Books suggested for future club meetings: |
| Title | Length | Cost* | Author |
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The Age of American Unreason | 384 pp. | $15.60 | Susan Jacoby |
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America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It | 256 pp. | $18.45 | Mark Steyn |
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America | 272 pp. | $5.99 | Chris Hedges |
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Assassins' Gate | 512 pp. | $10.20 | George Packer |
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The Audacity of Greed | 220 pp. | $11.96 | Jonathan Tasini |
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The Audacity of Hope | 384 pp. | $16.50 | Barack Obama |
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism | 352 pp. | $10.88 | Kevin Phillips |
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Bait and Switch | 256 pp. | $10.40 | Barbara Ehrenreich |
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The Beak of the Finch | 352 pp. | $10.17 | Jonathan Weiner |
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy | 408 pp. | $11.20 | Greg Palast |
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The Best War Ever | 272 pp. | $2.39 | John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton |
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The Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America | 304 pp. | $11.21 | Jonathan Chait |
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The Big Oyster | 336 pp. | $10.17 | Mark Kurlansky |
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | 320 pp. | $18.45 | Michael Lewis |
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West | 368 pp. | $15.61 | Cormac McCarthy |
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Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster |
254 pp. | $11.86 | Ross Gelbspan |
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World | 304 pp. | $10.88 | Michael Pollan |
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Cadillac Desert | 608 pp. | $12.24 | Marc Reisner |
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Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming | 336 pp. | $17.13 | Mark Bowen |
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Civic Passions | 440 pp. | $25.05 | Cecelia Tichi |
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A Civil Action | 502 pp. | $10.17 | Jonathan Harr |
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Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility | 240 pp. | $17.16 | David M. Walker |
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The Conyers Report |
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Cradle to Cradle | 208 pp. | $18.15 |
Bill McDonough & Michael Braungart |
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story Of How The War On Terror Turned Into A War On American Ideals | 400 pp. | $18.15 | Jane Mayer |
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Death By Government | 496 pp. | $29.95 | R.J. Rummel |
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The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again | 352 pp. | $17.79 | Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols |
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War | 288 pp. | $16.50 | Joe Bageant |
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Desert Solitaire | 352 pp. | $7.99 | Edward Abbey |
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Devil's game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam | 400 pp. | $10.88 |
Robert Dreyfuss |
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The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution And The Environment | 440 pp. | $23.10 | Paul R. Ehrlich
& Anne H. Ehrlich |
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Earth: The Sequel: The Race To Reinvent Energy And Stop Global Warming | 304 pp. | $10.85 | Miriam Horn and Fred Krupp |
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The End of America: Letter of Warning of a Young Patriot | 192 pp. | $11.16 | Naomi Wolf |
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Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet | 304 pp. | $17.13 | Joseph Menn |
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe | 240 pp. | $11.16 | Elizabeth Kolbert |
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Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress | 288 pp. | $15.57 | Robert Wexler & David Fisher |
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The 48 Laws of Power | 480 pp. | $12.24 | Robert Greene |
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The Founding Fish | 368 pp. | $10.20 | John McPhee |
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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy | 361 pp. | $17.47 | Joseph E. Stiglitz |
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 | 400 pp. | $18.45 | Thomas E. Ricks |
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Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want | 215 pp. | $10.17 | Frances Moore Lappe |
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God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer | 304 pp. | $17.13 | Bart D. Ehrman |
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Ghost Wars | 738 pp. | $11.56 | Steve Coll |
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II | 608 pp. | $11.53 | Studs Terkel |
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Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving Our Seas | 240 pp. | $13.22 | Rod Fujita |
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A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam | 496 pp. | $11.48 | Karen Armstrong |
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The History of White People | 496 pp. | $18.45 | Nell Irvin Painter |
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Hostile Takeover | 384 pp. | $11.16 | David Sirota |
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How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror | 256 pp. | $17.16 | Reza Aslan |
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House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's
Two Most Powerful Dynasties | 368 pp. | $23.00 | Craig Unger |
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How To Rig An Election | 256 pp. | $16.50 | Allen Raymond |
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How Would A Patriot Act? | 128 pp. | $9.60 | Glenn Greenwald |
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City | 384 pp. | $10.17 | Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While | 422 pp. | $11.96 | Paul Loeb |
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The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power | 528 pp. | $17.79 | David E. Sanger |
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Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing The Truth About The American Voter | 224 pp. | $19.00 | Rick Shenkman |
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder | 335 pp. | $11.16 | Richard Louv |
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The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days | 288 pp. | $18.45 | Karen Greenberg |
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Neighbor Power: Building Community The Seattle Way | 216 pp. | $12.89 | Jim Diers |
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The Next 100 Million: America in 2050 | 320 pp. | $17.13 | Joel Kotkin |
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions | 604 pp. | $13.57 |
David Ray Griffin |
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Our Media, Not Theirs | 128 pp. | $9.95 |
John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney |
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Out Of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China | 368 pp. | $21.28 | Philip P. Pan |
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Pandora's Seed: The Unforseen Cost of Civilization | 256 pp. | $17.16 | Spencer Wells |
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Perfectly Legal | 352 pp. | $10.20 | David Lay Johnston |
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The Plan | 205 pp. | $15.56 | Rahm Emanuel |
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The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America | 416 pp. | $13.73 | Bryan D. Jones |
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The Republican Noise Machine : Right Wing Media and How It
Corrupts Democracy | 448 pp. | $11.86 | David Brock |
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The Shock Doctrine | 720 pp. | $9.60 | Naomi Klein |
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The Sociopath Next Door | 256 pp. | $10.17 | Martha Stout |
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic | 400 pp. | $10.88 | Chalmers Johnson |
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The Story of B | 352 pp. | $11.56 | Daniel Quinn |
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The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity | 352 pp. | $10.85 | Robert Kuttner |
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The Swamp | 480 pp. | $10.20 | Michael Grunwald |
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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger | 352 pp. | $18.48 | Richard Wilkinson
& Kate Pickett |
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Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity | 568 pp. | $29.07 | Eric Chivian |
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, 2nd Ed. | 294 pp. | $12.21 | Ahmed Rashid |
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The Tipping Point | 304 pp. | $8.97 | Malcolm Gladwell |
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Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back | 360 pp. | $13.57 | Thom Hartmann |
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education | 400 pp. | $19.11 | Craig M. Mullaney |
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U.S. v. Bush | 192 pp. | $10.17 | Elizabeth de la Vega |
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The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy | 256 pp. | $10.08 | Raj Patel |
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The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's
Transforming the American Economy | 336 pp. | $10.20 | Charles Fishman |
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What A President Should Know: An Insider's View on How to Succeed in the Oval Office | 256 pp. | $18.96 |
Lawrence B. Lindsey |
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What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News | 336 pp. | $11.70 |
Eric Alterman |
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman | 416 pp. | $14.79 |
Jon Krakauer |
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The White Tiger | 304 pp. | $10.20 | Aravind Adiga |
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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton | 640 pp. | $18.45 | Carl Bernstein |
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The World is Flat | 616 pp. | $10.88 | Thomas Friedman |
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | 352 pp. | $18.48 | Timothy Egan |
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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule | 384 pp. | $15.00 |
Thomas Frank |
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*Cost is based on the lowest price available for a new copy at Amazon.com when the book was added to the list
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