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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.


Great Deals
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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 have a daughter who is very much commited to the kind of direct action that seems to be pooh-poohed by many progressives these days.  While I'm not convinced by her specific arguments, I do think that marches and demonstrations have their time and place.  I don't think, however, that the march on Washington, D.C., was the place to do it.  It tends to both narrow media focus and dilute the actual impact on those we're trying to influence.  For instance, which would have more impact on someone like Norm Coleman (assuming he can be impacted)--20,000 Minnesotans marching down Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis or 200,000 Americans who aren't identified as his constituents marching in D.C.?  I think that local media focusing on local voters expressing their opposition to Iraq policy would have a much greater impact on elected representatives than would a national media focusing on a national gathering.  The national media is always going to focus on the Jane Fonda angle.  Local media will focus on local officials who do or don't lend support and on the marchers themselves.

If MoveOn and the others could connect with more local activist groups and coordinate among those groups next time for local action rather than Washington there might be more bang for the buck.  With less time and money involved than in getting to Washington, more people might be willing to participate.  Face it, 200,000 is a hell of crowd for a football game but I doubt that it impessed too many legislators.  It certainly didn't impress the media.

BTW, for those of us living in Northern climes, please make it in the Spring.  It was damned cold standing on the street corner yesterday.

by Brad on Sun Jan 28th, 2007 at 09:10:42 PM EST
is supposed to be March 17, the 4th (?) anniversary of Bush's Folly.

Maybe we can have that grand national outpouring then?

I think the worry is that what goes on at home is "out of sight, out of mind", especially when the legislators are ensconced in Washington -- hence the need for a grand outpouring on the Mall. There's also the heritage of other great gatherings, such as the Vietnam protests, Dr. MLK's speeches, etc.

Maybe we need a 50 state strategy for protesting -- make sure there is at least one protest in EVERY state so people have an opportunity to get there...

"Mr. Bush, you do not own this country!" -- Keith Olbermann, 1/2/07

by Cali Scribe on Sun Jan 28th, 2007 at 09:34:35 PM EST
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