63 documents the government doesn't want you to read by Jesse Ventura, with Dick Russell.



The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non-partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed: The CIA's top-secret program to control human behavior Operation Northwoods; the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists; The discovery of a secret Afghan archive; information that never left the boardroom; Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak; What the Department of Defense knows about our food supply but is keeping mum. Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Ventura "s research and commentary sheds new light on what they're not telling you and why it matters. (Publisher's description)

Check Availability/Read Reviews/Request Hold

Bridging the military-civilian divide : what each side needs to know about the other, and about itself by Bruce Fleming.

Fleming (English, US Naval Academy) takes on a topic that most readers probably don't think about much: the disconnect in understanding between the civilian world and the military. And, as he says, there is a price if we fail to correct misperceptions and refuse to see the civilian-military relationship as a shared commitment. He explores attitudes on both sides of the fence and offers a way to close that relationship gap. Distributed by Books International. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Check Availability/Read Reviews/Request Hold

California women and politics : from the Gold Rush to the Great Depression edited by Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin, Ann Marie Wilson.

In 1911 as progressivism moved toward its zenith, the state of California granted women the right to vote. However, women's political involvement in California's public life did not begin with suffrage, nor did it end there. Across the state, women had been deeply involved in politics long before suffrage, and - although their tactics and objectives changed - they remained deeply involved thereafter. California Women and Politics examines the wide array of women's public activism from the 1850s to 1929 - including the temperance movement, moral reform, conservation, trade unionism, settlement work, philanthropy, wartime volunteerism, and more - and reveals unexpected contours to women's politics in California. The contributors consider not only white middle-class women's organizing but also the politics of working-class women and women of color, emphasizing that there was not one monolithic "women's agenda," but rather a multiplicity of women's voices demanding recognition for a variety of causes. (Publisher's description)

Check Availability/Request Hold/Read Reviews

The "S" word : a short history of an American tradition-- socialism by John Nichols

A few months before the 2010 midterms, Newt Gingrich described the socialist infiltration of American government and media as Seven more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists. John Nichols offers an unapologetic retort to the return of red-baiting in American political life ”arguing that socialism has a long, proud, American history. Tom Paine was enamored of early socialists, Horace Greeley employed Karl Marx as a correspondent, and Helen Keller was an avowed socialist. The SS Word gives Americans back a crucial aspect of their past and makes a forthright case for socialist ideas today. (Publisher's description)

Check Availability/Request Hold/Read Reviews

Craters of the Moon : a guide to Craters of the Moon National Monument and preserve, Idaho

 The Guide to Craters of the Moon National Monument and preserve, Idaho is a 63-page document prepared by Craters of the Moon staff, which details the geology of the area. Published as one of the thousands of documents by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior for the National Park System.

Find a copy at SFPL