Spirit of America Bookstore

U.S.  Politics  &  Elections
Page Two

on page one:
Constitution & Supreme Court
Voting & the Electoral College
General U.S. History
WaterGate, ChadGate & TreasonGate
Impeachment
                   on this page:

War & International Affairs

Other Political Matters
Walter Lippmann

Fiction about U.S. Politics

Magazines




War  &  International  Affairs

Godfather Doctrine book by Hulsman & Mitchell   "The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable" [2009]
by John C. Hulsman & A. Wess Mitchell

Princeton Univ Press hardcover [2/2009] for $9.95
Bomb Power, National Security State book by Garry Wills  "Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and The National Security State"
[2010] by Garry Wills

Wills's alarming account of the unprecedented growth of the executive branch's power is reviewed as both an "unfocused jeremiad" and as "a meticulously researched, readable, and well-timed treatise on the state of the U.S. government" – which probably qualifies the book as 'thought=provoking' at the very least
Penguin Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2010] for $15.37
Tragedy of American Diplomacy 1959 classic book William Appleman Williams  
"The Tragedy of American Diplomacy" [1959 classic]
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
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 !!
Late Great U.S.A.   "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
Prince of Darkness Richard Perle   "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
Oil, Power & Empire   "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
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
Fiasco In Iraq   "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq" [2006]
by Thomas E. Ricks

Penguin hardcover [7/2006] for $16.77
Mighty & Almighty   "The Mighty and The Almighty: Reflections On America, God & World Affairs" [2006]
by Madeleine Albright

HarperCollins 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2006] for $16.35
House of War / The Pentagon   "House of War: The Pentagon & The Disastrous Rise of American Power" [2006]
by James Carroll

Houghton Mifflin 9½x7 hardcover [5/2006] for $18.90
Random House audio CD [5/2006] for $25.17
Crossing The Rubicon   "Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of The American Empire At The End of The Age of Oil" [2004]
by Michael C. Ruppert

Are there connections between the the C.I.A. and the world drug trade, American money markets, Peak Oil, and September 11th? The author presents a strong case for secret forces within and around the U.S government that have orchestrated a world financial crisis that may not be preventable.
New Society Publrs 8¾x5¾ pb [10/2004] for $15.61
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
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
Schlesinger / War & The American Presidency   "War and The American Presidency" [2004]
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

W.W. Norton 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2004] for $16.77
Rise of the Vulcans   "Rise of The Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet" [2004]
by James Mann

Penguin 8½x5½ pb [9/2004] for $11.20
Viking 9.3x6.3 hardcover [3/2004] for $17.65
America As Empire   "America As Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power?" [2004]
by Jim Garrison

Berrett-Koehler 9½x6.4 hardcover [1/2004] for $9.98
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



Other  Political  Matters

What Orwell Didn't Know essays   "What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and The New Face of American Politics" [essays 2007]
Edited by Andras Szanto, Introduction by Orville Schell

PublicAffairs 8¼x5½ pb [11/2007] for $10.17
Assault on Reason by Al Gore   "The Assault On Reason" [2007]
by Al Gore, Jr.

Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2007] for $15.57
Penguin audio CD [5/2007] for $19.77
Last Days of The American Republic   "Nemesis: The Last Days of The American Republic" [2007]
by Chalmers Johnson

Holt 8x5¼ pb [1/2008] for $10.88
Metropolitan Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2007] for $17.16
American Fascists   "American Fascists: The Christian Right & The War On America"
[2007] by Chris Hedges

Free Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [1/2007] for $14.99
Undermining Science   "Undermining Science: Suppression & Distortion In The Bush Administration" [2007]
by Seth Shulman

Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2007] for $16.47
Free Market Missionaries   "Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values" [2006]
by Sharon Beder

"The 20th Century has seen three related developments; the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
Earthscan 9¼x6 hardcover [12/2006] for $21.86
Welcome To Doomsday by Moyers   "Welcome To Doomsday" [2006]
by Bill Moyers, Preface by Bill McKibben

New York Review Books 7x5¾ pb [10/2006] for $7.95
Saving Democracy   "Saving Democracy: A Plan For Real Representation In America" [2006]
by Kevin O'Leary

Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $13.57
Stanford Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $50.00
Delusional Democracy   "Delusional Democracy: Fixing The Republic Without Overthrowing The Government" [2006]
by Joel S. Hirschhorn

Common Courage Press 9x6½ pb [9/2006] for $12.89
Common Courage Press hardcover [9/2006] for $39.95
author's booksite
Facing Fascism   "Facing Fascism: The Threat To American Democracy In The 21st Century" [2006]
by Jerry Sorlucco

AuthorHouse 9x5¾ pb [8/2006] for $17.99
AuthorHouse 9x6 hardcover [8/2006] for $28.45
Losing Our Democracy   "Losing Our Democracy: How Bush, The Far Right & Big Business Are Betraying Americans For Power & Profit" [2006]
by Mark Green

Sourcebooks 9x6¼ hardcover [8/2006] for $18.96
Hostile Takeover / David Sirota   "Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government – and How We Can Take It Back" [2006]
by David Sirota

"Every politically-engaged citizen should read this book." — Al Gore, Jr.
Crown hardcover [5/2006] for $16.32
author's blogsite
Common Sense For A Fair Economy   "All Together Now: Common Sense For A Fair Economy" [2006]
by Jared Bernstein

Berrett-Koehler 8½x5½ pb [5/2006] for $9.24
official booksite
K Street Gang   "The K Street Gang: The Rise & Fall of The Republican Machine"
[2006] by Matthew Continetti

Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2006] for $16.47
Crashing the Gate   "Crashing The Gate: Netroots, Grassroots & The Rise of People-Powered Politics" [2006]
by Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas Zúniga

Chelsea Green 8¼x5½ pb [9/2006] for $10.36
Chelsea Green 9x6 hardcover [3/2006] for $19.00
Blue Pages directory  
"The Blue Pages: A Directory of Companies Rated By Their Politics & Practices" [2006]
by Editors of PoliPoint Press

8½x3¾ pocket directory [2/2006] for $9.95
publisher's bookpage
Covenant With Black America   "The Covenant With Black America" [2006]
Edited by Tavis Smiley

#1 non-fiction softcover per New York Times Book Review (April 2006)
Third World Press 9x6½ pb [1/2006] for $9.60
official booksite
Age of Anxiety / McCarthyism   "The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism To Terrorism" [2005]
by Haynes Johnson

Harvest Books pb [10/2006] for $16.99
Harcourt 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2005] for $17.16
Highbridge ABR audio CD [10/2005] for $23.07
Reason by Reich   "Reason: Why Liberals Will Win The Battle For America" [2004]
by Robert B. Reich {former U.S. Labor Secretary 1993-97}

Vintage 7¾x5¾ pb [3/2005] for $10.50
Knopf 8¾x6 hardcover [5/2004] for $16.32
Highbridge UNABR audio CD [5/2004] for $18.87
Highbridge UNABR audio [5/2004] for $18.87
author's website

Brandeis on Democracy   "Brandeis On Democracy" [1995] Edited by Philippa Strum
Louis D. Brandeis [1856-1941] was known as "The People's Attorney" for his investigations of corporate corruption, and was later appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-39]
Univ Press of KS 9x6 pb [1/95] for $19.94
Univ Press of KS 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/95] for $29.95
Attention Deficit Democracy   "Attention Deficit Democracy" [2006]
by James Bovard

Palgrave Macmillan 8¼x5&frac hardcover [2/2006] for $17.79
author website
Democracy's Edge by Lappé   "Democracy's Edge: Choosing To Save Our Country By Bringing Democracy To Life" [2005]
by Frances Moore Lappé

lauded by Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Greg Palast, Amy Domini & Howard Zinn
Jossey-Bass 9½x6 hardcover [10/2005] for $16.47
Off Center   "Off Center: The Republican Revolution & The Erosion of American Democracy" [2005]
by Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson

Yale Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2005] for $16.50
publisher's bookpage
authors' booksite
The Plot Against Social Security   "The Plot Against Social Security: How The Bush Plan Is Endangering Our Financial Future" [2005]
by Michael A. Hiltzik {Pulitzer-winning L.A. Times columnist]

