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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama
Three Rivers Press, 2007
The Hopemongering ;-)
Barck Obama is a self described hopemongerer ( I think we need to add this word to the dictionary if it is not already there given the publicity it has gotten!). In this book he gives practical advice on what an individual can do to make a difference. I found the ...
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The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know ...
Iain Murray
Regnery Publishing, 2008
Excellent expose of the left-wing myths about the environment
Iain Murray makes an important contribution to the debate about environmentalism, global warming (or the new catchall "climate change") and the left-wing's desire to bring individual activities under government control - provided, of course, that the left-wing is the ...
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Jonah Goldberg
Doubleday, 2008
The Little Hitler In Me
The title alone makes the book, which catches an impulse in the contemporary liberal spirit which is often ignored. Liberalism has always meant something opposite to fascism, but as liberalism has hardened it has indeed taken on some of the temptations of the ...
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Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from National ReviewPM
William Buckley
Basic Books, 2007
Entertaining, personal, and worth returning to
With the publication of the wonderful Florence King's "STET, Damnit!" in 2003 and WFB's "Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription" in 2007, National Review books are breaking new ground in the use of profanity in titles. Which is not a field in which I would have expected ...
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild
Mariner Books, 1999
A Century of Horror
Anyone who wants to understand the Congo should read two books, King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild and and In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo. Together, they explain why the last 100 years of bloody tyranny has laid ...
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Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater
William Buckley
Basic Books, 2008
Probably the perfect Goldwater Revolution book
The year was 1964 - President Kennedy had been martyred, and now-President Johnson looked unassailable. However, there was one man on the Conservative side who seemed willing to carry the flag, and seek to turn back the tide of Liberalism that was flowing out of ...
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Pure Goldwater
John W. Dean, Barry M. Goldwater
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Essential Pure Goldwater!
Mr. Dean and Barry Jr. have culled from the late Senator Goldwater's personal archive the most telling letters and journal entries imaginable. Barry Goldwater not only comes to life, he literally leaps off the pages, and his words are as relevant today as they were ...
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Culture Warrior
Bill O'Reilly
Broadway, 2007
A Must Read
Many people fall victim to left wing media bias or they might like Obama because he is a good public speaker. This book does a great job showing what is behind the liberal agenda and what is truly at stake in the upcoming election.
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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives
George Lakoff
Chelsea Green, 2004
Absolutely love this Book
I've read this book twice now, and each time I read it I gain a better understanding of my surroundings. Lakoff does a great job of first describing what he means by "framing" and how it applies to nearly every aspect of life. He then applies his idea of framing and ...
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Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost--And How It Can Find Its Way Back
Mickey Edwards
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Great Accessible Insights
This book is terrific and rare, offering accessible insight into the reasons why what passes for conservative politics and policies today is bad for the country, let alone conservatives. Reclaiming Conservatism is not merely a primer for conservatives to remember their ...
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Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats
Matthew Yglesias
Wiley, 2008
palatable blend of politics and policy
The jump from blog to book worked well for Yglesias. I get the sense that he was pushed toward a less snarky, slightly stilted style, but you essentially get the same tightly reasoned and witty passages you'd expect from his longer posts or magazine stuff. What's ...
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Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can ...
Peter G. Peterson
Picador, 2005
Time for updated edition
This is another essential book in the runup to 2008 primaries and elections (* three others are listed below), as it confronts the economic elephant in America's room that threatens our futures and those of our children and grandchildren.
While the book is nearly ...
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The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club)
Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial, 1999
Amazing!
I started this book after I had surgery as a way to pass time and I regret not reading it earlier. Poisonwood Bible contains the rich story of a family of a reverend, his wife and four daughters. Each daughter brings her own perspective to the novel and I love the ...
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Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past
Bruce Bartlett
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
A Real Eye Opener
Prior to writing this review, I went to the web sites of both the Democratic Party & the GOP to check their records on civil rights & women suffrage. Here's what I found:
The GOP's history page talks about its founding to oppose slavery & the passing of a number of ...
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Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult ...
Stephen Preskill
Jossey-Bass, 2005
An Excellent Read
For people who want to become more effective in using discussion in teaching, especially with adults, this book is an excellent choice. It explains clearly and honestly the value and the limits of using discussion in teaching. From the opening chapter, in which ...
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