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Insecure at Last: A Political Memoir 11 reviews
Eve Ensler
Villard, 2007
Excellent!
+ Soul baring
+ This Is A MUST Read...
+ Should be required reading!
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East127 reviews
Robert Fisk
Vintage, 2007
well worth the weight
+ Must Read stuff
+ Easily one of the best books I've ever read
+ Long read
+ Brilliant but lengthy treatise on how the Middle East "situation" came to be
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Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision24 reviews
Thom Hartmann
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007
Cracking the Code: A Cure with Common Sense
+ Learn the subliminal codes to communication - and stop being manipulated!
+ Getting deep
+ Easy Read, Full of Information
+ Take back your power. Take back your country.
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The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our ...11 reviews
Martha Stout
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
Backstage at Spookarama
+ Terror Rewires Our Brains
+ Paranoia Switch
+ Paranoia Switch
+ Enlightening and Informative, Practical Tools for Self-Improvement
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the ... 38 reviews
Harriet A. Washington
Harlem Moon, 2008
It's always useful to be reminded...
+ What I Didn't Know
+ Interesting book,
+ Painful Truth
+ Presumed Consent - De Corpe Gettin' de Shaft - Grave Robbing!
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto182 reviews
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
An eye opener
+ Interesting Book, Makes Sense, Not Too Long
+ a useful reminder to us all
+ Paradigm Shift!
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Dissent from War
Robert Ivie
Kumarian Press, 2007
The rhetorical presumption of war's necessity makes violence regrettable, but seemingly sane, and functions to shame anyone who opposes military action. Ivie proposes that the presence of dissent is actually a healthy sign of democratic citizenship, and a responsible and productive act, which has been dangerously miscast as a threat to national security. Ivie, a former US Navy petty officer, ...
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Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols And the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights6 reviews
Diane Eickhoff
Quindaro Press, 2006
a model for us all
+ Appreciate What We Have
+ Diane makes history come alive
+ Provocative
+ Highly recommended, especially for library and women's studies collections
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Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence in the Middle East 13 reviews
Zachary Karabell
Knopf, 2007
A very refreshing book.
+ A wider picture of Jewish-Muslim-Christian relations
+ Great Analysis of Past, Needs More on Present
+ Peace Be Upon You
+ A world view about peace
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The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity13 reviews
Robert Kuttner
Knopf, 2007
We have to revive real democracy
+ Clearly written analysis
+ Good Book and reliable seller
+ Managing capitalism and broadening ownership
+ The Truth Exposed
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism 45 reviews
Cornel West
Penguin Press HC, The, 2004
Personal tastes of Cornel West
+ Preach it, Brother West!
+ Audio CD: Concentrate to follow
This book is a brilliantly written analysis of racism and democracy in America. My one complaint, and the reason I didn't add that fifth star, is that West incorporates his personal tastes- his love of jazz and the blues, and his fondness for the writings of Toni Morrison- as integral to an ...
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Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race14 reviews
Richard Rhodes
Knopf, 2007
Best book on peace issue
+ Arsenals of Folly byv Richard Rhodes
+ Best book about the Cold War I've read
Since 1984, when I was permitted to teach a law school seminar which I laughingly called "Law and World Peace," I have read several thousand books on "the peace issue." Of those over 3,000 books, I believe that this is the BEST one! It gives a full feel for the reasons why we do need to replace ...
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Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas5 reviews
Three Rivers Press, 1998
For anyone that enjoys history or biographies
+ Main line Brian Lamb
+ As solidly interesting as the cable program it is based on
+ An Outstanding Collection
+ Well-packaged view of writers and how they write
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project)70 reviews
Chalmers Johnson
Holt Paperbacks, 2008
A Great American Patriot
+ An outstanding scholarly study
+ Articulate, Provocative, and Interesting
+ Great Read
+ "Let our object be...nothing but our country"
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The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America4 reviews
Katherine S. Newman, Victor Tan Chen
Beacon Press, 2007
The Missing Class Is a Hit
+ human face to the economic underclass
+ Statistics in the flesh
+ too rich to be poor--too poor to be rich
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Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change in America10 reviews
Laura Flanders
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008
Campaigns not Candidates
+ Wanders, But I Finished It
+ Has A Winning Strategy
+ This American Life: Flanders is a Political Ira Glass
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Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq23 reviews
Dahr Jamail
Haymarket Books, 2007
Honest and Powerful
+ A Personal Report from Iraq
+ Really good journalism
+ A Report from the American Oil Colony Unredacted
+ Unembedded Reporting
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The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America20 reviews
Susan Faludi
Metropolitan Books, 2007
It's time for all of us to wake up
+ Interesting Topic Worth Discussing
+ Creation (of a) myth
This book has arrived just in time for the 2008 election. Along with the PBS program, "Bush's War", this should be required reading for all voters. We can change the future but we must understand the past. Thank you again Susan for your excellent analysis.
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Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports19 reviews
Dave Zirin
Haymarket Books, 2007
Thought provoking and electric.
+ Going back into the terrordome
+ Zirin is the best sportswriter in america
+ Sports, History and Politcs Collide
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Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy7 reviews
Ayesha Siddiqa
Pluto Press, 2007
Mouth watering
+ Why you should buy Military Inc.
+ Daring but substantive
I haven't read this book as yet. What are the 5 stars for? They are for taking the initiative where none have. At a point in time where Pakistani civil society has started to assert itself, this book is another small step toward emancipating 160 million people from the military junta.
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