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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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Learn the real story behind the WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Need some laughs?

I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

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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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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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 stuff right before WV was what has been coming out of her campaign since Dec. but some people chose to ignore it.  I'm stunned by people who say that the NC comments were the turning point.  It was a race-baiting campaign for 5 months and those of us who heard it, saw it, were told we were "imagining" things.

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by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 07:06:39 PM EST
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What I am fascinated with is Obama's ability to 'shed' scurilous taunts and it seemed that every time Hillary or Bill or a surrogate tried to remind America that Obama was, after all, a black man, that he was able to turn this into the best response which was yes indeed I am a smart, judicious man - he taught even the most stone dead stupids that race baiting just plain wasn't relevant. We became better people because of how he handled the taunts.

What was poor judgment was that the slur tossers just dug deeper, they didn't figure out that Obama was getting stronger with each bait.  

by mainsailset on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 09:38:59 PM EST
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I found the claims of how sexism worked against H. Clinton to be unproven. Not the general sexism of society, mind you, which works against all women, but the specific incidents. For ex, the "Iron My Shirt" thing helped Clinton. It made a great springboard for New Hampshire, along with Steinem's "women have it harder than black people," a particularly stupid and divisive op-ed. Things like Shuster's dumb "the Clintons pimp Chelsea" incident only energized a portion of her base and further divided the Dems.

Notice the different ways that Clinton and Obama handled such eruptions. Clinton and her people rode the Shuster thing as far as they could. Obama, regarding how he had an advantage being black, essentially laughed it off.

by Bob In Pacifica on Sat Jun 7th, 2008 at 02:15:56 PM EST
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I was playing extra-close attention to South Carolina because I have in-laws there and am a little familiar with it, and I couldn't believe the nasty that came out of Bill's mouth. I checked the wording and the context, and there was no mistaking it.

At first I figured what he said didn't necessarily echo her, but after a week or two without the strong statement from Hillary I wanted, I was off the fence and in Obamaville.

So SC was the decisive moment for me. I didn't notice anything untoward before then.

by Joyful Alternative on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 09:48:55 PM EST
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She had all the buttons and she was punching them. The CIA calls it the Mighty Wurlitzer. Maybe for Clinton it was a Casiotone.
by Bob In Pacifica on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 10:45:25 PM EST
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