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Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Rick Shenkman
Basic Books, 2008
Best Depiction of Worst Case, Needs Sense of Best Case
+ Worth Reading
I cannot improve on the reviews by Kerry Walters and Retired Reader, in that order. I was drawn to this book by the fact that it is the "other" book that readers buy when considering Joe Trippi's great book, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of ...
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White House Special Handbook, or How to Rule the World in the 21st Century
Mikhail Kryzhanovsky
Algora Publishing, 2007
This Handbook was originally written at US Government request, says Kryzhanovsky, who claims 30 years experience in the intelligence services of the USSR - and of the United States. Now his handbook is being published, with added chapters for the benefit of the broader public, so that candidates for lesser offices and even mere voters can learn from his insightful de-construction of the cynical ...
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Goodnight Bush: A Parody
Gan Golan, Erich Origen
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
laugh out loud
+ hilarious parody of a childhood classic!
+ Goodbye Bush
+ Written just for Bush!
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Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Knopf, 2008
A Perfect 10
+ Emotions will linger long after you've finished the book
+ Great storytelling
+ Great Stories...
+ Brilliant
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You Are STILL Being Lied To: The NEW Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and ...
Russ Kick
The Disinformation Company, 2008
A must-have revised and expanded edition of The Disinformation Company's classic anthology, You Are STILL Being Lied To contains more than a dozen all-new essays from contributors like Norman Solomon, Graham Hancock, Alex Jones, John Major Jenkins, Robert Bauval, Richard DeGrandpre, Alexandra Bruce, John Hogue, Gregory Davis, and Scott Creighton on topics ranging from the misleading marketing ...
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The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How To Fix Them
Donald F. Kettl
W. W. Norton, 2008
This book exposes the reality that our twentieth-century government is no match for twenty-first-century problems and proposes a solution. In this timely and compelling book, Donald F. Kettl demonstrates how the process of governance has fallen out of sync with the problems the government is trying to solve. Pick almost any recent domestic concern—waging a war, protecting our food supply ...
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Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed
Carlo Petrini, Jamey Lionette
South End Press, 2007
Excellent call(s) to action
+ A deftly composed treatise
+ Pollan is not the author, and that's ok.
Okay. Michael Pollan's note (see his "review" of this book) has worked. He's clearly no longer listed as the "author" of this wonderful little book. I'm glad that this was straightened out. The problem is that his 1-star rating has pulled down the overall rating for Manifestos on the Future of ...
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The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party
Sidney Blumenthal
Union Square Press, 2008
the sooner . . . the better
+ Two Strange Deaths
+ Hope it is true!
+ Blumenthal succeeds again!
+ The Title is Great
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This Page Intentionally Left Blank - Just Like the Paychecks of the Workers
Robert S. Swiatek
Aventine Press, 2007
Imaginative and Funny
+ This Page Intentionally Left Blank
+ Swiatek Uses Straight Talk to Unravel Tangled Web of Injustice
This book tells the truth about America today in a folksy, entertaining style. Swiatek exposes all the ways in which middle-class people are getting the short end of the stick, with an emphasis on our mind-numbing and health-devastating world of work. Politics are also fair game for Swiatek's ...
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Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest
John K. Wilson
Paradigm Publishers, 2007
A Great Book
+ Get to know Obama
+ What makes Barack Obama a skilled politician?
I am 68 years old and I have never been as excited about any politician since John F. Kennedy. This man has integrity . I really enjoyed reading this book. John K. Wilson kept my interest and curiosity.
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Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)
Bill Press
Wiley, 2008
Informative, and a "need to read" for all Americans
+ Did not hit the jugular
+ Corporatism, not conservatism.
+ The truth always hurts
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How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
Erik Reinert
PublicAffairs, 2007
To Become a Rich Country: Industrialization Policy First, Free Trade Second
+ flawed but well worth checking out
Erik Reinert masterfully uses experienced-based economics to demonstrate how rich countries got rich. Economic growth and welfare in rich countries originated not in unrestrained international free trade, but in conscious and deliberate industrialization policy that progressively shaped a ...
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McCain: The Myth of a Maverick
Matt Welch
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
John McCain: Our Less Than Perfect Next President
+ Ask not...
+ illuminating
+ McCain a nanny statist just like his opponents
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Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
Lori Pauli, Michael Torosian
Yale University Press, 2003
Art & patience
+ dramatic
+ Manufactured Landscapes
I discovered Ed Burtynsky by chance when waiting for my dentist...
It was a chock : over its technical knowledge, this guy is capable to find the perfect angle to show what he wants to show !
as we say in France "respect !"
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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Maggie Jackson
Prometheus Books, 2008
Attention span builds cultures, connections and social structure
+ Insightful Book
Attention span builds cultures, connections and social structure - yet it's something lacking in the modern world where multitasking is a given. DISTRACTED: THE EROSION OF ATTENTION AND THE COMING DARK AGE examines the nature of attention, its impact, and its erosion in the modern world, offering a ...
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