Inventing Al Gore
Bill Turque

A veteran of the Washington press corps uses his extensive access to White House sources and the Gore family's oldest friends and foes to craft an authoritative, incisive, and sometimes shocking portrait of our nation's vice president. (11/00)
$13.00 

Al Gore: A User's Manual
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

What sort of a man is Al Gore? What's his real political record? This is the first unsparing look at the man whom his parents raised from birth to be president of the United States. (09/00)
$23.00 

In Praise of Public Life
Joseph I. Lieberman

In a vigorous defense of public life, Senator Joseph Lieberman, one of the most articulate and visible of our politicians, defines the duty, the honor, and the privilege of public life in the face of Americans' perennial contempt for it. (08/00)
$12.00 

Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose

The bestselling political columnist brings her trademark wit and down- home wisdom to bear on the Texas governor and son of the former president. Funny, trenchant, and on-target, Ivins gives a perceptive and entertaining reading of the man she calls "Shrub". (10/00)
$8.99 

"Is Our Children Learning?": The Case Against George W. Bush
Paul Begala

"Is Our Children Learning?" examines the public life and public record of George W. Bush and reveals him for who he is: a man who presents the thinnest, weakest, least impressive record in public life of any major party nominee this century; a man who at every critical juncture has been propelled upward by the forces of wealth, privilege, status, and special interests who use his family's name for their private gain. (09/00)
$12.00

Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton
David Gergen

Fresh from the political wars, where he served as a White House adviser to Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton, a campaign aide to Bush, and a close-up reporter of Carter, David Gergen assesses the seven key leadership lessons they offer for future presidents. (09/00)
$26.00 

The Ralph Nader Reader
Ralph Nader

This landmark collection brings the writings of consumer and workers's rights advocate Ralph Nader together for the first time, creating a remarkable portrait of the activist. (11/00)
$19.95 

Cutting Corporate Welfare
Ralph Nader

While the U.S. continues to experience unprecedented cuts in social service programs and millions of Americans go without health insurance, corporations reap vast sums of taxpayer money through "corporate welfare" - subsidies, bailouts, giveaways, and loopholes. Ralph Nader explains the history and extent of this troubling phenomenon and offers strategies for stopping it. (09/00)
$10.00 

We've Got Issues: Election 2000: A Guide for 20-And 30-Somethings
Meredith Bagby

They're Gen Xers, twenty and thirtysomethings, recent college graduates on their own for the first time, newlyweds, or brand-new parents. And whether they're slackers or strivers, many are clueless about politics, politicians, and the issues that truly matter to their generation. Maybe they just don't care. Or maybe no one is speaking to their issues. Meredith Bagby knows what that's like and has put together a survival manual to show them the ropes to the 2000 Election. (08/00)
$12.00 

Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
Albert Gore Jr.

Global warming. The deteriorating ozone layer. The rapid destruction of the world's rain forests. Rising carbon dioxide levels. This bestselling work on our planet's environmental crisis gives a shocking account of just how serious all of these problems have become. (01/93)
$14.95 

Is Social Security Broke?: A Cartoon Guide to the Issues
Jim Bush and Barbara R. Bergmann

A funny, smart, and engaging book on Social Security? You bet! Let Bill and Betty Boomer, their parents Ed and Ethel Elderly, and the young married Steve and Sue Sprout take you through the thickets of this thorny issue. You will come to understand why people are so worried about Social Security, how it operates, how we can keep it going, the problems we would face under a privatized system, and why Americans have always chosen to shore up this important program. (10/00)
$15.95 

The Running Mate
Joe Klein

Perfectly timed for this election year, "The Running Mate, " by the author of "Primary Colors, " takes the reader deep inside the election process, where one veteran senator faces the dilemma that haunts contemporary politics: Can one man be both a good politician and a good man? (05/00)
$26.95 

A Charge to Keep
George W. Bush and Karen Hughes

In this political memoir, the governor of Texas and front-runner for president in the year 2000 tells us who he is and what he stands for. He addresses the questions that may well decide who becomes the next president: crime, education, abortion, tax reform, and the continuing battle "for the soul" of the Republican Party. Will George W. Bush become the next president of the United States? "A Charge to Keep" will help the American public decide. (11/99)
$23.00 

Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook
Anthony Corrado, Thomas E. Mann, and Frank Sorauf

For interested citizens, students of American democracy, members of the press, and would-be reformers, this book sheds light on the past, present, and future of campaign finance reform. (09/97)
$24.95 

Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way
Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward

Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward were key players in the long battle to reform voter registration laws that finally resulted in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (also known as the Motor Voter law). In this update to the 1988 book, the authors show that the 20th century had witnessed a concerted effort to restrict voting by immigrants and blacks through a combination of poll taxes, literacy tests, and unwieldy voter registration requirements. And since the 1993, tell why neither of the major parties has tried to appeal to the interests of the newly registered-and thus why Americans still don't vote. (09/00)
$18.00 

The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore
David Maraniss, Ellen Nakashima

Maraniss and Nakashima explore in rich detail the forces that have shaped Al Gore's life, and the ways that his past offers clues to what kind of president he would be. The Gore who comes to life in these pages is an intelligent and competent man, struggling with self-doubt and insecurity that explain his bureaucratic obsession with fact and his tendency to exaggerate his accomplishments. (08/00)
$23.00 

Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Robert Waterman McChesney

In this first paperback edition of a myth-breaking book, McChesney argues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant anti-democratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide. (10/00)
$17.95 

Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money
David S. Broder

The "dean of American political journalism" ("Brill's Content") exposes how political operatives and moneyed special interest groups are threatening United States democracy. (04/00)
$23.00 

Checkbook Democracy: How Money Corrupts Political Campaigns
Darrell M. West

In this lively and provocative book, a political science professor looks at how politics has become such a money chase, why money has become such a pernicious influence on public debate, and what can be done to redeem the corrupted system. (05/00)
$16.95 

Everything You Think You Know about Politics...and Why You're Wrong
Kathleen Hall Jamieson

From a media expert and network commentator, an engaging guide through the welter of misinformation-generated by politicians and the media alike-that surrounds political campaigns. (07/00)
$15.00 

Power and the Presidency
Robert A. Wilson

Power--how it is used and to what ends--defines a president's legacy and his place in history. It determines what he achieves and how he will be remembered. It is at the very heart of what draws candidates to seek the presidency of the United States. (09/00)
$27.95