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Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

de Glenn Beck

When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

It is the only time this phrase appears...

Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street

de Neil Barofsky

In this riveting account of the mishandling of the TARP bailout fund, a former federal prosecutor offers behind-the-scenes proof of the corrupt ways Washington officials serve the interests of Wall Street.

In...

The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Road to International Cooperation

de Mark Malloch-Brown

In The Unfinished Global Revolution, former United Nations Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch-Brown diagnoses the central global predicament of the twenty-first century—as we have become more integrated,...

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War

de Michael Isikoff & David Corn

March 2003: The United States invades Iraq.

October 2006: The world finds out why.

What was really behind the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq? As George W. Bush steered the nation to war, who spoke the truth and who...

Who's Looking Out for You?

de Bill O'Reilly

From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone, a no-holds-barred exposé of the people and institutions who are letting Americans down – and what we should do about it.

Bill O’Reilly...

Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives

de Robert Draper

When the Tea Party Came to Town demonstrates Robert Draper’s uncanny ability to ferret out news-making tidbits and provides us with the first look at this game-changing Congress—sure to be a classic work....

The Right Fights Back: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012)

de Evan Thomas, Politico & Mike Allen

Two of America’s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital...

Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots

de Laura Ingraham & Raymond Arroyo

While Laura Ingraham was walking through a Northern Virginia shopping mall one Saturday afternoon, it all became clear to her. Everywhere she turned, she saw signs of the impending disaster: zombie teens texting...

On the State of Egypt: What Made the Revolution Inevitable

de Alaa Al Aswany & Humphrey Davies

“Alaa Al Aswany is among the best writers in the Middle East today, a suitable heir to the mantle worn by Naguib Mahfouz, his great predecessor.” –Jay Parini, The Guardian (UK)

From one of Egypt’s most...

The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine

de Matthew Continetti

“You’ve got to understand, we are ideologues,” Tom DeLay once told a journalist. “We have an agenda. We have a philosophy. I want to repeal the Clean Air Act. No one came to me and said, ‘Please repeal...

Centrist Rhetoric: The Production of Political Transcendence in the Clinton Presidency

de De Velasco, Antonio

Focused on the centrist rhetoric of President Bill Clinton, Centrist Rhetoric explores questions about the basic nature and function of pleas to transcend partisan division. Using close textual analysis in the...

Congress For Dummies

de David Silverberg, Tom Daschel & Dennis Hastert

Congress For Dummies helps you sort out what Congress does on a daily basis and what it all means to you, the citizen. It shows you how to get organized, make your voice heard, and influence legislation that...

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Barack Obama, 2009, Book 1

de Office of the Federal Register

Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. The material is presented in chronological...

Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About

de Mike Kimel & Nigel Holmes

The authors cut through party bias to present the quantifiable facts about how modern presidents have performed on critical national issues

Politicians and the media spend a lot of time telling Americans how...

Congressional Ambivalence

de Jasmine Farrier

Is the United States Congress dead, alive, or trapped in a moribund cycle? When confronted with controversial policy issues, members of Congress struggle to satisfy conflicting legislative, representative, and...

Appendix, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012

de Office of Management and Budget

Contains detailed information on the various appropriations and funds that constitute the budget and is designed primarily for the use of the U.S. Appropriations Committee/ The Appendix contains detailed financial...

Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012

de Office of Management and Budget

Contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's budget and management priorities, and budget overviews organized by government agency

The Obama Presidency in the Constitutional Order: A First Look

de Carol McNamara

The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In this book, a diverse group of presidential scholars step back from the partisan debate to consider the...

Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President

de Jack Cashill

Did Obama write his own books and is the story they tell true?

“I've written two books,” Barack Obama told a crowd of teachers in July of 2008. “I actually wrote them myself.” The teachers exploded in...

The Obama Diaries

de Laura Ingraham

The Diary of President Barack Obama

The White House

May 19, 2010

I was going to write about tonight’s state dinner for Mexico and the amnesty plan, but we’ve got a national crisis here! I think somebody’s...