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  The Audacity of Hope

  Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

  by Barack Obama

  “A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged, ready to pull off the shelf. It will have to be constructed from the best of our traditions and will have to account for the darker aspects of our past. We will need to understand just how... (more)
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  God's Politics

  Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It

  by Jim Wallis

  New York Times bestseller God's Politics struck a chord with Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics, and with the Left, who were mute on the subject. Jim Wallis argues that America's separation of church and state does not require banishing moral and religious values from the public square. God's Politics offers a vision for how to... (more)
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  The Revolution

  A Manifesto

  by Ron Paul

  This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To. The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America . Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document... (more)
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  A Leader Becomes a Leader

  Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

  by J. Kevin Sheehan

  A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)
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  Barack

  by A. G. Ford, Jonah Winter

  This is a journey that began in many places. It began in Kansas, home of Barack's mother. It began in Africa, home of Barack's father. It began in Hawaii one moonlit night, the night that Barack was born. Sometimes it was a lonely journey. Sometimes it was an enchanted journey. But throughout this most unusual ride, this boy often wondered: Who am I? Where do I belong? Jonah Winter and AG Ford... (more)
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  Franklin and Eleanor

  An Extraordinary Marriage

  by Hazel Rowley

  Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR’s lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor’s purported lesbianism—and many scandals in between—the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties that bound... (more)
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  Bobby and Jackie

  A Love Story

  by C. David Heymann

  The bestselling author uses his impressive list of sources and impeccable insight to reveal the true story of the relationship between Jacqueline Kennedy and her brother-in-law, Robert F. Kennedy. Their affair has been an open secret for decades amongst Kennedy insiders. Now, C. David Heymann will share those secrets with the thousands of readers out there who still can't get enough Kennedy lore.
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  Lessons We Learned From Obama

  by by Bobbi Miller-Moro

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  Deer Hunting with Jesus

  Dispatches from America's Class War

  by Joe Bageant

  After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a “dirt-poor” childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory. That was ironic, because Winchester, like countless American small towns, is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the... (more)
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  Democrat Justice: Is This the Change America Needs?

  by Rick Martin

  Rick Martin was a Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress, 14th Congressional District of Florida, November 1986. In December of 1984, after two and one half years of law school, Rick received his Juris Doctor of Law degree from NOVA Law School, at age 41.
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  The Black Book

  by Adlai Stevenson

  The Black Book began as a brown loose-leaf binder in which my great-grandfather, Adlai E. Stevenson I (1836-1914), collected anecdotes and maxims, stories and sayings during his life as a county prosecutor, congressman, Assistant Postmaster General and U.S. Vice President under Grover Cleveland. His grandson, known to friends and family as 'the Guv,' expanded the collection in a large black binder during his life... (more)
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  Generous Justice

  How God's Grace Makes Us Just

  by Timothy J. Keller

  It is commonly thought in secular society that the Bible is one of the great hinderances to doing justice. Isn't it full of regressive views? Didn't it condone slavery? Why look to the Bible for guidance on how to have a more just society? But Timothy Keller, pastor of New York City's Redeemer Presbyterian Church sees it another way. In Generous Justice, Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an... (more)
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  What Sex is a Republican?

  by Terri McCormick

  What Sex Is a Republican? takes a look at the political game from behind the curtain with one intention: to call on each of us to serve in our local, state and federal governments. The principles of republican government have been lost on the money changers in our state and national capitols. There is only one way to change that. We the people must take responsibility for what our government has become while we... (more)
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  Pitchforks and Torches

  The Worst of the Worst, from Beck, Bill, and Bush to Palin and Other Posturing Republicans

  by Keith Olbermann

  An irresistible new collection from the New York Times bestselling author and host of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann In his particular wit and style, Keith Olbermann skewers politicians, celebrities, and people behaving badly every weeknight on MSNBC’s increasingly popular Countdown with Keith Olbermann . This book starts right after President Obama's election and collects all of Olbermann's... (more)
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  Comments from a Tea Partier

  by IV Thomas G. Foster

  Tom Foster is a retired Special Forces Officer and a combat veteran of the war in El Salvador. In Comments from a Tea Partier – I guess if you’re not a Communist, you might be a mild Fascist, Tom vents his anger with our current politicians and identifies critical issues that should be the cornerstone of the 2010 elections. He makes a case for specific actions such as the repeal of the 16th Amendment and the... (more)
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  God and Country: How Evangelicals Have Become America's New Mainstream

  by Monique El-Faizy

  In this important, illuminating exploration of one of the most misunderstood phenomena of our day, former fundamentalist Christian Monique El-Faizy explains how evangelicals have been able to increase their influence by mimicking elements of mainstream culture. God and Country takes readers past the edges of the evangelical community into its heart, taking an in-depth look at megachurches, Christian rock,... (more)
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  Living History

  by Hillary Rodham Clinton

  The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student... (more)
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  The Partly Cloudy Patriot

  by Sarah Vowell

  Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's This American Life -- ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people... (more)
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  Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

  by Happy Traum

  Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.
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  The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

  by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Harold Holzer

  The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the Civil War: the virtues of a republic and the evils of slavery. In this acclaimed book, Holzer brings us as close as possible to what Lincoln and Douglas... (more)