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The Dark Side by Jane Mayer

In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer chronicles the terrible and destructive decisions the Bush administration made in the name of fighting terrorism. It has received natioanl attention by both periodicals and politicians alike. Below are some highlights:

  • In “Answering Terror with Terror,” Salon.com states: The Dark Side is about how the war on terror became ‘a war on American ideals,’ and Mayer gives this story all the weight and sorrow it deserves. Many books get tagged with the word ‘essential’; hers actually is.”
  • “Mayer’s singular accomplishment is to fuse the years of events that have brought us to this pass into a single compelling narrative and to use her own considerable reportorial powers to fill in important connective and contextual events.” — Los Angeles Times
  • Readers can find similar praise at Bloomberg.com and The New York Observer

In the nation’s capital? Meet Jane Mayer at Politics and Prose on July 24 at 7pm. View a complete tour schedule, here.

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Grand New Party by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam

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A Time To Fight by Jim Webb

Read the Huffington Post article.

Listen to an interview with Robert Siegel at NPR.org.

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Moyers on Democracy Signed Edition



Charlie Rose shares a clip from his Conversation with Bill Moyers.

Read a review in the LA Times.

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The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi

Meet Matt Taibbi - View the complete event schedule.

Read reviews of The Great Derangement at DailyKos, Time Out New York, and the
Los Angeles Times.

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Carolyn Jessop Describes her Escape from FLDS

Watch Carolyn Jessop on Good Morning America discuss the authorities’ decision to place more than 400 children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in protective custody in Texas.

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Video: Andrew Keen, author of ‘The Cult of the Amateur’, at Google Talks

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