therealmccain

  • The Real McCain:
    Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him
    and Why Independents Shouldn't
  • By Cliff Schecter
  • Sheds light on the man who would be president, revealing a political chameleon of questionable character.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9794822-9-8 $14.95, soft cover

hopeisatatteredflag

  • Available June 2008
  • Hope Is a Tattered Flag:
    Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era
  • By Markos Kounalakis and Peter Laufer
  • Clear prescriptions for post-Bush America by America’s best political minds—left, right, and center.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9794822-5-0 $29.95, hard cover
    ISBN: 978-0-9794822-4-3 $16.95, soft cover

whyimademocrat

  • Available July 4th, 2008
  • Why I'm a Democrat
  • By Susan Mulcahy
  • Explores the values and passions that make members of the Democratic party proud to be Blue.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9794822-6-7 $14.95, soft cover

badmoonrising

  • Bad Moon Rising:
    How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom
  • By John Gorenfeld
  • "A mind-altering exposé of the cult within the cult, the Moon empire, and its astonishing influence inside Washington, the Republican Party, and the vast right-wing conspiracy."
    Sidney Blumenthal, author of How Bush Rules
  • ISBN: 978-0-9794822-3-6 $24.95, hard cover

Party of One

  • Party of One:
    Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of the Independent Voter
  • By Daniel Weintraub
  • Explains why Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is arguably the nation's most powerful Republican and at the forefront of setting policy on major national issues on the environment, immigration, and health care reform.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9794822-2-9 $19.95, hard cover

God's Profits

  • God's Profits:
    Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters
  • By Sarah Posner
  • Examines the unholy alliance between a new generation of corrupt televangelists and the Republican Party, which is eagerly courting the "values voters" who support mega-churches.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9794822-1-2 $19.95, hard cover

Campaign Boot Camp

  • Campaign Boot Camp:
    Basic Training for Future Leaders
  • By Christine Pelosi
  • Describes the basic strategies and tactics that have helped the Democrats win Congress and lays out the steps for successful campaigns, candidates, and causes at all levels of government.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9794822-0-5 $15.95, soft cover

The Iran Agenda

  • The Iran Agenda:
    The Real Story of U.S. Policy and The Middle East Crisis
  • By Reese Erlich
  • Explores the turbulent recent history between the United States and Iran and shows how it has led to a showdown over nuclear technology.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9778253-5-6 $14.95, soft cover

Made Love, Got War

  • Made Love Got War:
    Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State
  • By Norman Solomon
  • Traces five decades of American militarism and the media's all-too-frequent failure to challenge it. Blending personal history and social commentary, Solomon also raises an essential question: to what ends should America use its awesome political, economic, media, and scientific power?
  • ISBN: 978-0-9778253-4-9 $24.95, hard cover

Building the Green Economy

  • Building the Green Economy:
    Success Stories from the Grassroots
  • By Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, and Jason Mark
  • Shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories — over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined routines — dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9778253-6-3 $16.00, soft cover

Cowboy Republic

  • Cowboy Republic:
    Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
  • By Marjorie Cohn, foreword by Richard Falk
  • Shows how the executive branch under President Bush has systematically defied the law instead of enforcing it. Marjorie Cohn, current president of the National Lawyers Guild, also explains what we can do to remedy the administration's breaches of statutory, constitutional, and international law.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9778253-3-2 $14.95, soft cover

Best Care Anywhere

  • Best Care Anywhere:
    Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours
  • By Phillip Longman
  • Delivers a shocking message about America's healthcare system. Despite its expense, our system fails to provide appropriate, evidence-based medicine for half the patients it treats. A proven solution has arrived: the long-maligned, reinvented Veterans Health Administration, which is now the highest quality provider in the United States.
  • ISBN: 978-0-9778253-0-1 $14.95, soft cover

House of Ill Repute

  • House of Ill Repute:
    Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation
  • By William Rivers Pitt
  • Skewers the Bush administration for its reckless warmongering, warrantless wiretaps, lethally incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina, and other scandals and screw ups.
  • ISBN: 0-9778253-2-9 $16.00, soft cover

Spirit of Disobedience

  • The Spirit of Disobedience:
    Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
  • By Curtis White
  • Argues that the American left needs a new spiritual basis for its politics and that its seeds can be discovered in Thoreau's spiritual politics of refusal and a fresh approach to "human fundamentals" — especially work, home, and food.
  • ISBN: 0-9778253-1-0 $24.00, hard cover

Cable News Confidential

  • Cable News Confidential:
    My Misadventures in Corporate Media
  • By Jeff Cohen
  • Offers a fast-paced romp through the three major cable news channels — Fox CNN, and MSNBC — and delivers a serious message about their failure to cover the most urgent issues of the day.
  • ISBN: 0-9760621-6-X $14.95, soft cover

The Blue Pages

  • The Blue Pages:
    A Directory of Companies Rated by Their Politics and Practices
  • By PoliPointPress Editors
  • Helps consumers match their buying decisions with their political values.
  • ISBN: 0-9760621-1-9 $9.95, soft cover

Jacked

  • Jacked:
    How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket Whether You Voted for Them or Not
  • By Nomi Prins
  • Reveals how the "conservative" agenda affects your wallet and not just your money. Linking each card in a typical wallet to shortsighted policies, blunders, and scandals, Prins shows how skewed national priorities have diminished America but not the American spirit.
  • ISBN: 0-9760621-8-6 $12.95, soft cover

10 Steps

  • 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy
  • By Steven Hill
  • Identifies the key problems with American democracy and proposes ten specific reforms to reinvigorate it.
  • ISBN: 0-9760621-5-1 $11.00, soft cover

In Conflict

  • In Conflict:
    Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss, and the Fight to Stay Alive
  • By Yvonne Latty
  • Features the unheard voices, extraordinary experiences, and personal photographs of a broad mix of Iraq War veterans.
  • ISBN: 0-9760621-4-3 $24.00, hard cover

The Raw Deal

  • The Raw Deal:
    How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal
  • By Joe Conason
  • Describes the well-financed and determined effort to undo the Social Security Act and New Deal programs.
  • ISBN: 0-9760621-2-7 $11.00, soft cover

The Raw Deal

  • The Great Divide:
    Retro vs. Metro America
  • By John Sperling
  • Explains why our nation is so bitterly divided into what the authors call Retro and Metro America.
  • ISBN: 0-09760621-0-0 $19.95, soft cover