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Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
by Al Franken
Move over P.J. O'Rourke! From Al Franken, America's premier liberal satirist, comes a hilarious homage to the wonderful, awful and always absurd American political process that skewers a whole new crop of presidential hopefuls — just in time for the 1996 presidential election. "(Franken is) responsible in part for some of the most brilliant political satire of our time." — John Podhoretz, New York Post.
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The Politics of Heroin
CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
by Alfred W. McCoy
The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of drug trafficking in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South and Central America. New chapters detail... (more)
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Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution
by Harry V. Jaffa
A unique contribution to the debate over the original intentions of the Framers of the U.S. Constitutions.
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Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
by Thomas Byrne Edsall
The rise of the presidential wing of the Republican party over the past generation has been driven by the overlapping issues of race and taxes. The Republicans have capitalized on these two issues, capturing the White House in five of the last six elections. "May be the best account ever written on why the Democrats no longer dominate American party politics. . . ."--Judy Woodruff.
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Make-believe presidents: Illusions of power from McKinley to Carter
by Nicholas Von Hoffman
Nicholas von Hoffman is known as the sharpest and most biting of our syndicated political columnists, and in recent years he has also been widely read as the co-author of a number of books with Garry Trudeau.
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War Without End
American Planning for the Next Vietnams
by Michael T. Klare
War Without End" is a detailed look at the current state of military planning, from counterinsurgency and social science engineering, to rapid deployment, the electronic battlefield, mercenaries, and foreign police assistance. This book was written three years before the collapse of Saigon, when critics expected that U.S. warmongers would be able to sustain their efforts indefinitely. Twenty years and one Ronald... (more)
Chile's Free Market Miracle: A Second LookJoseph Collins, John Lear
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Chile's Free Market Miracle: A Second Look
by Joseph Collins, John Lear
The economic policies behind the boom experienced by Chile in the 190s under the military dictatorship Pinochet, and continuing today, are widely touted as a model for the Third World. The authors take a closer look at the Chilean experience where they encounter the downside of the model: chronic poverty and environmental devastation. Chile's Free-Market Miracle is important reading, especially now, in light of... (more)
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Contra Terror in Nicaragua: Report of a Fact-finding Mission: September 1984-January 1985
by Reed Brody
Reagan for BeginnersDavid Smith, Melinda Gebbie
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Reagan for Beginners
by David Smith, Melinda Gebbie
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Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater
by Gene Lyons, Harper's Magazine
Lyons, a columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, shows how The New York Times led, and the rest of the nation followed, in its coverage of Whitewater. This book examines the motives and the facts that have kept Whitewater in congressional hearings for a record two years and on the front pages of national newspapers since 1992.
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Drug Crazy
How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
by Mike Gray
Over the last fifteen years, American taxpayers have spent over $300 billion to wage the war on drugs--three times what it cost to put a man on the moon. In Drug Crazy , journalist Mike Gray offers a scathing indictment of this financial fiasco, chronicling a series of expensive and hypocritical follies that have benefited only two groups: professional anti-drug advocates and drug lords. The facts are... (more)
Dirty Money: Bcci : The Inside Story of the World's Sleaziest BankMark Potts, Nicholas Kochan, Robert Whittington
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Dirty Money: Bcci : The Inside Story of the World's Sleaziest Bank
by Mark Potts
Details how scandal-plagued BCCI operated, offering tales of drug money, financing arms deals, peddling influence, kiting checks, bribing politicians, defrauding depositors, sponsoring spies, and many other questionable practices.
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W: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty
by Elizabeth Mitchell
In the tradition of What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer, Elizabeth Mitchell, a young journalist, takes an in-depth look at the man many believe will be the next president, George W. Bush. This comprehensive and explosive biography stands as an epic saga of one of the nations leading political families, interweaving a history of the time with insightful analysis and top-notch reporting.
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The Mafia, CIA and George Bush
by Pete Brewton
An investigation of connections between the Mafia, the CIA, a small group of powerful Texas businessmen and politicians, and the $500 billion savings and loan scandal
Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran / Contra Affair
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Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran / Contra Affair
Contents: The Report: executive summary; Central America; the arms sales to Iran; exposure & concealment; the enterprise; conclusions & recommendations. Also contains the Minority report: the foreign affairs powers of the Constitution & the Iran-Contra Affair; Nicaragua; Iran; disclosure & investigations; putting Congress' house in order; & recommendations. Extensive appendices contain... (more)
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The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 (Latin American Silhouettes)
by Lester D. Langley
The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898D1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides an updated introduction, placing the scholarship in current historical context. From the perspective of the... (more)
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The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and the CIA
by Jonathan Kwitny
Kwitny, a Wall Street Journal reporter who now also conducts a very unorthodox TV-interview show, has become one of our most important investigative journalists. He is endlessly thorough, eminently fair but appropriately skeptical and writes with welcome touches of humor. His last book, Endless Enemies, remains the best-researched critical account of current U.S. foreign policy. This time his subject, loaded with... (more)
Other Side of Paradise: Foreign Control in the Caribbean.
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Other Side of Paradise: Foreign Control in the Caribbean.
Drug Wars: Corruption, Counterinsurgency and Covert Operations in the Third WorldJonathan Marshall
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Drug Wars: Corruption, Counterinsurgency and Covert Operations in the Third World
by Jonathan Marshall
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Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era (Haymarket Series)
by Alexander Cockburn
"His work is pungent, witty and without pretense to that 'objectivity' he so rightly sees as the bane of much written and all televised journalism," wrote PW , calling this collection of Cockburn's columns from the Nation , the Wall Street Journal et al., "ferociously entertaining." Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.