HarperCollins 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2005] for $16.47
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man   "Confessions of An Economic Hit Man" [2004 bestseller]
by John Perkins

A conscience-stricken insider's exposé of the global petro-industrial system and its basis of greed, power, control and personal, corporate and governmental corruption.
Berrett-Koehler 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2004] for $15.72
Blackstone UNABR audio CD [4/2005] for $29.95
Blackstone UNABR audio [4/2005] for $29.95
When Presidents Lie / Alterman   "When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception & Its Consequences" [2004]
by Eric Alterman

Penguin pb [10/2005] for $10.88
Viking 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2004] for $17.61
Viking Adobe Reader ebook [10/2004] for $18.45
Viking M/S Reader ebook [10/2004] for $18.45
This Can't Be Happening!   "This Can't Be Happening!: Resisting The Disintegration of American Democracy" [2004]
by Dave Lindorff

Common Courage 9x6 pb [9/2004] for $11.53
Common Courage 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2004] for $35.85
Democracy Matters   "Democracy Matters: Winning The Fight Against Imperialism" [2004]
by Cornel West

Penguin pb [8/2005] for $15.00
Penguin 9½x6.3 hardcover [9/2004] for $15.72
Penguin UNABR audio CD [9/2004] for $20.37
author's music project website
Fortress America / Homeland Security   "Fortress America: On The Frontlines of Homeland Security - An Inside Look At The Coming Surveillance State" [2004]
by Matthew Brzezinski

Bantam 9&fracx6½ hardcover [8/2004] for $15.75
Power of Nightmares   "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of The Politics of Fear"
[BBC2 documentary Aug 2004] Written & directed by Adam Curtis

BN Publng CD-ROM [9/2005] for $19.99
BN Publng video CD-ROM [11/2005] for $19.95
feature DVD [11/2005] for $39.99
full credits at IMDb; B.B.C. News webpage

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
More Political Subversion book by Jim Hightower  "Let's Stop Beating Around The Bush: More Political Subversion"
[2004] by Jim Hightower

Viking 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $15.37
Penguin ABR audio CD [7/2004] for $20.37
Running On Empty   "Running On Empty: How The Democratic & Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future & What Americans Can Do About It" [2004]
by Peter G. Peterson

"It's a rare pleasure to see both political parties chastised equally."
— Howard S. Marks, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Picador 8½x5½ pb [7/2005] for $10.20
FS&G hardcover [7/2004] for $16.32
Losing America  
"Losing America: Confronting A Reckless & Arrogant Presidency"
[2004] by Sen. Robert C. Byrd [Dem-WV since 1958]

W.W. Norton 8x5¾ pb [4/2005] for $11.16
W.W. Norton 8½x5½ hardcover [7/2004] for $16.29
America Alone   "America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives & The Global Order" [2004]
by Stefan Halper & Jonathan Clarke

Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2004] for $19.04
Republican Noise Machine   "The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media & How It Corrupts Democracy " [2004]
by David Brock

Three Rivers Press pb [4/2005] for $11.16
Crown Books 9¼x6.4 hardcover [5/2004] for $16.35
Random House ABR audio CD [5/2004] for $18.87
Random House ABR audio [5/2004] for $16.35
We the People  
"We The People: A Call To Take Back America" [2004]
by Thom Hartmann, illustrated by Neil Cohn

Coreway Media 10½x6¼ pb [5/2004] for $14.11
author website
Exception to the Rulers   "The Exception To The Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers & The Media That Love Them" [2004]
by Amy Goodman {host of "Democracy Now!"}, with David Goodman

Hyperion 8x5¼ pb [3/2005] for $9.97
Hyperion 8¼x5¾ hardcover [4/2004] for $14.27
Coming Generational Storm   "The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need To Know About America's Economic Future" [2004]
by Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Scott Burns

"On balance, the book does an excellent job of preaching two economic basics. First, our promise of Social Security & Medicare benefits in their current form to all retired Americans, regardless of means, is unsustainable. ... Second, individuals & families need to save more for their futures." — Los Angeles Times Book Review
M.I.T. Press pb [1/2005] for $11.53
M.I.T. Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2004] for $17.61

