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The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics

By Matt Bai. <i>The Penguin Press. &#36;25.95</i>.

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| Fri Aug. 31, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy

By John Bowe. <i>Random House. &#36;25.95</i>.

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| Fri Aug. 31, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Beyond the Green Zone

By Dahr Jamail. <i>Haymarket Books. &#36;20</i>.

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| Fri Aug. 31, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone

Writer, publisher, and man-about-town Joshua Clark defied the mandatory evacuation that preceded the 2005 storm and hunkered down in his French Quarter apartment with his girlfriend and a radio.

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| Wed Aug. 29, 2007 12:00 AM PDT

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"Tepid" Interest for a Rummy Iraq Book

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been fishing for a deal for a book that would justify the Iraq war....

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| Mon Aug. 20, 2007 7:49 AM PDT

Harry Potter Brings Out the Crazy (Not a Spoiler!)

I can't pretend to judge. Last night, I sat on my bed, eyes red with the sleepless wonder of every word that got me closer to the long-awaited Harry Potter conclusion. I laughed out loud. I sobbed. I gasped. I took the occasional "emotion-break" from reading in order to collect myself. Then it came: sweet closure. When I finished, I didn't know what was...

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| Wed Jul. 25, 2007 5:40 PM PDT
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Legacy of Ashes: The CIA's History of Secrecy and Screwups

An eye-opening new history of the CIA uncovers an intelligence agency out of control.

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| Tue Jul. 3, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Mission Al Jazeera: From Jarhead to Journalist

The Marine flack who starred in <i>Control Room</i> has been called a hero and a traitor for joining an Arabic news network. But is talking to moderate Arabs that radical?

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| Thu Jun. 28, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Retained by the People: The Neglegted Ninth Amendment

By Daniel A. Farber. <i>Basic Books</i>. $26.95.<br /> What if the Constitution explicitly granted liberals' wish list of rights&#8212;basic education, reproductive freedom, sexual privacy, and a dignified death?

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| Mon May. 7, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

By Natalie Angier. <i>Houghton Mifflin</i>. $27.<br /> Once, while writing a story on whale genetics, Natalie Angier was asked by an editor to confirm that a whale is a mammal, and that a mammal is, in fact, an animal.

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| Mon May. 7, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present

Compelling, if at times gruesome, <i>Medical Apartheid</i> connects past medical experiments and the woeful current state of health care for blacks.

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| Fri Jan. 5, 2007 1:00 AM PST
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Mother Jones' 2006 Media Picks

Some of our favorite books, music, and films from the past year.

Sun Dec. 17, 2006 1:00 AM PST

So You Think You Want to Impeach?

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| Wed Nov. 1, 2006 1:00 AM PST

The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability

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| Wed Nov. 1, 2006 1:00 AM PST

Wole Soyinka: Running to Stand Still

Talking with the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author, activist, and master of disguise.

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| Sat Jul. 1, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

When Spies Become Novelists

Publishers have developed a taste for tell-all books by intelligence insiders, and former spooks are proving happy to oblige.

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| Wed May. 17, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

The Lemon Tree

By Sandy Tolan. <i>Bloomsbury.</i> $24.95.

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| Mon May. 1, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Conned

By Sasha Abramsky. <i>The New Press.</i> $25.95.

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| Mon May. 1, 2006 12:00 AM PDT
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Undermining Mother Earth

<i>Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness</i> By Erik Reece.<I> Riverhead Books. $23.95</i>

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| Wed Mar. 1, 2006 1:00 AM PST
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Our Town

<I>Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America</i> <br />By Cynthia Carr <I><br />Crown. $35.95</i>

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| Wed Mar. 1, 2006 1:00 AM PST