Friday, September 11, 2009

2009 Books History/Current Events/Politics

History/Current Events/Politics
Accidental guerrilla : fighting small wars in the midst of a big one / David Kilcullen.
America's hidden history : untold tales of the first Pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation / Kenneth C. Davis.
Conservatives : ideas and personalities throughout American history / Patrick Allitt.
Glenn Beck's common sense : the case against an out-of-control government, inspired by Thomas Paine / Glenn Beck ; with Joseph Kerry.
Horse soldiers : the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan / Doug Stanton.
Power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / Harm de Blij.
Rebirth of a nation : the making of modern America, 1877-1920 / Jackson Lears.
Resisting McCarthyism : to sign or not to sign California's loyalty oath / Bob Blauner.
Signing their lives away : the fame and misfortune of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence / by Denise Kiernan & Joseph D'Agnese.
Tears in the darkness : the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath / Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman.
War on the run : the epic story of Robert Rogers and the conquest of America's first frontier / John F. Ross.
Age of the unthinkable : why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what we can do about it / Joshua Cooper Ramo.
Ancient Canaan and Israel : an introduction / Jonathan M. Golden.
Globalization : a very short introduction / Manfred B. Steger.
Fakers : hoaxers, con artists, counterfeiters, and other great pretenders / Paul Maliszewski.
Go down together : the true, untold story of Bonnie and Clyde / Jeff Guinn.
Hindus : an alternative history / Wendy Doniger.
Imagining India : the idea of a renewed nation / Nandan Nilekani.
Intellectual history of cannibalism / Cǎtǎlin Avramescu ; translated by Alistair Ian Blyth.
Last Indian war : the Nez Perce story / Elliott West.
Liberty and tyranny : a conservative manifesto / Mark R. Levin.
Least worst place : Guantanamo's first 100 days / Karen Greenberg.
Lobbying in America : a reference handbook / Ronald J. Hrebenar and Bryson B. Morgan.
Mrs. Dred Scott : a life on slavery's frontier / Lea VanderVelde.
One nation under dog : adventures in the new world of prozac-popping puppies, dog-park politics, and organic pet food / Michael Schaffer.
Out of captivity : surviving 1,967 days in the Colombian jungle / Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Tom Howes with Gary Brozek.
Power problem : how American military dominance makes us less safe, less prosperous, and less free / Christopher A. Preble.
History and its limits : human, animal, violence / Dominick LaCapra.
Seeds of terror : how heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda / Gretchen Peters.
Thoreau you don't know : what the prophet of environmentalism really meant / Robert Sullivan.
Why unions matter / Michael D. Yates.
You've come a long way, baby : women, politics, and popular culture / edited by Lilly J. Goren.
Big rich : the rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes / Bryan Burrough.
Gamble : General David Petraeus and the American military adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 / Thomas E. Ricks.
Invisible children the third generation of agent orange victims in Vietnam / Marilyn M. Tycer.
Invisible history : Afghanistan's untold story / by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould.
Michelle Obama : first lady of hope / Elizabeth Lightfoot.
Shadow force : private security contractors in Iraq / David Isenberg.
American Muslim women : negotiating race, class, and gender within the Ummah / Jamillah Karim.
Haunted heart : the life and times of Stephen King / Lisa Rogak.
King's dream / Eric J. Sundquist.
ConUNdrum : the limits of the United Nations and the search for alternatives / edited by Brett D. Schaefer.
Mapping the new world order / Thomas J. Volgy ... [et al.] ; with Ana Bojinović ... [et al.].
True compass : a memoir / Edward M. Kennedy.
Madoff with the money / Jerry Oppenheimer.
In defense of judicial elections / Chris W. Bonneau, Melinda Gann Hall.
Beyond the Revolution : a history of American thought from Paine to pragmatism / William H. Goetzmann.
Catching fire : how cooking made us human / Richard Wrangham.
Too good to be true : the rise and fall of Bernie Madoff / Erin Arvedlund.
Creation of the state of Israel / Myra Immell, book editor.
Five to rule them all : the UN Security Council and the making of the modern world / David L. Bosco.
Losing the news : the future of the news that feeds democracy / Alex S. Jones.
Real enemies : conspiracy theories and American democracy, World War I to 9/11 / Kathryn S. Olmsted.
Truth, lies, and O-rings : inside the space shuttle Challenger disaster / Allan J. McDonald ; with James R. Hansen.
A to Z of the Arab-israeli conflict / P.R. Kumaraswamy.
Big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Timothy Egan.
Obamas in the White House : reflections on family, faith & leadership / from the editors of Essence ; editor in chief, Angela Burt-Murray.
Traitor to his class : the privileged life and radical presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / H.W. Brands.
