Catalog

  • Dateline Havana
  • The Real Story of U.S. Policy
    and the Future of Cuba
  • Expertly researched and deftly reported, Dateline Havana is a probing exposé of U.S. policy and the future of Cuba on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
  • By Reese Erlich
  • $22.95, cloth
  • Available Jan. 2008
  • Hope is a Tattered Flag
  • Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era
  • Clear prescriptions for post-Bush America by America’s best political minds—left, right, and center.
  • By Markos Kounalakis and Peter Laufer
  • $19.95, soft cover
  • $24.95, hard cover
  • The Real McCain
  • Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him —and Why Independents Shouldn’t
  • Sheds light on the man who would be president, revealing a political chameleon of questionable character.
  • By Cliff Schecter
  • $14.95, soft cover
  • Party of One
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of the Independent Voter
  • 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.
  • By Daniel Weintraub
  • $19.95, hard cover
  • Campaign Boot Camp
  • Basic Training for Future Leaders
  • 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.
  • By Christine Pelosi
  • $15.95, soft cover
  • Made Love, Got War
  • Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State
  • 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?
  • By Norman Solomon
  • $24.95, hard cover
  • Cowboy Republic
  • Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
  • Shows how the executive branch under President Bush has systematically defied the law instead of enforcing it.
  • By Marjorie Cohn
  • $14.95, soft cover
  • The Spirit of Disobedience
  • Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
  • 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.
  • By Curtis White
  • $14.95, soft cover
  • Cable News Confidential
  • My Misadventures in Corporate Media
  • 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.
  • By Jeff Cohen
  • $14.95, soft cover
  • In Conflict
  • Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss, and the Fight to Stay Alive
  • Features the unheard voices, extraordinary experiences, and personal photographs of a broad mix of Iraq War veterans.
  • By Yvonne Latty
  • $24.00, hard cover
  • The Blue Pages
  • A Directory of Companies Rated by Their Politics and Practices
  • Helps consumers match their buying decisions with their political values.
  • By PoliPointPress
  • $9.95, soft cover
  • The Great Divide
  • Retro vs. Metro America
  • Explains why our nation is so bitterly divided into what the author calls Retro and Metro America.
  • By John Sperling
  • $19.95, soft cover
  • Green Festival Reader:
  • Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change
  • A collection of the most memorable talks from recent Green Festivals on urgent social issues of the day.
  • By Kevin Danaher and Alisa Gravitz
  • $15.95, soft cover
  • Red Highways
  • A Liberal’s Journey into the Heartland
  • Challenges red state stereotypes to reveal new strategies for progressives.
  • By Rose Aguilar
  • $15.95, soft cover
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  • Why I’m a Democrat
  • Explores the values and passions that make members of the Democratic party proud to be Blue.
  • By Susan Mulcahy
  • $14.95, soft cover
  • Bad Moon Rising
  • How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom
  • “A mind-altering exposé of the cult within the cult, the Moon empire, and its astonishing influence inside Washington…”
    Sidney Blumenthal, author of How Bush Rules
  • By John Gorenfeld
  • $19.95, hard cover
  • God’s Profits
  • Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters
  • Examines the unholy alliance between a new generation of corrupt televangelists and the Republican Party, which is eagerly courting the “values voters” who support megachurches.
  • By Sarah Posner
  • $19.95, hard cover
  • The Iran Agenda
  • The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis
  • Explores the turbulent recent history between the United States and Iran and shows how it has led to a showdown over nuclear technology.
  • By Reese Erlich
  • $14.95, soft cover
  • Building the Green Economy
  • Success Stories from the Grassroots
  • 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.
  • By Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, and Jason Mark
  • $16.00, soft cover
  • Best Care Anywhere
  • Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours
  • Delivers a shocking message about America’s health-care system. Despite its expense, our system fails to provide appropriate, evidence-based medicine for half the patients it treats.
  • By Phillip Longman
  • $14.95, soft cover
  • House of Ill Repute
  • Reflections on War, Lies, and America’s Ravaged Reputation
  • Skewers the Bush administration for its reckless warmongering, warrantless wiretaps, lethally incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina, and other scandals and screw ups.
  • By William Rivers Pitt
  • $16.00, soft cover
  • Jacked
  • How “Conservatives” Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not)
  • 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.
  • By Nomi Prins
  • $12.95, soft cover
  • The Raw Deal
  • How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal
  • Describes the well-financed and determined effort to undo the Social Security Act and New Deal programs
  • By Joe Conason
  • $11.00, soft cover