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We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant

By Coates, Ta-Nehisi

The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11

By Graff, Garrett M.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

By Žižek, Slavoj

The Spirit of Terrorism

By Baudrillard, Jean, Turner, Chris

Dawn Over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East, 1953-1957

By Steven Z. Freiberger

New Pearl Harbor, The: Disturbing Questions About The Bush Administration And 9/11

By Griffin, David Ray

The Umbrella of US Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of US Policy (Seven Stories' Open Media)

By Chomsky, Noam

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

By Heilemann, John, Halperin, Mark

America's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations Since the Cold War (America's Recent Past): 2

By Cohen, Warren I.

Descent into Chaos: The world's most unstable region and the threat to global security

By Rashid, Ahmed

The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (American Empire Project)

By Turse, Nick

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

By Packer, George

American Way of War, The: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's

By Engelhardt, Tom

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

By Judis, John B.

Through The Children's Gate: A Home in New York

By Gopnik, Adam

Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce

By Kuzmarov, Jeremy, Marciano, John

The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance

By Obama, Barack

Barack Obama: The Movement for Change

By Anthony Painter

Nemesis: Last Days of the American Republic

By Chalmers Johnson

Why We're Polarized

By Ezra Klein

Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

By Gore Vidal

The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions of Liberty

By Tristram Riley-Smith

America's Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror

By Grace Livingstone

The Big Short – Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Lewis, Michael

Access to History: Politics, Presidency and Society in the USA 1968-2001

By Sanders, Vivienne

Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

By Stoller, Matt

The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

By Worthington, Andy

Inside 9-11 What Really Happened

By Der Spiegel, Der Spiegel Magazine

The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 on the 20th Anniversary

By Graff, Garrett M.

Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

By Jaffe, Sarah