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The End of America$13.95 In The End of America, Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile. The book cuts across political parties and ideologies and speaks directly to those among us who are concerned about the ever-tightening noose being placed around our liberties. Paperback - 176 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
50 Simple Things You Can Do To Fight the RightSick of sitting on the sidelines while the Radical Right takes over our culture and our country? Ready to do something about it? Here's the handbook you need! A user-friendly, step-by-step guide, power-packed with things YOU can do at home and in your community to defend America. This is a terrific little book, and not just because they list EvolveFISH.com as a resource for folks who want to do something positive! [Order] [Checkout] |
Bushopedia: A Comprehensive Alphabetical Guide to George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Other Aspects of the Far Right, and Related TopicsBill Potts' Bushopedia will make you laugh, cry, scream, throw up, get mad, and try to do something about the worst administration in U.S. history. It's my kind of book. Jim Hightower, author of Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush and Thieves in High Places
Bushopedia says it all when it comes to the follies of the Bush administration and its conservative cohorts leading to the present American tragedy. |
God Willing?
By David Domke. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush and his administration offered a 'political fundamentalism' that capitalized upon the fear felt by many Americans. Political fundamentalism is the adaptation of a conservative religious worldview, via strategic language choices and communication approaches, into a policy agenda that feels political rather than religious. These communications dominated public discourse and public opinion for months on end and came at a significant cost for democracy. Paperback: 256 pages [Order] [Checkout] |
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
By Robert B. Reich. Reich offers a bold plan for defeating this politics of fear and favor - whose defining gesture is to equate dissent with treason - and for reinstating the traditional American politics of reason. He calls on liberals to close ranks and maintain a permanent platform that can grow in power. Paperback - 247 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge
By Richard J. Ellis. For over one hundred years, it has been deeply ingrained in American culture. Saluting the flag in public schools began as part of a national effort to Americanize immigrants, its final six words imbuing it with universal hope and breathtaking power. Now Richard Ellis unfurls the fascinating history of the Pledge of Allegiance and of the debates and controversies that have sometimes surrounded it. Hardcover - 297 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Don't Think of An Elephant!
By George Lakoff Don't Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing's stranglehold on political dialog in the United States. Author George Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks down the ways in which conservatives have framed the issues, and provides examples of how progressives can reframe the debate. Paperback - 144 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
What's the Matter with Kansas?
$14.00 By Thomas Frank Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "the best political book of the year" (The New York Times), What's the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank answers the riddle by examining his home state, Kansas - a place once famous for its radicalism that now ranks among the nation's most actively anti-liberal - and reveals how conservatism, formerly a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans. Paperback, 322 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason$13.95 In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs-even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities. Harris argues that in the presence of weapons of mass destruction we cannot expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, he argues that "modernization" of religion poses considerable dangers of its own, as the accommodation we have made to religious faith in our society now blinds us to the role that faith plays in perpetuating human conflict. Paperback - 348 pages [Order] [Checkout] |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything
$26.95 By Joe Trippi This is the story of how Trippi's revolutionary use of the Internet and an impassioned, contagious desire to overthrow politics as usual grew into a national grassroots movement and changed the face of politics forever. But it's also more than that. It's about how to engage Americans in real dialogue, how business leaders, government leaders, and anyone else can make use of the most revolutionary idea to come along since man first learned to light a fire. No, not the Internet, or computers, or telecommunications.... Democracy! Hardcover - 272 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The New American Empire
What is behind the American-led war in Iraq? Rodrigue Tremblay explains the fundamental - and disastrous - shift that foreign and domestic policies have taken under George W. Bush, since September 11, 2001. Paperback - 365 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
By Nadine Strossen Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography. Paperback - 320 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Fanatics and Fools
$23.95 By Arianna Huffington. Fearless, funny, in full command of the facts, and ever passionate, Arianna Huffington offers not just a chapter-and-verse diagnosis of the fanaticism that drives the Bush White House but a bold vision of New Responsibility for rebuilding our broken democracy. Hardcover, 370 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Price of Loyalty, The
