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Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex

by William Hartung

A hard-hitting exposé of the world's largest and richest military contractor

Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776

by Ian Williams

Ian Williams describes in captivating detail how Rum and the molasses that it was made from was to the 18th century what oil is today.

Rum was used by the colonists to clear Native American tribes and to buy...

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

by Christopher Hitchens

Showcases America's leading polemicist's rejection of consensus and cliché, whether he’s reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly...

The Honored Society: A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia

by Petra Reski

In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims...

Tragedy in Crimson: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China

by Tim Johnson

A searing portrait of modern Tibet under the yoke of imperialist Chinaâ€" as told by the journalist who spent years reporting on the contested country and its controversial leader

Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

by Eduardo Galeano

Galeano’s new book is his richest and most poetic yet, a joyous calendar of the sacred and the damned.

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield

by Jeremy Scahill

From the International Bestselling author of Blackwater comes the story of America’s global killing machine.

And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border

by David Neiwert

A work of literary true crime that captures the terrifying world of the right wing border patrol movement.

The Noir Forties: The American People From Victory to Cold War

by Richard Lingeman

 From one of our finest cultural historians, The Noir Forties is a vivid reexamination of America’s postwar period, that “age of anxiety” characterized by the dissipation of victory dreams, the onset...

Rebuild the Dream

by Van Jones

In the face of Wall Street’s recklessness, Washington’s negligence and the tea parties’ belligerence, President Obama’s former Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones sets forth a bold new manifesto that reclaims...

State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream

by Jeff Biggers

Arizona has gone wild—over immigration, guns, healthcare, the Tea Party, and vigilantism. Award-winning author and Arizona local Jeff Biggers reports on what’s troubling our 48th state, and how a radicalized...

Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour

by Simon Kuper

When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyuff, the Dutch player thought to rival Pele...

The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street

by Robert Scheer

In The Great American Stick-Up, long-time Los Angeles Times columnist and Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer has a controversial thesis: the great financial meltdown, the crash widely regarded as the result...

The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame

by Peter Dreier

A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women’s suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist....

A Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History

by Deanne Stillman

Part Jon Krakauer and part Cormac McCarthy, a critically acclaimed writer uses the story of the biggest manhunt in Californian history to tell a universal tale of an outlaw at war with contemporary America.

Grassroots: Politics . . . But Not as Usual

by Phil Campbell

This offbeat true story is a comedy and a tragedy about politics, from anti-globalist protest to domestic turmoil. It's about idealism, obsession and failure in Seattle, a progressive city on the fringe of America's...

La Roja: How Soccer Conquered Spain and How Spanish Soccer Conquered the World

by Jimmy Burns

La Roja takes us on a journey through some of the extraordinary characters, games and other activities that have defined Spanish soccer, from the early days when a few enthusiasts developed their talent, to...

Let Fury Have the Hour: Joe Strummer, Punk, and the Movement that Shook the World

by Antonino D'Ambrosio

Joe Strummer’s untimely death at the age of fifty in December 2002 took from us one of the truly unique voices of modern music. The quintessential Rude Boy, punker, rebel musician, artist and activist, Strummer...

Crude Awakening: Money, Mavericks, and Mayhem in Alaska

by Amanda Coyne & Tony Hopfinger

Crude Awakening is the rollicking story of politics in America’s last frontier and oil province—Alaska, the nation’s most wild and mysterious state, where politics and oil blurred on the day wildcatters...

Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians

by Chris Hedges & Laila Al-Arian

Collateral Damage brings together testimony from the largest number of on the record, named, combat veterans who reveal the disturbing, daily reality of war and occupation in Iraq.

Through their eyes, we learn...