Price of Loyalty / O'Neill   "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, The White House & The Education of Paul O'Neill" [2004]
by Ron Suskind

S&S pb [9/2004] for $10.50
S&S 9½x6.4 hardcover [1/2004] for $17.68
Audioworks ABR audio CD [1/2004] for $21.00
Audioworks ABR audio [1/2004] for $17.68
official booksite
"El Precio de la Lealtad: Con una Cierta Mirada"
Peninsular pb [5/2004] for $21.90
Perfectly Legal  
"Perfectly Legal: The Secret Campaign To Rig Our Tax System To Benefit The Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else" [2003]
by New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston

Portfolio 8½x5½ pb [1/2005] for $10.20
Portfolio 9¼x6.4 hardcover [12/2003] for $16.35
official booksite
Fight For Democracy  
"The Fight Is For Democracy: Winning The War of Ideas In America & The World" [2003]
9 essays; edited by George Packer

Perennial 8x5¼ pb [8/2003] for $11.16
Unequal Protection   "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance & The Theft of Human Rights" [2002]
by Thom Hartmann

Rodale 8¾x6 pb [4/2004] for $10.85
Rodale 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2002] for $16.98
author website
official booksite
Terrorism & the Constitution   "Terrorism & The Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties In The Name of National Security" [2002]
by James X. Dempsey & David Cole

New Press 8¼x6¼ pb [9/2002] for $16.95
Silencing Political Dissent   "Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties" [2002]
by Nancy Chang, Foreward by Howard Zinn

Seven Stories Press 7x5 pb [7/2002] for $9.95
Blinded   "Blinded By The Right: The Conscience of An Ex-Conservative" [2002]
by David Brock

The author participated in the very real 'vast right-wing conspiracy' that sought to bring down the Clinton presidency; this book sets the record straight with much documentary evidence.
Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [2/2003] for $10.50
Crown 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2002] for $18.17
Who Rules America?  
"Who Rules America?: Power & Politics" [2001]
by G. William Domhoff

McGraw-Hill 8¾x6 pb [6/2001] for $37.65
Body of Secrets / N.S.A.   "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of The Ultra-Secret National Security Agency" [2001]
by James Bamford

Anchor 8x5¼ pb [4/2002] for $10.37
Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2001] out of print/used
Piracy of America   "The Piracy of America: Profiteering In The Public Domain" [1999]
Edited by Judith Scherff

Clarity Press 9x6 pb [4/99] for $18.95
Shils / Civility   "The Virtue of Civility: Selected Essays On Liberalism, Tradition & Civil Society" [1997]
by Edward Albert Shils, edited by Steven Grosby

recommended by Tony Hillerman
Liberty Fund 9¼x6¼ pb [7/97] for $11.99
Liberty Fund 9¾x6½ hardcover [7/97] for $19.99
Lost Rights by Bovard   "Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty" [1994]
by James Bovard

Palgrave Macmillan 9½x6¼ pb [9/95] for $11.53
Palgrave Macmillan 9½x6½ hardcover [3/94] for $65.00
author website
Power Game / Washington   "The Power Game: How Washington Works" [1988]
by journalist Hedrick Smith

Ballantine 8¼x5½ pb [9/96] for $11.53
Random House hardcover [2/88] out of print/used

"The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed" [1986]
by David Stockman
"No other book comes close to understanding America's domestic
political process." — J. Roberts (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

Avon pb [1/87] out of print/many used
HarperCollins hardcover [5/86] out of print/many used
Sept 2003 article on Slate by Timothy Noah

Puzzle Palace   "The Puzzle Palace: Inside America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization" [1983]
by James Bamford

Penguin 7¾x5 pb [9/83] for $10.37
Politics / Presidency   "The Politics of The Presidency" [Wiley & Sons 1983]
by Joseph A. Pika & John Anthony Maltese

