books about: 2000

books about: 2000

books:

2000

McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, ...

David Foster Wallace

Back Bay Books, 2008

Important to know the context of this book was 2000, not 2008
Given DFW's recent tragic death (and the election timing of this re-release), I'd imagine alot of folks may now discover this book. What Wallace wanted current readers understand about the context, he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview from June 2008. Here's ...

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Rick Perlstein

Scribner, 2008

Pre-history of the Present Crisis
The other reviews already spell out just what makes this such a brilliant book, so I won't add anything about that. However, I thought it mighth be worth adding that as the world looks on waiting for the election in November that this book provides a pre-history to the ...

Essential Elements 2000 for Strings Plus DVD: Violin

Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002

Well thought out series.
"For a real violin study, go with Suzuki." While that might work for a child that is ages 3-4 in a one-on-one or small group setting (which is what the Suzuki Method was intended for), it does not work well in large group learning situation for kids who are twice that ...

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner

Anchor, 2008

'Must Reading'
This book or tapes should be read by anyone who recognizes the critical importance of Intelligence to those who are responsible for leading our country in the perilous enviornment we must navigate in. Unhappily, on balance, we appear to have done a pretty inadequate ...

Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

Simon & Schuster, 2001

A Lonelier Crowd
Robert D. Putnam's BOWLING ALONE provides what is, arguably, the most robust scientific treatment in a single volume of the conversation about friendship and its benefits begun by Aristotle nearly twenty-four centuries ago, a conversation about what has now come to be ...

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

Ballantine Books, 1993

History repeating itself
I read this book for the first time over ten years ago and returned to it for the bitter relevancy it has as I reflect on our situation in Iraq today.

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Jon Krakauer

Anchor, 2004

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Asserting that America's "homegrown religion" is one steeped in and ultimately defined by persecution and violence, Krakauer's extensively researched book about Mormon fundamentalism is an informative look at an aspect of life that people are not always willing to see. ...

Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve

William Fleckenstein, Fred Sheehan

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Brilliant study of a failed system
In this fascinating book, financial journalist William Fleckenstein studies the record of Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. Between 1937 and 1987 there were no bubbles, but Greenspan helped to create two bubbles in ten years - in ...

The Nightingale's Song

Robert Timberg

Free Press, 1996

This is an important book
The "Nightingales's Song" is a remarkable story. I know three of the five characters, (McCain, McFarlane, and Webb), and truly admire them all. This book is a great piece of reporting, and is more relevant today than it was when it was first published. Admiral Jim ...

The Great Depression: America 1929-1941

Robert S. Mcelvaine

Three Rivers Press, 1993

New Deal as Seen from the Reagan Era
This book was written in 1983, in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency. It's very interesting to see how angry the Reagan fans are at reading it. Biased! they cry, and so it is... forthrightly biased against Reagan, but intelligently skeptical toward the ...

America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years (Nasa)

Steven Dick, Robert Jacobs, ...

Abrams Books, 2007

Wow the pictures are amazing!
I bought this book for my husband who is a space nut. It was actually part of his 40th birthday present and he loved it! Our kids love looking at all the large pictures in it as well and this book has plenty of pictures. It is a very informative book specially if you ...

China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America

James Kynge

Mariner Books, 2007

A Startling Preview of the Emerging China
China Shakes the World is a well documented panorama of what China is moving to be in the near future. Yet the author writes in a spirit that is as entertaining in its irony as it is instructive. He uses statistics, particularly, that rock the reader, i.e., the ...

The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008

Sean Wilentz

Harper, 2008

Not a balanced work on the subject
To read the title, one would have thought the author would present us with a thoughtful history of the Reagan presidency that would pull together the disparate views that were common to the era. This, sadly is not the case. Mr. Wilentz's credentials as a historian ...

Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild

Greg Palast

Plume, 2007

Hits on point for which the real arguments are commonly diverted from
To me, the two most important points of the book had little to do with the U.S. election. The first relates to Iraqi oil. The few remaining Bush apologists simplify the concept of "war for oil" to mean that if Americans aren't looting the oil and coming home with a ...

Ultra Black Hair Growth II 2000 Edition

Cathy Howse

Ubh Pubns, 2000

Cathy knows what shes talken about
I never read the orginal book. After reading this book i feel so much more knowledgeable and powerful. I have power over my hair now it does not control me. I suggest all women read this book it is worth every cent even if bought at full price ($15) This book will ...