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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

Check out
Powell's new section:
NEW FAVORITES

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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name brand clothing,
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at SierraTradingPost.com

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We listened to PEN American Center's "State of Emergency" and found 1940s books by Curzio Malaparte only at Alibris. (Selection (MP3) excerpted from "The Skin.")

Alibris - Books You Thought You'd Never Find
Banned Books * Are you a fan of Film Noir, Art House, Documentaries or Hong Kong Action? * Searching for a long-lost children's book or a first printing of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue on vinyl? Find it at Alibris!

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Do I remember correctly? Wasn't it John Kennedy who got the Reaganomics trend going by reducing the tax rate on the wealthiest from 90 to 70%. I wonder if that would have happened had FDR or Truman been elected at just that time. Add in Jimmy Carter's penchant for deregulation and the door opened widely for the country stepping away from liberal-socialism and toward "greed" rather than compassion as the supervening economic principle, with all its underlying racist motivation.

by shergald on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 12:36:24 PM EST
JFK cuts marginal tax rates, yes.  Nothing wrong with that.  Cutting or raising taxes should be a matter of budget and economic policy, not something that neither party is allowed to ever entertain.
by BooMan on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 12:40:59 PM EST
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Really? Would you have Bush cut taxes on the rich still further? Afterall, it would increase tax revenues, if I understand the arguments. But I don't really know how that works.

Suppose folks who make most of the income from the stock market were to get an 8% tax rate instead of the burdenous 15% that they now have to pay? Would that help? So what if the top 10% of families own 85% of the stockmarket, and 90% of all business assets. Cut taxes on the latter too. Deficits or the National Debt? That's what the middle class is all about.

by shergald on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 03:03:49 PM EST
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Don't compare 2007 to 1961.  With marginal rates of 90% on the wealthiest Americans I think there was room to lower taxes.  Right now those numbers are what?  37.5%?  

We need to raise taxes to pay for government operations because we are currently borrowing that money.  In 1961 we were loaning money to people.

by BooMan on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 03:18:20 PM EST
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No disagreement here as I was not supporting further lowering of taxes on the wealthy. Income and wealth inequality has never been greater in this country, and it is about time to stop the giveaway.

by shergald on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:07:11 PM EST
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