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U.S. Versus Them: How a Half-Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security
J. Peter Scoblic
Viking Adult, 2008
Brilliant
+ Highly recommended for IR beginners and experts alike
+ Excellent book
Scoblic's book is exactly the sort of well researched, intelligent exploration of the Bush administration's foreign policy that I have been looking for. I have always known that there is something seriously flawed about Bush's foreign policy, and the conservative approach in general (it was ...
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Love Your Life and It Will Love You Back
Sourena Vasseghi
Sourena Publishing, 2007
How can a guy who deals with cerebral palsy (CP) and its limitations Speak out about living life to the fullest? Indeed, how can a guy with a serious speech impediment due to CP create a successful speaking business? Motivational speaker Sourena Vasseghi has had to learn-more urgently than most-that if you truly love your life, it will love you back. Because Sourena believes there is no ...
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The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations)
Noah Feldman
Princeton University Press, 2008
Very good book
The author knows exactly what he is talking about. And unlike most of the literature he is trying to discuss the issue logically and in details.
He seems to have very good understanding of the way muslims think in the East.
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Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im
Harvard University Press, 2008
The Liberal Age is not entirely over . . .
It may seem at times as if Islamic political thought has been captured by Qutb, Maududi, and their intellectual descendents. It is hard to remember that from about 1840 to 1940 (the period that Hourani terms the "Liberal Age"), the dominant strain in Muslim political thinking was comprised of the ...
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Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11
Lynn Spencer
Free Press, 2008
touching history
+ Touching History
+ Awesome
+ Enthralling read
+ Incredible read
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A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East
Sir Lawrence Freedman
Doubleday Canada, 2008
The United States is locked into three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution. Iran is pursuing a nuclear program; the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has seen unrelenting intercommunal violence; and the Taliban have got back into Afghanistan. George W. Bush will almost certainly leave office without solving any of these big foreign policy issues that have defined ...
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Party of Defeat
David Horowitz, Ben Johnson
Spence Pub, 2008
Democrats Exposed Again by Horowitz
+ Read this book in an air conditioned room
+ Party of Defeat - Horowitz Nails It!
+ Puts Iraq into perspective
+ A Wake-up Call for America
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Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics
Earl Black, Merle Black
Simon & Schuster, 2007
Stats freaks, you know who you are, take a personal day, crunch on.
Politics in the U.S. for the past several decades has had the flavor of a pendulum; a slow oscillation driven mostly by indifferent people voicing their disgust with alternate messages. That model has been soundly retired. There are millions of voters, thousands of polling places, hundreds of ...
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Dark Horse: A Political Thriller
Ralph Reed
Howard Books, 2008
George Will`s best yet.
+ Dark Horse
+ Great Book
+ Dark Horse
+ Headlines and Sagacity
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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Jim Sheeler
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
You need to read this book.
+ Service, sacrifice, and loss made visible
+ Four thousand, one hundred, and thirty-seven military personnel have died in Iraq.
+ "GARDENS OF STONE...RE-VISITED"
+ moving
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Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad
Andrew C. McCarthy
Encounter Books, 2008
too scary to read at bedtime
+ Willfull Blindness
+ 'Willful Blindness' - Smart, Provocative and Timely
+ Excellent book!
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The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't ...
Mark Bauerlein
Tarcher, 2008
John Stuart Mill's chickens come home to roost
+ The end of America's intellectual legacy?
+ READ IT & WEEP...
Mark Bauerlein's The Dumbest Generation joins the rank of books which invite us--compel us--to do some serious thinking about the future of democracy. If meaningful participation in the civic and political process is based on a certain degree of cultural literacy, and if the literacy of the up and ...
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Above Empyrean: A Novel of the Final Days of the War Against Islamist Terrorism
Bruce Herschensohn
Beaufort Books, 2008
not just a thriller....
+ Facsinating premise, well told, and an important read
+ Above Empyrean
+ FUN READ! Very compelling!
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America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Mark Steyn
Regnery Publishing, 2008
Canary in the global cultural coal mine...
+ The most disturbing book I've read this year
+ America Alone - A must read
+ America Alone extremely entertaining
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Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Alex Harris, Brett Harris
Multnomah Books, 2008
Great book for every teen
+ L-L-Love this for my daughters--4 teens
+ A Serious Challenge for Teens
+ You really can do hard things...
+ Young or Old..Join the Rebelution
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