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Best editorial cartoons of the year

2012
Collects more than 400 political cartoons published in 2011. Gathers cartoons according to topic, including politics, military actions, the economy, and media.

The price of civilization

reawakening American virture and prosperity
2011
Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs diagnoses America's economic problems and offers a solution that comes to grips with the new global economic realities.

After the music stopped

the financial crisis, the response, and the work ahead
2013
Examines how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what happens now.

Jobs in America

2011
A collection of essays that examines topics related to jobs in America, discussing the influence of the recession, the government's economic stimulus package, whether or not green jobs can solve the job shortage, and the creation of greater job growth.

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a chronology and reference guide
2012
A guide to the events of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Iraq War, and the Afghan War.

The Tea Party

a brief history
2012
Explores the rise of the Tea Party movement in American politics in the early twenty-first century.

Fate of the states

the new geography of American prosperity
2013
Explains that the financial crisis and real estate bust of 2007-2008 was not just consumers overspending, but state and local governments also, and as a result the United States economy has begun to reform along regional lines where wealth, power, and opportunity have begun to flow away from the coasts and toward a central corridor in which states such as North Dakota, Indiana, and Texas have survived the housing crisis relatively unscathed and have the money to retrain workers and offer tax incentives to companies willing to relocate.

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