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Altered States of America

Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen

By Richard Stratton

Richard Stratton's years as an international marijuana smuggler, his eight-year stint in the federal prison system, and subsequent ascendance to acclaimed author and filmmaker give his journalism a unique credibility. Altered States of America is a riveting collection of his work.

Dictionary of Republicanisms

By Katrina vanden Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel, celebrated editor of The Nation, asked her readers to help decipher Republican doublespeak. The result is Dictionary of Republicanisms, a grassroots groundswell of hilarious submissions.

Breaking Rank

A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing

By Norm Stamper

"Stamper has written a tremendously important book, pulling no punches as he takes a searing look at law enforcement as it is - and as it should be.... Shocking, heartbreaking, hilarious and illuminating, Breaking Rank will attract both cops and 'civilians.' I loved it." --Ann Rule

First Amendment Felon

The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000-Page FBI File, and His Epic Fight for Civil Rights and Liberties

By Robert Sherrill

Frank Wilkinson was one of the staunchest defenders of the First Amendment. This is his story.

A Devil's Dictionary of Business

Monkey Business; High Finance and Low; Money, the Making, Losing, and Printing Thereof; Commerce; Trade; Clever Tricks; Tours de Force; Globalism and Globaloney; Industry; Invention; the Stock Market; Marvelous Explanations and Clarifications.

By Nicholas von Hoffman

Arranged alphabetically, from "Abacus" to "Zukor, Adolph," The Devil's Dictionary of Business is a sardonic and dizzying tour of the business world. It elucidates business from top to bottom, from the ancient world to the present.

A People's History of Science

Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechaniks

By Clifford D. Conner

In the traditional history of science, a few extraordinary men--Galileo, Newton, Einstein--tower over the masses. But science has always been a collective endeavor. This book turns our attention to the ordinary, working people who furthered the development of science.

Zioncheck for President

A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics

By Phil Campbell

Zioncheck for President tells the true story of Grant Cogswell, Seattle poet, punk rock fan, anarchist, and grassroots activist who ran for city council in 2001. Unfolding in parallel is the tale of US representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck, a legendary boozer and forgotten lefty radical from the 1930s.

Letters from Young Activists

Today's Rebels Speak Out

By Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin , Kenyon Farrow and Bernardine Dohrn

In letters addressed to their parents, to past generations, to each other, to the youth of tomorrow and to their future selves, a bold new generation of activists--aged 10 to 31--articulate their vision for the world.

Inside the Resistance

The Iraqi Insurgency and the Future of the Middle East

By Zaki Chehab

While most Western journalists report from Iraq either from the safety of their hotel rooms or embedded with the US military, Zaki Chehab goes into the Sunni Triangle and other danger zones. The result is the first authoritative portrait of the insurgency in all its complexity.

Taking Back the Corporation

A Mad as Hell Guide

By Ralph Estes and Ralph Nader

Ralph Estes reveals what's wrong with big corporations, the harm they do to us all, and how this perversion of corporate purpose came to be. He then lays out a concrete program to take back the corporation and restore it to its original social and public purpose.

Union Dues

A Novel

By John Sayles

Union Dues is a sprawling classic of American radicalism. It tells the story of a father and his runaway son whose destinies movingly collide.

Fog Facts

Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin

By Larry Beinhart

In today's media frenzy, fog facts are the important things that nobody seems able to focus on any more than they can focus on a single droplet in the mist. Larry Beinhart offers an unsettling exploration of what the mainstream media is failing to tell us and why.

Selling Sickness

How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients

By Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels

As Wall Street knows, there's a lot of money to be made telling healthy people they're sick. Selling Sickness shows how the widening of the boundaries that define illness and the medicalization of everyday life are creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits for the world's largest drug companies.

Madame Dread

By Kathie Klarreich

Civil violence, mass slaughter, coups and US intervention: Kathie Klarreich saw all this up close and on a daily basis in Haiti as a reporter for NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, NBC News and Time during the past decade. This compelling chronicle of tumultuous political events is also an intensely personal memoir of her experiences throughout Haiti's turbulent years.

Rum

A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776

By Ian Williams

Rum shaped the modern world. The drink, and the molasses it was made from, was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, and nowhere more so than in North America. This barnstorming account of the real "spirit of 1776" restores rum to its rightful place in history.

