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The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Steve Coll
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Amaze your friends on how much you know about the Bin Ladens!
+ The Bin Ladins: The Rise to Power
+ An invaluable guide
+ Important and Valuable Read on Globalization's Trappings
+ Biography of Family
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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
Julia Reed
Ecco, 2008
Green & Blue
+ great book
I admit it, this book made me green with envy. Like the author and many others, I've always been drawn to New Orleans and have dreamed of living there for years. At the same time this book will make you blue at the damage done by hurricane Katrina to this lovely, complicated city and sadly, blue ...
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United ...
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
9/11 Commission
An outstanding piece of scholarship; one of the most extensively researched, documented and balanced inquiry into the attacks of September 11, 2001 so far. The bipartisan panel created to answer the questions of what happened, how it could have and why, go to great lengths to assess the failures ...
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An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and ...
Glenn Reynolds
Thomas Nelson, 2007
Instapundit Groupie Approves
+ good, not great
+ Interesting book
+ Entertaining and Insightful
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)
Lawrence Wright
Vintage, 2007
The Looming Tower
+ An Excellent Primer on Al-Qaeda's Birth and Growth
+ Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to Insanity
+ The Definitive Account of The Genesis of Al Qaeda
+ The Looming Tower .......and The Wall.
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The Al Qaeda Reader
Broadway, 2007
Al Qaeda, in its own words...
+ Interesting
+ Frightening !
+ Modern Mein Kampf
+ Sobering.
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Anti-Americanism
Jean-Francois Revel
Encounter Books, 2004
A Satisfying Read and revelatory for many, I'm sure.
+ The new crook's last refuge
+ A to the Point and Scathing Review of Eurpoean Hypocrisy
+ Anbti-Americanism by Jean Francois Revel
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (Lives of the Left)
E. J. Hobsbawm
New Press, 2005
Highly readable and interesting
+ Great autobiography of Hobsbawm
+ An Interesting Life
This is a biography that is worth reading, also to be recommended as a mentor reading for youngsters. This book shows how a young boy from Austria, whose life was shaped by the rise and fall of the nazis, came of age in twentieth century. He is a distinguished and unapologetically Marxist ...
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Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring Landmarks
Jerome Pohlen
Chicago Review Press, 2008
Travelling through progressive America.
This book has been so needed. So often, as we travel the U.S., the only radio options we have are right-wing blowhards like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The corporatist and militarist control over our media Orwell Rolls in His Grave misleads people into thinking that America is a right-wing ...
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Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
Jenna Bush
HarperCollins, 2008
beautiful story
+ Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
+ A beautiful real life story
+ A beautiful ongoing story
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama
Three Rivers Press, 2004
Dreams From My Father
+ Poetic Introspection
+ EXCEPTIONAL ON VIRTUALLY EVERY LEVEL
This is the most compelling story that really resonates with me. Barak Obama's life connects with a little bit of everyone no matter your race or background. In his book, Barak Obama articulates the near and distant relationships specifically with his grandparents and estranged parents, which ...
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Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided ...
Roy Spencer
Encounter Books, 2008
Inspiring and Needed
+ climate confusion
+ Telling the truth behind the Global Warming RELIGION
+ Credibility
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Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster ...
Michael Yon
Richard Vigilante Books, 2008
critically needed information
+ The Soul of Wisdom
+ Breath of fresh literature.........Whether true or not
+ Awesome
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Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
Random House, 2006
Enrique's Journey
+ Enrique's Journey
+ An Enlightenment
This book was hard to put down as well as hard to read. It evoked the full range of emotions. The inhumanity of some mixes with the incredible generosity of others. It is a story of the best and the worst that humans can be. It puts a human face on the problem of immigration. You will never look at ...
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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of ...
Pietra Rivoli
Wiley, 2006
Fantastic, well-written, and eye-opening
+ Insights into global trade
+ Informative, delightful, detailed and humane
Upon first glance, it might appear that this book details economic aspects of a
single industry, namely that of T-shirts. You'd be mistaken. It instead offers
an insightful look into several different aspects of T-shirt production,
including agriculture, factory working conditions, free trade ...
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