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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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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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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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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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speculating on that - an outsider pick? Tomorrow morning Obama will be in Orlando at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. So, a Florida pick? A Veteran pick?

Florida picks could be Bob Graham or Bill Nelson. Nelson lives in Orlando and served in the US Army reserves.

A vet/military pick would also fit the theme of wednesday night, when the VP speaks at the convention. Could also mean Jack Reed or Wes Clark.

And if it's not tomorrow we can speculate about others tomorrow night...

by Sven on Mon Aug 18th, 2008 at 05:30:58 PM EST
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My knock on Bill Nelson is that I don't think he is really a very sharp thinker.  I'm not saying he's stupid or intellectually lazy, but he seems like a very average intellect.

Having said that, his committee assignments are sterling.  He serves on Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Intelligence (a rare troika) as well as Budget and Commerce Science & Transportation (a busy man).  He actually chairs two subcommittees:

Commerce Subcommittee on Space Aeronautics and Related Sciences
Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations Democracy and Human Rights

In other words, he's the man on NASA and he's also the man on issues like NATO expansion and our relations with Ukraine and Georgia.  

Add to this that he was a strong Clinton supporter and that he is a born-again Christian.

There are real solid strengths in this resume, including the fact that he hails from the Sunshine State, is a very decent and likable fellow, and he won't upstage Obama.  

I'd probably be a little unenthusiastic about this pick, but I'd sure see why it was made.

by BooMan on Mon Aug 18th, 2008 at 05:41:04 PM EST
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I told his people to take me off their mailing and email lists after he voted with Bush one time too many.

Bill Nelson is the ONLY person that I regretted sending money to.  Yes, we had to get rid of that loathesome Katherine Harris, but he needs to be replaced, as well, NOT promoted.  

Just warming his butt on "the right committees" isn't a good enough reason to vote for Bush lite.  Of course he is a Clinton supporter: he favors authoritarianism.

I want my government back.  

Electing him won't do it.

by hauksdottir on Tue Aug 19th, 2008 at 12:15:06 AM EST
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won't be Reed or Wes Clark.  Clark won't be at the Convention.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"
by idredit on Mon Aug 18th, 2008 at 05:57:19 PM EST
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