O'Rourke, P. J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2004

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Leverett, Flynt Lawrence.

Summary: "Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war with Iran. Today the stakes are even higher: such a war could break the back of America's strained superpower status. Challenging the daily clamor of U.S. saber rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2013

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Summary: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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Jarecki, Eugene.

Summary: In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, documentarian Jarecki launches a penetrating inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted structure of our republic--upsetting its balance of powers, vastly strengthening the hand of the president in taking the nation to war, and imperiling the workings...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008

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Gerges, Fawaz A.

Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011

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Friedman, Thomas L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2002

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Rich, Frank.

Summary: Reveals the spin campaign of the Bush administration that the author contends enabled the support of a war against a non-September 11 enemy, furthered conservative agendas, and consolidated presidential power.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006

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Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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Rice, Condoleezza

Summary: A former national security advisor and Secretary of State offers the compelling story of her eight years serving at the highest levels of government, including the difficult job she faced in the wake of 9/11.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011

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Chomsky, Noam.

Summary: Chomsky analyzes the United States' foreign policy during the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. He predicts that America's pursuit of world domination will have catastrophic consequences.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2003

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Carter, Jimmy

Summary: President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In this book, he offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005

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Bacevich, Andrew J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005

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Ferguson, Niall.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2004

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Chomsky, Noam.

Summary: The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and therefore a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states," Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2006

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McClellan, Scott

Summary: The former White House press secretary examines how and why the Bush administration went awry, providing a look at George W. Bush and his top aides in terms of such crises as Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war, and Washington's political infighting.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008

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Didion, Joan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2003

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Berman, Morris

Contents: Liquid modernity -- Economy, technology -- The home and the world -- Pax Americana -- Axis of resentment: Iran, Iraq, and Israel -- The meaning of 9/11 -- The roads not taken -- The state of the union -- Empire falls.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006

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Suskind, Ron.

Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of "The Price of Loyalty" and "The One Percent Doctrine" returns with an election year account of the looming national security crisis that America faces right now.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008

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Sammon, Bill.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2004

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Clark, Wesley K.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2004

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Friedman, George.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004

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Draper, Robert.

Summary: In this press-wary administration, journalist Draper has accomplished a small miracle: He has knocked on all the right doors, and thus become the first author to tell a personality-driven history of the Bush years. With access to all the key figures of this administration and perhaps 200 other players, Draper delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and a beleaguered administration,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007

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Barnett, Thomas P. M.

Contents: Preface: The shape of things to come -- The seven deadly sins of Bush-Cheney -- A twelve-step recovery program for American grand strategy -- The American trajectory: of great men and great powers -- The economic realignment: racing to the bottom of the pyramid -- The diplomatic realignment: rebranding the team of rivals -- The security realignment: rediscovering diplomacy, defense, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009

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Barnes, Fred

Summary: Veteran political reporter Barnes provides an insider's view of how Bush's unique presidential style and bold reforms are dramatically remaking the country--and, indeed, the world. In the process, Barnes shows, the president is shaking up Washington and reshaping the conservative movement. Barnes has gained extraordinary access to the Bush administration, conducting rare one-on-one interviews...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2006

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