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Sea Power book by Admiral James Stavridis  "Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of The World's Oceans" [2017]
by Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret)
, former Supreme Allied Commander at N.A.T.O.
The book is about the history of military navies, but the extant geopolitics of it all has major impact on the ecology of those same oceans
Kindle Edition from Penguin Press [6/2017] for $12.99
Penguin Books 8½x5½ pb [6/2018] for $13.85
Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2017] for $16.76
Tyranny of Experts book by William Easterly  "The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and The Forgotten Rights of The Poor" [2014] by William Easterly
Economist Easterly traces the history of the fight against global poverty, showing not only how these tactics have trampled the individual freedom of the world’s poor, but also how they have suppressed a vital debate about an alternative approach to solving poverty: freedom.
Kindle Edition from Basic Books [3/2014] for $12.26
Basic Books 8¼x5½ pb [5/2015] for $12.91
Basic Books 8¼x5½ hardcover [3/2014] for $21.77

White Man's Burden book by William Easterly  "The White Man's Burden: Why The West's Efforts To Aid The Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" [2006] by William Easterly
Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [2006 4edition] for $11.99
Penguin Books 8½x5½ pb [2/2007] for $14.32
Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2006] out of print/70+ used
That Used to Be Us book by Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum  "That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind In The World It Invented and How We Can Come Back" [2011] by Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum
America faces four major challenges: globalization, the revolution in information technology, chronic deficits, and our pattern of energy consumption; 3-time Pulitzer-winning journalist Friedman and Johns Hopkins professor Mandelbaum spell out what we need to do to preserve American power in the world.
Kindle Edition from Farrar, Straus & Giroux [9/2011] for $12.99
Picador 8¼x5½ pb [8/2012] for $13.98
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 9x6½ hardcover [9/2011] for $15.73

The World Is Flat 3.0 book by Thomas L. Friedman  "The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of The Twenty-First Century" [2007]
by 3-time Pulitzer-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman

Kindle Edition from Picador Macmillan [2007 edition] for $9.99
Picador 3rd edition 8¼x5½ pb [7/2007] for $10.98
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 3rd edition 9x6 hardcover [7/2007] out of print/many used

Blowback Trilogy by Chalmers Johnson [1931-2010]
http://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Second-Consequences-American-Empire/dp/0805075593/
http://www.amazon.com/Sorrows-Empire-Militarism-Republic-American/dp/0805077979/
http://www.amazon.com/Nemesis-American-Republic-Empire-Project/dp/B001P3OMM8/

Dismantling the Empire book by Chalmers Johnson  "Dismantling The Empire: America's Last Best Hope" [2010]
by Chalmers Johnson [1931-2010]

Fifteen essays written over three years time.
Metropolitan Books 8x5 pb [3/2011] for $10.11
Metropolitan Books 8¼x5¾ hardcover [8/2010] for $13.70
Hidden Agendas book by John Pilger  "Hidden Agendas" [1999]
by independent journalist John Pilger

New Press 8x5½ pb [4/99] out of print/used
In the Jaws of the Dragon book by Eamonn Fingleton  "In The Jaws of The Dragon: America's Fate In The Coming Era of Chinese Dominance" [2008]
by Eamonn Fingleton

St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [7/2009] for $11.67
Thomas Dunne Books 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2008] out of print/used
Courting Disaster tripe by Marc Thiessen  "Courting Disaster: How The C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting The Next Attack" [2010]
by Marc A. Thiessen

wishful thinking of a bungle-headed Bush loyalist backed up by no facts whatsoever and lazy counter-factual claims — DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK !!
Tragedy of American Diplomacy 1959 classic book by William Appleman Williams  "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy" [1959 classic]
by William Appleman Williams

W.W. Norton 50th Anniv Edition 8x5½ pb [7/2009] for $12.21
W.W. Norton 7¼x5 pb [7/88] for $11.01


Turbott Wolfe  "Turbott Wolfe: A Novel" [1926] by William Plomer
"...still a pyrotechnic presence in the bulging canon of anti-colonialist fiction."
      — Nadine Gorimer, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Modern Library 8x5¼ pb [12/2003] for $9.56
Harcourt pb [4/87] out of print/used
Nationalism / Rocker  "Nationalism and Culture" [1935 & 1949]
by Rudolf Rocker; translation by Ray E. Chase

