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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

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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


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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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...but the fact remains that this is a different time and place.  People were more inclined to be up in arms because they were not being propagandized 24/7 by the likes of Faux and the other media enablers; plus we had leaders with a length of spine on both sides of the aisle.  In other words, we had Repubs like Baker and Goldwater who showed Nixon the handwriting on the wall, and cut through the bullshit.  In this time, nobody can tell these idiots anything.

Sixty Minutes is still worth watching enough to be within the top ten of Neilsen.  See http://tv.yahoo.com/nielsen/, at least for March of this year.

I doubt whether anyone put this interview down for a second.

An untypical Negro

http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Mon Apr 24th, 2006 at 12:02:24 PM EST
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I will add that the demographic was different, also.

The "Baby Boom" was coming of age at that time..

And there was also more agreement on the issue. This came up in another thread, when someone asked about the anti-war movement versus the movement of migrants and immigrants to educate people about human rights.

I will just paste from that, and save my wordsnatched fingers :)

The main differences between the immigration movement and the anti-war movement, or at least the ones that stick out most to me, are first of all, the numbers.

While it wpuld be hard to find migrants or immigrants who are in favor of NOT having their human rights respected, I don't really get the sense that it would be as hard to find Americans who support US activities in Afghanistan and Iraq. And those who consider themselves "anti-war," and consider themselves anti-war so strongly that they are interested in taking action such as attending a march, etc. appear to be in the minority

That is not to say that there is not a wide range of opinion on the subject of US activities in its various theatres, get ten Americans in a room and you get at least twelve opinions about it all, ranging from "get out, never shoulda been there" to "oughta take care of (insert names of countries here) while we're at it" to everything in between. But that is my point.

There is not a wide range of opinion, from my view, among migrants and immigrants on the subject of human rights.

So the anti-war movement starts off with that disadvantage....

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by DuctapeFatwa (DuctapeFatwa@yahoo.com) on Mon Apr 24th, 2006 at 12:16:47 PM EST
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I agree with you that the impact is still great on the many who watch 60 Minutes, but I also agree with Steven D that the show has far less impact than it once had because the rest of the media doesn't pay any attention any more.  Case in point: I watched CNN for over 3 hours this morning and didn't hear even one mention of Drumheller.  They won't cover this at all, but they will cover all of the subsequent republican spin and denials, which will leave viewers of CNN as always wondering what in the hell is really going on in the world.
by Shalimar (srbaxley@yahoo.com) on Mon Apr 24th, 2006 at 01:04:54 PM EST
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the fact that our government routinely lies to us was something big at that time, and people were basically trying to measure how far and how widespread the scope of lying.

Over here in Mad City, the local and national outlets (beyond CBS) were drumbeating the interview a couple days before it happened.  

But like I said before, the national media are mostly enablers of Bush to get their chance at the corporate trough, or in the case of Faux, outright mouthpieces of the administration.

An untypical Negro

http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Mon Apr 24th, 2006 at 02:18:16 PM EST
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