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— Pericles (430 B.C.E.)

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—Sir Henry Wilson

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Edward 'Cactus Ed' Abbey [1927-89]

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G.E. Nordell





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New World Order Global Regime   "The New World Order: An Economic Global Regime" [1999]
by Carlo James, MA

Dissertation 8½x5½ pb [10/99] for $19.95
The Syndicate / World Government  "The Syndicate: The Story of The Coming World Government"
[2004] by Nicholas Hagger

O Books 8¾x6 pb [11/2004] for $13.46
Arthur Miller On Politics & the Art of Acting  "On Politics and The Art of Acting" [2001]
by Arthur Miller [1915-2005]

Amazon bargain edition 7x5¼ hardcover [10/2001] for $4.50
Viking 7x5¼ hardcover [10/2001] for $15.00
Oxford Political Quotations   "The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations"
[orig 1980; 3rd edition 2006] Edited by Antony Jay

Oxford Univ Press 7½x5 pb [2/2007] for $14.00
Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $17.86
Brief History of Neo-Liberalism   "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" [2005]
by David Harvey

Neoliberalism is the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action
Oxford Univ Press 7½x5 pb [12/2006] for $16.95
Oxford Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [8/2005] for $29.95
Thinking Politically / Michael Walzer  "Thinking Politically: Essyas in Political Theory" [2007]
Essays by Michael Walzer, Introduction & edited by David Miller

Yale Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2007] for $22.80
Michael Walzer entry at Wikipedia
Thinking Politically / Raymond Aron  "Thinking Politically: A Liberal In The Age of Ideology" [1997]
Interviews with Raymond Aron, edited by Brian Anderson

Transaction Publrs 8¾x6 pb [1/97] for $29.95
Raymond Aron [1905-83] entry at Wikipedia
Break Through   "Break Through: From The Death of Environmentalism To The Politics of Possibility" [2007]
by Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus

"a new politics for a new century, one focused on aspirations, not complaints, [on] human possibility, not limits"
Houghton Mifflin 8½x6 hardcover [10/2007] for $16.50
Break Through Institute website

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt   "Beyond A Reasonable Doubt" [2006] Edited by Larry King
The title phrase is nowhere mentioned in the constitution and nowhere defined in our laws; in this book, over 80 influential scholars, attorneys, novelists, journalists, and religious figures discuss, explore, interpret, and define the phrase and its meaning.
Phoenix Books 9x6¼ hardcover [11/2006] for $20.40
End of America / Warning To A Young Patriot  "The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young  
Patriot" [2007]
by Naomi Wolf

Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the XXth Century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China & Chile
Chelsea Green 8¼x5¼ pb [9/2007] for $11.16
publisher's bookpage
American Freedom Campaign website
Facing Fascism  
"Facing Fascism: The Threat To American Democracy In The 21st Century" [2006]
by Jerry Sorlucco

AuthorHouse 9x5¾ pb [8/2006] for $17.99
AuthorHouse 9x6 hardcover [8/2006] for $28.45




Assault on Reason by Al Gore   "The Assault On Reason" [2007]
by Al Gore, Jr.

Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2007] for $15.57
Penguin audio CD [5/2007] for $19.77
Freedom's Power   "Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism" [2007]
by Paul Starr

Perseus Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2007] for $17.16
Progressives Handbook   "The Progressives' Handbook: Get The Facts & Make A Difference Now" [2006]
by Heather Wokusch

Vol. 1: U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction, Women's Issues, Education, Mainstream Media
BookSurge Publng pb [9/2006] for $15.99
Vol. 2: Elections & Voting, Environment, Foreign Policy
BookSurge Publng pb [9/2006] for $15.99
official booksite
Saving Democracy  
"Saving Democracy: A Plan For Real Representation In America"
[2006] by Kevin O'Leary

Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $13.57
Stanford Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $50.00
Losing Our Democracy   "Losing Our Democracy: How Bush, The Far Right & Big Business Are Betraying Americans For Power & Profit"
[2006] by Mark Green

Sourcebooks 9x6¼ hardcover [8/2006] for $18.96
Diplomacy Lessons   "Diplomacy Lessons: Realism For An Unloved Superpower"
[2006] by John Brady Kiesling

Perseus Books pb [9/2007] for $13.57  
Potomac Books 9x6½ hardcover [8/2006] for $19.98
author's website
Broken Branch / Congress   "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America & How To Get It Back On Track" [2006]
by Thomas E. Mann & Norman J. Ornstein

Oxford Univ Press 8¼x6½ hardcover [6/2006] for $17.16
10 Steps To Repair American Democracy   "10 Steps To Repair American Democracy: An Owners Manual For Concerned Citizens" [2006]
by Steven Hill, Foreword by Hendrik Hertzberg

