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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called “the audacity of hope.” The... (more)

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)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

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)

Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin

Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin

by Sue Katz

Who is Sarah Palin and what does she believe in? People around the country -- and indeed the world -- had more questions than answers when John McCain announced her selection as his running mate on August 29, 2008. Has any national political candidate ever emerged on the American political scene with less scrutiny than Alaska Governor Sarah Palin received prior to her selection? Whether you believe Palin was... (more)

Bobby and Jackie

A Love Story

by C. David Heymann

From the New York Times bestselling author of American Legacy , RFK , and A Woman Named Jackie , an in-depth look at the much talked-about -- but never fully revealed -- relationship between Jackie Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Few writers have immersed themselves in the world of the Kennedys as completely or successfully as C. David Heymann, whose biographies of Jackie, Robert, John F. Kennedy Jr., and... (more)

Lessons We Learned From Obama

by by Bobbi Miller-Moro

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American DreamBarack Obama

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

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)

Democrat Justice: Is This the Change America Needs?

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.

What Liberal Media? (The Truth About Bias and the News)

What Liberal Media? (The Truth About Bias and the News)

by Eric Alterman

The question of whose interests the media protects-and how-has achieved holy-grail-like significance. Is media bias keeping us from getting the whole story? If so, who is at fault? Is it the liberals who are purported to be running the newsrooms, television and radio stations of this country, duping an unsuspecting public into mistaking their party line for news? Or is it the conservatives who have identified... (more)

How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative

How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative

by Allen Raymond

Fresh out of grad school, Allen Raymond joined the GOP for one reason: rumor had it that there was big money to be made on the Republican side of the aisle. From the earliest days of the Republican Revolution through its culmination in the second Bush White House, Raymond played a key role in helping GOP candidates twist the truth beyond recognition during a decade of crucial and bitterly fought campaigns. His... (more)

God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Plus)

God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Plus)

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)

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)

The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Unabridged)

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)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

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 Audacity of Hope

Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama

The Revolution: A Manifesto

by Ron Paul

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin

by Sue Katz

Bobby and Jackie

A Love Story

by C. David Heymann

Lessons We Learned From Obama

by by Bobbi Miller-Moro

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

by Joe Bageant

Democrat Justice: Is This the Change America Needs?

by Rick Martin

What Liberal Media? (The Truth About Bias and the News)

by Eric Alterman

How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative

by Allen Raymond

God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Plus)

by Jim Wallis

Living History

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Unabridged)

by Sarah Vowell

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

by Happy Traum