books about: governments     books:     Governments      A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America Jim Webb Broadway, 2008 Jim Webb: A Man for our Time This book provides an insight into a man who I think is destined for leadership beyond his present day position in the Senate. He is a skillful writer, a perceptive thinker, with a good grasp of history and who can connect that history to our present day needs. His ...             The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America Thurston Clarke Henry Holt and Co., 2008 The timeless question....."What if?" What if Robert F. Kennedy had lived to become President of the United States? It's a question that has lingered in the minds of millions of us for forty years and Thurston Clarke's terrific new book, "The Last Campaign", ends with those thoughts. By the time the reader ...             The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder Vincent Bugliosi Vanguard Press, 2008 Undeniable. This book is an excellent illustration of the kind of person we have running our country. George W. Bush is indeed accusable of the worst behavior ever displayed by a sitting president. If we do not hold this person accountable for his actions God only knows what kind ...             The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American ... Matt Taibbi Spiegel & Grau, 2008 Highly Recommended Super quick read because this book is well-written, well-edited, insightful, thought-provoking, and funny. Taibbi juxtaposes the 9/11 Truth Movement with Jim Hagee's San Antonio Texas-based evangelical politico-religious cult (organized into cells like al-Qa'ida ...             Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the ... Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann Harper, 2008 Dont be Fleeced by the 1 Star LOONS Please ignore the 1 Star LOONS. It is clear from their postings that they have not even opened the book. It would be nice if people who post messages about books would have actualy read the book they comment on. Get Fleeced. It is a good read.             The Revolution: A Manifesto Ron Paul Grand Central Publishing, 2008 Excellent Intro to Austrian Economics This is a wonderful introduction to some of the core principles of Austrian economics. For those who want to go deeper in the study of Austrian economics I recommend Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.             What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception Scott McClellan PublicAffairs, 2008 The last chapter is the best, worth the price of the book Okay, we all bought this book to find out if someone who's been on the inside of the big opaque white box would confirm what we all suspected, or give us someone to tar and feather if we're prone to unquestioning partisan loyalties. Although there is some 3-star ...             The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama Three Rivers Press, 2007 WoW what a good book.... This is a very good and interesting book. I suggest you republican lovers read it because it has a part where he said even President Bush gave him "Praise" on a job well done.......             Goodnight Bush: A Parody Gan Golan, Erich Origen Little, Brown and Company, 2008 I found my Father's Day gift I think the Founding Fathers would be comforted by this bedtime reading, and I know my own father will be.             The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria W. W. Norton, 2008 Great Book - a must read to help understand global eco/pol. Very insightful, full of useful information, unique perspective, entertaining and offers good advise as to how to proceed - a must read for the next US President and should be required for all other senior US (or foreign) government officials. If understood and ...             The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court Jeffrey Toobin Doubleday, 2007 Why Presidential Elections Matter Jeffrey Toobin makes a strong case in "The Nine" that the 2008 election is indeed a change election if only because another Republican president will doom Roe v. Wade and other constitutional protections hanging by the thread of a moderate Justice (Stevens, Souter or ...             Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich Holt Paperbacks, 2002 Politics aside--a book every upper income person should read Author Barbara Ehrenreich spends a year as an experiment living on minimum wage and writing about it as a journalist. The book chronicles her year working in 3 states (Florida, Maine, and Minnesota) as, among other things, a waitress, maid, and Walmart employee. From ...             Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism Kevin Phillips Viking Adult, 2008 Great Reading this book requires some background knowledge in economics and finances, but it's great. It's packed with statistics (hence the subject matter) and it has a kind of academic vibe, so it's not for everybody. But it's very insightful and a great critique of what ...             People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) Howard Zinn Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 Trust me -There are Stable Democracies I love Howard Zinn. The most amicable individual I have ever seen. Sure he is a peace activist and a scholar. That, in and of itself gets my vote. Some people slam Howard Zinn for communist, etc... yet our "democratic" government (almost) always suppresses the ...             John Adams David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2008 very good readable book This book has a lot of history that you don't hear about that make this book more enjoyable to read.          products you might be interested in search for books derangement, do-nothing, post-american, prosecution, revolution, terrifying we recommend Politics aside--a book every upper income person should read randomly chosen DVD: God of Cookery