6th Edition: CQ Press 9x6 pb textbook [12/2003] for $54.95
publisher's bookpage
Better Angels novel by Charles McCarry   "The Better Angels" [1979] by Charles McCarry
Thirty years ago, the author predicted that a lantern-jawed Eastern liberal would lose to a right-wing cowboy with ties to big oil in a stolen election for the U.S. presidency; the plot also involves Islamic terrorists intent on obtaining nuclear weapons.
Overlook Trade pb [DUE Jan 2010] for $10.08  
Fawcett mass pb [3/82] out of print/used
Overlook 9x6 hardcover [3/2008] for $17.13
Dutton/Hutchinson hardcover [7/79] out of print/many used
Indispensable Enemies  
"Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule In America" [1973]
by Walter Karp

Franklin Square 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $10.47
E.P. Dutton hardcover [5/73] out of print/used

Walter  Lippmann [1889-1974]
browse booksentry at Wikipedia

Lippmann's Preface to Politics   "A Preface To Politics" [1913 classic]
by Walter Lippmann

BiblioBazaar 8x5 pb [5/2007] for $11.99
Prometheus Books 8½x5½ pb [5/2005] for $17.00
Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [7/2007] for $34.92
Lippmann's Liberty & the News   "Liberty and The News" [1920 classic]
by Walter Lippmann

Princeton Univ Press 7¾x4¾ pb [10/2007] for $11.53
Transaction Publrs 8x5 pb [1/95] for $21.95
Lippmann's Public Opinion   "Public Opinion: An Important Work On The Theory of Public Opinion In Relation To Traditional Democratic Theory" [1922 classic]
by Walter Lippmann

FQ Classics 8¾x5¾ pb [10/2007] for $12.99
NuVision Publns 9x5¾ pb [9/2007] for $13.49
B&N Publng 9x6 hardcover [2/2006] for $22.79
Lippmann's Public Philosophy  "The Public Philosophy" [1955 classic]
by Walter Lippmann

Transaction Publrs 9x6 pb [1/89] for $24.95
Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown hardcover [1955] out of print/used
Walter Lippmann & the American Century  "Walter Lippmann and The American Century" [1980]
by Ronald Steel

Transaction Publrs 9x6 pb [5/99] for $29.95
Vintage 8x5¼ pb [9/81] out of print/many used
Little, Brown hardcover [8/80] out of print/many used


Magazines

The Nation Magazine [est. 1865]   The Nation Magazine [est. 1865]
subscribe via Amazon: 47 issues/year for $25.00
direct subscription: 24 issues/6 months for $18.00
magazine website

The Nation Institute: Dedicated to an independent, free press [est. 1967]

Mother Jones Magazine [est. 1976]: An independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting.
Mother Jones
Magazine

subscribe:
6 issues/year for $10.00

magazine website

Progressive Magazine
Progressive
Magazine

subscribe:
12 issues/year for $32.00

magazine website

Dissent Magazine: quarterly magazine of politics & culture [est. 1954]
Dissent
Magazine

subscribe:
4 issues/year for $24.00

magazine website

The American Prospect Magazine: "committed to a just society, an enriched democracy & effective liberal politics" [est. 1990]
American Prospect
Magazine

subscribe:
12 issues/year for $19.95

The American Prospect Magazine [est. 1990] official website

Washington Monthly Magazine [est. 1969]
Washington
Monthly
Magazine

subscribe:
10 issues/year for $29.95

magazine website

The Washington Spectator Newsletter [est. 1974; twice monthly]
The Washington
Spectator
Newsletter

direct subscription:
22 issues/year
for $15.00

magazine website



Fiction  About  U.S.  Politics

Political Film Festival Page
at Magic Lantern Book & Video Store

Jack London's Iron Heel   "The Iron Heel" [1908] by Jack London [1876-1916]
A visionary novel about class struggle that anticipates the political upheavals of the 1930s and beyond
Lawrence Hill 8.4x5.4 pb [1/81] for $9.71
Wildside Press 8¾x6½ hardcover [9/2003] for $18.95
Quiet Vision CD-ROM [7/99] for $5.98
It Can't Happen Here   "It Can't Happen Here: A Novel" [June 1935]
by Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951]