Murder of King Tut : the plot to kill the child king : a nonfiction thriller / James Patterson and Martin Dugard.
Inventing the American way : the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the civil rights movement / Wendy L. Wall.
Future of liberalism / Alan Wolfe.
States of Mexico : a reference guide to history and culture / Peter Standish.
National security court system : a natural evolution of justice in an age of terror / Glenn Sulmasy.
Competing voices from native America / Dewi Ioan Ball and Joy Porter.
Going rogue : an American life / Sarah Palin.
When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present / Gail Collins.
War 2.0 : irregular warfare in the information age / Thomas Rid and Marc Hecker
Civil resistance and power politics : the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present / edited by Adam Roberts, Timothy Garton Ash.
Fall of the Berlin Wall / Jeff T. Hay, book editor.
Dynamics of diplomacy / Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux.
America's home front heroes : an oral history of World War II / [compiled by] Stacy Enyeart ; foreword by Larry Aasen.
Influence warfare : how terrorists and governments fight to shape perceptions in a war of ideas / edited by James J.F. Forest ; foreword by Bruce Hoffman.
Does outsourcing harm America? / Lisa Frohnapfel-Krueger, book editor.
Atomic America : how a deadly explosion and a feared admiral changed the course of nuclear history / Todd Tucker.
Capital punishment / Noah Berlatsky, book editor.
Federal elections / Debra A. Miller, Book Editor.
Conscience of a libertarian : empowering the citizen revolution with God, guns, gambling, and tax cuts / Wayne Allyn Root.
Imperial cruise : a secret history of empire and war / James Bradley.
Kennedy assassination--24 hours after : Lyndon B. Johnson's pivotal first day as president / Steven M. Gillon.
Baptism by fire : eight presidents who took office in times of crisis / Mark K. Updegrove.
Politician : an insider's account of John Edwards's pursuit of the presidency and the scandal that brought him down / Andrew Young.
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 / Jeff Hay, book editor.
War that killed Achilles : the true story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War / Caroline Alexander.
Universal health care / Susan Hunnicutt, book editor.
Escape from the deep : the epic story of a legendary submarine and her courageous crew / Alex Kershaw.
Fire underground : the ongoing tragedy of the Centralia mine fire / David DeKok.
Immigration policy and security : U.S., European, and Commonwealth perspectives / edited byTerri E. Givens, Gary P. Freeman, David L. Leal.
To ask for an equal chance : African Americans in the Great Depression / Cheryl Lynn Greenberg.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union / Myra Immell, book editor.
Vikings : a history / Robert Ferguson.
Colin Powell : American power and intervention from Vietnam to Iraq / Christopher D. O'Sullivan.
Unchecked and unbalanced : how the discrepancy between knowledge and power caused the financial crisis and threatens democracy / Arnold Kling.
Chickenhawk syndrome : war, sacrifice, and personal responsibility / Cheyney Ryan.
Tibet's last stand? : the Tibetan uprising of 2008 and China's response / Warren W. Smith, Jr.
Advancing democracy abroad : why we should and how we can / Michael McFaul.
Attack on the Liberty : the untold story of Israel's deadly 1967 assault on a U.S. spy ship / James Scott.
Equal : women reshape American law / Fred Strebeigh.
Cotton and race in the making of America : the human costs of economic power / Gene Dattel.
Time traveler's guide to medieval England : a handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century / Ian Mortimer.
Humans who went extinct : why Neanderthals died out and we survived / Clive Finlayson.
Prehistory : the making of the human mind / Colin Renfrew.
Law of the sea in a nutshell / by Louis B. Sohn ... [et. al.].
No apology : the case for American greatness / Mitt Romney.
Marine Corps and the State Department : enduring partners in United States foreign policy, 1798-2007 / Leo J. Daugherty III.
How does religion influence politics? / Stefan Kiesbye, book editor.
No one would listen : a true financial thriller / Harry Markopolos with Frank Casey ... [et al.] ; [foreword by David Einhorn].
Pacific / Hugh Ambrose.
Winning the unwinnable war : America's self-crippled response to Islamic totalitarianism / edited by Elan Journo.
Impeached : the trial of President Andrew Johnson and the fight for Lincoln's legacy / David O. Stewart.
Ghost of Jim Crow : how southern moderates used Brown v. Board of Education to stall civil rights / Anders Walker.
Game change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the race of a lifetime / John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
Making the American self : Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln / Daniel Walker Howe.
Day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror / Beverly Gage.
GI Bill : a new deal for veterans / Glenn C. Altschuler, Stuart M. Blumin.
Freedom's orator : Mario Savio and the radical legacy of the 1960s / Robert Cohen.