PoliPointPress pb [5/2006] for $8.80
publisher book page
American Theocracy   "American Theocracy: The Peril & Politics of Radical Religion, Oil & Borrowed Money In The 21st Century" [2006]
by Kevin Phillips

Penguin pb [3/2007] for $10.88  
Viking 9¼x6¾ hardcover [3/2006] for $17.79
official booksite
Going Dirty / Negative Campaigning  
"Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning" [2006]
by David Mark

Rowman & Littlefield 9x6¼ hardcover [3/2006] for $24.95
Crashing the Gate   "Crashing The Gate: Netroots, Grassroots & The Rise of People-Powered Politics" [2006]
by Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas Zúniga

Chelsea Green hardcover [3/2006] for $16.50
Left Hand of God   "The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country From The Religious Right" [2006]
by Rabbi Michael Lerner

HarperSFO 7¾x5¼ pb [3/2007] for $10.17  
HarperSFO 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $16.47
Fundamentalism & American Culture   "Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism" [orig 1980, rev 2006]
by George M. Marsden

Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [2/2006] for $11.02
Oxford Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/2006] for $50.00
Covenant With Black America   "The Covenant With Black America" [2006]
Edited by Tavis Smiley

#1 non-fiction pb per New York Times Book Review (April 2006)
Third World Press 9x6½ pb [1/2006] for $7.20
official booksite
Off Center   "Off Center: The Republican Revolution & The Erosion of American Democracy" [2005]
by Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson

Yale Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2005] for $16.50
publisher's bookpage
authors' booksite
Freedom Reclaimed  
"Freedom Reclaimed: Rediscovering The American Vision"
[2004] by John E. Schwarz

Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2004] for $30.00
Common Sense Government   "Common Sense Government: Works Better & Costs Less"
[1995] by Al Gore, Jr.

Univ Press of the Pacific 11x8¼ pb [5/2005] for $29.50
Random House 8x6 pb [10/95] for $19.00
Unequal Protection   "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance & The Theft of Human Rights" [2002]
by Thom Hartmann

Rodale 8¾x6 pb [4/2004] for $10.85
Rodale 9½x6½ hardcopver [10/2002] for $16.98
Strong Democracy   "Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics For A New Age"
[1984] by Benjamin R. Barber

Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [2/2004] for $11.53
Univ CA Press hardcover [6/84] out of print/used
California Rising / Edmund G. 'Pat' Brown {1905-96}   "California Rising: The Life & Times of Pat Brown" [2005]
by Ethan Rarick

Univ CA Press 9¼x6.6 hardcover [1/2005] for $19.77
Looking Forward To It   "Looking Forward To It: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The American Electoral Process" [2004]
by Stephen Elliott

Picador 8¾x5½ pb [10/2004] for $11.20
author website
Unequal Contest   "Unequal Contest: Bill Langer & His Political Enemies" [2004]
by Robert Vogel

Langer was a populist leader in North Dakota who fought for economic justice, was impeached as Governor, was re-elected, and then served as a U.S. Senator.
Crain Grosinger pb [9/2004] for $17.95

Multitude / Empire   "Multitude: War & Democracy In The Age of Empire" [2004]
by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri

sequel to their 2000 book "Empire" below
Penguin 8½x5½ pb [7/2005] for $16.00
Penguin 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2004] for $17.61
Imperial Designs   "Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism & The New Pax
Americana" [2004]
by Gary Dorrien

Routledge 9¼x6 pb [8/2004] for $31.00
What Would Jefferson Do?   "What Would Jefferson Do?" [2004]
by Thom Hartmann

Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [8/2005] for $11.20
Harmony 8¼x5¾ hardcover [7/2004] out of print/used
Conservative Power in America   "The Right Nation: Conservative Power In America" [2004]
by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge

Penguin 8½x5½ pb [5/2005] for $10.40
Penguin 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2004] for $16.35
Freethinkers / Secularism   "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism" [2004]
by Susan Jacoby

Holt/Owl 8¼x5½ pb [1/2005] for $10.88
Holt/Metropolitan 9¾x6½ hardcover [5/2004] for $17.32
Rise of the Vulcans   "Rise of The Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet" [2004]
by James Mann

Penguin 8½x5½ pb [9/2004] for $10.88
Viking 9.3x6.3 hardcover [3/2004] for $16.35
Price of Loyalty / O'Neill   "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, The White House & The Education of Paul O'Neill" [2004]
by Ron Suskind

S&S 8½x5½ pb [9/2004] for $10.20
S&S 9½x6.4 hardcover [1/2004] for $16.38
Audioworks ABR audio CD [1/2004] for $18.90
Audioworks ABR audio [1/2004] for $17.16
official booksite
"El Precio de la Lealtad: Con una Cierta Mirada"
Peninsular pb [5/2004] for $21.90
Fierce Discontent  
"A Fierce Discontent: The Rise & Fall of The Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920" [2003]
by Michael McGerr

Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [5/2005] for $13.57
Free Press 9¼x6.3 hardcover [9/2003] for $22.80
Power Play   "Power Play: The Twentieth-Century Struggle Over Electricity"
[2003] by Sharon Beder

"Deeply alarming ... Couldn't be timelier, particularly for Californians." – Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times
New Press 9½x6¼ [8/2003] for $18.17
Fight for Democracy   "The Fight Is For Democracy: Winning The War of Ideas In America & The World" [2003]
9 essays; edited by George Packer

Perennial 8x5¼ pb [8/2003] for $11.16
Hightower Thieves in High Places   "Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country – And It's Time To Take It Back" [2003]
by Jim Hightower

Viking Press hardcover [8/2003] for $17.47
author website
Overruling Democracy   "Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People" [2003]
by Jamin B. Raskin

"[The author] offers a host of proposals to make politics in the United States more democratic and vibrant." — Alexander Keyssar, L.A. Times Book Review Section
Routledge 9.4x6¼ hardcover [1/2003] for $19.25
Outgunned  
"Outgunned: Up Against The N.R.A. – The First Complete Insider Account of The Battle Over Gun Control" [2002]
by Peter Harry Brown & Daniel G. Abel

Free Press hardcover [12/2002] for $18.20
Democracy Owners' Manual   "The Democracy Owners' Manual: A Practical Guide To Changing the World" [2002]
by Jim Shultz

Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2002] for $22.95
Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2002] for $59.00
Our Media, Not Theirs   "Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media" [2002]
by Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols

Seven Stories Press 7x5 pb [12/2002] for $9.95
{an expansion of pamphlet "It's The Media, Stupid"}
SSP/Open Media 6¾x3¼ pamphlet [6/2000] out of print/used
SSP Adobe Reader ebook [6/2000] for $5.00
Where Have All the Voters Gone?  
"Where Have All The Voters Gone?" [2002]
by Martin P. Wattenberg

Harvard Univ Press 8.4x5½ pb [11/2002] for $18.95
Harvard Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/2002] for $39.95
Why the Left Hates America   "Why The Left Hates America: Exposing The Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness" [2002]
by Daniel J. Flynn

Unsupported blather from an angry fascist-racist-sexist
right-wing Republican — do not buy this book!
Vanishing Voter   "The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement In An Age Of Uncertainty" [2002]
by Thomas E. Patterson

Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2002] for $17.50
Silent Takeover   "The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism & The Death of Democracy" [2002]
by Noreena Hertz

"One of the best books of the year" — The Sunday Times of London
HarperBusiness 8x5.3 pb [9/2003] for $10.47
Free Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/2002] for $17.50
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace  
"Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated" [2002]
by Gore Vidal

Thunder's Mouth Press 7.6x5 pb [3/2002] for $8.00
Blinded by the Right   "Blinded By The Right: The Conscience of An Ex-Conservative"
[2002] by David Brock

The author participated in the very real 'vast right-wing conspiracy' that sought to bring down the Clinton presidency; this book sets the record straight with much documentary evidence.
Crown 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2002] for $18.17
Crown Adobe Reader ebook [4/2002] for $20.00
Crown M/S Reader ebook [4/2002] for $20.00

Stupid White Men   "Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses For The State of The Nation!" [2002]
by gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore

largest selling non-fiction book in America for 2002
Regan Books 9x5¾ hardcover [2/2002] for $14.97
New Millennium UNABR audio CD [5/2002] for $34.97
New Millennium UNABR audio [5/2002] for $24.47

Too Close To Call   "Too Close To Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle To Decide the 2000 Election" [2001]
by Jeffrey Toobin

Random House pb [10/2002] for $10.47
Random House 9½x6.4 hardcover [10/2001] for $18.17
Who Rules America?   "Who Rules America?: Power & Politics" [2001]
by G. William Domhoff

McGraw-Hill 8¾x6 pb [6/2001] for $37.65
Wellstone   "The Conscience of A Liberal: Reclaiming The Compassionate Agenda" [2001]
by Sen. Paul Wellstone

Univ of MN Press 8½x5½ pb [10/2002] for $12.57
Random House 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] for $16.77
Dershowitz Supreme Injustice    "Supreme Injustice: How The High Court Hijacked Election 2000" [2001]
by Alan M. Dershowitz

Oxford Univ Press pb [10/2002] for $10.47
Oxford Univ Press 9½x6.4 hardcover [6/2001] for $17.50
Betrayal of America by Bugliosi    "The Betrayal of America: How The Supreme Court Under- mined The Constitution & Chose Our President" [2001]
by Vincent Bugliosi

Thunder's Mouth Press 7½x5 pb [5/2001] for $9.95
Silent Theft   "Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth"
[2001] by David Bollier