Black Rose Books 9x6 pb [12/97] for $28.99
Black Rose Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/97] for $57.99
Politics Among Nations  "Politics Among Nations: The Struggle For Power & Peace"
[Knopf 1948 classic] by Hans J. Morgenthau [1904-80]
'Brief Edition' [1985]; Edited by Kenneth W. Thompson

McGraw-Hill 9¼x6½ pb [7/92] for $56.25
McGraw-Hill 9½x6½ 6th edition hardcover [2/85] for $111.25
full text: McGraw-Hill 9x7¼ 7th edition pb [4/2005] for $60.63
Quiet American novel   "The Quiet American" [1955] by Grahame Green
Penguin Classics 8.4x5½ pb [9/2004] for $11.20
Penguin Classics pb [11/2002] for $10.40
Modern Library hardcover [10/92] for $10.47
Blackstone UNABR audio CD [2/2003] for $32.95
Blackstone UNABR audio [2/2003] for $19.77
Blackstone audio [8/97] for $39.95
Quiet American video   "The Quiet American" feature film [Mirage Nov 2002]
Directed by Phillip Noyce; based on the novel by Grahame Green; starring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser & Do Thi Hai Yen; listed AFI Best 10 Films of 2002; Oscar nomination for Best Actor (Caine)
Miramax widescreen DVD [9/2004] for $17.39
Buena Vista color VHS [2/2004] for $14.99
Varese soundtrack CD [3/2003] for $14.99
full credits from IMDb

Ugly American  "The Ugly American" [classic 1958 bestseller]
by William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick

The hero of the novel is an ugly chicken farmer from Iowa; the book was written
(and the movie was filmed) before the war in VietNam began.

W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [1/99] for $11.16
Fawcett pb [9/87] out of print/used
Fawcett pb [1/85] out of print/used
W.W. Norton hardcover [6/58] out of print/used

Colonialism & Neocolonialism  "Colonialism and Neocolonialism" [orig 1964; rev 2001]
by Jean-Paul Sartre [1905 -80],
translated by Azzedine Haddour, Steve Brewer & Terence McWilliams

Routledge pb [4/2006] for $19.95
Routledge 9¼x6½ pb [5/2001] for $26.95
Theory of International Politics  "Theory of International Politics" [1979 classic]
by Kenneth N. Waltz

McGraw-Hill 9¼x6½ pb [1/79] for $79.06
Wealth To Power  "From Wealth To Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Rule" [1998] by Fareed Zakaria
Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [7/99] for $15.61
Princeton Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/98] out of print/used
Rogue State  "Rogue State: A Guide To The World's Only Superpower"
[2000; 3rd edition 2005] by William Blum

recommended by Osama bin Laden in his January 2006 video tape
Common Courage Press 7¾x5 pb [10/2005] for $12.89
Common Courage Press 7¾x5¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $39.95
Disposable People  "Disposable People: New Slavery In The Global Economy" [2000]
by Kevin Bales

Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [11/2004] for $11.67
Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2000] out of print/used
See No Evil   "See No Evil: The True Story of A Ground Soldier In The C.I.A.'s War On Terrorism" [bestseller 2002] by Robert Baer
detailed recollections culled from twenty years of clandestine Middle Eastern operations
Three Rivers 9¼x6¼ pb [1/2003] for $11.20
Crown hardcover [1/2002] out of print/used
Random House ABR audio CD [1/2002] for $20.97
Globalization / Soros  "On Globalization" [2002] by George Soros
Public Affairs Books 7½x5 pb [3/2005] for $10.20
Public Affairs Books 8x5½ hardcover [2/2002] for $15.60
Editorial Planeta Spanish-language hardcover [10/2002] for $25.95
"Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism" [2000] by George Soros
Public Affairs Books 9¼x6 hardcover [11/2000] for $32.30
"The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered" [1998]
by George Soros

