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The Abduction of Lebanon
By Robert Fisk
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This remarkable book is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for twenty-six years. It is a story of Western betrayal and the challenge to American power and prestige in the Middle East.
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Journeys through Theocratic Iran and Its Furies
By Dilip Hiro
As the Bush White House paves the way for military strikes on Iran for its alleged secret nuclear weapons program, now is the moment to examine the country behind the fearmongering.
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By Phyllis Chesler
We are all familiar with the phrase "man's inhumanity to man." Until now, a
profound silence has prevailed about woman's inhumanity to woman. This
groundbreaking, lucid book breaks that silence.
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Excerpts From Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968
By Eric Bentley
This absorbing collection reveals with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel investigating potentially subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a monstrous and unrelenting accusatory force from which no one was safe.
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Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001
By Stuart Klawans
In 2007, The Nation's Stuart Klawans won a National Magazine Award for his sharp and revelatory film writing. This selection of reviews and essays from The Nation--as well as the New York Times, The Village Voice, Film Comment and other journals--spotlights some of his best work.
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The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001
By Katrina vanden Heuvel and Jonathan Schell
In a series of thoughtful, informed and provocative essays written after September 11, some of the most respected figures on the progressive left analyzed the causes and consequences of the terrorist attacks, articulating a vision of what a just response to terrorism might look like.
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Rock 'n' Roll Radio and Serbia's Underground Resistance
By Matthew Collin
Armed only with a stack of old punk records and a dream of freedom, one defiant Belgrade radio station waged a ten-year war against Slobodan Milosevic's dictatorship-and won. |

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Writings from The Nation on Race
By Paula Giddings
Infused with the moral passion and urgency that the subject demands, this collection includes some of the best writing on race and civil rights from 1865 to the present. |

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Local Ways to Change the World
By Mike Prokosch and Laura Raymond
In this guide to transforming the corporate globalization movement, three dozen authors look beyond the spectacular shutdowns and protests to introduce the reader to farmers in Iowa, industrial workers in Tennessee and anti-sweatshop activists in Maine who are connecting global injustices to the issues in their own front yards.
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A Decade of Political Writing
By Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Caldwell
This irreverent, sarcastic, witty, and intelligent tour of the Clinton era is hosted by two of America's leading essayists: Christopher Caldwell, of The Weekly Standard and New York Press; and Christopher Hitchens, of Vanity Fair and The Nation.
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Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington's War on Drugs
By Mike Gray
In 1971 Richard Nixon launched the "war on drugs." Thirty-five years later, even the editors of the conservative National Review have stated: "The War on Drugs Is Lost." Busted charts the violence, chaos and corruption that the war on drugs has spawned.
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An Icon Reconsidered
By Jesse Larner
Mount Rushmore, conceived in the 1920s as a tourist attraction, was quickly recast by the sculptor into an icon of democracy, freedom and hope. The history of the Black Hills and the sense of manifest destiny that haunts the monument, however, render the faces more ironic than iconic. |

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Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror
By Betsy Reed and Katha Pollitt
Long before the White House took notice of the Taliban's brutal treatment of Afghan women, feminists were sounding an alarm about the rise of religious fundamentalism throughout the world and its deadly consequences for women. Yet women's voices have been conspicuously absent from the debate over the new war on terror. Nothing Sacred breaks this silence.
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How We Got to Be So Hated
By Gore Vidal
In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed unpublishable in this country until now), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following both September 11 and Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City: These were simply the acts of "evil-doers." |

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Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
By Gore Vidal
When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, Vidal was described as the "last defender of the American Republic." In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head-on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by.
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In the Eye of the Storm
By Dilip Hiro
Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm combines firsthand reportage with incisive analysis from the celebrated journalist and historian Dilip Hiro, who looks beyond the spin of both the Bush Administration and Saddam's Baathist regime to explore Iraq in all its complexity.
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April 23 - January 16 | Exhibition around the world
Institute Fellow and award-winning photographer is the winner of the 2010 World Press Photo of the Year contest. Every year following the World Press Photo Contest, the winning images go on tour. The exhibition is officially opened in Amsterdam as part of the award ceremony in April and can be seen at venues around the globe until the next year. The tour program takes in approximately 100 cities in 45 countries and is still expanding.
September 24 - October 5
Fatima Bhutto: Author Tour
(Across the United States)
Please join Fatima Bhutto as she travels from New York to Massachusetts, Oregon and California on an author tour to discuss her new memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword.
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October 5
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Herding Donkeys: Howard Dean and Ari Berman on the Future of the Democratic Party
(92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York City)
Nation Institute Fellow Ari Berman talks about his new book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, with former Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean.
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