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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


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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Speaking of electability, you note the GOP is fleeing straight towards Huckleberry racist populism bullshit.

How ugly would a Huckabee/Clinton or Huckabee/Obama contest be, the crazy misogynist racist versus a female or African-American candidate?

As an Africa-American male, I can honestly tell you that there are more people out there than you think who wouldn't vote for Obama just because he's black, even if the other choice WAS a nutbar like Huckster.  They'll tell themselves it's not that, they'll explain to other people that it's not his race...but it is.  It'll have nothing to do with the candidates' qualifications.

The Club For Growth guys may be scared out of their minds right now, but they figure they can bring Huck  around.

But I'm telling you straight up that if you put ten random white American voters in a room, hand them a secret ballot, and have them vote given the choice between a white Baptist minister who is an overt bigot who plays the hate card and an intelligent black man running on his qualifications and professing a message of tolerance and diplomacy in the world, the bigot will get 6 votes, minimum.

Every time.  The fact that Huckabee's in the lead makes me assume the worst about the electorate.  The other GOP candidates at least try to play off their hatred and hide it a bit.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

by Zandar1 on Mon Dec 10th, 2007 at 01:39:18 PM EST
I agree completely.  No matter what excitement might be instigated by either Clinton or Obama as far as I can tell based on my own experiences neither one could be elected president due to a huge reservoir of underground racism-people who believe they aren't racist but at the very least are still prejudiced enough that having someone other than a white man as president just won't do. I also think this same feeling will end up holding back many people at the last minute into not voting for a woman. This may never be admitted publicly but it will be in the back of too many voters minds.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi
by chocolate ink on Mon Dec 10th, 2007 at 02:55:01 PM EST
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I think you underestimate the religious factors that will come into play with a Huckabee nomination. There are plenty of secular Americans who would never vote for a preacher, plenty of religious minorities who would never vote for a Christian cleric, and plenty of non-Baptist Christians who would never vote for a Baptist.

It's also worth bearing in mind that Huckabee is not in the lead among the electorate, just the benighted third of the electorate that always votes GOP.

Still, I fear you're not that far from the mark. My guess would be that the bigot would still get five votes.

---Cthulhu for President: Why vote for the lesser evil?

by eodell (eodell at naqada dot org) on Mon Dec 10th, 2007 at 03:34:29 PM EST
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