Public Affairs Books 9½x6½ hardcover [12/98] for $22.76
Globalization & Its Discontents  
"Globalization and Its Discontents" [2002 bestseller]
by Joseph E. Stiglitz

W.W. Norton 8½x5½ pb [4/2003] for $10.85
W.W. Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2002] for $16.47
co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
Future of Freedom  "The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home & Abroad"
[2003] by Fareed Zakaria

W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [4/2004] for $10.47
W.W. Norton 9½x6.3 hardcover [4/2003] for $17.47
Blackstone audio CD [5/2003] for $35.95
Blackstone UNABR audio [9/2003] for $49.95
Rogue Nation / Unilateralism  "Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism & The Failure of Good Intentions" [2003]
by Clyde Prestowitz

Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [5/2004] for $10.37
Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2003] out of print/used
Imperial America  "Imperial America: The Bush Assault On The World Order" [2003]
by John Newhouse

Knopf 8¾x6 hardcover [9/2003] for $13.80
Mexifornia book by Victor Davis Hanson  "Mexifornia: A State of Becoming" [2003]
by Victor Davis Hanson

Encounter Books 9¼x6.4 hardcover [6/2003] for $15.37
Blackstone UNABR audio CD [10/2003] for $29.95
Blackstone UNABR audio [10/2003] for $29.95
Sorrows of Empire  "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy & The End of The Republic" [2004]
by Chalmers Johnson

Owl Books 8¼x5½ pb [12/2004] for $10.88
Metropolitan Books 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2004] for $16.50
author's page at The American Empire Project
In Defense of Globalization / Bhagwati  "In Defense of Globalization" [2004]
by Jagdish Bhagwati

very even-handed explanation from a renowned expert
Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2004] for $19.04
America As Empire  "America As Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power?" [2004]
by Jim Garrison

Berrett-Koehler 9½x6 ½ hardcover [1/2004] for $9.98
Against All Enemies  "Against All Enemies: Inside The White House's War On Terror"
[2004] by Richard A. Clarke

"a searing indictment of the [Bush] administration"
listed on Los Angeles Times Book Review Best of 2004
Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [8/2004] for $11.20
Free Press 9¼x6.4 hardcover [3/2004] for $18.90
Announced 2008: movie in pre-production: latest info at IMDb
Outlaw Sea   "The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos & Crime" [2004]
by William Langewiesche

North Point Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [5/2004] for $16.10
Audio Renaissance UNABR audio CD [5/2004] for $19.77
Audio Renaissance UNABR audio [5/2004] for $15.72
State-Building / Fukuyama  "State-Building: Governance & World Order In The 21st Century"
[2004] by Francis Fukuyama

Cornell Univ Press 8x5¾ hardcover [5/2004] for $14.28
author's official website
America Alone  "America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives & The Global Order" [2004]
by Stefan Halper & Jonathan Clarke

Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [9/2005] for $10.19
Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2004] for $17.64
Mission Not Accomplished  "Mission Not Accomplished: How George Bush Lost The War On Terrorism" [2004]
by William W. Turner

Penmarin 8½x6½ pb [6/2004] for $12.71
publisher preview page
Imperial Hubris  "Imperial Hubris: Why The West Is Losing the War On Terror" [2004]
by Anonymous {Michael Scheuer}

Brassey's/Potomac Books 9x6 pb [3/2005] for $12.21
Brassey's/Potomac Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2004] for $17.32
Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire  "An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire" [2004]
by Arundhati Roy

South End Press 8½x5½ pb [9/2004] for $9.24
South End Press 8¾x5½ hardcover [9/2004] for $40.00
Empire Has No Clothes  "The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed" [2004]
by Ivan Eland {national security expert}

Independent Institute 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2004] for $16.47
Africa Unchained  Africa Unchained: The Blueprint For Africa's Future" [2005]
by George B.N. Ayittey

Palgrave Macmillan 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2005] for $23.10
Free Africa Foundation
Dr. Ayittey's faculty webpage
China, Inc. / Superpower Challenges America  "China, Inc.: How The Rise of The Next Superpower Challenges America & The World" [2005] by Ted C. Fishman
Scribner 8½x5½ pb [4/2006] for $9.75
Scribner 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2005] for $16.38
Tantor UNABR audio CD [7/2005] for $25.19
War Made Easy  "War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death" [2005] by Norman Solomon
"A must-read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come."
— Russ Baker in the Los Angeles Times Book Review

