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Pity The Nation

The Abduction of Lebanon

By Robert Fisk

This remarkable book is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for twenty-six years. It is a story of Western betrayal and the challenge to American power and prestige in the Middle East.

The Iranian Labyrinth

Journeys through Theocratic Iran and Its Furies

By Dilip Hiro

Woman's Inhumanity to Woman

By Phyllis Chesler

We are all familiar with the phrase "man's inhumanity to man." Until now, a profound silence has prevailed about woman's inhumanity to woman. This groundbreaking, lucid book breaks that silence.

Thirty Years of Treason

Excerpts From Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968

By Eric Bentley

This absorbing collection reveals with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel investigating potentially subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a monstrous and unrelenting accusatory force from which no one was safe.

Left in the Dark

Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001

By Stuart Klawans

In 2007, The Nation's Stuart Klawans won a National Magazine Award for his sharp and revelatory film writing. This selection of reviews and essays from The Nation--as well as the New York Times, The Village Voice, Film Comment and other journals--spotlights some of his best work.

A Just Response

The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001

By Katrina vanden Heuvel and Jonathan Schell

In a series of thoughtful, informed and provocative essays written after September 11, some of the most respected figures on the progressive left analyzed the causes and consequences of the terrorist attacks, articulating a vision of what a just response to terrorism might look like.

Guerrilla Radio

Rock 'n' Roll Radio and Serbia's Underground Resistance

By Matthew Collin

Armed only with a stack of old punk records and a dream of freedom, one defiant Belgrade radio station waged a ten-year war against Slobodan Milosevic's dictatorship-and won.

Burning All Illusions

Writings from The Nation on Race

By Paula Giddings

Infused with the moral passion and urgency that the subject demands, this collection includes some of the best writing on race and civil rights from 1865 to the present.

The Global Activist's Manual

Local Ways to Change the World

By Mike Prokosch and Laura Raymond

In this guide to transforming the corporate globalization movement, three dozen authors look beyond the spectacular shutdowns and protests to introduce the reader to farmers in Iowa, industrial workers in Tennessee and anti-sweatshop activists in Maine who are connecting global injustices to the issues in their own front yards.

Left Hooks, Right Crosses

A Decade of Political Writing

By Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Caldwell

This irreverent, sarcastic, witty, and intelligent tour of the Clinton era is hosted by two of America's leading essayists: Christopher Caldwell, of The Weekly Standard and New York Press; and Christopher Hitchens, of Vanity Fair and The Nation.

Busted

Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington's War on Drugs

By Mike Gray

In 1971 Richard Nixon launched the "war on drugs." Thirty-five years later, even the editors of the conservative National Review have stated: "The War on Drugs Is Lost." Busted charts the violence, chaos and corruption that the war on drugs has spawned.

Mount Rushmore

An Icon Reconsidered

By Jesse Larner

Mount Rushmore, conceived in the 1920s as a tourist attraction, was quickly recast by the sculptor into an icon of democracy, freedom and hope. The history of the Black Hills and the sense of manifest destiny that haunts the monument, however, render the faces more ironic than iconic.

Nothing Sacred

Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror

By Betsy Reed and Katha Pollitt

Long before the White House took notice of the Taliban's brutal treatment of Afghan women, feminists were sounding an alarm about the rise of religious fundamentalism throughout the world and its deadly consequences for women. Yet women's voices have been conspicuously absent from the debate over the new war on terror. Nothing Sacred breaks this silence.

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

How We Got to Be So Hated

By Gore Vidal

In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed unpublishable in this country until now), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following both September 11 and Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City: These were simply the acts of "evil-doers."

Dreaming War

Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta

By Gore Vidal

When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, Vidal was described as the "last defender of the American Republic." In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head-on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by.

Iraq

In the Eye of the Storm

By Dilip Hiro

Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm combines firsthand reportage with incisive analysis from the celebrated journalist and historian Dilip Hiro, who looks beyond the spin of both the Bush Administration and Saddam's Baathist regime to explore Iraq in all its complexity.