 | Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War by Rick Atkinson
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.28 Our first venture in to Iraq.
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 | The Collapse of Yugoslavia 1991-1999 (Essential Histories) by Alastair Finlan
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $6.78 A quick and dirty guide of the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
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 | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $0.92 The end of Communism on Russia.
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 | Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Buy used from: $0.01 An on the ground view of one of the darkest days in Army history. Bowden not only lays blame on the Clinton administration for sending them on a mission they should not have been on without tanks or armor vehicles. He also faults a Republican controlled congress that threatened to vote down any increase in the mission. Witch included any tanks and armored vehicles.
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 | One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko
Buy used from: $5.71 A grunts eye view of the new Russia's misadventures in Chechnya.
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 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Buy used from: $1.34 Stories from the genocide in Rwanda.
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 | Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat by Wesley K. Clark
Buy new: $7.20 / Used from: $3.51 How NATO,under American leadership,stopped genocide and brought down a dictator.
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 | Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
Buy used from: $4.58 In the on going war on drugs this was a great PR victory. Tactically it was a blip. In the end other drug lords stopped recruiting bodyguards form the local slums and started paying ex special ops troops to do the work.
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 | The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $6.92 A good book that covers Al Qaedas operations in the 90's.
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 | Making Peace by George Mitchell
Buy new: $18.88 / Used from: $7.47 The story of how peace came to Northern Ireland.
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 | Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.37 The cult that gained control of a county and in its own way helped change the world for the worst.
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 | The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation by Dick J. Reavis
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $7.11 Does a religion have the right to disobey gun law it disagrees with? Should law enforcement stage raids simply for PR reasons.
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 | American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing by Lou Michel
Buy used from: $0.01 After the '93 bombing of the WTC we spent so much time looking for middle eastern nuts that we never bothered to look for home grown nuts. He believed he was avenging the people of Waco.
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 | Comprehending Columbine by Ralph W Larkin
Buy new: $21.33 / Used from: $18.70 Another Waco inspired attack. Larkin takes both the religious right and the anti gun lobby to task for making this incident more about them and there agendas, them about the victims and there families.
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 | Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD by Lou Cannon
Buy new: $24.30 / Used from: $4.75 The Rodney King riots in L.A.
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 | Five Days That Shook the World: The Battle for Seattle and Beyond by Alexander Cockburn
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $1.09 The WTO riots. Some came to save the world. Others came to make trouble.
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 | Microsoft Rising: ...and other tales of Silicon Valley (Perspectives) by Ted G. Lewis
Buy new: $61.50 / Used from: $0.68 The company that started a new era, and made geeks and nerds cool.
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 | World War 3.0: Microsoft Vs. the U.S. Government, and the Battle to Rule the Digital Age by Ken Auletta
Buy used from: $0.55 Yet another chapter in the endless soap opera of government vs big business.
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 | Quest for the Presidency 1992 by Peter Goldman
Buy new: $24.23 / Used from: $0.02 The torch of leadership passes from the greatest generation to the baby boom generation.
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 | The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House by John F. Harris
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.61 A bio of the Clinton presidency. Both a friend of the Clinton's and a FOX NEWS commentator give it thumbs up, it has to be good.
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| The hunting of the President : the ten-year campaign to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton / Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
Buy used from: $5.99 Hillary was right. There was a vast right wing conspiracy.
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 | The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair by Washington Post
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $0.01 Millions of dollars to expose Bill Clinton as Satan and all we got is bad porn.
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 | Contract with America by Republican National Committee
Buy used from: $0.01 The document that got the new conservative revolution rolling. It was simple and straight forward and the voters loved it. Most of what was on there never did become law.
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 | Tony Blair: Prime Minister by John Rentoul
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $0.01 This bio came out before the Iraq war and mostly covers his first term as PM. Back when liberals loved him, and conservatives called him the British Bill Clinton.
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 | Crazy Like a Fox: The Inside Story of How Fox News Beat CNN by Scott Collins
Buy used from: $2.49 After taking over the radio airwaves the conservative movement decided it needed its own cable news network to counter the so called CLINTON NEWS NETWORK (CNN). And is succeeded beyond there wildest dreams.
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 | Quentin Tarantino: Man and His Movies, The by Jami Bernard
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $1.17 The man who brought Indie films to the mainstream.
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 | Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives) by Eithne Quinn
Buy new: $16.77 / Used from: $9.66 Gangstr rap was the new blues. Like its predecessor it was up front about what was happening in the black community. And like the blues a lot of people were offended by what they heard. So much so that both candidates for president in 1994 felt they both had to speak out against it. In the end gangstr rap wound up being taken over by the white kids.
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 | Grunge: The End of Rock and Roll by Kyle Anderson
Buy used from: $39.35 Grunge had the sound of anger and despair that seemed to affect most blue collar teens that grew up watching the good paying jobs of there parents disappear; and be replaced with just above minimum wage Mcjobs. It was the music of a generation the really believed it would not do better than the past generations.
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 | The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years by Haynes Johnson
Buy used from: $0.01 A good book that covers some of the event of the 90's like DEEP BLUE, THE GENOME PROJECT, and the O.J. Simpson trial and the O.Jing of the media.
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