 | Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It by Peter G. Peterson
Buy used from: $2.04 This is a very good introduction to why the state and federal budgets have grown so much in the last few decades. The author is an expert, having worked in the top echelons of government policy & economic think tanks for most of those decades. His analysis of the problems is insightful and fair. His solutions... well judge for yourself.
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![The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410FGAGYGPL._SL75_.jpg) | The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $17.35 / Used from: $0.75 Thomas Friedman is an opinion-setter. His words are read and evaluated by nearly every political reader out there. There is a good reason for that, and this book demonstrates it again. How does globalization affect the individual? The changes we hear when we call customer service have a lot more to them.
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 | American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips
Buy used from: $0.01 What happened to the American electorate? Where and when did the religious voters & economic conservatives get together? Kevin Phillips links the rise of the oil businessman and Christian conservative in American politics to the many changes in American culture over the last century.
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 | Shame: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
Buy used from: $1.99 Fiction! Still makes you think and brings up issues. The Satanic Verses was more religiously inspired, this is more politically motivated. Not a book that teaches you, but an entertaining novel that brings up issues you may want to further educated yourself on,
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 | Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.01 Interesting perspective from inside the intelligence community. A look at how the War on Terror is being fought, and what should be done.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $0.01 Again fictional, and again makes you think. It also made me cry. A perspective on immigration from Central Asia that pulls on a lot of heart strings.
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 | Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan
Buy new: $12.53 / Used from: $0.01 The name really says it all. Robert Kagan is an established expert in the field, and this is a book on the changing dynamics of global power between the US & Europe. Short, dense read.
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 | The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America by Daniel Benjamin
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.00 Excellent well-written book. I originally read excerpts for a college class but finished the rest because it was just that good.
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