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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

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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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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
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by Madeline Levine


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Unfortunately, division is NOT "the only thing that can lose this election for us now. "

If Obama runs a perfect campaign.

If And if THEN only internal DemRat-style division can lose this thing.

That's a WHOLE lotta "ifs", Booman.

Ifs that would have been largely ameliorated by Hillary Clinton's inclusion on the ticket.

We shall see.

I pray for the best, because I do not want to have to leave this country.

I pray for the best.

If McCain wins, I am gone within the year.

Bet on it.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Wed Aug 27th, 2008 at 09:28:08 AM EST
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Unfortunately, division is NOT "the only thing that can lose this election for us now. "

If Obama runs a perfect campaign.

If the still potent Ratpublican smear machine does not succeed in totally Swift Boating Barack Obama.

And if there is not still a working majority of white American voters who are in their heart of hearts racist to the core.

THEN only internal (and apparently eternal as well.) DemRat-style division can lose this thing.

That's a WHOLE lotta "ifs", Booman.

Ifs that would have been largely ameliorated by Hillary Clinton's inclusion on the ticket.

We shall see.

I pray for the best, because I do not want to have to leave this country.

I pray for the best.

If McCain wins, I am gone within the year.

Bet on it.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Wed Aug 27th, 2008 at 09:32:50 AM EST
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AG,

Hillary may have been sincere. I listened on radio. She said all she had to say. Most of it was plenty late.

About the ticket Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama.

Let it go.

There are two points worth repeating:

- Thanks to the Clintons, it was a very divisive campaign. As seasoned politicians - 35 or 40 years worth - the Clintons violated the most cardinal rule in politics:

"Thou shall speak no evil or make any criticism of a fellow party member that will in turn be used as a sword against the Party or the member during an election"

we're witnesses to the recent McCain Ads. The Clintons were warned these would be the end result.  But you know it has been all about the Clintons. They've used the party and the OoP for personal gain.

Shamelessly.

Memories are indeed short. Very.

- Bill Clinton would not allow vetting. Too many post White House skeletons (read Bloomberg, WSJ or FT)  Clinton will not release the funding donors for his presidential library and all that influence peddling - WOW, he earned on ONE deal $131 million dollars. And there's more.

This couple has a lot of new baggage and we need not remind of the others.

There is a 'best before date,' an 'expiry date and 'time chart date.' The Clintons time charts have expired. {Let give me a reminder: All last summer '07 into winter, within this community, I wrote "Hillary's campaign will implode and if by a fluke she gets the nomination she'll not win."}

One last point on the GE and Dems being divided. The media reminds us every two minutes. NPR takes the award .

Imho the HRC supporters who won't come around to supporting Obama "because they're so committed to her" is a ruse. They have a problem and it's not that Hillary lost. Those holdouts won't be voting for a black man or half white man or any candidate that is not DNA true blue eyed...in need of some color enhancements like the Queen Elizabeth I cousins.

They'll live to regret because a loss to McCain will be first laid at their feet.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Wed Aug 27th, 2008 at 08:08:29 PM EST
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