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by Eric Schlosser  
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Robert Baer  Publisher Comments In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politics drastically compromised the CIA's efforts to fight global terrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil, Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our government's cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally and America's dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerable to economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts of terrorism....(read more) Your price $13.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for other copies 
by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor. Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Ron Suskind Publisher Comments A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times. This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that has been written about the... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov Publisher Comments "Durant's experience is one of the most harrowing in the history of the American military, and one of the most compelling ever told." -from the introduction by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk over... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Aaron McGruder Publisher Comments This scathingly hilarious political satire—produced from a collaboration of three of our funniest humorists—answers the burning question: Would anyone care if East St. Louis seceded from the Union? East St. Louis, Illinois (“the inner... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Robert Baer Publisher Comments “Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Robert B. Reich Publisher Comments From Robert B. Reich, passionate believer in American democracy, and public servant in both Democratic and Republican administrations–an urgent call to liberals to reclaim their political clout. Reason is a guide to confronting and derailing what... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by William Greider Publisher Comments This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates -- and how it manipulated and transformed both the American economy and the world's during the last eight crucial years. Based on... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your Price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Clinton Publisher Comments Former president Bill Clinton's highly anticipated memoirs will be published in June. <I> My Life, <I> an account of Clinton's life through the White House years, is one of the most eagerly awaited books of recent years. The book will go on... (read more) Your Price $35.00 (New - Audio Cassette) check for used and sale copies
by Benjamin Barber Publisher Comments The author of Jihad vs. McWorld analyzes how American foreign policy has gone wrong — and how it could go right. In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, Benjamin R. Barber exposes in detail the... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Marita Golden Publisher Comments In a hard-hitting meditation on the role that color plays among African Americans and in wider society, Marita Golden dares to put herself on the line, expressing her fears and rage about how she has navigated through the color complex. To be sure... (read more) Your Price $23.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Publisher Comments Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its... (read more) Your Price $4.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Al Franken Publisher Comments Al Franken, one of our "savviest satirists" (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of "slander," "bias," and even "treason." He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus... (read more) Your Price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jeanine Cummins Publisher Comments When my parents packed my brother, sister and me into the family van and drove us to Missouri for Spring Break, we brought our entirely imagined city-hardness with us. The hard truth that we were about to learn was that, in fact, we weren't tough kids at... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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