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- Juan Cole, Engaging the Muslim World (2009, Palgrave MacMillan)
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- Rashid Khalidi, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East (2009, Beacon Press)
- Mark LeVine, Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam (paperback, 2008, Three Rivers Press)
- Shibley Telhami, The Stakes: America and the Middle East: The Consequences of Power and the Choice of Peace (2002, Westview Press)
- Sarah Chayes, The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (2006; paperback, 2007, Penguin Books)
- Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004, Penguin Books)
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- Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq (2003, Verso)
- Ali A Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (2007, Yale University Press)
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (2006; paperback, 2007, Vintage Books)
- Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (2006, Verso)
- Dexter Filkins, The Forever War (2008, Knopf)
- Aaron Glantz, How America Lost Iraq (2005, Jeremy P Tarcher)
- Michael R Gordon/General Bernard E Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (2006, Pantheon)
- Seymour Hersh, Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (2004, Harper Collins)
- Dilip Hiro, Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm (paperback, 2002, Thunder's Mouth Press)
- Dahr Jamail, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (2007, Haymarket)
- Greg Mitchell, So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq (paperback, 2008, Union Square Press)
- George Packer, The Assassins Gate: America in Iraq (2005, Farrar Straus Giroux)
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- Thomas E Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006, Penguin Press)
- Thomas E Ricks, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009, Penguin)
- Nir Rosen, In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq (2006, Free Press)
- Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War (2005, Henry Holt)
- Joseph E Stiglitz/Linda J Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (2008, WW Norton)
- Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War (2004; paperback, 2005, Berkley Trade)
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- Avraham Burg, The Holocaust Is Over We Must Rise From Its Ashes (2008; paperback, 2009, Palgrave MacMillan)
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- Roane Carey, ed, The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid ()
- Jimmy Carter, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (2006, Simon & Schuster)
- Jimmy Carter, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work (2009, Simon & Schuster)
- Kathleen Christison, Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on US Middle East Policy (paperback, 2001, University of California Press)
- Hillel Cohen, Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration With Zionism, 1917-1948 (2008, University of California Press)
- Hillel Cohen, Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967 (2010, University of California Press)
- Rich Cohen, Israel Is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History (2009, Farrar Straus Giroux)
- Richard Ben Cramer, How Israel Lost: The Four Questions (2004, Simon & Schuster)
- Charles Enderlin, Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002 (2003, Other Press)
- Norman G Finkelstein, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (2005, University of California Press)
- Norman G Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (2nd ed, paperback, 2003, WW Norton)
- Norman G Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (paperback, 2003, Verso Books)
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- Claude S Fischer/Michael Hout, Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years (2006, Russell Sage Foundation)
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- Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold Story of Racial Injustice in Twentieth-Century America (paperback, 2006, WW Norton)
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- Gordon S Wood, The American Revolution: A History (2002; paperback, 2003, Modern Library)
- Gordon S Wood, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History (2008, Penguin Press)
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- Elizabeth de la Vega, United States V George W Bush et al. (paperback, 2006, Seven Stories Press)
- Robert Draper, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W Bush (2007; paperback, 2008, Free Press)
- Laura Flanders, Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (2004, Verso)
- Barton Gellman, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (2008; paperback, 2009, Penguin)
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- Jack Huberman, Bushit! An A-Z Guide to the Bush Attack on Truth, Justice, Equality, and the American Way (paperback, 2006, Nation Books)
- Molly Ivins/Lou Dubose, Bushwhacked: Life in George W Bush's America ()
- Paul Krugman, Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan (2001, WW Norton)
- Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal (2007, WW Norton)
- Paul Krugman, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (2003, WW Norton)
- Michael Lind, Made in Texas: George W Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics (paperback, 2004, Basic Books)
- Dave Lindorff/Barbara Olshansky, The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W Bush From Office (2006; paperback, 2007, Thomas Dunne Books)
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- Kevin Phillips, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush (2004, Viking)
- Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (2006, Viking)
- John Powers, Sore Winners: American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America (2004; paperback, 2005, Anchor Books)
- Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina (2006, Penguin Press)
- Peter Singer, The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W Bush ()
- Jacob Weisberg, The Bush Tragedy (2008, Random House)
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- Tariq Ali, Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations With Tariq Ali (paperback, 2005, New Press)
- Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002, Verso)
- Andrew J Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy (2002; paperback, 2004, Harvard University Press)
- Andrew J Bacevich, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008, Metropolitan Books)
- Andrew J Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005, Oxford University Press)
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- Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (2002; paperback, 2003, Basic Books)
- James Carroll, Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War (2004, Metropolitan)
- James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power (2006, Houghton Mifflin)
- Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (paperback, 2007, Henry Holt)
- Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (2003, Metropolitan; paperback, 2004, Owl Books)
- Noam Chomsky, What We Say Goes: Conversations on US Power in a Changing World (paperback, 2007, Metropolitan Books)
- Gerald Colby/Charlotte Dennett, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil (1995, Harper Collins)
- Robert Dreyfuss, Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (2005; paperback, 2006, Holt)
- Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (1995; second edition, paperback, 2007, University of Massachusetts Press)
- Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America (2007, Libri)
- John Farmer, The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 (2009, Riverhead)
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- Karen Greenberg, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days (2009, Oxford University Press)
- Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009, Nation Books)
- Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (paperback, 2003, Anchor Books)
- David Hoffman, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (2009, Doubleday)
- Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril (2008, Free Press)
- Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (2007, Metropolitan Books)
- Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (2004, Metropolitan Books)
- Fred Kaplan, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power (2008, Wiley)
- Robert D Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Requires a Pagan Ethos (paperback, 2003, Vintage Books)
- Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq (2006; paperback, 2007, Times Books)
- Gabriel Kolko/Joyce Kolko, The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1954 (paperback, 1972, Harper & Row)
- Jon Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (2009, Doubleday)
- Lewis Lapham, Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration (2006; paperback, 2007, New Press)
- Lewis Lapham, Theater of War (2002, New Press)
- Mark LeVine, Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil (2005, Oneworld)
- Anatol Lieven/John Hulsman, Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World (2006; paperback, 2007, Vintage Books)
- Anatol Lieven, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (2004, Oxford University Press)
- Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart or Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide (1992; paperback, 1996, The New Press)
- James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (paperback, 2004, paperback, Penguin)
- Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (2008, Doubleday; paperback, 2009, Anchor Books)
- Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America (2007; paperback, 2008, Mariner Books)
- Dennis Perrin, Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War (paperback, 2008, Verso)
- Samantha Power, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (2008, Penguin Press)
- Philippe Sands, Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Bush and Blair Are Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands (paperback, 2006, Penguin Books)
- Robert Scheer, The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (2008, Twelve)
- Jonathan Schell, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (2003, Metropolitan Books)
- J Peter Scoblic, US vs Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Underminded America's Security (2008, Viking Books)
- Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (2007, Doubleday; paperback, 2008, Anchor Books)
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- Matthew Yglesias, Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats (2008, Wiley)
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- Richard Rhodes, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (2007, Knopf)
- Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (paperback, 1996, Simon & Schuster)
- Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (paperback, 1995, Simon & Schuster)
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