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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

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

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

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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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The Conscience of a Liberal
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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


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PERMACULTURE:
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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



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How Parental Pressure and
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I think she and Bill both were terribly injured by the constant stream of vicious attacks on them, culminating in the impeachment, but lasting after the election when Bill was banned from pleading before the Supreme Court.  Every now and then one would get a peak of her earlier character, but the ride toughened her in ways that are unlikeable.  She has a tin ear for the American psyche, and had she been elected -- as I am sure she would have be if nominated -- her presidency would have been deeply flawed.

We are heading into extremely troubled economic waters.  The sharp rise in the unemployment rate, the crash today on the NYSE, the surge of oil prices, the falling dollar, the housing debacle -- everything happening at once, and none of it good.  We haven't been in this territory since the early 1930s.  It will take more persuasiveness than she can muster to tide us through the terrible times that are about to fall on us.

Sorry to be so negative about the current state of the US, but that was always in my mind when I considered the candidates.  Both Edwards and Obama had the rhetorical skills and capacity for learning and adjustment that Clinton lacks.

It is incredibly sad.  The Clintons did a good job of raising their daughter in that maelstrom, which says something about their basic decency.

Knut

by Knut Wicksell (b_didnn@hotmail.ca) on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 05:51:29 PM EST
I'm not ready to believe that the Clintons slid down the moral pole because Republicans were mean. In fact, there is an odd relationship between the Clintons and the Republicans. His ghastly legislation was all bi-partisan: him, the rightie Dems and the Repubs. Of all the Democrats, the Repubs should have loved them the most.
by Bob In Pacifica on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 06:16:37 PM EST
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Clintons in retrospective:

Him.  What bothers me most about the Lewinsky affair -- Bill knew the goopers were gunning for him.  He knew they were watching for the slightest misstep, especially concerning sex.  So he just went and did it.  Pure self-destruction.

Her. I am so sick of hearing about Hillary and how this campaign has been all about feminism and how she was defeated by the resurgent forces of misogyny.  This is BS.  Sure, there were issues.  But as these Andrews allegations show, it's just one more utensil in the kitchen sink that she decided she could throw at Obama and cynically milk for all she could get.  Anything the Bushies didn't do to leave us weak and divided, the Clintons managed to find.

by Delia on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 06:43:28 PM EST
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Him.  What bothers me most about the Lewinsky affair -- Bill knew the goopers were gunning for him.  He knew they were watching for the slightest misstep, especially concerning sex.  So he just went and did it.  Pure self-destruction.

Self-destruction? I'm not so sure. Bill's little infidelity and subsequently sketchy testimony did a nice little number on Gore's chances in 2000. More bipartisan cooperation from the Clintons, perhaps?

Kill because somebody was killed. Get killed because he killed. Do you think peace will ever come like that?

by Egarwaen on Sat Jun 7th, 2008 at 12:34:07 AM EST
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