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The Communist Manifesto
Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the...
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Class Warfare
Class Warfare is a book of interviews with Noam Chomsky conducted by David Barsamian. It was first published in the UK by Pluto Press in 1996.
Writer Rob Williams has stated that Class War was a major inspiration for his superhero comic book series...
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- Apr 1996
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the beginning...
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Leviathan
Leviathan, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes which was published in 1651. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book concerns the...
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- 1996
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- 1651
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- 29414
Nickel and Dimed
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from the perspective of the undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform on the "working poor" in the United...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda is a 1998 non-fiction book about the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994, written by The New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch....
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- 1998
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The First Stone
The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power by Helen Garner is a highly controversial non-fiction book about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne. It was first...
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- Aug 2004
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- 152594
The Missionary Position
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by Christopher Hitchens about Mother Teresa's life and work. From the controversial title (a double entendre of a sex position and the missionary work of a celibate nun), the...
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- 1995
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Martin Eden
Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909, and subsequently published in book form by The Macmillan...
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- 1909
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Jefferson Bible
The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was Thomas Jefferson's effort to extract the doctrine of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived...
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- 1820
Public Opinion
Public Opinion (1922), by Walter Lippman, is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially the irrational, and often self-serving, social perceptions that influence individual behavior, and prevent optimal societal cohesion....
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- 1922
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The Open Conspiracy
The Open Conspiracy is a book published in 1928 by H. G. Wells. In 1930 a revised and expanded version was published, and a further revised edition appeared in 1931 titled What are we to do with our Lives?. A final version appeared in 1933 under its...
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And the Band Played On
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a nonfiction book written by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts, published in 1987. It chronicles the discovery and spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and...
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- 1987
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Restoring the Lost Constitution
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty is a book about the U.S. constitution by Randy Barnett (Georgetown University Law Center), in which he outlines his theory of constitutional legitimacy, interpretation and construction. He...
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Banana Republicans
Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning America Into a One-Party State (ISBN 1-58542-342-4) is a book by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy. It was published in 2004.
In the book, Rampton and Stauber...
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War is a Racket
War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of only 19 people to be twice awarded the Medal of Honor, in which Butler frankly discusses from his experience as...
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On Liberty
On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state....
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- 1859
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Imperial Hubris
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Brassey's, 2004; ISBN 1-57488-849-8) is a book originally published anonymously, but later revealed to have been authored by Michael Scheuer, a CIA veteran with 22 years service, who ran the...
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The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle) is a work of philosophy and critical theory by Situationist and Marxist theorist, Guy Debord. It was first published in 1967 in France.
The concept of a Society of the Spectacle may refer in a...
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- 1967
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American Government
American Government is a textbook, now in its tenth edition, written by noted public administration scholar James Q. Wilson and political scientist John J. DiIulio, Jr.. DiIulio is a Democrat who served as the director of the White House Office of...
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- Sep 2005
The Hollow Hope
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?, ISBN 0-226-72703-3, was written by Gerald N. Rosenberg and published in 1991. A highly controversial work, it produced labels ranging from "revolutionary" to "insulting."
In his book, Gerald...
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The Invasion of Canada
The Invasion of Canada is a 1980 book by Pierre Berton.
The book is an account of the first year of the War of 1812, and the events leading up to it. Details of the book were drawn from memoirs and diaries of both common soldiers and commanding...
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Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America
Winning the Future is a book by former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich that outlines what Gingrich thinks needs to be done in America. Published in 2005 by Regnery Publishing (ISBN 0-89526-042-5), key points in the book include: Social...
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- 2005
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Prometheus Rising
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson is a guide book of "how to get from here to there", an amalgam of Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness, Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister...
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- 1983
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- 1983
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- 7492
Kick Ass
Kick Ass is the first of two books which highlight some of Carl Hiaasen's best columns in the newspaper Miami Herald. It was published in 1999, and followed by Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns (2001).
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- 2001
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- 24952
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy (1844) is a treatise on political economics by John Stuart Mill.
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While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
While America Sleeps is a book by historians Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan, published September 2000. Their thesis was that the United States at the end of the Cold War resembled Britain following World War I. They argue for a policy of...
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- 2000
The Truth
The Truth (With Jokes) is a book of political satire and humor by Al Franken, released in October 2005. The book's main focus is on the 2004 presidential election and Franken's research into the Republicans' strategy in their victory.
The book opens...
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- 2005
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The Hacker Crackdown
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (ISBN 0-553-56370-X) is a nonfiction book written by Bruce Sterling in 1992. It was published by Spectra Books.
The book discusses watershed events in the hacker subculture in the...
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- 1992
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- Nov 1, 1993
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- 102369
Holy War, Inc.
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden is a book by CNN investigative journalist and documentarian Peter Bergen.
In the book, Bergen documents the life, career, and activities of Islamic terrorist Osama bin Laden and the jihadist...
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- 2001
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Three volumes have published, running to more than 2,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fourth...
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The Assassination Bureau, Ltd
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (ISBN 0-14-018677-8) is a thriller novel, begun by Jack London and finished after his death by Robert L. Fish. It was published in 1963. The plot follows Ivan Dragomiloff, who, in a twist of fate, finds himself pitted...