$26.00 By Ron Suskind. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times. At its core are the candid assessments of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, the only member of Bush's innermost circle to leave and then agree to speak frankly about what has really been happening inside the White House. Harcover, 348 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
White House Employee Handbook
$14.00 From the writers of Whitehouse.org. A staffer's guide to success, profit and eternal salvation inside George W. Bush's Executive Branch. This humor-packed book provides all the tips, tricks and guidance you need to get ahead in today's administration. Softcover, 202 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Bubble of American Supremacy
$22.00 By George Soros. In this compelling and heartfelt analysis of the United States' role in the post-9/11 world, George Soros challenges the Bush administration's disastrous conduct of foreign policy and the War on Terror. Harcover, 207 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Abortion and Public Policy
$5.00 By John M. Swomley. An in-depth discussion of the right of a woman to terminate an unwanted pregnancy and the debate over the beginning of life. Booklet, 40 pages. Out of Print, Limited Quantities Available. [Order] [Checkout] |
American Democracy & The Vatican: Population Growth & National Security
By S.D. Mumford. A work that examines population growth and national security, and exposes the Vatican's opposition to controlling human population growth. Paperback, 295 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
American Ethics and the Virtuous Citizen
$18.95 By Robert Grant. Explores the etihical principles found in our country's greatest documents, and presents a call to America's citizens to uphold these principles and duties for a stronger nation. Paperback, 175 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Beyond the War on Drugs: Overcoming a Failed Public Policy
By Steven Wisotsky. Offers hard-hitting arguments to support the growing public opinion that the drug war, as it is currently conceived, cannot be won and ought not to be fought. Paperback, 279 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
By David Brock. In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler's The God That Failed, David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it. Paperback, 378 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Catholic Schools: The Facts$9.95 By Edd Doerr. Explores the controversies surrounding the issue of tax aid and support for Catholic and other private denominational schools. Parerback, 73 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Church Schools and Public Money: The Politics of Parochiaid
By Edd Doerr and Albert J. Menendez. "Parochiaid" - any form of direct or indirect aid to parochial and other nonpublic elementary and secondary schools - has given rise to the most enduring, bitter, and important controversy in the history of American education and church-state relations. Paperback, 156 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Confronting Church & State: Memoirs of an Activist
By John M. Swomley. Memoirs of Swomley's life-long fight for religious liberty. Information and inspiration about a never-ending struggle. Paperback, 133 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Dude, Where's My Country?$24.95 By Michael Moore. Michael Moore is on a mission in his new book: Regime Change. The man who slithered into the White House on tracks greased by his daddy's oil buddies is one of many targets in Mike's blistering follow-up to his smash #1 hit Stupid White Men, the biggest-selling nonfiction book of the year. Now no one's safe: corporate barons who have bilked millions out of their employees' lifetime savings, legislators who have stripped away our civil liberties in the name of "homeland security," and even that right-wing brother-in-law of yours (yes, we all have one) who manages, year after year, through his babbling idiocy, to ruin Thanksgiving dinner. Hardcover, 272 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
For a "Christian America:" A History of the Religious Right
By Ruth Murray Brown, Ph.D Both sides of the political spectrum will find this in-depth but very readable social history to be full of insights into an important cultural movement. Hardcover - 309 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
James Dobson's War On America
$31.00 By Gil Alexander-Moegerle. Take a behind the scenes look at the private life of the militant moral and political activist credited with the power surge of the Religious Right. Hardcover, 305 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American
$16.95 By Nat Hentoff. One of America's most passionate writers about civil liberties enlivens issues about The Bill of Rights by giving profiles of individuals for whom the Constitution is a vital part of life. Provides an invigorating and entertaining reminder of why freedom of expression matters, and what some heroic Americans have done to protect it. Paperback , 236 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Reflections on the Revolution in France
$9.00 By Edmund Burke. Burke focused his keen eye on the social and political ramifications of egalitarianism and what its dissemination in France might mean for the future of the liberty, order, and political tradition that had served the Continent so well. Paperback, 253 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Religious Liberty and State Constitutions
By Edd Doerr and Albert J. Menendez. Examines the oft-overlooked differences between the constitutions of individual states and the U.S. Constitution, particularly in the area of church/state separation. Hardcover - 117 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Age of Reason
