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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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i wouldn't blame trotsky  for the  bushies

The sleep of reason begets tyrants. -Goya
by joe in oklahoma on Sat Jun 21st, 2008 at 11:55:37 PM EST
Many neocons were ex-Trotskyists:
Many of the founders of neoconservatism, including The Public Interest founder Irving Kristol and coeditor Nathan Glazer, Sidney Hook, and Albert Wohlstetter, were either members of or close to the Trotskyist left in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Younger neoconservatives, including Penn Kemble, Joshua Muravchik, and Carl Gershman, came through the Socialist Party at a time when former Trotskyist Max Schachtman was still a commanding figure. (Foreign Affairs)

Here I have to agree with Booman: the neocons utter inability to understand why liberty is an important human value shows that their ideology comes from utterly non-American sources.

Republicans are like fetuses: both are incapable of thought. That's why Republicans are against abortion.

by Alexander on Sun Jun 22nd, 2008 at 01:40:05 AM EST
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Just to explain a little further. The Trotskyites were communists who believed in world revolution. Stalin, who wanted to concentrate most efforts on building the USSR, persecuted them. Trotsky himself was assassinated on Stalin's order. So the Trotskyites had every reason to hate Stalin and indeed the Soviet Union, at least as it was. One particular wing of Trotskyites, under Max Schachtman, went so far as to see the Soviet Union as the greatest danger to "the revolution." As the United States emerged after WW2 as the greatest counterforce to the USSR, they allied themselves with the militantly anti-soviet side of the Democratic Party, especially those around "Scoop" Jackson, with the CIA, etc. As time went by, they went still further to the right and most became Republicans. I would put it like this: in terms of strategy, tactics, "ethics", even goal ("world revolution" in some weird sense never dreamt of by Trotsky), they still think like Trotskyites. In terms of actual issues, at least on anything to do with foreign policy or the domestic connections of foreign policy, they are right-wing militarists and war profiteers. In any case, the Constitution means nothing to them.
by priscianus jr on Sun Jun 22nd, 2008 at 07:42:55 AM EST
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thx for the rehash. i understand (and knew) all that. what i was responding to is this broad brush approach which seeks to identify  them with marxism.  it seems to me, though, that their anti-soviet concerns trumped any commitment to socialism. in that sense, they were neither Trotskyites, Leninists, Fabians, or any other brand of socialists. they were certainly not social democrats.


The sleep of reason begets tyrants. -Goya
by joe in oklahoma on Sun Jun 22nd, 2008 at 09:25:33 AM EST
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