"An alarming, eerily timeless work"
Signet Classic pb [3/2005] for $7.95
Signet Classics pb [12/93] out of print/used
Doubleday hardcover [6/1935] out of print/used
AMS/Collier hardcover [6/1935] out of print/used
Man in the High Castle   "The Man In The High Castle" [1962] by Philip K. Dick
Fifteen years after losing World War Two, America is still occupied by Nazi Germany & Imperialist Japan...
Vintage 8x5¼ pb [6/92] for $9.00
Putnam hardcover[1/62] out of print/used

Spirit of America's Philip K. Dick [1928-82] Page

1968, Novel of Presidential Politics by Peter Scaevola  
"'68: A Novel of Presidential Politics" [1964]
by Peter Scaevola

Signet/N.A.L. mass pb [1964] out of print/used
W.W. Norton 8½x5¾ hardcover [1964] out of print/used
Captains & the Kings   "Captains and The Kings: The Story of An American Dynasty" [1972]
by Taylor Caldwell [1900-85]

Effectively weaves fictional and historical characters into the tapestry of American life from 1857-1912.
Fawcett mass pb [12/83] for $7.99
Fawcett pb [8/76] out of print/many used
Doubleday hardcover [1972] out of print/many used
tv miniseries [Universal/NBC Sept 1976]
Directed by Douglas Heyes & Allen Reisner; starring Richard Jordan, Perry King, Patty Duke, Ray Bolger, Blair Brown, John Carradine, Charles Durning & Henry Fonda; nominated for 8 Emmy Awards (won 2)
MCA color VHS [10/2000] 5 tape set - out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDb
White House Mess  
"The White House Mess" [1986]
by Christopher Buckley

Penguin 7¾x5 pb [5/95] for $10.36
Knopf hardcover [2/86] out of print/used
Primary Colors novel   "Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics" [1996 bestseller]
by Anonymous {aka Joe Klein}

Random House 7x5 pb [10/2006] for $11.86
Trafalgar Square pb [10/96] for $9.40
Chatto & Windus hardcover [2/96] out of print/used
Random House ABR audio [8/2000] for $9.99
Primary Colors movie   "Primary Colors" feature film [Universal March 1998]
Directed by Mike Nichols; script by Elaine May, based on Joe Klein's bestselling novel; starring John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman & Diane Ladd; script/adaptation nominated for Oscar, WGA & USC Scripter awards, won BAFTA; KB nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscar, BAFTA & SAG awards
Universal widescreen DVD [4/99] for $8.99
Universal color DVD [9/98] for $8.99
full credits at IMDb
Running Mate  
"The Running Mate" sequel to 'Primary Colors' [2000]
by Joe Klein

Delta 9x5¾ pb [4/2001] out of print/used
Dial Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2000] out of print/used
No Way to Treat a First Lady   "No Way To Treat A First Lady" [2002]
by Christopher Buckley

Random House 8&frac5¼ pb [10/2003] for $11.16
Random House 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2002] out of print/many used
Is America Nuts?   "Is America Nuts?: Uncle Sam Takes The Couch" [2004]
by Richard J. Weisman

Psychologist Dr. Stanley Warlib is forced to treat Uncle Sam and his co-dependent family; the sequel "Fascists in Christian Clothing" is below.
iUniverse 9x6 pb [4/2004] for $15.95
Military State   "Military State: Society On The Verge of Collapse" [2005]
by Kevin Warren

Canon Stone Press 9x6 pb [3/2005] for $21.95
Canon Stone Press 9x6 hardcover [11/2005] for $24.95
Fascists in Christian Clothing   "Fascists In Christian Clothing: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" [2005]
by Richard J. Weisman

In the sequel to Weisman's "Is America Nuts?" novel {see above}, psychologist Dr. Stanley Warlib uses a radio show to fight the Council on National Policy, the force behind a Christian-Fascist takeover of America.
iUniverse 9x6 pb [6/2005] for $17.95



U.S. Politics & Elections Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore

back on Page One
Constitution & Supreme Court •• Voting & The Electoral College
general U.S. History •• WaterGate, ChadGate & TreasonGate •• impeachment

here on Page Two
war & international affairs •• other political matters
Walter Lippmann •• fiction •• magazines


Online sales in association with  Current Events / Civil Rights catalog at Amazon

top of this page        back to Spirit of America Bookstore homepage