A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror  List price: $25.00 66 new & used available from $11.88. For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of "dead white men." As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Wash... |
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List price: $25.00 1 used available from $43.00. Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some ... |
Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices  List price: $26.99 19 new & used available from $15.77. Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from t... |
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 List price: $24.99 18 new & used available from $15.00. The underside of modern American politics---raw ambition, manipulation, and deception---are revealed in detail by Andrew Young's riveting account of a presidential hopeful's meteoric rise and scandalous fall.... |
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