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A Brief History of the Future By John Naughton

A Citizen’s Guide To Impeachment By Alan Hirsch, Esq.

An Unbroken Agony: From Revolution to Kidnapping of a President By Randal Robinson

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan By Jason Elliot

Bill: How Legislation Really Becomes Law By Stephen Waldman

Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency By James Bamford

By John F. Kennedy School of Government, Council for Excellence in Government, John D. Donahue (Editor)

Civics For Democracy: A Journey for Teachers and Students By Katherine Isaac

Coalitions Across the Class Divide By Fred Rose

Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom By Nelson Blackstock

Common Sense By Thomas Paine

Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy – Bruce Fein Renowned attorney and political critic Bruce Fein reveals the dangers our Constitution and our nation have faced courtesy of the Bush Administration and a Congress asleep at the switch. In blistering detail, he deconstructs the policies of Bush in the War on Terror–from the flouting of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to the crippling of the Great Writ of habeas corpus–and forecasts that the damage he’s done is unlikely to be repaired quickly or easily. As Barack Obama takes office, there are questions that involve the very foundations of our government and the degrees to which they have been undermined, either actively or passively, by nearly everyone in power today. By exploring the constitutional crises of the past–from Lincoln and habeas corpus to Nixon and Watergate–Fein compellingly and presciently begins to answer those questions.

Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America By Kalle Lasn

Declarations of Independence By Howard Zinn

Electronic Republic: Reshaping American Democracy for the Information Age By Lawrence K. Grossman

Government is Good: An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution By Douglas J. Amy

Gay Resistance: The Hidden History By Sam Deaderick and Tamara Turner

Grassroots Resistance: Social Movements in 20th Century America By Robert A. Goldberg

Lies My Teacher Told Me By James Loewen

Maritime Supremacy: And the Opening of the Western Mind By Peter Padfield

Making Washington Work: Tales of Innovation in the Federal Government

Managing the President’s Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation By Andrew Rudalevige

My Soul is Rested By Howell Raines

Up From Slavery By Booker T. Washington

Parlor Politics By Catherine Allgor

Passport to Liberty: The People and Ideas That Make America Great By Jan Sammer

Politics In Action: Cases in Modern American Government By Gary Wasserman

Poor People’s Movements By Frances Fox Piven

Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings By James A. Stimson

Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson By Thomas Jefferson

“Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction” By Midori Takagi

Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets By David Stafford

September 11, 2001: A Collection of Newspaper Front Pages By The Poynter Institute

Stealing Democracy By Spencer Overton

Stories that Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century By Carl Jensen

The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders By Jacob Needleman

The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States By Jim Cullen

The Breach: Inside the Impeachment Trial of William Jefferson Clinton By Peter Baker

The Campaign of the Century By Greg Mitchell

The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs By David C. Unger

The Federalist Papers By Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay

The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Robbing Main Street By Robert Scheer

The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War By James Bradley

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism By Andrew Bacevich

The Missing Middle By Theda Skocpol

The Other America: Poverty in the United States By Michael Harrington

The Path to Power By Robert A. Caro

The Populist Moment By Lawrence Goodwyn

The Power Broker By Robert A. Caro

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump By Corey Robin

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States By Alexander Keyssar

The S Word: A Short History of an American Tradition…Socialism By John Nichols

The Salem Witch Trials Reader By Frances Hill

The Soul of Politics: Beyond “Religious Right” and “Secular Left” By Jim Wallis

The Thomas Paine Reader By Thomas Paine

The Tools of Government: A Guide to the New Governance By Lester M. Salamon

The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule By Thomas Frank

Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation By T.A. Heppenheimer

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky By Peter Mitchell

Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution By Wendy Brown

Up Against the Wall Motherf**cker: A Memoir of the Sixties With Notes for Next Time By Osha Neumann

Up From Slavery By Booker T. Washington

Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers By William B. Breuer

What’s My Name Fool? : Sports and Resistance in the United States By Dave Zirin

Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy By William Greider

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