books about: politicians

books about: politicians

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Politicians

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

Joseph J. Ellis

Knopf, 2007

The Continuing American Revolution
Together with the Civil War, the American Revolution continues to exert a great fascination for Americans. The historian Joseph Ellis has written many books making this period of our history accessible to lay readers. His most recent work "American Creation" is, in ...

Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power

John Harwood, Gerald F. Seib

Random House, 2008

"Pulling Back the Curtain"
In an era of 24-hour cable news, endless political blogs and an infinite number of political talk shows, it was refreshing to get beyond the noise and meet the people who really pull the levers. Newscasts are filled with commentary about "Washington gridlock" and ...

Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success

Chris Matthews

Random House, 2007

Advice From an Old Pro
I watch Chris Matthews almost every evening and have come to respect him a great deal even if I don't always agree with him. The thing that I most respect about the man is that he asks the tough questions of both sides of the political aisle. Many conservative ...

Absolute Power

David Baldacci

Grand Central Publishing, 1996

The Yardstick All Other Thrillers Are Measured By
Cat burglar extraordinaire Luther Whitney is getting a little long in the tooth. He's in his sixties and should probably retire, but he decides to pull of one last heist, a big one. He breaks into this rich guy's home, finds a secret room off the master bedroom. He's ...

Hardball : How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game

Chris Matthews

Free Press, 1999

Great Book
Chris Matthews, one of my favorite pundits. Good book to keep in the political, reference section.

In the Lake of the Woods

Tim O'Brien

Mariner Books, 2006

surprising in a good way
In my english class we had a choice between a few books and i randomly chose this one. when i started reading i actually found myself getting interested in the storyline. i dont remember the last book before this one that i read in a class and actually liked it. ...

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

Harvest Books, 1996

The Web Of Things
I put off reading this novel for almost twenty years from when it was first recommended to me for the simple reason that I dismissed as a "political" novel and, ergo, not of the first water. - How wrong can a prospective reader be?!? - To begin, this is not a ...

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 ...

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Free Press, 2008

A Great Eye Opener
[..]. This book is a real eye opener. I reveals much about the cultures and lives of people living in the Middle East, as well as parts of Africa such as Somalia, and the Netherlands. I really enjoyed reading this book as it was a great eye opener.

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided ...

Roy Spencer

Encounter Books, 2008

The Coolest Critique
I have read several books on this subject. This one is by far the best. It is clear, easy for the non-climatologist, well balanced and humorous. It is also brief. The chapters on weather and climate are lucidly presented although they might take reading twice over, ...

Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire (Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies)

Rajmohan Gandhi

University of California Press, 2008

A Definitive Biography of Gandhi -- But With Breathtaking Windows into His Heart
As a journalist who has reported on religion for a quarter of a century, my bookshelves are lined with most of the earlier volumes on this defining spiritual figure of the 20th Century -- a man whose brilliance even shaped the American Civil Rights movement half way ...

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Frances Foster Books)

Claire A. Nivola

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2008

Richie's Picks: PLANTING THE TREES OF KENYA: THE STORY OF WANGARI MAATHAI
"The farms of Ohio had been replaced by shopping malls And muzak filled the air from Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls." -- The Pretenders, "My City was Gone" "As Wangari Maathai tells it, when she was growing up on a farm in the hills of central Kenya, the earth was ...

Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists

Joel Best

University of California Press, 2001

Great book
First and foremost, as an avid fan of the topic of Statistics in general, I felt compelled to read this book. I had read another of Joel Best's book, More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues, and it was shocking to say the least. In the ...

You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics

Kinky Friedman

Simon & Schuster, 2007

The Real Texas
I live in Texas and I am very proud to say that I was one of the 12 % of us here in the Lone Star State who voted for Kinky for governor. Kinky is a true Texan, as this book shows. He loves the state of Texas. His comment that politicians are "by nature shallow and ...

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

Patrick J. Michaels

Cato Institute, 2005

Climate Doom Dogma Dispelled
Where other books on global warming simply present the data of the author's choice, Prof. Michaels, University of Virginia, long-term State Climatologist, in this particular book takes claims in media, or by politicians, or by "scientists" and immediately shows the ...