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A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette ($25.95) | Digital Download
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up...
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America (The Audiobook)
by Jon Stewart
Price: Audio CD ($19.98) | Digital Download
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots deliver a hilarious look at American government.
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Homegrown Democrat
by Garrison Keillor
Price: Audio CD ($18.36) | Audio Cassette
In a book that is at once deeply personal and intellectually savvy, Homegrown Democrat is a celebration of liberalism as the "politics of kindness."
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Hegemony or Survival
by Noam Chomsky
Price: Audio CD ($27.96) | Digital Download
For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe.
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War, Journalism, and the Middle East
by Robert Fisk
Price: Audio CD ($11.16)
With unparalleled access to history-makers in the Middle East, Fisk recounts the rise of Hezbollah, his interviews with Osama bin Laden, and the growing Iraqi insurgency. Includes a lecture and an interview with acclaimed radio host David Barsamian.
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When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden
by Bill Maher
Price: Audio CD ($26.96) | Digital Download ($20.97)
"In this very funny but ultimately serious, provocative but truly patriotic book, Bill prescribes what Americans can do to defend our nation..."
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
by Al Franken
Price: Audio CD ($27.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
Al Franken, "one of our savviest satirists" (People), takes on the issues, the politicians, and the pundits in one of the most anticipated books of the year.
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Whose Freedom?
by George Lakoff
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Digital Download
Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party, shows that the conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion.
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Necessary Illusions
by Noam Chomsky
Price: Audio CD ($31.96) | Audio Cassette
This internationally acclaimed linguist and political radical inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control.
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Democracy Matters
by Cornel West
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
Democracy Matters is Cornel West's bold and powerful critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in this threatening post-9/11 age of terrorist rage and imperial overreach.
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American Theocracy
by Kevin Phillips
Price: Audio CD ($31.96) | Digital Download
In his two most recent New York Times best-selling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling, and imperiling, the United States.
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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Price: Audio CD ($29.95) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
The bestselling author of "Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor.
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Failed States
by Noam Chomsky
Price: Audio CD ($31.96) | Digital Download
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. In this much-anticipated sequel to his international best seller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state"...
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The Imperial Presidency
by Noam Chomsky
Price: Audio CD ($11.98) | Digital Download
"The Imperial Presidency" continues Chomsky's tradition of finely-honed social criticism and insight into the Bush Administration's intentional and repeated actions against international law, protected civil liberties, and the institution of democracy itself.
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The Truth (With Jokes)
by Al Franken
Price: Audio CD ($38.95) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($24.95)
The Republicans won the White House and Congress in November. In Fall 2005, Al Franken strikes back.
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What We Say Goes
by Noam Chomsky
Price: Audio CD ($23.96)
Following the "New York Times" bestseller "Hegemony or Survival"; an indispensable set of interviews on foreign policy and domestic issues with America's most useful citizen.
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An American Addiction
by Noam Chomsky
Price: Audio CD ($12.58) | Digital Download
Colombia is now the 3rd largest recipient of US foreign & military aid, the justification for which is the War on Drugs.
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Free Market Fantasies
by Noam Chomsky
Price: Audio CD ($12.58) | Digital Download
A refutation of the fantasies marketed as the "American Dream." The gulf between reality and a "free market" where entrepeneurs can compete on a level playing field is growing daily.
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Libertarianism
by David Boaz
Price: Audio CD ($81.00) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download | MP3 CD
Tens of millions of Americans, from Generation X-ers to baby boomers and beyond, are rediscovering libertarianism, a visionary alternative to the tired party orthodoxies of left and right...
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Stupid White Men...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
by Michael Moore
Price: Audio CD ($31.46) | Digital Download ($24.46)
The government has been seized by a ne'er-do-well rich boy and his elderly henchmen...
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Dude, Where's My Country?
by Michael Moore
Price: Audio CD ($34.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
And now, Michael Moore is back, daring to ask the most urgent question of these perilous times: Dude, Where's My Country?
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Bushwhacked
by Lou Dubose
Price: Audio CD ($13.49) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
Ivins and Dubose take the wire brush to the Bush presidency and show how he has applied the same flawed strategies...
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A Pretext for War
by James Bamford
Price: Audio CD ($24.75) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
From the mishandling of the pre-9/11 threat to the unproven claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Bamford argues that the Bush administration has co-opted the intelligence community for its own political ends, and at the expense of American security.
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Who Let the Dogs In?
by Molly Ivins
Price: Audio CD ($24.75) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America's most amazing and outlandish politicians, the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless, drawn from more than 20 years of reporting on the folks who attempt to run our government (in some cases, into the ground).
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Reason
by Robert B. Reich
Price: Audio CD ($29.95) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
From Robert B. Reich, passionate believer in American democracy and public servant, Reason is a guide to confronting and derailing what he sees as the mounting threat to American liberty...
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