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Year of the Rat : How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash
Edward Timperlake, William C. Triplett
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9.8 |
While many political journalists largely considered the second term of Bill Clinton's presidency in terms of his romantic interludes, Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II follow up on one of the more controversial scandals of the 19
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The Future and Its Enemies : The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
Virginia Postrel, Virgia Postrel
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Current:
9.8 |
Virginia Postrel smashes conventional political boundaries in this libertarian manifesto. World-views should be defined not by how they view the present, she says, but the future. Do they aim to control it, as many conservative reactionarie
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High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton
Ann H. Coulter
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Current:
9.7 |
Bill Clinton pledged to run "the most ethical administration in the history of the republic." In High Crimes and Misdemeanors, conservative lawyer and pundit Ann Coulter finds this promise laughably off the mark. Although she devotes
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order
Noam Chomsky
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Current:
9.6 |
In this thought-provoking new collection of essays, Noam Chomsky examines democracy in theory vs. democracy in action. The brilliant thinker reveals how the political and economic principles that have prevailed are far removed from those th
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The Fourth Turning : An American Prophecy
William Strauss, Neil Howe
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Current:
9.6 |
The Fourth Turning continues the project of mapping out the place of generations in history, a project begun in the authors' earlier books Generations and more]
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The Future in Plain Sight : Nine Clues to the Coming Instability
Eugene Linden
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Current:
9.5 |
Forget the year 2000 bug, says Eugene Linden, the world's in for something much bigger than power outages and fouled-up databases. The clues are everywhere, but what do they all mean? The Future in Plain Sight argues that the history
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Alien Agenda : Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us
Jim Marrs
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Current:
9.5 |
Alien Agenda is the silk thread leading the way through the maze of UFO literature into the heart of the UFO controversy. While he begins with the premise that the existence of UFOs cannot be denied, Jim Marrs (author of more]
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Psychic Warrior
David A. Morehouse
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Current:
9.4 |
The thrilling and incredible true story of a man who stood by his convictions and blew the lid off a top-secret project and discovered a new universe of life and thought. --This text refers to the more]
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Betrayal : How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security
Bill Gertz
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Current:
9.4 |
Bill Gertz, who covers national security for the Washington Times, lays out a chilling argument against Bill Clinton's foreign policy in Betrayal. In his view, Clinton's "naive" strategies of "appeasement" with China and Russi
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No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
Christopher Hitchens
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Current:
9.4 |
The most vocal critics of Bill Clinton's presidency tend to be conservatives--think, for example, of William J. Bennett's The Death of Outrage--but there are those on the Left who are fed up with Clinton as well. Among them is journa
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu, James Clavell
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Current:
9.2 |
The writings of the ancient warrior Sun Tzu have provided tremendous wisdom to generations through the ages. Now these philosophies are available with anecdotal extracts by the author of Shogun and Noble House. more]
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A Necessary Evil : A History of American Distrust of Government
Garry Wills
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Current:
9.2 |
Nothing may be more American than distrust of government, but Garry Wills says there is something deeply wrong with this tradition. "It is a tradition that belittles America," he writes, "that asks us to love our country by hating our gover
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The Art of Strategy : A New Translation of Sun Tzu's Classic, the Art of War
Sun-Tzu, R.L. Wing (Translator)
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Current:
9.2 |
More than 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu composed his masterpiece The Art of War which has been used by the world's greatest leaders including Napoleon. Here, Wing makes the influential philosophies of the Orient accessible to all seekers of prof
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The Ends of the Earth : From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Robert Kaplan
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Current:
9.1 |
"The future here could be sadder than the present," writes Robert Kaplan in a chapter about the African nation of Sierra Leone. From Kaplan's perspective, the same could be said of virtually the entire Third World, which he spends the bulk
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
John Allen Paulos
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Current:
9.0 |
In this book the author of Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences reveals the hidden mathematical angles in countless media stories. His real life perspective on the statistics we
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Churchill : A Life
Martin Gilbert
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Current:
9.0 |
It is impossible to understand the Second World War without understanding Winston Churchill, the bold British Prime Minister who showed himself to be one of the greatest statesmen any nation has ever known. This lengthy biography is a singl
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Stickin' : The Case for Loyalty
James Carville
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Current:
9.0 |
Democratic political consultant James Carville returns with a book that promises "not a lot of highfalutin philosophizing" on the subject of loyalty. Stickin' is largely a response to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and President Clinton
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The American Century
Harold Evans
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Current:
9.0 |
Although most of this sprawling book is set in the 20th century, it begins on April 29, 1889, when Benjamin Harrison commemorated the first centennial of American government. This 11-year jump-start allows Harold Evans to write about the la
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The 48 Laws of Power
Joost Elffers, Robert Greene
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Current:
9.0 |
"Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective," writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 l
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The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli, Daniel Donno (Introduction)
