American Politics Reading List
Why Osama bin Laden recommend peanut farmer Jimmy Carter book of the old?
As our colleague Mark McDonald on Sunday, Bin Laden apparently released a new audiotape, titled "Address to the American people." According to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist Web sites, on the tape, a voice claiming that the leader of Al Qaeda described the three books he wrote in support of his analysis of world politics and the systematic abuse of Muslims at the hands of the United States and its allies. /
He read and loved .*
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Nineteen Eighty-Four $7.49 Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell’s nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff’s attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell’s prescience of modern life… |
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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade $8.99 The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy has been lauded by the New York Times, Financial Times, and reviewers worldwide. Translated in fourteen languages, Travels has received numerous awards for its frank and nuanced discussion of global economic realities. Now updated and revised–including a discussions of environmental issue–this fascinating book illustrates crucial lessons in the de… |
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation $5.97 In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of the republic. Ellis focuses on six crucial moments in the life of the new nation, including a secret dinner at which the seat of the nation’s capital was det… |
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