Author: Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: system, recover, financial, shattered, greed, corruption, meltdown
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-01-09
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1568584334
ISBN-13: 9781568584331

America’s economy is in meltdown. Banks have failed, foreclosures are sweeping the housing market, and stocks have suffered their worst losses since the Great Depression. Faced with a complex and spiraling crisis, the government has poured billions of taxpayer cash into a bailout with no end in sight. At every step of the way, The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine, has tackled the most urgent questions facing the nation’s leaders and its citizens with clarity and insight. Meltdown draws together nearly twenty years of the best of their coverage of the financial crisis

Authors:Vincent Bugliosi, Gerry Spence,
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: constitution, chose, president, undermined, court, america, supreme, betrayal
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-05-04
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 156025355X
ISBN-13: 9781560253556

During the course of American history, wrongful events have occurred and certain Americans have stood up and spoken out against these wrongs: Tom Paine, Edward R. Murrow, Daniel Ellsberg. Vincent Bugliosi takes his place in this special pantheon of patriots with his powerful, brilliant, and courageous expose of crime by the highest court in the land. When an article he wrote on this topic appeared in The Nation magazine in February 2001, it drew the largest outpouring of letters and e-mail in the magazine’s 136-year history, tapping a deep reservoir of outrage. The original article is no

Author: Jeremy Scahill
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: army, revised, updated, mercenary, powerful, rise, world, blackwater
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 156858394X
ISBN-13: 9781568583945

On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad’s Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide.This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the "War on Terror." In his gripping bestseller, awardwinning journalist Jeremy Scahill

Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: everyone, stories, mirrors
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-05-26
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1568584237
ISBN-13: 9781568584232

Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.”Mirrors, Galeano’s most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history’s unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: “Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there

Authors:Idith Zertal, Akiva Eldar,
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: settlements, occupied, territories, israel, over, land, war, lords
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2009-06-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1568584148
ISBN-13: 9781568584140

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War was a devastating triumph for Israel, which immediately began to establish settlements in the newly conquered territories. Those settlements, and the movement that made them possible, have utterly transformed Israel, and yet until now the full history of the occupation has never been told. Lords of the Land tells that tragic story, and reveals what a catastrophe it has been for both Israel and the Palestinians.

Author: Rick Steves
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: political, travel
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1568584350
ISBN-13: 9781568584355

Travel connects people with people. It helps us fit more comfortably and compatibly into a shrinking world. And it inspires creative new solutions to persistent problems facing our nation. We can’t understand our world without experiencing it. Traveling as a Political Act helps us take that first step.There’s more to travel than good-value hotels, great art, and tasty cuisine. Americans who “travel as a political act” can have the time of their lives and come home smarter—with a better understanding of the interconnectedness of today’s world and just how our nation fits in.In his

Author: Pratap Chatterjee
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: way, america, makes, war, revolutionized, company, army, connected, texas, oil, halliburton
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1568583923
ISBN-13: 9781568583921

Halliburton’s Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton’s Army is a devastating bestiary of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism. Pratap Chatterjee—one of the world’s leading authorities on corporate crime, fraud, and corruption—shows how Halliburton won and then lost its contrac