Wiley & Sons 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2005] for $16.47
Understanding Global Slavery book by Kevin Bales  "Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader" [2005]
by Kevin Bales

Univ CA Press 9x6¼ pb [11/2005] for $19.95
Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2005] for $50.00
Failed States book by Chomsky  "Failed States: The Abuse of Power & The Assault On Democracy" [2006]
by Noam Chomsky

Kindle Edition from Macmillan/Metropolitan [4/2010] for $9.99
Holt 8¼x5½ pb [4/2007] for $11.15
Metropolitan Books 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2006] for $16.00
Audio Renaissance UNABR audio CD [4/2006] out of prodn/many used
Empire's Workshop / New Imperialism book by Greg Grandin  "Empire's Workshop: Latin America, The United States & The Rise of The New Imperialism" [2006] by Greg Grandin
Holt 8x6½ pb [5/2007] for $10.88
Metropolitan Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2006] for $16.50
Diplomacy Lessons  "Diplomacy Lessons: Realism For An Unloved Superpower" [2006]
by John Brady Kiesling

Potomac Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [8/2006] for $19.11
author's website
Overthrow / Regime Change  "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii To Iraq"
[2006] by New York Times foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer

Times Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [4/2006] for $16.50
Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [5/2006] for $25.19
Making Globalization Work  "Making Globalization Work" [2006]
by Joseph E. Stiglitz

W.W. Norton 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2006] for $17.79
co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics

follow-up to "Globalization and Its Discontents" [2002 bestseller] above

The True Cost of Low Prices  "The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization" [2006]
by Vincent A. Gallagher

Orbis 7x5¼ pb [10/2006] for $11.25
A War Like No Other  "A War Like No Other: The Truth About China's Challenge To America"
[2007] by Richard C. Bush & Michael E. O'Hanlon

Wiley & Sons 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2007] for $17.13
Prince of Darkness Richard Perle book by Alan Weisman  "Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle - The Kingdom, The Power & The End of Empire In America" [2007]
by Alan Weisman

Union Square Press 9x6¼ hardcover [11/2007] for $18.21
Richard Perle entry at Wikipedia
Ending Slavery  "Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves" [2007]
by Kevin Bales

Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2007] for $16.47
"Disposable People: New Slavery In The Global Economy" [1999]
by Kevin Bales

Univ CA Press 8¾x6 pb [rev 11/2004] for $19.95
Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/99] out of print/used

Late Great U.S.A. by Jerome R. Corsi  
"The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico & Canada" [2007]
by Jerome R. Corsi, PhD

WND/World Ahead 9x6 hardcover [7/2007] for $17.13
Poverty of Nations / Sustainable Solution book by Wayne Grudem & Barry Asmus  "The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution" [2013]
by Wayne Grudem & Barry Asmus, Foreword by Rick Warren

Kindle Edition from Crossway [8/2013] for $16.62
Crossway 9x6 pb [8/2013] for $17.49


War and Peace Section

return to WM/Worry 'War and Peace' Page

Books on the Subject of War and Peace

War (and Anti-War) Film Festival Pages at Magic Lantern
Atomic Film Festival Page at Spirit of America Bookstore



Middle East Politics

browse History / Iraq books category at Amazon

'A Daily Briefing on Iran' blog

Holy War, Inc.   "Holy War, Inc.: Inside The Secret World of Osama Bin Laden" [2001]
by Peter L. Bergen {C.N.N. terrorism analyst}

Free Press 8½x5½ pb [6/2002] for $11.20
Free Press 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2001] for $17.16
S&S ABR audio CD [11/2001] for $30.00
Desert Shield/Storm / Black Lieutenant  "Operation Desert Shield/Storm Through The Eyes Of A Black Lieutenant" [2002]
by William J. Simmons, Sr.

