Andrew Bacevich is a historian, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and twenty-three-year US Army veteran. He lost his son in Iraq. In his bestseller and powerful bipartisan manifesto, he argues that although many in this country are paying a heavy price for U.S. domestic and foreign policy decisions, millions of Americans simply continue to shop, spend and satisfy their appetite for cheap oil, credit and the promise of freedom at home. Bacevich writes, "As the American appetite for freedom has grown, so too has our penchant for empire." The Limits of Power challenges us to rethink the United States' approach to foreign policy, economic strategy, and the overall loss of pragmatism in government. The new paperback edition includes a provocative afterword that questions the latest developments in U.S. activity at home and abroad.

May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful and sophisticated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy, and their parents arrange for them to marry "Gold Mountain men" who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, the sisters set out on the journey that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown's old ways and rules.
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America's favorite humorist and contributor to "This American Life,"

David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface.  

 

 

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Naked ($14.99)

 
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