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Current:
9.0 |
When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. The person who hel
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In Our Own Words : Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century
Robert Torricelli
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Current:
8.9 |
Bill Clinton's televised confession in the tawdry matter of Monica Lewinsky may not qualify as a sterling political moment, or even as a particularly inspired act of oratory. Whether seen as a gesture of remorse or an evasion, that apology
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The Terrible Truth About Liberals
Neal Boortz
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Current:
8.9 |
The Terrible Truth About Liberals depicts Boortz's in-your-face brand of Libertarian politics and is here to inject America with a liberal anti-virus. From questioning the true definitions of democracy and racism to challenging the entire s
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The Federalist Papers (Bantam Classic)
Alexander Hamilton
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Current:
8.9 |
"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren ... should never be split into a number of u
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
Robert Conquest
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Current:
8.9 |
How can humankind avoid another century like the 20th? Blind devotion to obscene ideologies--Communism, Nazism--made the final hundred years of the millennium the bloodiest in human history. As more]
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The Puzzle Palace : A Report on America's Most Secret Agency
James Bamford
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Current:
8.9 |
In 1947, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand signed a secret treaty in which they agreed to cooperate in matters of signals intelligence. In effect, the governments agreed to pool the
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The Politics of Bad Faith : The Radical Assault on America's Future
David Horowitz
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Current:
8.9 |
The author of Radical Son returns with a vigorous polemic against the American Left. Showing that liberals and conservatives have sharply contrasting views on the ideas of freedom and equal
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Common Sense (Dover Thrift Editions)
Thomas Paine
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Current:
8.8 |
"These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150
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Inside the Cia/Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency
Ronald Kessler
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8.7 |
Employs material taken from extensive research and hundreds of interviews to trace the CIA's evolution over the last fifteen years, describing its failures and successes. Reprint. AB. more]
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Radical Son : A Generational Odyssey
David Horowitz
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Current:
8.7 |
David Horowitz, onetime leftist radical turned Reagan Republican and current rider of the college conservative speaking circuit, has written a tell-all biography about his political transformation. What is most interesting about his book is
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The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
Christopher Cerf, Victor Navasky
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8.7 |
Did you know that the stock market had reached a "permanently high plateau" in October 1929? You would have thought so, had you listened to the experts back then. Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky of the "Institute of Expertology" have ma
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Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng
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8.7 |
Here is the haunting, inspirational account of Nien Cheng's six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner during Communist China's Cultural Revolution. "A moving affirmation of the capacity for human endurance."--Los Angeles Times. more]
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Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
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Current:
8.7 |
In the classic bestseller, Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism--the organization of economic activity through private enterprise operating in a free market--as both a
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The Secret Life of Bill Clinton : The Unreported Stories
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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8.7 |
These days, it seems like everyone's a Friend of Bill--Clinton's buddies from Arkansas are turning up in powerful White House positions faster than you can say "Whitewater." But make no mistake, British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pr
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For Women Only! Your Guide to Health Empowerment
Gary Null, Barbara Seaman
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8.6 |
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What Will Become of Us? : Counting Down to Y2K
Julian Gregori
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8.6 |
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Trust : The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
Francis Fukuyama
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8.5 |
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Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
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8.4 |
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The Geography of Nowhere : The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler
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8.4 |
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The Complexity of Cooperation : Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Robert M. Axelrod
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8.3 |
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Utopia (Penguin Classics)
Thomas More, Paul Turner (Translator)
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8.2 |
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When Corporations Rule the World
David C. Korten
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8.2 |
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Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
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8.1 |
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The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman (Introduction)
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8.0 |
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Freedom in Chains : The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
James Bovard
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Truman
David McCullough
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The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
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Lenin's Tomb : The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
David Remnick
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Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson
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7.9 |
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The Vision of the Anointed : Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy
Thomas Sowell
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7.9 |
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