Social science / Political science

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...

Bush Must Go

by Press Bill

Nationally syndicated columnist Press distills the reasons to toss George W. Bush out of the White House down to ten political sins, each of which is treated in a chapter. For Press, as for many others, the...

It's My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America

by Todd Whitman, Christine

Heading into the midterm elections, the big issue facing the Republicans is how the party will manage the increasingly insistent demands of the far-right faction, especially those of the evangelicals, and Christie...

Primary Mistake: How the Washington Republican Establishment Lost Everythingin 2006 (and Sabotaged My Senatorial Campaign)

by Steve Laffey

"When I ran for reelection as the mayor of Cranston, there was an independent candidate running whose only claim to fame was that he wanted to keep a thirty-five-foot inflatable gorilla in his backyard. He was...

Millionaire Republican

by Wayne Allyn Root

The eighteen master secrets to creating personal wealth in the Republican-dominated era.

The Deporter: One Agent's Struggle Against the U.S. Government's Refusal to Expel Criminal Aliens

by Ames Holbrook

“We have an immigration crisis in our country, all right, and it is a good deal more demonstrably wrong than the millions of illegal immigrants in the shadows. It is costlier to the fabric of American life...

One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups

by Herman Badillo

Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis...

The Case Against Hillary Clinton

by Peggy Noonan

As the long, scandal-ridden trial of the Clinton years comes to an end--and as the first lady mounts her own campaign for independent political office--it is time for a summation. What is the legacy of Clintonism?...

If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates

by Jim Hightower

If anything, in this presidential election special, he's madder than ever!

In his earlier bestseller, There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos, Hightower only began to...

There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion

by Jim Hightower

Revised, and with a New Introduction by the Author

"I am an agitator, and an agitator is the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out."

--Jim Hightower

Hightower is mad as hell and he's not going...

The Arab Lobby

by Mitchell Bard

In this authoritative history—the first in over twenty-five years to investigate the scope and activities of the Arab Lobby—Mitchell Bard provides a timely and valuable corrective to the unbalanced view...

Death by Liberalism: The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies

by J. R. Dunn

More Americans have been killed by well-meaning liberal policies than by all the wars of the last century combined. J. R. Dunn not only analyzes the unintended consequences of liberal policies, but argues that...

Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation

by Jonah Goldberg

The NEW conservatives speak out

In 2008, when young voters turned out for Barack Obama in record numbers, liberal pundits crowed that conservatives are a dying breed. But is it true that the next generation is...

The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama

by Tom Shachtman & Len Colodny

In this groundbreaking book, renowned investigative writers Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman chronicle the little-understood evolution of the neoconservative movement—from its birth as a rogue insurgency in the...

Dying for Heaven

by Ariel Glucklich

Why do terrorists do what they do? Not only are religiously motivated terrorists willing to self-destruct to achieve their goals, but neither threats nor incentives consistently prevent their devastating acts....

Kids Are Americans Too

by Charles Flowers & Bill O'Reilly

Four-time #1 bestselling author and veteran television news journalist Bill O'Reilly has more than 5 million copies of his books in print to date! His first book for young fans, The O'Reilly Factor for Kids,...

God and Hillary Clinton

by Paul Kengor

For nearly three decades political observers have sought to understand the complex relationship between Hillary Clinton's faith and her politics. Now, in this first spiritual biography of the former first lady,...

Condi vs. Hillary

by Eileen McGann & Dick Morris

Who will be president in 2008? Many believe that the White House is Hillary Clinton's to lose. As long-time strategists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal in Condi vs. Hillary, however, Hillary's plans for...

Crimes Against Nature

by Robert F. Kennedy & Jr., Robert F. Kennedy

In this powerful indictment of George W. Bush's White House, environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., charges that the administration has taken corporate favoritism to unprecedented heights -- threatening...

Making War to Keep Peace

by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

With the powerful words that marked her long and distinguished career, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick explores where America has gone wrong—and raises lingering questions about what perils tomorrow might hold. In Making...