Common Sense by IndyPublish $88.99
Presents the text with annotations of "the single most influential political pamphlet ever published in America."

The Federalist Papers (Oxford World's Classics) by Lawrence Goldman $15.95
The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first...

Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Knopf $12.66

Nemesis (Harry Hole) by Don Bartlett $12.99
Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is a nail-biting thriller from one of the biggest stars in crime fiction.Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn't get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a...

J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by W W Norton & Co Inc $29.95
Shocking grim, and at times, darkly comic, this devastatingly detailed biography chronicles the rise of the nation's legendary top policeman--and the reign of terror that made the FBI the closest thing America had to a gestapo. Curt Gentry reveals Hoover as a paranoid man who intimidated every president from FDR to Nixon, yet shrank from human contact. And he describes in riveting detail how...

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Crown $14.95
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called “the audacity...

Liberalism & the Social Problem by Haskell House Pub Ltd $75.00
A collection of speeches made by Winston Churchill between the years 1906 and 1909. The subjects include: The Conciliation of South Africa, Liberalism and Socialism, Unemployment, and Land and Income Taxes. Altogether 21 speeches are presented in full.

The History of the Kings of Britain by Michael A. Faletra $19.95
The History of the Kings of Britain is arguably the most influential text written in England in the Middle Ages. The work narrates a linear history of pre-Saxon Britain, from its founding by Trojan exiles to the loss of native British (Celtic) sovereignty in the face of Germanic invaders. Along the way, Geoffrey introduces readers to such familiar figures as King Lear, Cymbeline, Vortigern, the...

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Penguin Press HC, The $29.95
From the managing editor of the Washington Post, a news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars...

The Downing Street Years by Harpercollins $30.00
The long-awaited first volume of the memoirs of ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This volume provides a revealing look at an extraordinary woman, at the often top-secret world in which she traveled and the major events that took place during her tenure. photos.