Book Store For The Progressive Mind Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore Michael Moore is back, and this time he is skewering the Bush Cartel like a skilled Sushi Chef. Each book sold contributes $1 to RadioPower.org The Iron Triangle - Inside the secrative World of the Carlyle Group The Bush Dyslexicon Observations on a National Disorder Just Released: New Post-September 11th Edition with Additional Material The Bush Dyslexicon is a raucously funny ride -- whether it's Bush envisioning "a foreign-handed foreign policy" or Miller skewering vociferous cultural conservatives like William Bennett and Lynne Cheney for their silence on Bush's particular "West Texas version of Ebonics." But there is also a strong undercurrent of outrage. Only because our elections have become so dependent on television and its emphatic emptiness, says Miller, could a man of such sublime and complacent ignorance assume the highest office in the land. Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush The authors of this book unabashedly call Karl Rove the most powerful individual in the United States. Although they are in awe of his brilliance, you finish the book with the realization that Rove's genius lies somewhere between Machiavelli and Goebbels. As one critic in "Bush's Brain" describes Rove's strategy of using the Iraq war for partisan purposes: "It has to be the most evil political calculation in American history." Immerse yourself in learning about the evil (but brilliant) royal court strategist behind the reign known as the madness of King George. Read "Bush's Brain." You have to know the opposition to beat them at their own game. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters. Unlike the average Stepford American reporter, Palast pierces the veil of Bush Cartel propaganda with painstakingly documented investigative pieces. He is a one man antidote to FOX News and CNN. Revised American edition of Palast's best selling book, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." If you haven't read it yet, get it now. Palast is the one reporter who can't be bought. But you can buy his book. The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things The major weapon the Bush Cartel has used to silence dissent and subdue the American population is fear. Whatever the real threat of terrorism, the Bush propaganda machine has masterfully manipulated ginned up "terror alerts" and meaningless advice about self-protection against unnamed threats in order to advance its political agenda. Barry Glassner's "The Culture of Fear" does not directly discuss the post 9/11 fear-mongering by the Bush crew (because it was written in 1999), but it does offer a revealing overview of how we have become a "culture of fear." Glassner's book was the source for the theme of "Bowling for Columbine" -- that we are a nation manipulated into a state of anxiety and panic over unidentified threats and stereotypes. In fact, Glassner was the professor who walked the streets of South Central LA with Moore, discussing how sensationalistic news and profiteering has led to a nation awash in exaggerated fright. We highly recommend this book if you want keen insight into how a society became the victims of the Bush Cartel's Ministry of Fear. Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C Sadly, Now The Largest Collection of Artifacts, after the Looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. From the Publisher: This book is the catalogue for an exhibition to be held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY. from May 8 to August 17, 2003. This handsomely illustrated book highlights one of the most important and creative periods in the history of art: a time marked by the appearance of the city states of the Sumerians, the citadel of Troy, the splendid royal tombs at Ur, and the monumental cities at Mohenjodaro and Harappa. The volume examines the cultural achievements of these first urban societies, placing them in a historical context. Topics covered include the emergence of the first city states, the birth of written language, and trade and cultural interconnections between the ancient Near East and outlying areas. More than five hundred works of art, including sculpture, jewelry, vessels, weapons, cylinder seals, and tablets executed in a wide variety of materials such as stone, metal, clay, ivory, and semiprecious stones are included. The insightful texts are written by leading scholars in the field. Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Union The book is now in its 40th printing and has been declared by Barnes & Noble and others as the biggest selling nonfiction hardcover for 2002." - David Schankula, editor. Mike pulls NO punches when he takes on "President" Bush, the Stolen Election, Clinton, Republicans, Democrats, American complacency, Corporate America, Our Judicial System, Men (in general) and Stupid White Men everywhere. The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy. Released during September of 2001, this book by John Dean was lost in the national period of mourning over September 11th. It offers a thorough, revealing look at how Rehnquist came to be appointed to the Supreme Court -- and the devastating results. Made In Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics If you ever wanted to learn the full lowdown on Bush's roots as a full-fledged member of the Texas Neo-Confederate plutocracy, this is the book to read. Michael Lind, who wrote the celebrated "Up From Conservatism," offers a trenchant intellectual analysis of the reactionary, right wing roots of Bush in the Lone Star State. Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America In her indictment of Bush-style corporate cronyism, Arianna Huffington offers bountiful proof that Gore Vidal was right when he said: "What we have in this country is socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor." She argues that greedy incompetents have taken over the free enterprise system and hijacked our democratic institutions to serve their own insatiable financial gluttony. Most tellingly, these "masters of industry" are really just modern con artists and river boat gamblers, using companies to amass personal fortunes by bleeding them dry and then jumping ship before they collapse. You might say that Arianna's trenchant, droll analysis helps to explain why our "M.B.A. President" represents the seamy side of the business world: Corporate Cronyism Unlimited. Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President Until December 23rd, BuzzFlash.com is the exclusive distributor of the soon-to-be-released third Soft Skull Press Edition of the legendary "Fortunate Son." Written by Jim Hatfield, who committed suicide in July of 2001, "Fortunate Son" is the expose of George W. that the Bush Cartel tried to ban. The Third Edition includes a preface by Greg Palast and a new introduction by Mark Crispin Miller. Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court A provocative look at the naked political agenda of today's Supreme Court, from one of America's foremost jurists. In the fall of 2000, when the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that effectively decided a Presidential election, the Court's role in political life suddenly was thrust onto center stage. But, as legendary attorney and activist Martin Garbus argues, the Court has bee n a hotbed of politics for years, and it's time we took off our blinders and stopped treating the justices as the protectors of objective truth. What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias And The News Much of Alterman's argument comes down to this: the conservatives in the newspapers, television, talk radio, and the Republican party are lying about liberal bias and repeating the same lies long enough that they've taken on a patina of truth. Further, the perception of such a bias has cowed many media outlets into presenting more conservative opinions to counterbalance a bias, which does not, in fact, exist, says Alterman. In methodically shooting down conservative charges, Alterman employs extensive endnotes, all of which are referenced with superscript numbers throughout the body of the book. Those little numbers seem to say, "Look, I've done my homework." What Liberal Media? is a book very much of 2003 and will likely lose some relevance as political powers and media arrangements evolve. But it's likely to be a tonic for anyone who has suspected that in a media environment overflowing with conservatives, the charges of bias are hard to swallow. For liberals hoping someone will take off the gloves and mix it up with the verbal brawlers of the right, Eric Alterman is a champion. Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex - Conservative David Brock made his name (and big money) by trashing Anita Hill as "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." But it was Brock's reporting that was nutty and slutty, he confesses in the riveting memoir Blinded by the Right. He absolves Hill; claims he helped Clarence Thomas threaten another witness into backing down; portrays a ghastly right-wing Clinton-bashing conspiracy of hypocrites, zillionaires, and maniacs; and accuses himself of being "a witting cog in the Republican sleaze machine." Now Brock is sliming his former fellows--everyone from the lawyer who argued the Bush v. Gore case to gonzo pundits Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham ("the only person I knew who didn't appear to own a book or regularly read a newspaper") to Matt Drudge and Tom Wolfe. Brock excoriates the gay hypocrites of the right wing, including himself, and tells how he cleverly spun his own outing. (He calls himself "the only openly gay conservative in the country," evidently forgetting about the far more open and famous Andrew Sullivan.) The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Joe Klein offers a nonfictional take on his favorite subject, Bill Clinton, whom he describes as both "the most talented politician of his generation" and "the most compelling." Klein is of two minds when it comes to the man from Hope: he is at once disappointed by Clinton's failure to achieve greatness, but also a defender of what Clinton did do. He can be unremittingly harsh about the 42nd president's personal shortcomings: "Bill Clinton often seemed the apotheosis of his generation's alleged sins: moral relativism, the tendency to pay more attention to marketing than to substance, the solipsistic callowness." Yet he also credits Clinton with running "a serious, substantive presidency" whose chief success was dragging "Washington toward a recognition that a revised form of government activism might be appropriate in the anarchy of an instant economy." Klein is a smart and engrossing writer, and The Natural is an honest liberal's best effort to explain eight controversial years. Readers who supported Clinton will discover new insights into why he didn't accomplish more; those who opposed him will gain a sharper understanding of why he remained so popular with the public. The Hunting of the President: The Ten Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually leading to his impeachment trial. Award-winning journalists Joe Conason and Gene Lyons have crafted a tale as compulsively readable as a political thriller--paced, and at times worded, like a summer bestseller. Although they provide ample evidence of backstabbing, revenge, deceit, conniving, and "dirty tricks" in the struggle to oust Clinton, arguing that "the better the president and the country did, the more his adversaries appeared willing to endorse almost anything short of assassination to do him in," they also acknowledge that Clinton's reckless behavior, along with the "panicky, defensive, and occasionally less-than-perfectly-honest" responses of the White House press office, didn't hurt his opponents. Investigative journalism at its juiciest, The Hunting of the President is a surprising valediction to a far-from-angelic public leader who often outmaneuvered his enemies with otherworldly skill. The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk "Why I Refused To Testify Against the Clintons & What I Learned In Jail" by Susan McDougal Ken Starr's Legal Shock Troops didn't care about slashing through people's lives or using intolerableprison conditions to try and get Susan McDougal to lie. They engaged in unethical, immoral conduct, all the while thinking that they were on a mission from God (to unseat a democratically elected president) and could do no wrong. They tried to break Susan McDougal's soul, but they didn't succeed because she held the higher moral ground: she told the truth, while Ken Starr and his minions wallowed in the sleazy underworld of prosecutors without a conscience, who particularly liked to legally beat up on women. In the end, Susan emerged as a heroine. Ken Starr, however, will be remembered for hearing scriptural hymns while he played with his devices of legal torture. This is Susan McDougal's story. It is the story of a heroine --someone who didn't ask to play the role, but stepped up to the plate when confronted with the Republican version of the "axis of evil." Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches Despite its uplifting title, this wide-ranging anthology admirably includes both the most famous civil rights speeches of American history and lesser known, often angrier voices. Organizing the speeches chronologically, editor Gottheimer, who was one of President Clinton's speechwriters, delves as far back as 1789, when "a free Negro," name unknown, eloquently lamented the fact that "there are men who will not be persuaded that it is possible for a human soul to be lodged within a sable body." The second chapter, "Measured Gains: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward," covers the period from 1866 to 1949, and encompasses voices as diverse as Marcus Garvey, Eleanor Roosevelt and Alonso Perales ("Defending Mexican Americans"). Although Gottheimer has limited the collection to speeches about African-Americans, Asian- Americans, Hispanic-Americans, gays and lesbians and women, the astounding variety of rhetorical and political strategies enlisted by the speakers are not only instructive but make for engaging reading. In speeches from the civil rights era, for example, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" appears with Howard "Judge" Smith's "Sex Discrimination in the Civil Rights Act," Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet," and Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power."