Open Skies, Closed Minds
Open Skies, Closed Minds, a book on ufology, expresses the views of Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator with the British Ministry of Defence (MOD).
The book provides an overview of the UFO phenomenon, with the emphasis on Pope's three-year tour of...
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- 1999
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Failed States
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 2006, in which Chomsky argues that the United States is becoming a “failed state,” and thus a danger to its own people and the world.
The...
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- 2006
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- Apr 2006
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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy is a book written by Francis Fukuyama in 2006.
This book briefly discusses the history of neoconservatism, with particular focus on its major tenets and political...
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- Mar 2006
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In Defense of Global Capitalism
In Defense of Global Capitalism (in Swedish: Till världskapitalismens försvar) is a book by Swedish writer Johan Norberg promoting economic globalization and free trade. The book was originally published in May 2001 by the Swedish think tank Timbro....
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- May 2001
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Breakdown
Breakdown (ISBN 0-452-28427-9) is a 2003 book by Bill Gertz arguing that U.S. intelligence services "lost sight of [their] purpose and function" due to Clinton administration policies that were more concerned with political correctness than with...
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- May 27, 2003
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Addicted To War
Addicted to War, subtitled Why The US Can't Kick Militarism, is a 77 letter-sized page "illustrated exposé" by Joel Andreas published by Frank Dorrel with AK Press in 2002 (ISBN 1-904859-02X). Originally published in 1991, the book was out of print...
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Winning Colors
Winning Colors is the third novel in the space opera, military science fiction Familias Regnant fictional universe written by Elizabeth Moon; it continues the plot centered on the adventures of captain Heris Serrano and the maturation of several...
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- 1995
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- Aug 1995
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- 6416
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria analyzing the variables that allow a liberal democracy to flourish and the pros and cons of the global focus on democracy as the building block of a more...
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- 2003
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My Early Life
My Early Life: A Roving Commission is a 1930 book by Winston Churchill. It is an autobiography of his life from birth in 1874 up to approximately 1902.
A significant portion of the book covers his experiences in the Second Boer War which he earlier...
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The Anarchical Society
The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics is a 1977 book by Hedley Bull and a founding text of the so called English School of international relations theory. The title refers to the assumption of anarchy in the international system...
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- 1977
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In the Line of Fire: A Memoir
In the Line of Fire: A Memoir is a book that was written by former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and first published on September 25, 2006. The book contains a collection of Musharraf's memories and is being marketed as his official...
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- Sep 25, 2006
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The Audacity of Hope
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream is the second book written by then-Senator Barack Obama. In the fall of 2006 it became number one on both the New York Times and Amazon.com bestsellers lists after Obama was endorsed by...
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- Oct 17, 2006
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- Oct 17, 2006
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Jawbreaker: The attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda
Jawbreaker: The attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda: A personal account by the CIA's key field commander is an autobiographical book by Gary Berntsen describing the time he spent in Afghanistan at the beginning of the American campaign against the...
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- Dec 27, 2005
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Captive State
Captive State is a book written by the Guardian journalist and author George Monbiot in 2001 which examines the growth of corporate power in the UK and the negative impact that this has had on democracy and local communities.
The book explores...
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Making Democracy Work
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (ISBN 0691078890) is a 1993 book written by Robert Putnam (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti). Published by Princeton University Press, the book's central thesis is that social...
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When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden
When you ride ALONE you ride with bin Laden: What the Government SHOULD Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism (ISBN 1-59777-513-4) is a 2002 non-fiction political book by comedian and author Bill Maher. Maher targets American citizens in...
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American Power and the New Mandarins
American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 book by the US academic Noam Chomsky. It was his first political book and sets out in detail his opposition to the Vietnam War.
He develops the arguments, laid out in The Responsibility of Intellectuals...
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Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your Ears is a book by British politician Boris Johnson.
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- Jun 7, 2004
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Understanding California Government and Politics
USA/From Where We Stand: Readings in Contemporary American Problems is a non-fiction book published by Fearon Publishers in 1966.
The book was written by then-Assemblyman for California's 27th District, Leo J. Ryan. Ryan later went on to become a...
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- 1966
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The Course of Time
The Course of Time is a ten-book poem in blank verse, first published in 1827. It was the last published and most famous work of Scottish poet Robert Pollok. The first edition of the poem sold 12,000 copies, and by its fourth edition it had sold 78...
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- 1827
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It Can Happen Here
It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush is a 2007 nonfiction book written by liberal writer and commentator Joe Conason. Conason discusses what he sees as a trend towards authoritarianism during the administration of US President...
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The Jaguar Smile
The Jaguar Smile is Salman Rushdie's first full-length non-fiction book, which he wrote in 1987 after visiting Nicaragua. The book is subtitled A Nicaraguan Journey and relates his travel experiences, the people he met as well as views on the...
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- 1987
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Funding Evil
Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It is a book written by counterterrorism researcher Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, the director of the American Center for Democracy and the Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law. It was...
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- Aug 23, 2003
