike Lofgren

The New York Times bestselling exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington today

There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the...

Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror

by Bob Graham & Jeff Nussbaum

In this explosive, controversial, and profoundly alarming insider’s report, Senator Bob Graham reveals faults in America’s national security network severe enough to raise fundamental questions about the...

In the Lion's Den: An Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle with Syria

by Andrew Tabler

A key player in the Middle East and the site of violent protests in 2011, Syria has long been a thorn in Washington's side when it comes to forging peace or rolling back the influence of the Islamic republic...

Economic Rights of Women in Ancient Greece

by David M. Schaps

A survey of women's economic rights in ancient Greece, outside of the household economy and concerning their relationship to real property and possessions. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities...

Who's Looking Out for You?

by Bill O'Reilly

From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone, a no-holds-barred exposé of the people and institutions who are letting Americans down – and what we should do about it.

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Screwed!: How Foreign Countries Are Ripping America Off and Plundering Our Economy-and How Our Leaders Help Them Do It

by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

The bestselling authors return with a blistering exposé of how America is being ripped off by friends and enemies alike—with the help of our own ruling elites.

Our jobs go to China. Foreign aid goes to our...

Peace Is the Way

by Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra’s passionate new book, Peace Is the Way, was inspired by a saying from Mahatma Gandhi: “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” In a world where every path to peace has proved futile,...

When the Tea Party Came to Town: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History

by Robert Draper

When the Tea Party Came to Town demonstrates Robert Draper’s uncanny ability to ferret out news-making tidbits and provides us with the first look at this game-changing Congress—sure to be a classic work....

Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

by Noam Chomsky

Making the Future presents more than fifty concisely argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011.

Down Range: Navy SEALs in the War on Terrorism

by Dick Couch

In America’s battle against al-Qaeda and their allies, the goal of the Navy SEALs is to be the best guns in the fight—stealthy, effective, professional, and lethal. Here for the first time is a SEAL insider’s...

The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

by Jonah Goldberg

"An indispensable and enduring field guide to the arguments the left makes-and the ones it tries to avoid."

-The Claremont Review of Books

According to Jonah Goldberg, if the greatest trick the devil ever...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist...

Silencing Science

by Stephen J. Milloy & Michael Gough

Science has been a major contributor to the health and wealth we enjoy today, but not everyone is happy with it. Science can get in the way of social and environmental activists, politicians, lawyers, and government...