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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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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.")

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I figure until Jan 20th, I need to relax and not get worked up over things I have no control over.  My points are these:

  1. 52% is not a overwhelming mandate.  There is 48% that need to see the results and patience is the key.

  2. Obama was able to win and if he does not bring in individuals who understand the Washington scene and create "civil war" in the nation's capital, the whole nation will suffer as a result.

  3. Obama won so he gets to pick the folks he wants around him in a manner of speaking. He has to work with them so my like or dislike really is not the issue.  He is the boss to them and that is one thing we, as citizens need to see and understand.

  4. We arrived at our current state over a period of eight years, so let's sit back and see how things work before we start bitching about things.

I am just watching at this time.  I am not ready to hit the panic button yet.

We must not continue to cure the symptoms and ignore the disease!
Spiritual Awakening
by vieravisionary (tdelaine (at) cfl (dot) rr (dot) com) on Fri Nov 21st, 2008 at 06:46:55 PM EST
I meant:

"2. Obama was able to win and if he does not bring in individuals who understand the Washington scene and they end up creating "civil war" in the nation's capital, the whole nation will suffer as a result."


We must not continue to cure the symptoms and ignore the disease!
Spiritual Awakening

by vieravisionary (tdelaine (at) cfl (dot) rr (dot) com) on Fri Nov 21st, 2008 at 06:48:36 PM EST
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Looks to me Obama is a great admirer of President Lincoln. So far he's following "Team of Rivals" he wants to duplicate.

Now all he needs is a civil war. And he's likely to get it. He has hired on all Clintons and their entourage.

It's coming.

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

by idredit on Fri Nov 21st, 2008 at 06:58:02 PM EST
[ Parent ]
And you know what followed that, and the other administration who also hired a team of rivals, with near disastrous results... more later.


"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes
by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Fri Nov 21st, 2008 at 07:39:35 PM EST
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Not very promising.

Can you imagine all those young Obama supporters who signed on with enthusiasm for change! Fool me once.

What we get is Bill Clinton's Third term. already coined in the MSM...BloombergTV

Guess Obama wants a one term. and be shadowed by the Clintons.  He'll oon regret.

Here's the coming civil war because with anything near Clinton, what you get is high drama all the time.

Yglesias observes Wither the Subcabinet?

"Basically, you have all of these young, next-generation and mid-career people who took a chance on Obama" during the primaries, said one Democratic foreign-policy expert included in that cohort. "They were many times the ones who were courageous enough to stand up early against Iraq, which is why many of them supported Obama in the first place. And many of them would likely get shut out of the mid-career and assistant-secretary type jobs that you need, so that they can one day be the top people running a future Democratic administration."

In the foreign-policy bureaucracy, these middle-tier jobs -- assistant secretary and principal-deputy-assistant and deputy-assistant -- are stepping stones to bigger, more important jobs, because they're where much of the actual policy-making is hashed out. Those positions flesh out strategic decisions made by the president and cabinet secretaries; implement those policies; and use their expertise to both inform decisions and propose targeted or specific solutions to particular crises."

To add some further context here, back during the primaries there was tons of talk of the most senior "foreign policy community" types in Clinton's orbit "warning" younger national security professionals that there would be big-time payback if they backed Obama and he wound up losing. At the same time, while on the top level Clinton tended to attract a diverse group of people with personal ties to her, at the bottom level you tended to get a lot of very risk-averse careerists -- the sort of people who just sign on with the frontrunner and don't really have any passion or vision. I think that sort of thing wound up ill-serving Clinton during the campaign, when one advantage Obama had was a staff full of genuinely passionate supporters, and I doubt it's a dynamic she deliberately wants to foster. But you could have a situation where Secretary of State Clinton wants to bring in as key subordinates loyalists who she's comfortable with, and then those loyalists want to go about fulfilling their threat of punishing Obama supporters by locking them out.

Obama don't give a shit. That's the real fraud.


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

by idredit on Fri Nov 21st, 2008 at 08:00:46 PM EST
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