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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

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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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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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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

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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
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by Madeline Levine


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The Telegraph in the UK reports:
US loner helps bin Laden to taunt Bush
A Californian heavy metal fan, who converted to Islam and became the first American to be charged with treason in half a century, has been fingered as the author of Osama bin Laden's latest video lecture - which left the terror chief sounding like an anti-globalisation protester.

[...]

The bin Laden video, timed to coincide with the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, shows the terror chief, his beard dyed black, condemning the "unjust" Iraq war and calling on Americans to "embrace Islam".

What surprised analysts was his use of the language of Left-wing protesters, which showed detailed knowledge of the economic travails of middle America.

Bin Laden referred to "the reeling of many of you under the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgage" and blamed "global warming and its woes" on "emissions of the factories the major corporations".

A former senior US intelligence official said: "It has Adam Gadahn written all over it." Mike Baker, a former CIA covert operations officer, said the tape left bin Laden with "the title of biggest gas bag in the terrorist world".

[...]

American officials said the US government had obtained a copy of the video even though it had not been posted on Islamist websites - sparking speculation that US intelligence has developed an informant or cracked al-Qaeda's cyber security.

How likely is it that US intelligence has the tape before Islamist websites?  If they're that good, how come he is still not in custody?

by ask on Sun Sep 9th, 2007 at 12:52:34 PM EST
I have to wonder if maybe the tape wasn't as much a surprise to the Islamist websites (and perhaps to bin Laden) as it was to the Western press and, in fact, everyone EXCEPT US intelligence....

We are all captives of the pictures in our heads - our belief that the world which we have experienced is the world that really exists. - W. Lippman
by stormkite on Sun Sep 9th, 2007 at 01:36:07 PM EST
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Well, if we don't hear from OBL re: fake-nocity. Then it's probably not fake or he's dead or in jail.

Do or do not, there is no try.
by anarchronarchist (mincers (-at-) hotmail (-dot-) com) on Mon Sep 10th, 2007 at 01:56:57 PM EST
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Or is quite happy with the possible outcomes of it and sees no reason to interrupt things when der shrubbenfuhrer is doing exactly as OBL wants....

The guy's almost as good at playing US pols as Fidel...  

We are all captives of the pictures in our heads - our belief that the world which we have experienced is the world that really exists. - W. Lippman

by stormkite on Mon Sep 10th, 2007 at 02:05:35 PM EST
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That was just a blunder, they published it BEFORE they uploaded it to to the(ir) islamist websites. Man that happens all the time ;-).
And the Egypt press release announcing the Tape? Tell any body you will publish something their rival newspaper hasn`t got at the moment and it is in the press immediatly.   Cheers
by TomDelaney (TomDatgpail.com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 03:01:20 AM EST
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