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  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • You're More Powerful than You Think

    A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen

    by Eric Liu ...
    Is this the America you want? If not, here's how to claim the power to change your country.We are in an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing. From the election of Donald Trump to the upending of the major political parties to the spread of grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter and $15 Now, people across the country and across the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Democracy Awakening

    Notes on the State of America

    **A New York Times BestsellerA vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians.“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post“An excellent primer for anyone who needs the important facts of the last 150 years of American history–and how they got us to the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Mueller Report: The Unbiased Truth about Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion (Annotated)

    In the future, "The Mueller Report" may be judged as the most important document of our time. And no matter where you reside on the American political spectrum, you will probably agree that it will have far-reaching implications for the balance of power among the three coequal branches of government that create, administer, and apply the laws of our republic. "From the moment [the report] was ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • #NeverAgain

    A New Generation Draws the Line

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister, Lauren, went to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, like any normal Wednesday. That day, of course, the world changed. By ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Only the Dead

    The Persistence of War in the Modern Age

    The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows that the evidence simply doesn't support the decline-of-war thesis propounded by scholars like Steven ... Read more

    $20.99 USD $17.99 USD

  • Voices of the Nakba

    A Living History of Palestine

    ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ‘disaster’ or ‘catastrophe’ - lays bare the violence of the ongoing Palestinian plight.Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dollarocracy

    How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

    Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • No Fascist USA!

    The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    The story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, laying the groundwork for today’s anti-fascist/anti-racist movements."Smash fascism! Read this book!"—Tom Morello, songwriter and guitarist with Rage Against the Machine"Studying the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee will give readers an understanding of the complexity of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A True History of the United States

    Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism

    Series series Truth to Power
    **“Thought-provoking—a must read for [everyone] seeking a firm grasp of accurate American history." —Kirkus (starred review)Brilliant, readable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.**Sjursen shifts the lens ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Strongmen

    Trump / Modi / Erdoğan / Duterte / Putin

    Five noted writers and thinkers profile five of the world’s leaders. For some of us, these leaders are heroes; for others, villains; for all of us—strongmen.We’re edging towards a new kind of global fascism driven by aggression and strident nationalism. In this energetic, focused book, a group of five accomplished writers confronts five would-be dictators.American playwright Eve Ensler (The Vagina ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Straight State

    Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

    Series Book 64 - Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenshipThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • How Do You Kill 11 Million People?

    Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

    by Andy Andrews ...
    How do you get away with the murder of 11 million people? The answer is simple—and disturbing. You lie to them. Learn how you can become an informed, passionate citizen who demands honesty and integrity from your leaders.In this nonpartisan New York Times bestselling book, Andy Andrews emphasizes that seeking and discerning the truth is of critical importance, and that believing lies is the most ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Allow Me to Retort

    A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

    by Elie Mystal ...
    Finalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksThe New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds“After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don’t understand—quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer . . .” —Michael Harriot, The RootAllow ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Child Labor and the Urban Third World

    Toward a New Understanding of the Problem

    The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living. The problem of child labor has also been exacerbated to an unprecedented level in the urban areas ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?

    A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work

    by Ben Sheehan ...
    Do you know what the Constitution ACTUALLY says?This witty and highly relevant annotation of our founding document is the go-to guide to how our government really works (or is supposed to work).Written by political savant and entertainment veteran, Ben Sheehan, and vetted for accuracy by experts in the field of constitutional law, OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? is an entertaining and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lynching

    Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity

    by Ersula J. Ore ...
    Series series Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
    Winner of the 2020 Rhetoric Society of America Book AwardWhile victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of the nation.Ersula J. Ore investigates ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • US Citizenship Test Study Guide 2023

    by Donald Bond ...
    BONUS INCLUDED SCANNING A QR CODE INSIDEDo you have little time left to prepare for the exam?Have you heard that several of your friends have failed?Do you want to prove your worth and realize the American dream?If you answered "Yes" read on as I have something for you.I imagine you haven't passed a school exam in years, and you are worried because this time, the res... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Green Shoots of Democracy within the Philadelphia Democratic Party

    by Karen Bojar ...
    Drawing on the experiences of grassroots political activists from different socio- economic and ethnic backgrounds, Green Shoots of Democracy explores how self-identified progressives manage (or fail to manage) to work within a big city political machine. Although the book focuses on the work of progressives to foster democracy and transparency within the Philadelphia Democratic Party, lessons ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • On Tyranny

    Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has writ... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • America the Beautiful

    Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

    What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place? Join Dr. Ben Carson as he explores what made this nation great and discovers how we can find our way back.In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in order to chart a better course for our future. From his personal ascent from ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Citizen

    An American Lyric

    * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What Happened

    “An engaging, beautifully synthesized page-turner” (Slate). The #1 New York Times bestseller and Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most personal memoir yet, about the 2016 presidential election.In this “candid and blackly funny” (The New York Times) memoir, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Erosion of Democracy

    Democracy -, #1

    by J. Dhopte ...
    Series Book 1 - Democracy
    This book is a first part of the series - DEMOCRACY, a series of three books. Democracy during the last decade has suffered a dramatic decline.The constitutional democracies are being overthrown and there is an increase in the regimes that retain the formal institutional trappings while flouting the norms and values on which constitutional democracies are based.The forces of neo- liberalism are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD