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Journalism Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 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 Sale Books Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times by Ellen Goodman Publisher Comments In this rich and savvy collection of commentaries on the events, people and issues that shape and define our world, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Goodman cuts to the heart of the stories and controversies... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean Publisher Comments Former White House counsel and New York Times bestselling author John Dean reveals how the Bush White House has set America back decades - employing a worldview and tactics of deception that will do more damage to the nation than Nixon at his worst.... (read more) Your Price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) Browse more featured Used titles Law Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- And Cheat Everybody Else 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 $8.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Middle East Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude 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   Middle East Sleeping With the Devil : How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude (03 Edition) 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 Humor Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-367).... (read more) Your Price $3.25 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Presidents Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House by Sally Bedell Smith Publisher Comments In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies George W Bush Dick: The Man Who Is President by John Nichols Publisher Comments When a lone gunman started shooting outside the White House on a weekday morning two years ago, Secret Service agents rushed to secure the leaders of the free world. They found Dick Cheney in his office talking on a speakerphone, reviewing material on a... (read more) Your Price $23.95 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Politics The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity-A Diplomat's Memoir by Joseph Wilson Publisher Comments Through the last three presidential administrations and two wars with Iraq, no one has personally witnessed, influenced, or fueled news over more history-making events than Joseph Wilson. The last American diplomat to sit face-to-face with Saddam Hussein,... (read more) Your Price $5.21 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Foreign Policy The Sorrows of Empire: An Empire Project by Chalmers Johnson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-366) and index.... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Presidential Elections Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America 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

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