Shares uplifting profiles of government officials who have risked their careers and safety to speak out against the war in Iraq and reveal the Bush administration's misdeeds, from Craig Murray's revelations about human rights abuses to Bunnatine Greenhouse's exposure of the government's contracting scandal. Original.

Product Description: Every American war has brought conflict over the extent to which national security will permit protesters to exercise their constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression. The most famous case was that of Clement L. Vallandigham, the passionate critic of Lincoln's Civil War policies and one of the most controversial figure in the nation's history...read more

Product Description: An Academy Award–nominated screenwriter and a mystery novelist, Roger L. Simon is the only American writer to pull off the amazing trick of being profiled positively in both Mother Jones and National Review in one lifetime. The stunning story of his political odyssey is told in this memoir, where Simon recounts his migration from financier of the Black Panther Breakfast Program to pioneer blogosphere mogul beloved by the right as a 9/11 Democrat...read more

Microwave Theory and Applications [Jun 01, 1969] Adam, Stephen F. ...

Product Description: Examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the quartering of troops: topics which John Adams later recalled as causes of the American Revolution...read more

Product Description: In this smart, candid, and surprising political memoir, Lincoln Chafee offers a behind-the-scenes look at the first six years of the Bush Administration from the vantage point of one of the few Republican moderates in the Senate.            When Senator Chafee (R-RI) went to Washington, he encountered a Republican Party drifting so far to the right it no longer stood for the mainstream principles that united Americans...read more

Product Description: How did a top American diplomat's contrarian views on U.S. Cold War foreign policy remain largely ignored over the course of four administrations? Dauer provides an in-depth analysis of the role of dissent in the formulation of American foreign policy in his examination of the diplomatic career of Chester Bowles, Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy Administration and two-time Ambassador to India...read more

Product Description: In the 1960s, after four years with IBM and two more with the U.S. State Department, William Blum became a radical dissident. As an insider in two worlds, he is well suited to assess the people, events, and ideology of both the “bourgeois” and “radical” cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Antiwar protest has long been an under-reported component of the Civil War story. "Heaven Will Frown on Such a Cause as This" traces the life stories of six men in northern states who denounced the war against the Confederacy. These men were called "copperheads" by their opponents, but they labeled themselves "Peace Democrats...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Offers biographical entries of reformers of American history who spoke for racial and social justice, women's rights, and freedom of conscience and religion. (view table of contents)

Microwave Theory and Applications [Jun 01, 1969] Adam, Stephen F. ...

In twenty-seven narratives, people who stood up for their beliefs talk about the experiences and influences in childhood and early life that prompted them to become dissenters