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2. "The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo"
by Noam Chomsky
Was the bombing of Serbia the humanitarian mission that NATO leaders declared it, or was Operation Allied Forces a "criminally negligent" and hypocritical violation of international law? Noam Chomsky sifts through the Orwellian convolutions of government leaders and mass media to get to the truth. Read more

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3. "Why Not Me?"
by Al Franken
During the last American presidential campaign, Al Franken was content with political commentary, explaining to readers why Rush Limbaugh was, as he put it, "a big fat idiot." Now the stakes are higher: in "Why Not Me?" Franken makes his own bid to move into the Oval Office. Hey, he can't be any more of a clown than some of the men who've been there already, right? Read more

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4. "The Lexus and the Olive Tree"
by Thomas L. Friedman
Foreign-affairs columnist for The New York Times and National Book Award winner Thomas L. Friedman offers readers his firsthand perspective on the give-and-take between the globalizing effects of worldwide free-market capitalism and the powerful desire of local communities to resist outside influence--be it religious, national, or cultural--and assert their own identities. Read more

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5. "No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton"
by Christopher Hitchens
The most vocal critics of Bill Clinton's presidency tend to be conservatives, but there are those on the Left who are fed up with Clinton as well. Among them is journalist Christopher Hitchens, who produced a slim but vehement volume outlining how "Clinton's private vileness meshes exactly with his brutal and opportunistic public style." Read more

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6. "Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story"
by Michael Isikoff
First at The Washington Post and later at Newsweek, Michael Isikoff researched the stories that helped turn Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Linda Tripp, and Monica Lewinsky into household names. "Uncovering Clinton" is his "All the President's Men," a play-by-play account of how he put the pieces together and gradually came to the conclusion that the president of the United States was "psychologically disturbed." Read more

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7. "The Immaculate Invasion"
by Bob Shacochis
Focusing on the Clinton administration's policymakers and the soldiers who implemented their plans for the 1994 occupation of Haiti, Bob Shacochis explores the capacity for altruistic action in the midst of a bloody pandemonium of human-rights outrages. "The Immaculate Invasion" is an unsettling triumph of combat journalism with a focus on compassion that urges a profound redirection of the purposes and application of American interventionism. Read more

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8. "Party Crasher: A Gay Republican Challenges Politics as Usual"
by Richard Tafel
"Party Crasher" is not a typical book about gay rights--but then, Richard Tafel isn't a typical gay rights activist. The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans shares his perspective, which runs counter to the expectations of both gays *and* conservatives. Read more

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9. "A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up"
by Charles C. Thompson II
On April 19, 1989, Turret Two aboard the battleship USS Iowa exploded, killing 47 men. In "A Glimpse of Hell," former naval officer, newspaper reporter, and "60 Minutes" producer Charles Thompson has written an expose of the United States Navy high command's consistent efforts to manipulate the evidence of that disaster. (He's done his job so well, according to recent press accounts, the navy has attempted to prevent active personnel from reading the book by refusing to stock it at naval exchange stores.) Read more

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10. "A Necessary Evil : A History of American Distrust of Government"
by Garry Wills
Why do so many Americans distrust their own government? In "A Necessary Evil", Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills argues that the cynical resentment of federal authority ultimately corrodes the democratic principles on which the United States was founded. Read more

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