The Pornography of Power
How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
by Robert Scheer
ISBN: 9780446505277 
$24.99 Hardcover 
Twelve

In the course of his 40-year-career as one of America's most admired journalists, Robert Scheer's work has been praised by Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion, who deems him "one of the best reporters of our time." Now, Scheer brings a lifetime of wisdom and experience to one of the most overlooked and dangerous issues of our time: the destructive influence of America's military-industrial complex.

Scheer examines the expansion of the U.S. military presence throughout the world, our insane nuclear strategy, the immorality of corporations profiting in Iraq, and the arrogance of our foreign policy. At a time when many are exploiting fears of terrorist attacks and only a few national leaders are willing to advocate cuts in defense spending, nuclear disarmament, and restrained use of American force, Scheer has written a manifesto for enlightened reform.

In Defense of America
by Bronwen Maddox
ISBN: 9780316032230 
$16.99 Hardcover
Little, Brown and Company
Pub Date: July

As we approach the end of the Bush presidency, with Iraq in flames, critics around the world argue that the United States has abused its position as the world's only superpower. However, noted British columnist Bronwen Maddox rejects those attacks, arguing that the United States is the world's superpower for a good reason: its astonishing record of defending democracy around the world.

Maddox's In Defense of America shows that critics ignore the best aspects of America and exaggerate the worst; that the Iraq War was a mistake rather than an immoral mission; and that our government's rejections of the Kyoto Protocol and other treaties were justified. She paints a chilling picture of a world with a weaker United States: one in which an ascendant China and Vladimir Putin's Russia are the dominant forces in the international community.