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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

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Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

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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

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The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
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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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the racist world of Hill and Bill.

Or are they not racists anymore? What do you call them?

Ex racists?

Recovering racists?

Or were those attacks during the primaries just politics as usual?

Change.

by Ed J on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 05:33:00 PM EST
What do you call them?

Persona non-grata.

Their primary campaign argument essentially boiled down to this: "He's a nigger, I'm not - vote for me." Fuck them and anything that they may have done prior to that.

Hard-working Americans, white Americans indeed...

I'm finally getting married...

by Oscar In Louisville on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 06:58:03 PM EST
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in the Obama White House.

Pretty interesting in light of the fact that he did not object even once, that I'm aware of, to the many characterizations of the Clintons during the primaries which were very similar to yours.

I find this hard to distinguish from hypocrisy.

by Ed J on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 07:20:52 PM EST
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He's a politician, I'm not. He needs allies, I call things as I see them. I can afford to say, "Fuck them." Him, not so much. I trust his judgment and give him the benefit of the doubt in who he chooses to be in his administration, and if he chooses Clinton for his cabinet then so be it. But as far as I'm concerned the Clintons can go straight to hell and stay there.

I'm finally getting married...
by Oscar In Louisville on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:23:26 PM EST
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Folks called the Clintons racists all through the campaign in terms even more explicit than yours.

Obama did not make move one to stop or discourage them.

Now he has apparently offered the position of Secretary of State to a person who is, by your lights, a throwback to Jim Crow.

He was not billed as this kind of politician.

The advertisement said "change".

by Ed J on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 06:34:56 AM EST
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He was not billed as this kind of politician.

I'm not sure what kind of politician that would make him in your eyes, but it appears to me that he is reaching out to his enemies, just like he said he would. It appears to me that he is meeting with those who mean him harm without precondition, just like he said he would. It appears to me that he is setting up an administration that reaches across every divide - even some divides that I'd prefer him not to span - just like he said he would. This is precisely how he was billed during the campaign, and while I'm not exactly enthralled by some of the details, to paraphrase Denny Green, he is who we thought he was.

And the Clintons can still go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

I'm finally getting married...

by Oscar In Louisville on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 06:53:25 AM EST
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the Clintons pick..if true is going to run into trouble in the confirmation process...more baggage than all that found at the Heathrow and O'Hare airports - questions left unanswered  all those conflicts of interest leftovers that presented a problem for the VP slot. and

Picture this article excerpt below

just more of this Obama will not need: Bill's 500K speech under fire in the Middle East,

While his accounts are being scrutinized by Obama's search committee, a Kuwaiti report indicates Bill Clinton reaped $500,000 for a single speech there Sunday.

The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has paid $500,000 to Bill Clinton for a single lecture he delivered in Kuwait City on Sunday on his assessment of Barack Obama's foreign and economic policies. It was delivered the day after the Kuwaiti stock market resumed trading after it was suspended by order of a Kuwaiti court on Thursday to avoid a total collapse.

Without mentioning reports that Clinton's finances were coming under close scrutiny as his wife, Hillary Clinton, is being vetted for the job of secretary of state, the Arab-language Kuwaiti newspaper Awan published a front-page story under the headline "Clinton's lecture at NBK cost $500,000."

$500,000 would be a high fee, even for Bill Clinton. In 2006 he averaged almost a speech a day, at an average of about $140,000 a speech.

Delivered before "a packed audience" and attended by local dignitaries, ambassadors, and senior officials, Clinton offered advice to the president-elect on the world financial crisis, urging him to continue to pump liquidity into the American system until confidence came back, according to a press release by the National Bank of Kuwait, which organized the event at the Sheraton Hotel.

[.]

"It's the very presence of Bill Clinton in places like this National Bank of Kuwait symposium that is complicating matters for his wife," wrote ABC News' senior White House correspondent, Jake Tapper. "His web of extensive international business dealings for his philanthropic endeavors--such as the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation--for the Clinton Library, and for his own personal business dealings that stand as such a complex briar patch of potential conflicts of interest for his wife being the nation's top diplomat."

ya think..the selling of office continues...?

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 06:30:35 PM EST
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I don't think that Hillary Clinton will have trouble being confirmed.  The Senate is pretty clubby, and they're the ones doing the confirming.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts
by TarheelDem on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 06:34:38 PM EST
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you're overlooking the other side of the isle...it's not all love.

and for me, it's not just the baggage --  it's the character.

Marty Peretz reflects my thoughts..on the Clintons;

I confess: Hillary Clinton has never appealed to me.There have been so many Hillary Clintons that I suspect that none was authentic.

Those promoting and praising her likely SoS pick want the Obama presidency to fail.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 07:09:46 PM EST
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