"A tour de force narrative that draws the reader into high alert...."
— activist Ralph Nader

Routledge 9x6 pb [6/2003] for $12.57
Routledge 9¼x6.3 hardcover [3/2002] for $18.20

Empire by Hardt & Negri   "Empire" [2000] by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri
"an unabashedly utopian work of political philosophy"
Harvard Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [7/2001] for $17.95
Harvard Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2000] for $45.00
also see their subsequent book "Multitude" at top
"Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt & Negri" [2003]
Edited by Paul A. Passavant & Jodi Dean

Routledge 9x6¼ pb [11/2003] for $14.93
Routledge 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $104.95 [sic]

While America Sleeps   "While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, & The Threat To Peace" [2000]
by historians Donald & Frederick W. Kagan

Griffin 9¼x6 pb [11/2001] for $12.57
St. Martin 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2000] out of print/used
Hightower If The Gods Had Meant Us To Vote   "If The Gods Had Meant Us To Vote, They Would Have Given Us Candidates" [2000]
by Jim Hightower

Harper 8x5¼ pb [2/2001] for $11.20
HarperCollins hardcover [3/2000] out of print/used
author website
Electoral College Primer  
"The Electoral College Primer 2000" [1999]
by Lawrence D. Longley & Neal R. Peirce

Yale Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/99] for $18.00
Yale Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/99] out of print/used
Wave Principle   "The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior & The New Science of Socionomics" [1999]
by Robert R. Prechter, Jr.

New Classics Library hardcover [6/2002] for $27.30
New Classics Library 9¾x6½ hardcover [3/99] for $40.99
Achieving Our Country   "Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought In Twentieth-Century America" [1998]
by Richard Rorty [1931-2007]

Rorty holds that the Critical Left offers few solutions, while the Progressive Left is committed to ongoing pragmatic achievement.
Harvard Univ Press 8¼x5¾ pb [9/99] for $10.17
Harvard Univ Press 8¾x6 hardcover [4/98] for $25.00
book entry at Wikipedia
Economic Theory of Democracy   "An Economic Theory of Democracy" [1997]
by Anthony Downs

Addison Wesley 8x5½ pb [1/97] for $60.60
Death & Rebirth of American Radicalism  
"The Death & Rebirth of American Radicalism" [1996]
by Stanley Aronowitz

Routledge 9x6 pb [12/96] for $26.95
Routledge 9½x6¼ hardcover [12/96] for $96.99 [!]
Up From Conservatism   "Up From Conservatism: Why The Right Is Wrong For America"
[1996] by Michael Lind

Free Press 8x6 pb [7/97] for $13.00
Free Press 10x6½ hardcover [7/96] out of print/used
Populist Persuasion   "The Populist Persuasion: An American History" [1995]
by Michael Kazin

Cornell Univ Press 9½x6 pb [10/98] for $19.95
Basic Books 9¾x6½ hardcover [2/95] out of print/used
author homepage
Death of Common Sense   "The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America" [1995]
by Philip K. Howard
{chairman of Common Good}
Warner 8x5¼ pb [3/96] for $11.16
Random House hardcover [1/95] out of print/used
Publishing Mills audio [6/96] out of stock/used
Criminal Justice?   "Criminal Justice?: The Legal System Versus Individual Responsibility" [14 essays; 1995]
Edited by Robert James Bidinotto

Fndtn for Economic Educ'n pb [6/95] out of print/used
Fndtn for Economic Educ'n hardcover [6/95] out of print/used
Power Game / Washington   "The Power Game: How Washington Works" [1988]
by journalist Hedrick Smith

Ballantine 8¼x5½ pb [9/96] for $11.53
Random House hardcover [2/88] out of print/used
Democracy Theory & Practice   "Democracy: Theory and Practice" [1992]
by John Arthur

Wadsworth 9¼x7½ pb [1/92] out of print/used at Amazon
Still Don't Vote   "Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way" [1988]
by Frances Fox Piven & Richard A. Cloward

Beacon Press pb [rev 9/2000] for $12.60
Politics of War   "The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever The Political Life of The American Republic, 1890-1920"
[1979] by Walter Karp

Moyer Bell Ltd. 8¼x5¼ pb [11/2003] for $11.86
Harper & Row hardcover [1/79] out of print/used

"The Triumph of Politics: Why The Reagan Revolution Failed" [1986]
by David Stockman
"No other book comes close to understanding America's domestic
political process." — J. Roberts (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

Avon pb [1/87] out of print/many used
HarperCollins hardcover [5/86] out of print/many used
Sept 2003 Slate article by Timothy Noah

Culture & Society  
"Culture and Society, 1780-1950" [1966]
by Raymond Williams

Columbia Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/83] for $30.50




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