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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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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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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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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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sorry, I'm not being very clear today because of work issues :)

I'm talking about regular donors, not the party funds (although I guess that comes into it to). I  understood the article to say that the party was contacting his donor base and telling them not to contribute.  Presumably this wouldn't work with the netroots supporters who supported him on principle.  So we must be talking about the corporate/big donors that the DNC has influence with.  The type of donors who want to get results.  The type of donors who don't give money to start up third parties.

I assumed that if Hackett wanted to fight the party guys on principle he could have.  He would have just kept his name on the ballot and run on whatever funds he could raise.  But without adequtate funds its hard to run any kind of campaign.  And some people don't want to go through the stress of a campaign, or put their family through the stress of a campaign, if they have no realistic shot of winning due to inadequate funds.

I wasn't really making a suggestion for a solution.  I'm not really trying to make a point here. I'm just thinking about it out loud. Sorry for the noise.

by maryb2004 on Tue Feb 14th, 2006 at 04:14:20 PM EST
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Maybe  the net, grassroots of this should be making a stink.  I think we could have carried him and his family if he really wanted to do it.  Look at what the grassroots did in 04. and he almost made it inthe  district that mostly republicans..so he must be on to something.  I would have rather liked to see a debate between him and brown to see which the state of ohio would like.  It is not like a nation wide run.
by BrendaStewart (stormyweather1@hotmail.com) on Tue Feb 14th, 2006 at 04:55:48 PM EST
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My guess, and that's all it is, would be that they contacted major contributers that had shown interest specifically in Hacket. This probably comes down to arrangements similar to what DeLay got caught up in, but presumably legal. I would figure that some donors would follow a candidate from one party to another and/or give lump sums and say use it any way you want. It's fair marketing to let the donors know exactly who they're buying.

by rumi on Tue Feb 14th, 2006 at 05:59:20 PM EST
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