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Dillinger in Hollywood

Short Stories

By John Sayles

Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director, he was an award-winning writer of fiction, praised by the Washington Post as "one of our most exciting and accomplished young writers." This is Sayles's first short story collection in twenty-five years.

Hoax

By Nicholas von Hoffman

Imperial America

Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

By Gore Vidal

This Olympian survey of American empire is a scathing, conclusion to Gore Vidal's bestselling trilogy--and his most devastating exploration of contemporary America to date.

Pride of the Bimbos

By John Sayles

Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's madcap, poignant and hilarious first novel. It tells the story of a circus sideshow softball team, the Brooklyn Bimbos, who play in drag in shabby small towns across the South.

Warrior King

The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush

By Pete Shanks

"A King may lie and, using that lie, a king, on his own, has the power to send his kingdom into war. A president may also lie, but a president alone cannot use that lie to start a war..."

Let Fury Have the Hour:

The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer

By Antonino D'Ambrosio

Joe Strummer transformed punk rock from its early associations with reactionary and nihilistic politics into a social movement. This collection of articles, interviews, essays and reviews chronicles his hard-hitting, influential life.

The Last Honest Place in America

Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas

By Marc Cooper

When most of America was consumed by war fever as the United States Army stormed into Baghdad, veteran journalist and war correspondent Marc Cooper turned down the chance to cover the war in Iraq, choosing to remain embedded in Las Vegas, a city that since childhood has had a siren-like pull on him. The Last Honest Place in America is an exploration of the appeal that Vegas holds for Cooper and the tens of millions who stream through its casinos, clubs and resorts.

Deserter

Bush's War on Military Families, Veterans, and His Past

By Ian Williams

The Truth About Camp David

The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process

By Clayton E. Swisher

"Clayton E. Swisher is the first to research the mistakes and miscalculations made by the Clinton administration that led to the collapse of the Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Any future mediator will have to read this account before the start of any final-status negotiations." --Charles Enderlin, author of Shattered Dreams.

Murdered by Capitalism

A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left

By John Ross

Part memoir, part social history, this is an epic tale of the hallucinatory, carnal, ornery and ultimately tragicomic history of the American left.

Killed

Great Journalism Too Hot to Print

By David Wallis

Killed resurrects remarkable articles that publications like Harper's, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker assigned to renowned writers, then discarded--not for reasons of quality but because of their potential for unwanted controversy.

Silver City and Other Screenplays

By John Sayles

Filmmaker legend John Sayles has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter. This collection of his greatest work includes Sunshine State, the Oscar-nominated Passion Fish and his new film for the election year, Silver City.

A Hole in the World

An Unfolding Story of War, Protest and the New American Order

By Jonathan Schell

Blood, Class and Empire

The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

By Christopher Hitchens

Since the end of the cold war so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially after 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain have grown stronger.

Hope in the Dark

Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

By Rebecca Solnit

Taking Back America

And Taking Down the Radical Right

By Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

An important and inspiring collection of articles by leading figures from the progressive movement--including Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Moyers, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, William Greider, Robert Reich, Benjamin Barber and James K. Galbraith--that lays out an agenda to take back America from the Bush administration.

Prophets Outcast

A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing About Zionism and Israel

By Adam Shatz

"In their search for truth and their thirst for knowledge, Spinoza and Freud were the pioneers who broke with rabbinical orthodoxy. The team of distinguished and courageous thinkers assembled by Adam Shatz breached the Zionist wall."

--Tariq Ali

The Librarian

A Novel

By Larry Beinhart

An darkly comic thriller about the theft of the presidential election, by the Edgar award-winning author of American Hero, which was filmed as the critically acclaimed movie Wag the Dog.

Against the Beast

A Documentary History of American Opposition to Empire

By John Nichols

Against the Beast collects the writings, speeches, comments and cartoons of four centuries of American anti-imperialist campaigners. Together they make the case that this finest of American traditions of dissent must be respected and renewed.

Persona Non Grata

A Memoir of Disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution

By Jorge Edwards

In 1970 Jorge Edwards was dispatched by socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende to break the diplomatic blockade that had sealed Cuba for over a decade. His arrival coincided with the turning point of the Revolution, when Castro began to repress the very intellectuals he once courted.

How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy?

A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration

By William D. Hartung

Welcome to George W. Bush's Washington, where you can't tell the generals from the arms lobbyists without a scorecard.

Secrets and Lies

Operation

By Dilip Hiro

"Dilip Hiro has added another formidable chapter to the invaluable record he has been compiling of developments in the critically important Middle East region...A major contribution to the understanding of what is sure to remain a primary focus of international affairs."
--Noam Chomsky

The Good, the Bad, and the Dolce Vita

The Adventures of an Actor in Hollywood, Paris, and Rome

By Mickey Knox

Target North Korea

Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe

By Gavan McCormack

George W. Bush's nuclear stand-off with Kim Jong II since October 2002 has led him to describe North Korea as "the world's most dangerous regime." But what kind of state is this member of the "Axis of Evil"--and what has its leader done to be so hated?

How to Build a Nuclear Bomb

And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

By Frank Barnaby

Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to national security in the twenty-first century. Here, weapons and terrorism expert Frank Barnaby explains what it takes for a rogue state or terrorist group to obtain and use them.

Right Wing Justice

The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts

By Herman Schwartz

Rogue State

America at War With the World

By T.D. Allman

The morning of September 12, 2001 was a unique moment, when the United States might have mobilized a genuine "coalition of the willing" to fight terrorism and reduce its causes. Instead George W. Bush went on a foreign policy rampage, and the world became a more dangerous place.

American Rebels

By Jack Newfield

In this anthology of original essays, leading American writers discuss individuals who reconciled authentic patriotism with original artistic creation, unpopular opinion, and real moral principles.

Junk Politics

The Trashing of the American Mind

By Benjamin DeMott

When George W. Bush's inaugural address stressed civility, compassion and character, he was continuing a decade long trend of American politicians getting touchy-feely with the American electorate. But as celebrated essayist and social critic Benjamin DeMott writes, there is a sinister side to this phenomenon.

The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome

The Dead End of Black Politics

By Norman Kelley

The Head Negro in Charge is an incisive new polemic by social commentator Norman Kelley that explores the decline of black political culture over the past generation from bold, results-oriented politics to symbolism and corruption.

The KGB Bar Nonfiction Reader

By Mark Jacobson and Denis Woychuk

The iconic KGB Bar on New York's Lower East Side is home to America's most diverse and exciting series of nonfiction literary readings. Over the years, luminaries such as Jimmy Breslin, Jack Newfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Luc Sante and many others have held forth before awestruck, if bleary-eyed, audiences.