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Not Home Alone

If you are looking for a book that trashes and thrashes the United States you will not find it here Instead Godfrey Hodgson provides readers with a grand tour through American history that offers a friendly but stern hand to explain our sense of exceptionalism in the world an especially pertinen

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The Greening of America

Thomas Friedman has done it again The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist has taken a global situation this time climate change and set out to educate the public about how we got there and what we can do about it In his explanation however the self-described ldquo somber optimist

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Oedipus Tex

Although most Americans regard Sept 11 2001 as a day that changed the world the investigative reporter Craig Unger would argue that the presidential election in 2000 served as a point of convergence for certain groups of people who helped create what he calls 8220 the greatest foreign policy d

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