Other side of the night : the Carpathia, the Californian and the night the Titanic was lost / by Daniel Allen Butler.
Birth of modern politics : Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the election of 1828 / Lynn Hudson Parsons.
News and its future / edited by Paul McCaffrey.
Wiring up the big brother machine-- and fighting it / by Mark Klein ; foreward by James Bamford.
Dangerous ground : America's failed arms control policy, from FDR to Obama / Scott Ritter.
American gangsters, then and now : an encyclopedia / Nate Hendley.
Lincoln in Illinois : commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln February 12, 2009 / Ron Schramm, photographer; Richard E. Hart, compiler and editor.
Forces of fortune : the rise of the new Muslim middle class and what it will mean for our world / Vali Nasr.
Evolution of arms control : from antiquity to the nuclear age / Richard Dean Burns.
Rising powers, shrinking planet : the new geopolitics of energy / Michael T. Klare.
Vampire god : the allure of the undead in Western culture / Mary Y. Hallab.
Courage and consequence : my life as a conservative in the fight / Karl Rove.
Mumbai post 26/11 : an alternate perspective / edited by Ram Puniyani, Shabnam Hashmi.
Campaign rules : a 50-state guide to campaigns and elections in America / Nina Kasniunas and Daniel M. Shea.
Fighter pilot : the memoirs of legendary ace Robin Olds / Robin Olds with Christina Olds and Ed Rasimus.
Losing control : global security in the twenty-first century / Paul Rogers.
Hellhound on his trail : the stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the international hunt for his assassin / Hampton Sides.
Who do you think you are? : the essential guide to tracing your family history / Megan Smolenyak.
13 bankers : the Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown / Simon Johnson and James Kwak.
Oprah : a biography / Kitty Kelley.
Tea with Hezbollah : sitting at the enemies' table : our journey through the Middle East / Ted Dekker and Carl Medearis.
Katyn 1940 : the documentary evidence of the West's betrayal / Eugenia Maresch.
Nothing to fear : FDR's inner circle and the hundred days that created modern America / Adam Cohen.
Destiny disrupted : a history of the world through Islamic eyes / Tamim Ansary.
Spoken from the heart / Laura Bush.
War / Sebastian Junger.
$20 per gallon : how the inevitable rise in the price of gasoline will change our lives for the better / Christopher Steiner.
Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history / S.C. Gwynne.
Genius of the beast : a radical re-vision of capitalism / Howard Bloom.
Japanese war brides in America : an oral history / Miki Ward Crawford, Katie Kaori Hayashi, and Shizuko Suenaga.
Original gangster : the real life story of one of America's most notorious drug lords / Frank Lucas, with Aliya S. King.
10 books every conservative must read, plus four not to miss and one imposter / Benjamin Wiker.
Exploration Fawcett / P.H. Fawcett ; arranged from his manuscripts, letters, log-books, and records by Brian Fawcett ; with line drawings by Brian Fawcett.
Lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon / David Grann.
Olivia's story : the conspiracy of heroes behind Shelley v. Kraemer / by Jeffrey S. Copeland.
Russia / edited by Richard Joseph Stein.
Bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama / David Remnick.
Promise : President Obama, year one / Jonathan Alter.
Finders keepers : a tale of archaeological plunder and obsession / Craig Childs.
Rwandan genocide / Alexander Cruden, editor.
In Katrina's wake : the U.S. Coast Guard and the Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005 / Donald L. Canney ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith.
Post-American Presidency : the Obama administration's war on America / Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer ; foreword by John R. Bolton.
Global refugee crisis : a reference handbook / Mark Gibney.
At the dark end of the street : black women, rape, and resistance : a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power / Danielle L. McGuire.
Harvard Psychedelic Club : how Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil killed the fifties and ushered in a new age for America / Don Lattin.
Stalling for time : my life as an FBI hostage negotiator / Gary Noesner.
Murder room : the heirs of Sherlock Holmes gather to solve the world's most perplexing cold cases / Michael Capuzzo.
Uncommon valor : the Medal of Honor and the six warriors who earned it in Afghanistan and Iraq / Dwight Jon Zimmerman and John D. Gresham.
Exporting security : international engagement, security cooperation, and the changing face of the U.S. military / Derek S. Reveron.
Warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
Crimes against liberty : an indictment of President Barack Obama / by David Limbaugh.
'Non-Lethal' weapons / Neil Davison.
Native American mascot controversy : a handbook / edited by C. Richard King.
Journey : my political life / Tony Blair.
To you we shall return : lessons about our planet from the Lakota / Joseph M. Marshall III.
Angelina : an unauthorized biography / Andrew Morton.
Police taser utilization : the effect of policy change / Michael E. Miller.

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