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Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

Michael C. Ruppert · New Society Publishers
Pages: 696
Format: Paperback

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects—finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government—by showing how they acted in concert...
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The Guerrilla Factory: The Making of Special Forces Officers, the Green Berets

Tony Schwalm · Free Press
Format: Hardcover

THE NAVY HAS THE SEALS, and the Army has the Green Berets. They are masters of asymmetrical warfare, trained to immerse themselves in hostile territory, sleeping near their enemies and building relationships with people who may want to kill them. Retired lieutenant colonel Tony Schwalm...
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Guilty by Association

Rudi Dekkers · Brio Press
Format: Book

From the Dutch ghetto to Florida s airfields, Guilty by Association navigates the trials and successes that led to Rudi Dekkers becoming the owner of Huffman Aviation School. Huffman Aviation was where terrorists Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, the two men responsible for the 9/11 World...
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Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy

Doug Wead · Center Street
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Here is the first, insider, account of the precipitous fall of Hillary Clinton. How the scandals of a lifetime finally reached critical mass. How, in the last few days of the campaign, some on her staff saw the ghostly shroud of defeat creeping over them but were helpless to act, frozen...
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The Price of Politics

Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward's 17th book The Price of Politics is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal...
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The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow

Donnie Williams · Lawrence Hill Books
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover

The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling glimpse into the world of the white...
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The Real Romney

Michael Kranish; Scott Helman · Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Absorbing and fair-minded." - New York Times"Romney's story in full and clear detail ... fascinating in-depth stuff." - Los Angeles Times"A fascinating story [that] sheds next light on an elusive subject." - Boston GlobeDespite his political prominence,...
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Lenin on the Train

Catherine Merridale · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future...
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Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

Del Quentin Wilber · Henry Holt and Co.; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

For the first time a minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan On March President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington DC and was shot by a would-be assassin For years few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying and no one has ever...
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Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America

John Michael Greer · New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.Although he was writing nearly a century ago, William Butler Yeats could just as easily be describing the United States today. The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's...
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The Post-American World: Release 2.0

Fareed Zakaria · W. W. Norton & Company; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller revised and expanded with a new afterword the essential update of Fareed Zakarias international bestseller about America and its shifting position in world affairs Fareed Zakariaxs international bestseller The Post-American World pointed to the xCrise of the restxDxthe...
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