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How To Steal An Election

The Inside Story of How George Bush's Brother and Fox Network Miscalled the 2000 Election and Changed the Course of History

By David Moore


When Florida Governor Jeb Bush persuaded the Fox Network to call the presidential election for George W. Bush on Election Night 2000, the move triggered other news networks to make the same erroneous call, and Al Gore to concede the election.

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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.

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I See Black People

The Rise and Fall of African American-Owned Television and Radio

By Kristal Brent Zook


The recent trend toward media consolidation has silenced the diverse voices that reached minority and marginalized audiences across the airwaves. I See Black People explores the precipitous decline of African-owned stations, and reveals why this failure affects us all.

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El Monstruo: Book Tour

February 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
Get your copy of El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City signed by Nation Books author John Ross, who is traveling across the United States on a mammoth book tour spanning three months and 20 cities. Click here to see if he's coming to a city near you.

February 11 - May 14
Photo Exhibit by Eugene Richards
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Institute Fellow and award-winning photographer Eugene Richards is showing his work, A Procession of Them, at Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery from February 11 through May 14. The exhibit features troubling black-and-white images of mentally ill and mentally disabled patients who are warehoused in deplorable conditions in psychiatric institutions around the world. MORE

March 14 - 15
Nichols and McChesney on C-SPAN's Book TV
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Watch Nation Books authors John Nichols and Robert McChesney as they discuss their latest book, The Death and Life of American Journalism on C-SPAN's Book TV on Saturday, March 14 at 8 a.m. and on Sunday, March 15 at 1 a.m. For more information, please click here. MORE

March 20 - 21
Gabriel Thompson on C-SPAN's Book TV
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Watch Gabriel Thompson, Nation Books author of Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Most Americans Won't Do on C-SPAN's Book TV on March 20-21. MORE