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A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Post-Racial" America
Could this be the final victory for civil rights, or the first of many to come? When Henry Louis Gates spoke out about his ridiculous arrest, he stated a truth few Americans?including President Obama?are eager to discuss: there is no such thing as a post-racial |
Jon Jeter |
2009-12-08 |
$25.95 |
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Angler
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman's newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic ...more |
Barton Gellman |
2009-08-09 |
$27.95 |
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Anticipation: The Real Life Story of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
In 1999, the first new Star Wars movie in sixteen years came to theater screens worldwide. Leading up to the release of the film, the hype and media coverage reached epic proportions. The Phantom Menace graced every cover from Vanity Fair to Newsweek ...more |
Jonathan L. Bowen |
2008-10-02 |
$6.00 |
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April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers
A gripping, emotional account of the worst school shooting in United States history, told by those who lived through it: Monday, April 16, 2007 started like any other Monday at Virginia Tech, with professors and students preparing for another busy week ...more |
Roland Lazenby |
2008-09-20 |
$14.00 |
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Doc and The Judge: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll & A One Eyed Scratch Golfer
Friendship with the Judge came at a pivotal time in Doc's life; he quickly became the closest, truest, most generous brother Doc ever knew. They were a chemical reaction when they came together with a thought, an idea or a plan to pull off another coup. ...more |
Gary M. Granger |
2009-02-07 |
$9.95 |
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Final Salute
Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, Jim Sheeler's unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; Final Salute Is a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue ...more |
Jim Sheeler |
2010-02-23 |
$16.00 |
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Firefight
Advance praise for Firefight "Firefight is a gripping human drama and a powerful story–not to mention a significant addition to the annals of American history."
–David Morrell, author of First Blood "Overshadowed by the calamity in New York, |
Patrick Creed &
Rick Newman |
2010-03-01 |
$27.00 |
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Fly by Wire
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, ...more |
William Langewiesche |
2009-11-15 |
$24.00 |
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Grand Illusion
Grand Illusion is the true story of what happened on 9/11 and the first clear-eyed evaluation of Giuliani's role before, during, and after the disaster. Turning the mythology on its head, authors Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins reveal how Giuliani has |
Wayne Barrett &
Dan Collins |
2010-03-06 |
$11.99 |
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One Day in History: September 11, 2001
Offering a unique approach to history, this series of individual, popular encyclopedias will delineate and explain the people, places, events, chronology, and ramifications of pivotal days in history. One Day in History: September 11, 2001 will provide |
Rodney P. Carlisle |
2009-03-28 |
$24.99 |
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Perfect Soldiers
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a calamity on a scale few had imagined possible. In their aftermath, we exaggerated the men who perpetrated the attacks, shaping hasty and often mistaken reporting into caricatures we could comprehend -- monsters |
Terry McDermott |
2010-02-03 |
$11.99 |
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Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force - The NYPD
The NYPD is the best and most ambitious antiterror operation in the world. Its seat-of-the-pants intelligence is the gold standard for all others. Christopher Dickey, who has reported on international terrorism for more than twenty-five years, takes readers ...more |
Christopher Dickey |
2009-03-27 |
$26.00 |
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Standard Operating Procedure
An utterly original literary and intellectual collaboration by two of our keenest moral and political observers has produced a nonfiction Heart of Darkness for our time: the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison, based on ...more |
Philip Gourevitch |
2010-02-23 |
$25.95 |
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The Ballad of Abu Ghraib
The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review) A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard ...more |
Philip Gourevitch |
2009-07-26 |
$16.00 |
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The Dark Side
Jane Mayer is the co-author of two bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books, Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, the latter of which was a finalist for the ...more |
Jane Mayer |
2009-05-10 |
$15.95 |
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The Only Thing Worth Dying For
On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Forces team ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt and force the Taliban to surrender. Armed solely ...more |
Eric Blehm |
2010-01-10 |
$19.99 |
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The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel
Although it is generally understood that American neoconservatives pushed hard for the war in Iraq, this book forcefully argues that the neocons' goal was not the spread of democracy, but the protection of Israel's interests in the Middle East. Showing ...more |
Stephen J. Sniegoski |
2009-08-09 |
$11.95 |
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The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans
Spending 2004-2005 in New Orleans investigating the city's legendary past both in the archives and its living culture in the street, this account combines personal memoir, historical research, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a suspenseful arc through ...more |
Ned Sublette |
2009-09-20 |
$22.95 |
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Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies
Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the "smartest and most devastating" critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality now ...more |
Peter W. Galbraith |
2009-08-05 |
$23.00 |
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