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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


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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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I'm not sure what you're advocating, Terrance. Legislate executive pay? That would be a bureaucratic nightmare and put the blame for failed corporations on the "nanny" government micromanaging our fine capitalist institutions.

The only real path I can see is a return to the pre-Reagan tax brackets, this time without the loopholes. You pay, say, 60% on income over a $million, 70% over $5 million, 80% over $10 million, etc. The result would be that either the insane compensation comes down or the government makes more money to redistribute to the more deserving. To me, anything else is just fiddling around the edges to no real purpose.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

by DaveW on Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 at 06:53:40 PM EST
I'm not sure what you're advocating, Terrance. Legislate executive pay? That would be a bureaucratic nightmare and put the blame for failed corporations on the "nanny" government micromanaging our fine capitalist institutions.

I'm advocating not that we legislate executive pay, but that some conditions ought to apply in cases where a companies decisions lead to an imminent collapse that threatens the entire financial system, to the degree that the government has to step in to aver disaster.

Quite simply, if you run your company into the ground due to greed and/nor incompetence, and you need the government to pull your chestnuts out of the fire, then it would be reasonable to limit CEO compensation in those cases.

Business that don't require government bailouts can hum happily along, or go under due to their own unwise decisions.

Terrance Heath
Washington, DC
www.republicoft.com

by TerranceDC on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 12:19:21 AM EST
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In Japan, as I understand it, a top exec in a company can only make up to a certain multiple of the lowest paid person in the company. That makes sense to me, as a company's success depends on all the people who work there, not just the CEO.

So I'd start there. That way, a rising tide really would life all boats, because they'd be tethered together.

In addition, I too would suggest returning not just to the pre-Reagan tax brackets, but the pre-Kennedy ones.

The only time this country had a healthy, expanding middle class was when the government took from the rich and used that to make jobs for the poor. I want to see that happen again. The rich are supposed to do that themselves. Since they won't if they don't have to, we need to change the system.

"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 Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 10:00:50 AM EST
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