The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam
By: Douglas Valentine
3.99
Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By: Tim Weiner
3.94
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more
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"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
2. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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3. The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse Betrayal
By: Nick Bryant
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A chilling expose of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide ch… read more
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4. The Shadow Over Innsmouth
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more
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5. Esoteric Hollywood:: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film
By: Jay Dyer
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden… read more
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6. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
By: Philip K. Dick
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book- SF: 100 Best Novels In the ove… read more
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7. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream
By: Nick Bryant , David McGowan
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the a… read more
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8. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder
By: David McGowan
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American l… read more
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9. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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10. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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11. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
By: Rick Perlstein
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A bold and astute narrative history of conservatism's climb and one of the best-reviewed books of 2… read more
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12. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the N… read more
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13. Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
By: Paul L. Williams
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, … read more
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14. The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3)
By: John Scalzi
3.91
Format: 434 pages,
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant H… read more
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15. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more
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16. The Rule of Saint Benedict
By: Benedict of Nursia , None
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more
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17. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.54
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more
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18. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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19. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
By: Gary Webb
4.29
Format: 601 pages, Kindle Edition
In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One--the blockbuster story eve… read more
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- american
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"I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my blis…"-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
"If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me ... I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV sh…"-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
"One of the questions I have been asked many times since this story broke is this: Now that the facts are out there, what can we do? My answer, depressing and cynical as it may be, is always the same.…"-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
20. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
By: Michael Pollan
3.72
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more
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21. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.09
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more
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22. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
By: Wendy S. Painting
4.58
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictio… read more
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23. The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam
By: Douglas Valentine
3.99
Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition
A shocking exposé of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians du… read more
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24. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
25. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in … read more
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26. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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27. Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
By: Oswaldo Zavala
4.08
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Z… read more
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28. Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists
By: John L. Potash
4.18
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Drugs as Weapons Against Us meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to … read more
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29. Operation Mind Control: The Cryptocracy's Plan to Psychocivilize You (Expanded Researcher's Edition)
By: W. Bowart
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Walter Bowart (1939 - 2007) was a journalist and a prominent figure in the New York City counter-cu… read more
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30. Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933
By: James Pool
4.14
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Called "one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism" by The New Yorker , this highly … read more
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31. Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism
By: Jay Dyer
4.39
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
Jay Dyer, the popular comedian, TV host, and author shares fifteen essays that have never before be… read more
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"The revolutions of the Enlightenment period repositioned humanity in a vast, mechanistic, determined cosmos of flux and brute “causality"-Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism
"For Plato and Socrates, the philosopher is one who lives according to virtue and reason, cultivating the pleasures of the soul and intellect and not the pleasures and passions of the baser desires of…"-Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism
"For Aristotle, fourth-century BCE Greek philosopher, the starting point of wisdom, or philosophy, was metaphysics. Modernity, in its quest for self-destruction, has more or less rejected metaphysics.…"-Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism
