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What to choose from: Books on issues of the day
Sunday, June 25, 2006
(Books without dates are available.)

Bush under fire

"The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing George W. Bush From Office" by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky. (St. Martin's, $23.95). Oct.

"Pretensions to Empire: A Case for Impeachment" by Lewis Lapham. (The New Press, $24.95). Sept.

"Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War" by Michael Isikoff and David Corn. (Crown, $25.95). Oct.

"The Republican Playbook" by Andy Borowitz. (Hyperion, $16.95). Oct.

"Armed Madhouse" by Greg Palast. (Dutton, $25.95).

Electoral politics

"The Architect: Karl Rove and the End of the Democratic Party" by James Moore and Wayne Slater. (Crown. $25.95.) Sept.

"The Way to Win: Clinton, Bush, Rove and the Trade Secrets for Taking the White House in 2008" by Mark Helprin and John F. Harris. (Random House, $25.95.) Oct.

"Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive For Permanent Power" by Thomas B. Edsall. (Basic Books, $26.) Sept.

"Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security" by Kurt Campbell and Michael O'Hanlon. (Basic Books, $25). Oct.

The media

"Whitewash: How the News Media Are Paving Hillary Clinton's Path to the White House" by L. Brent Bozell III with Tim Graham. (Crown Forum, $25.95.) Sept.

"Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back" by Amy Goodman and David Goodman. (Hyperion, $23.95). Sept.

"Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush" by Eric Boehlert. (Free Press, $25).

"Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risk of the New Conservative Hate Culture" by Gerry Spence. (St. Martin's, $23.95.) Oct.

"The Greatest Story Ever Sold: Bush's America" by Frank Rich. (Penguin Press, $25.95.) Sept.

"Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public" by Helen Thomas. (Scribner, $25).

Religion and politics

"Thy Kingdom Come: An Evangelical's Lament" by Randall Balmer. (Basic Books, $24.95)

"Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" by Michelle Goldberg. (Norton, $23.95).

"The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege" by Damon Linker. (Doubleday, $26.)

"The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right" by Michael Lerner. (Harper San Francisco, $24.95).

"Tempting Fate: An Inside Account of the Rise of Christian Conservatives and Their Betrayal by the Bush White House" by David Kuo. (Free Press, $25.) Oct.

The courts

"Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue" by Stephanie Mencimer. (Free Press, $25.) Oct.

"Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts" by Mark Smith. (Crown Forum, $25.95).

"The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault" by Judge Robert H. Dierker. (Crown Forum, $26.95) Oct.

"See You In Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation" by Thomas Geoghegan. (The New Press, $24.95). Fall.

Conservatives vs. liberals

"Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean. (Viking, $25.95).

"Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show" by Geoffrey Nunberg. $26.

"The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back" by Andrew Sullivan. (HarperCollins, $25.95). Oct.

"The Good Fight: How Liberals and Only Liberals Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again" by Peter Beinart. (HarperCollins, $25.95).

"The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats" by Gary Hart. (Times Books, $20). Sept.

"The Audacity of Hope" by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. (Crown, $27.95). Oct.

Cultural wars

"The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country From Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks and Pretend Patriots" by David Callahan. (Harcourt, $25). Sept.

"Culture Warrior" by Bill O'Reilly. (Basic Books, $26). Sept.

"Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government -- And How We Take It Back" by David Sirota. (Crown, $24).

"The Plan: Big Ideas For America" by Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed. (Public Affairs, $19.95). Aug.

"Dark Ages: The Final Phase of Empire" by Morris Berman. (Basic Books, $25.95).

Iraq: the course of the war

"The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End" by Peter W. Galbraith. (Simon & Schuster, $26). July.

"Is Iraq Another Vietnam?" by Robert Bingham. (Public Affairs, $24.) Aug.

"Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq" by Thomas E. Ricks. (Penguin Press, $27.95). Sept.

"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. (Knopf, $25.95). Sept.

War on terror

"The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11" by Ron Suskind. (Simon & Schuster, $27).

"The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror" by George Soros. (Public Affairs, $24).

"Less Safe, Less Free: Why We Are Losing the War on Terror" by David Cole and Jules Lobel. (The New Press, $24.95). Fall.

"Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power" by Joseph Margulies. (Simon & Schuster, $25).

"Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror" by Steven H. Miles. (Random House, $23.95).

"Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in The Middle East" by Ali M. Ansari. (Basic Books, $26).

"Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America" by Josef Joffe. (Norton, $24.95).

"War by Other Means" by John Yoo. (Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.) Oct.

"Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror" by Frederick AO Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq. (The Free Press, $25.95) Fall.

Personalities

"Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism" by Cindy Sheehan. (Atria Books, $24). Sept.

"The Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11" by Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins. (HarperCollins, $25.95). Sept.

"Wake-up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow" by Kristen Breitweiser. (Warner, $24.95). Sept.

First published on June 25, 2006 at 12:00 am