BookSurge 7¼x5¼ pb [2/2002] for $9.99
Enemies' Eyes  "Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam & The Future of America" [2002]
by Anonymous

Brassey's 9x6 pb [2/2003] for $19.95
Brassey's 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2002] for $20.97
Weapons of Mass Deception  "Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda In Bush's War On Iraq" [2003]
by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber

J.P. Tarcher 8¼x5½ pb [7/2003] for $8.96
Sleeping With The Devil book by Robert Baer  "Sleeping With The Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul For Saudi Crude"
[2003] by Robert Baer

Crown 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2003] for $17.47
Random House ABR audio CD [7/2003] for $20.97
Bush / Saudi Dynasties  "House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between The World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties" [2004]
by Craig Unger

Scribner 9.3x6.3 hardback [3/2004] for $14.68
Audioworks ABR audio CD [3/2004] for $20.40
Audioworks ABR audio [3/2004] for $17.68
Radio Inside Scoop interview April 2004 [archived MP3]

Plan of Attack by Woodward  "Plan of Attack" [2004] by Bob Woodward
S&S 8½x5½ pb [10/2004] for $10.50
S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2004] for $17.64
S&S ABR audio CD [4/2004] for $18.87
S&S ABR audio [4/2004] for $16.38
Uncovered docu  "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War"
[limited release Aug 2004]
Produced & directed by Robert Greenwald

Disinformation DVD [3/2004] for $9.95
full credits from IMDb
official movie website
The Reckoning  "The Reckoning: Iraq & The Legacy of Saddam Hussein" [2002]
by Sandra MacKey

W.W. Norton 8½x5½ pb [4/2003] for $11.53
W.W. Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2002] for $17.61
Forbidden Truth  "Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia & The Failed Search For bin Laden" [2002]
by Jean-Charles Brisard & Guillaume Dasquie

A major hit in France, this book "links the events of September 11 to 'pipeline politics' of the Bush administration."
Diane Publng 7½x4¾ pb [3/2004] for $13.00
The Nation Books 7½x5 pb [7/2002] for $10.36
Chain of Command  
"Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 To Abu Ghraib" [2004]
by Seymour M. Hersh

Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [7/2005] for $10.17
bargain edition hardcover for $6.99
HarperCollins 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2004] for $17.13
U.A.E. Central Bank 9/11 Financing  "United Arab Emirates Central Bank & 9/11 Financing" [2005]
by Iqbal Ismail Hakim

G.A.A.P. Publng pb [7/2005] for $19.95
official booksite
Al Qaeda Connection  "The al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime & The Coming Apocalypse" [2005]
by Paul L. Williams

Prometheus 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2005] for $15.75
Great War for Civilisation  "The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest of The Middle East" [2005]
by long-time British journalist Robert Fisk
  { author fansite }
Vintage 9¼x6 pb [2/2007] for $13.60
Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2005] for $25.40
Spanish-language edition: Planeta hardcover [1/2006] for $44.94
Neo-Conned! / War in Iraq  "Neo-Conned!: Just War Principles - A Condemnation of War In Iraq" [2005]
Edited by J. Forrest Sharpe & D. Liam O'Huallachain

IHS Press pb [10/2006] for $11.53
IHS Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2005] for $19.72
official booksite
When News Lies / Iraq War  "When News Lies: Media Complicity & The Iraq War" [2006]
by Danny Schechter

Select Books 9¼x7½ pb with DVD [1/2006] for $17.61
official moviesite; author's blogsite
Nation-Building / Fukuyama  "Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan & Iraq" [2006]
Edited by Francis Fukuyama

Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6¼ pb [1/2006] for $21.95
Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9&fracx6½ hardcover [1/2006] for $55.00
author's official website
Thicker Than Oil  "Thicker Than Oil: The U.S. & Saudi Arabia - A History" [2006]
by Rachel Bronson

Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $17.64
Cobra II / Iraq  "Cobra II: The Inside Story of The Invasion & Occupation of Iraq" [2006]
by Michael R. Gordon & Gen. Bernard E. Trainor

Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/2007] for $10.88
Pantheon hardcover [4/2006] for $17.61
Random House ABR audio CD [4/2006] for $22.02
MRG's New York Times articles archive
A Bloody Business / Iraq  "A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors & The Occupation of Iraq" [2006] by Col. Gerry Schumacher
Zenith Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2006] for $15.72
author website
Fiasco In Iraq  "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq" [2006]
by Thomas E. Ricks

Penguin hardcover [7/2006] for $16.77
Iraq War Without End  "The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End"
[2006] by Peter W. Galbraith

S&S 9x6 pb [6/2007] for $10.20
S&S 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2006] for $17.16
Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda & 9/11  "The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda & The Road To 9/11" [2006]
by Lawrence Wright

Vintage 7¾x5¼ pb [8/2007] for $9.57
Knopf 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/2006] for $17.61
Blood Money / Greed In Iraq  "Blood Money: A Story of Wasted Billions, Lost Lives & Corporate Greed In Iraq" [2006] by T. Christian Miller
Back Bay Books pb [5/2007] for $10.19
Little, Brown 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/2006] for $15.74
Perilous Power book by Noam Chomsky & Gilbert Achcar  "Perilous Power: The Middle East & U.S. Foreign Policy Dialogues On Terror, Democracy, War & Justice" [2006] by Noam Chomsky & Gilbert Achcar
Penguin Books 7¾x5 pb [3/2008] out of print/used
Paradigm 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $22.95
Secret History of al Qaeda by Abdel Atwan  "The Secret History of al Qaeda" [2006] by Abdel Atwan
Univ CA Press hardcover [10/2006] for $15.72
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid  "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" [2006]
by former President Jimmy Carter

S&S 8¼x5½ pb [9/2007] for $10.20
S&S 9x6 hardcover [11/2006] for $17.82
S&S UNABR audio CD [11/2006] for $19.77
Web of Deceit  "Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity In Iraq, From Churchill To Kennedy To George W. Bush" [2007] by Barry M. Lando
Other Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2007] for $16.47
Blackwater / Mercenary Army book by Jeremy Scahill  "Blackwater: The Rise of The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" [2007]
by Jeremy Scahill

Nation Books 8¼x5½ pb [5/2008] for $12.21
Nation Books 9x6 hardcover [2/2007] for $17.79
"Blackwater: El Auge del Ejercito Mercenario Mas Poderoso del Mundo" [2009]
Haymarket Books 8¾x6 pb [9/2008] for $15.60
White House Compromised American Intelligence by Tyler Drumheller  "On The Brink: An Insider's Account of How The White House Compromised American Intelligence" [2006] by Tyler Drumheller, with Elaine Monaghan
The former head of C.I.A. covert operations in Europe reveals the steps taken by the Bush White House to undermine legitimate intelligence prior to and after the invasion of Iraq.
Carroll & Graf 9x6¼ pb [10/2006] for $17.79
Search for Arabian Oil by Wallace Stegner  "Discovery!: The Search For Arabian Oil" [2007]
by Wallace Stegner

written on-hire for Aramco; finished & rejected in 1956; published only in Lebanon in 1971; 'reissued' in 2007, with a Foreword by Thomas W. Lippman
Selwa Press 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $16.47
Oil, Power & Empire by Larry Everest  "Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq & The U.S. Global Agenda" [2003]
by Larry Everest

Common Courage Press 9x6 pb [1/2004] for $15.56
Common Courage Press hardcover [5/2003] for $39.95
Saddam Hussein / Cockburn  "Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession" [2002]
by Andrew Cockburn & Patrick Cockburn

Verso 9x6 pb [9/2002] out of print/used
"Out of The Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein" [1999]
by Andrew Cockburn & Patrick Cockburn

Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [2/2000] for $14.00
HarperCollins 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/99] out of print/many used
Daydream Believers / Wrecked American Power by Fred Kaplan  "Daydream Believers: How A Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power" [2008]
by Fred Kaplan

A devastating report on the Iraq war and on the Bush Administration's fantastic foreign policy in the Mideast
Wiley & Sons 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2008] for $17.13
Manhunt Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden book by Peter Bergen  "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search For Bin Laden From 9/11 To Abbottabad" [2012]
by Peter L. Bergen

Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [5/2012] for $12.99
Crown Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/2012] for $15.75


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