In the days following September 11, the most powerful people in the country were panicstricken. The decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser, David Addington, used the crisis to further a longheld agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history.
The Dark Side is a riveting narrative account of how the U.S. made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists, decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda.
In gripping detail, acclaimed New Yorker writer and bestselling author Jane Mayer relates specific cases, shown in real time against the larger tableau of Washington, looking at the intelligence gained or not and the price paid. In all cases, whatever the shortterm gains, there were incalculable losses in terms of moral standing, our country's place in the world, and its sense of itself.
The Dark Side chronicles one of the most disturbing chapters in American history, one that will serve as the lasting legacy of the George W. Bush presidency.
This is the book that launched William F. Buckley, Jr.'s career. As a young, recent Yale graduate, he took on Yale's professional and administrative staffs....
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Is John McCain for real? That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan....
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For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America....
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How should Christians live their faith in the public arena? This updated edition of Charles Colson's Kingdoms in Conflict includes a new foreword, new stories, and recent court cases....
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If you're fed up with lazy, whining, fearmongering, governmentgorging Al Gores, Michael Moores, and Obamaniacs, then you need to hear Ted, White, and Blue....
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Politics as usual isn't anymore. Tear up what you know or think you know about politics. It's all changing. For thirty years the print and broadcast media...
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A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by applying the magic of the market to the challenges of social change. What's wrong with that?Almost everthing....
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Fineman shows that every debate, from our nation's founding to the present day, is rooted in one of 13 arguments that thankfully defy resolution....
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For the first time, one of America's greatest leaders tells his personal story of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the centre of national events....
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From FDR to Harry Truman to JFK to George W. Bush, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House captures the wit and humor of the campaign trail....
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In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, nondemocratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them....
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Originally published in 1935, this elegant essay on the nature of the state shows the important distinction between state power and social power. Every assumption of power, whether by gift or seizure...
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The race is on, and Hillary Clinton is looking to transform herself into a candidate that middleAmericans might elect as our first woman president....
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En los ultimos a?os la poblacion latina en Estados Unidos ha crecido de una manera extraordinaria, dandoles a los hispanos la posibilidad de influir de forma muy significativa en las elecciones....
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In The Republic, Plato tackles the big issues of the state and the individual: how the state should be ruled, and by whom; and the way the individual should lead his life and why...
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Mr. Ronald Brownstein, Mr. Barry Glassner, Mr. T.R. Reid, Mr. Robert Scheer
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Mr. Jim Newton
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Los Angeles Times
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TheLos Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Veteran conservative publisher Alfred Regnery writes an insider's account of the American conservative movement over the past fifty years....
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