By Thomas Paine. This classic by a great American revolutionary and spokesman of the Enlightenment was the 18th Century's most powerful antireligious statement, and continues to be a source of inspiration for champions of human liberty. Paperback, 190 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Case Against School Vouchers
By Edd Doerr, Albert J. Menendez, and John M. Swomley. No one disputes the right of religious bodies to operate private schools or the right of parents to send their children to them. But should any government be a party to a group's religious mission? Paperback, 135 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution$4.95 By The Founding Fathers. This handy 100-page booklet (4 in/10.5cm wide x 7 in/17.5cm high) is the perfect pocket reference for those of us who treasure the fundamental concepts that govern American democracy. Perfect for pouring cold water on the shaky arguments of the religiously misinformed, so carry it with you everywhere! [Order] [Checkout] |
The Earth Policy Reader
By Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, & Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts; Earth Policy Institute An award-winning environmental analyst and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem. Paperback, 192 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Most Dangerous Man in America
By Robert Boston. An examination of Robertson's views, inconsistencies, hypocrisy, and power. This book warns of the danger of an intolerant extremist in American politics. Paperback - 240 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Second Treatise on Civil Government
$8.00 By John Locke. As one of the early Enlightenment philosophers in England, John Locke sought to bring reason and critical intelligence to the discussion of the origins of civil society. Paperback, 132 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Three Voices of Extremism: Colson, Dobson, Kennedy
John M. Swomley exposes the machinations of three prominent practitioners of fundamentalist political meddling. Paperback - 121 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Why We Still Need Public Schools: Church/State Relations and Visions of Democracy
$21.00 Edited by Art Must, Jr. An exploration of the role of public education as a direct reflection of the quality of our democratic system as well as our ability to compete in the changing global economy. Paperback, 311 Pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Why the Religious Right is Wrong About Separation of Church & State
By Robert Boston. Challenges the zealots of the Religious Right and debunks their claims about church-state union. Tracing the development of church-state relations from the Middle Ages to the modern era. A well researched and presented rebuttal to the irReligious Right's claim that the United States was intended to be a Christian nation. Paperback, 257 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
With God On Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America
$19.95 By William Martin. Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the rise of the Religious Right. Paperback, 418 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
$27.50 By Susan Jacoby An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination." - The New York Times. Hardback, 417 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Thomas Paine ReaderThis major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key works including The Rights of Man, his groundbreaking defense of the revolutionary cause in France, Common Sense, which won thousands over to the side of the American rebels, and the first part of The Age of Reason, a ferocious attack on Christianity. The shorter pieces - on capital punishment, social reform and the abolition of slavery - also confirm the great versatility and power of this master of democratic prose. We do have one copy with a very slightly creased front cover - not torn - ask for this one at a special discounted price of $10.00 Paperback - 536 pages. [ Add to Cart] [ View Cart] |
What's God Got to Do with It?$10.00 Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion of the separation of church and state, and advocate of the rights of women and African Americans, he drew enormous audiences in the late nineteenth cenutry with his lectures on "freethought." His admirers included Mark Twain and Thomas A. Edison, who said Ingersoll had "all the attributes of a perfect man." The publication of What's God Got to Do with It? will return Robert Ingersoll and his ideas to American political discourse. Edited and with a biographical indroduction by Tim Page, this new popular collection of Ingersoll at his best - distilled from the twelve-volume set of his works, his copious letters, and various newspaper interviews - promises to put Ingersoll back where he belongs, in the forefront of independent American thought. [ Add to Cart] [ View Cart] |
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human NatureIn The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the doctrine that the mind has no innate traits - a doctrine embraced by many intellectuals during the past century - denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-hood slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgement of human nature based on science and common sense. [Order] [Checkout] |
24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America
By John R. Emshwiller & Rebecca Smith. Shows the reporter's-eye view of a David-and-Goliath battle between journalists and the giant Enron corporation, which eventually collapsed like a house of cards. Hardcover - 416 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
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