Steal This Vote:

Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America

By Andrew Gumbel

Human Genetic Engineering

A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed

By Pete Shanks

In lucid language, Pete Shanks explains the debate over human genetic engineering, placing modern "techno-eugenics" in historical context, tracing its development from the original eugenics espoused not only by fascists but also by progressives of the time, and analyzing public opinion polls and profiles different camps on the issue.

Herzl's Nightmare

One Land, Two Peoples

By Peter Rodgers

Theodor Herzl's dream of a national homeland for the Jewish people was realized when Israel declared its independence in 1948. Yet it was made possible only through the deaths of millions of European Jews and at the expense of Palestinian society--a people who would never forget what they saw as a grave injustice. Herzl's dream would prove illusory.

The Anarchists' Convention and Other Stories

By John Sayles

Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. The Anarchists' Convention is Sayles's first, celebrated short story collection, and includes the widely anthologized, O. Henry award-winning "I-80 Nebraska, m.490-m.205."

Deserter from Death

Dispatches from Western Europe 1950-2000

By Daniel Singer

From his early reporting for The Economist to his final years as The Nation's celebrated European correspondent, Daniel Singer covered the momentous events of his time with "intellectual and moral clarity," as George Steiner put it. Deserter from Death collects Singer's writings from the Algerian crisis in the late fifties, through the world-shaking events of May '68, to the post-Reagan, post-Thatcher era.

In Democracy's Shadow

The Secret World of National Security

By Marcus G. Raskin and A. Carl LeVan

This collection of groundbreaking essays by historians, lawyers, anthropologists and public scholars shows how the "National Security State" has shaped our government for at least a century. 9/11 and its aftermath invigorated the twin demons of American interventionism overseas and intolerance at home, but the editors of this book claim that these developments, though profound, are not radical departures.

Los Gusanos

By John Sayles

The long-awaited reissue of the first novel by acclaimed filmmaker and writer John Sayles. Set in Miami in 1981, Los Gusanos is the vivid and moving account of one extended family's life in Cuba and the United States. Sayles introduces us to a memorable range of characters--young, old, black and white--all of whom are struggling to make a new life in exile while haunted by the memories of Cuba.

Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror

By Terry Jones

Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror proves that in times of high political anxiety, humor and irony are most potent antidotes to the spin emanating from the White House and Downing Street. From the co-creator of Monty Python comes this bitingly hilarious collection of writing about the American and British responses to 9/11.

Love, Poverty, and War:

Journeys and Essays

By Christopher Hitchens

A contrarian collection of essays and reports by America's leading polemicist, this book takes its title from an antique saying: life is incomplete unless love, poverty and war have been experienced. In his introduction, Hitchens, one of the most controversial intellectuals of our day, reflects on how he has been touched by those discrepant states.

Gods and Monsters

Movers, Shakers, and Other Casualties of the Hollywood Machine

By Peter Biskind

Thirty years of Peter Biskind's uniquely insightful writing about Hollywood--the politics, the players, and especially the films themselves. This is American film through the last three decades, refracted through Biskind's own career arc from radical journalist and film critic to self-described "recovering celebrity journalist" and contributing editor to Vanity Fair.

The Jonathan Schell Reader

On the United States at War, the Long Crisis of the American Republic, and the Fate of the Earth

By Jonathan Schell

Correspondent, commentator and political thinker, Jonathan Schell has selected the best of almost four decades of his work and woven it together into a coherent narrative about our fallen yet incontestably inspiring world. Selections are drawn from his bestselling book The Fate of the Earth, his famed reports in The New Yorker, Harper's and Newsday, among many other publications.

Wag the Dog

By Larry Beinhart

A book that was first hailed as first-rate entertainment and then as a visionary achievement when it all came true. The book on which the critically acclaimed film was based, Wag the Dog is a fast-paced read from a great contemporary satirist, as relevant a critique of the current Bush Administration as it was of the first.

The High Times Reader

By Annie Nocenti and Ruth Baldwin

This classic collection brings together an eclectic sampling of the gonzo journalism, dope tales, satire, psychedelic reminisces, inside scoops, celebrity opinion and original fiction from legendary High Times magazine. The resulting ensemble of irreverent, brave, and often hilarious writers from High Times represents a free-wheeling look at thirty years of outlaw culture.