<div>A revised and updated edition of the definitive guide to overturning Citizens United. Since the Supreme Court&rsquo;s Citizens United ruling that the rights of things&mdash;money and corporations&mdash;matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In this timely and thoroughly updated second edition, Jeff Clements describes the strange history of this bizarre ruling, its ongoing destructive effects, and the growing movement to reverse it. He includes a new chapter, &ldquo;Do Something!,&rdquo; showing how&mdash;state by state and community by community&mdash;Americans are using creative strategies and tools to renew democracy and curb unbalanced corporate power. Since the first edition, sixteen states, one-hundred-sixty members of Congress, and five hundred cities and towns have called for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and the list is growing. This is a fight we can win! &ldquo;More relevant than ever, this updated edition of Corporations Are Not People chronicles the remarkably vibrant, nationwide grassroots movement to &lsquo;get money out and voters in.&rsquo;&rdquo; &mdash;Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation</div>

Corporations Are Not People

<div>The host of Democracy Now! breaks through the corporate media&rsquo;s lies, sound bites, and silence in this New York Times&ndash;bestselling collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects&mdash;the &ldquo;experts&rdquo; who, in Amy Goodman&rsquo;s words, &ldquo;know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong&rdquo;&mdash;this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who&rsquo;ve said &ldquo;no&rdquo; to Washington&rsquo;s wars, to victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman&rsquo;s reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier proves the power that independent journalism can have in the struggle for a better world, one in which ordinary citizens are the true experts of their own lives and communities. Praise for Amy Goodman and Breaking the Sound Barrier &ldquo;Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights.&rdquo; &mdash;Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects &ldquo;Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they are to power.&rdquo; &mdash;From the foreword by Bill Moyers, author of Moyers on America &ldquo;What journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit.&rdquo; &mdash;Arundhati Roy, author of The End of Imagination &ldquo;Those unfamiliar with Goodman&rsquo;s work will discover a bold voice that refuses to mince words regardless of the topic or target, along with a wealth of behind-the-headlines reporting.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

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<div>A &ldquo;beautifully crafted&rdquo; visual celebration with 150 photos and essays by Barbara Kingsolver, Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, and more (Publishers Weekly). Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly discovered books. Today, the more than 17,000 libraries in America also function as de facto community centers offering free access to the internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter. And yet, across the country, cities large and small are closing public libraries or curtailing their hours of operation. Over eighteen years, photographer Robert Dawson crisscrossed the country documenting hundreds of these endangered institutions. The Public Library presents a wide selection of his photographs&mdash;from the majestic reading room at the New York Public Library to Allensworth, California&rsquo;s one-room Tulare County Free Library, built by former slaves. Accompanying them are essays, letters, and poetry by some of America&rsquo;s most celebrated writers. &ldquo;For book lovers, library denizens, and fans of architecture or Americana, The Public Library is a delight.&rdquo; &mdash;The Christian Science Monitor &ldquo;If you think all public libraries look pretty much the same, well, you need to take a look at this book. Oh, sure, there are plenty of grand ones, such as Philadelphia&rsquo;s own Central Library on the Parkway. But we also have the Fishtown Community Branch, featured in this volume, which used to be a firehouse and, before that, a stable. There&rsquo;s also the log cabin library in Cable, Wis. And many, many more, both grand and humble.&rdquo; &mdash;Philadelphia Inquirer &ldquo;An irrefutable argument for the preservation of public libraries . . . profound and heartbreakingly beautiful.&rdquo; &mdash;Toni Morrison</div>

The Public Library

<div>The Peabody Award&ndash;winning journalist shares stories and insights into our country and the crises we face in an &ldquo;eloquent selection of . . . commentaries&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes over the years. With television programs covering topics from American history, politics, and religion to the role of media and the world of ideas, he has become one of America&rsquo;s most trusted journalists. Now Moyers presents, for the first time, a powerful statement of his own personal beliefs&mdash;political and moral. Combining illuminating forays into American history with candid comments on today&rsquo;s politics, Moyers delivers perceptive and trenchant insights into the American experience. From his early years as a Texas journalist to his role as a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, top assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, publisher of Newsday, senior correspondent and analyst for CBS News, and producer of many of public television&rsquo;s groundbreaking series, Moyers has been actively engaged in some of the most volatile episodes of the past fifty years. Drawing from these experiences, he shares his unique understanding of American politics and an enduring faith in the nation&rsquo;s promise and potential. Whether reflecting on today&rsquo;s media climate, corporate scandals, or religious and political upheavals, Moyers on America recovers the hopes of the past to establish their relevance for the present. &ldquo;Not only a good reporter . . . a first-rate storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe</div>

Moyers on America

<div>A passionate call to justice from the man Newsweek calls &ldquo;one of the twelve most effective preachers in the English-speaking world.&rdquo; In Whose Gospel?, one of America&rsquo;s greatest living preachers offers a compelling vision of progressive social change. Known as &ldquo;the preacher&rsquo;s preacher,&rdquo; Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. has tirelessly advocated progressive views on the crucial issues of our time&mdash;from poverty, war, and women&rsquo;s equality to racial justice, sexuality, and the environment. Long a powerful voice for progressive Protestants, Forbes draws on a record of political commitment ranging from the civil rights movement to his stirring address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, in addition to his eighteen years at the helm of New York City&rsquo;s historic Riverside Church. Reflecting on insights of his years as a pastor, a teacher, and an adviser to political leaders, this inspiring manifesto &ldquo;for the healing of the nations&rdquo; epitomizes the best thinking of one of the country&rsquo;s foremost religious leaders. Published with a foreword by longtime Riverside Church member Bill Moyers, Whose Gospel? is a pithy and insightful introduction to Forbes&rsquo;s thought and a welcome source of inspiration in this era of hope and change. &ldquo;Forbes . . . looks back over his life as a pastor and a black man to make a strong connection between the gospels of Christian faith and life as lived in a dynamic and changing world . . . [He] intersperses passages from the Bible with his experiences to offer a full and compelling look at making faith and humane ideals real in the lives of church members and the nation.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

Whose Gospel?

<div>A companion volume to the Emmy Award&ndash;winning PBS&reg; series&mdash;interviews with &ldquo;an essential voice in our national conversation&rdquo; (Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor). This &ldquo;provocative&rdquo; and &ldquo;absorbing&rdquo; (Star Tribune) companion book to Bill Moyer&rsquo;s acclaimed PBS series invites readers into conversations with some of the most captivating voices on the scene today, in what Kirkus Reviews calls &ldquo;a glittering array of discussions.&rdquo; From Jon Stewart on politics and media to Michael Pollan on food, The Wire creator David Simon on the mean streets of our cities, James Cone and Shelby Steele on race in the age of Obama, Robert Bly and Nikki Giovanni on the power of poetry, Barbara Ehrenreich on the hard times of working Americans, and Karen Armstrong on faith and compassion, Moyer&rsquo;s own intelligence and insight match that of his guests and their discussions animate many of the most salient issues of our time. With extensive commentary from Moyers, marked by his customary &ldquo;respect, intelligence, curiosity, humor, and graciousness,&rdquo; here are the debates; cultural currents; and, above all, lively minds that shape the conversation of democracy (Booklist). &ldquo;In an era of much instant and ephemeral talk, it is a pleasurable thing to hold this &lsquo;book of ideas.&rsquo;&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;[Moyers] has always been about something beyond the moment. Or put another way, while everyone else in the media has been exploring topography, Moyers has been exploring geology.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times</div>

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