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Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think
Ken Buck · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Lavish parties. Commitee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder.Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) is blowing the whistle on the real-life House of Cards going on behind the scenes in our nation's capital.... |
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Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong
Edward Conard · Portfolio Hardcover; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the aftermath of the Financial Crisis, many commonly held beliefs have emerged to explain its cause. Conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using low down payments, teaser rates, and other predatory tactics to seduce unsuspecting home owners into... |
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Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
Bob Herbert · Doubleday
Pages: 283
Format: Book
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From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its wayIn his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After... |
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID · PENGUIN Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest... |
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Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
Mirta Ojito · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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2014 International Latino Awards FinalistThe true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration In November 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked... |
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Start Your Own Child-Care Service: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success
The Staff of Entrepreneur Media · Entrepreneur Press
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
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START YOUR OWN CHILD-CARE SERVICE AND GET PAID TO CARE FOR KIDSAs the number of working parents grows the number of children who need quality childcare grows along with it. That need is creating a tremendous entrepreneurial opportunity for people who love children and want to build a business... |
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Broken But Unbowed
Greg Abbott · Threshold Editions
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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Texas governor and rising star in the Republican Party one of the first prominent politicians to govern from a wheelchair since Franklin D. Roosevelt Governor Greg Abbott pens his deeply personal and inspiring life story and proposes a plan to restore America to greatness in what Newt Gingrich... |
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Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices from Tunis to Damascus
Layla Al-Zubaidi · Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring As revolution swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, much of the writing that reached the West came via analysts and academics, experts and expats. We heard about... |
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Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting
John Shiffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 267
Format: Hardcover
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On today's high-tech battlefields, the most lethal weapons are not the big ones, but rather the ones that are small enough to be smuggled inside a pack of chewing gum. Microchips. Gyroscopes. Radar-cloaking and night-vision technology. Developed and manufactured in the United States... |
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American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
Marco Rubio · Sentinel
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Friends, My parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers,... |
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