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Find textbooks at Alibris!

NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

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Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


Green Press Initiative
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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Check out Powell's
"At The Movies"


Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


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I'm glad you found my post of interest. I've been having a hell of a time getting anybody anywhere to take this seriously, yet I think it is the key in the lock as far as the DSM is concerned.

I don't know whether Cook's diary will become a classic. When I lived in the UK in the 1980s, I thought that Cook was the most brilliant politician on the scene (I'd not even heard of Blair), and that he was a natural for PM. His diary is insightful and readable, but it also has the feel of something was always destined for print in that it often is self-serving.

Cook portrays himself as trying to stand up to Blair over Iraq, yet it's apparent that he would not have been much use without a Blunkett to lead the way. Oddly, I get the sense that he viewed his role vis a vis Blair, as a wise advisor who might bend the other to a better course, just as Blair viewed his role in relation to Bush. Cook has heaped scorn on Blair's view of himself, but is not quite as critical of his own failure to hold Blair to account.

Yet for all his flaws, Cook did do the right thing in the end. That is so unusual in politics as to draw attention to itself.

Inconvenient News Doing my part to afflict the comfortable.

by smintheus on Mon Jul 11th, 2005 at 10:53:31 PM EST
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I agree with you, particularly about the resignation.

In retrospect, even if he had wanted to, Blair was never going to influence whether there would be an invasion of Iraq - unless he was prepared to say to Bush that the UK was not going to join the escapade.  Once he'd failed to stand up on that point, the best he was able to get was the attempt to carry the Security Council, which really only ended up humiliating Colin Powell.

by canberra boy (canberraboy1 at gmail dot com) on Tue Jul 12th, 2005 at 12:14:24 AM EST
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had virtually no support in the US, if he had the courage and sense to do it. I truly believe that (and I guess I would find it depressing to believe that nobody could stop a rampaging US president). I think that simply by refusing to go along with an invasion while UN inspectors were inspecting would have put Bush on the spot. Besides, Blair could have released an accurate dossier of intelligence, which would have taken the wind out of Bush's sails. It would have angered Bush, and as Cook says in one section of his diary, Blair found it easier to resist the anger of people in the UK than to stand up to Bush.

Inconvenient News Doing my part to afflict the comfortable.
by smintheus on Tue Jul 12th, 2005 at 12:42:35 PM EST
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