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The exDemocratic National Committee chair and political super fund-raiser lives up to his nickname Mad Dog in this boisterous memoir. McAuliffe is rabidly aggressive toward Republicans (whom he describes as "willing to lie and cheat any way they could"), savaging them on talk shows and facing them down in bristling social encounters. He relentlessly pursues donors, happy to wrestle alligators and sing karaoke for checks ("for $500,000 I didn't mind humiliating myself"). He golfs, dances and plays cards with his political masters Hillary and Bill Clinton ("the Babe Ruth of American presidents"), forever preening over the role his advice and prodigious fund-raising played in their success. But on the exchange of money for access implicit in his activities, he is blustery but evasive. McAuliffe has incisive comments on the Democrats' shortcomings, especially their faintheartedness in fighting Republicans. Though he champions the Democrats as the party of the little guycontrasting their jeans-and-barbecue shindigs with "swank, hoity-toity" GOP fund-raising events that stance is undercut by all the name-dropping ("Ben Affleck joined Robin, Marsha, Dorothy and me for a quick tour of the skeet range") and elbow rubbing with grungily dressed billionaires. McAuliffe's inflated self-regard may give more ammunition to Republican opponents than his partisan vitriol does to Democratic allies. |
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How are Arab women seen by others? How do Arab women see themselves? New York University professor Mona Mikhail's new collection of essays casts a wide net over literature, film, popular culture, and the law in order to investigate the living, often rapidly changing, reality of Arab women and their societies. Whether she examines Egyptian film, contemporary rewritings of the Sherazad story, or women in North African novels, Mikhail sheds valuable light on the role of Arab women within Islam and within the Arab world. |
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This lively memoir has an unusual biographical twist--it focuses on an era well before the author Mary Lee Settle was even born. Not content to take the usual journey from childhood to old age, Settle instead focuses on the life and times of her own West Virginian Grandmother Addie. By exploring the roots of her family tree, Settle can give a broader perspective to her own life, her relationship with her mother and Grandmother, and the attitudes which she inherited from them. Addie gives a fascinating insight into the culture of gentrified white Southerners at the turn of the century, a culture which ousted the young Addie for her scandalous relationship with a man who was far above her in status and class. Through meticulous research of family documents and court papers, Settle has painted a very personal but very telling portrait of a bygone era, and a life lived so long ago.
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Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium Recommended by Jed SkyScout Personal Planetarium - The SkyScout makes star-gazing a whole lot easier, and a lot more fun! SkyScout works in one of two ways. You can point the SkyScout at what you are looking at in the sky, then via GPS, the SkyScout will tell you what exactly it is you're looking at. Or, you can select a celestial object you want to see via it's internal menu, and SkyScout will prompt you with directional arrows through the viewfinder. Follow it's directions and SkyScout will let you know when you're on target. SkyScout also has the capability to educate you on the object your viewing. Via audio and text, the SkyScout will give you facts, trivia, history and mythology on the most popular space-faring bodies. Over 200 audio descriptions of the most popular celestial objects Durable construction Graphic 3 (w) x 1 (h) LCD Display with Red LED Backlight Target Button Menu Navigation - 4-way control Out-Touch Controls - identify function, locate function, GPS function, & main menu Brightness Controls Volume Controls SD Card Slot USB Connection to a PC 3.5mm stereo jack for headphones Powered by 2 AA batteries (not included) Built-in Help 2-Year Manufacturer's Warranty Unit Dimensions - 2.5 (h) x 4 (d) x 7.4 (w) Unit Weight - 15.2 oz. (w/o batteries)
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Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Recommended by Jed Product Features * The first and only defibrillator available over-the-counter that
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Melissa Etheridge: Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled [Deluxe CD/DVD Combo] Recommended by Nightbird Melissa Etheridge's new cd and cd/dvd combo Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled includes her incredible performance at the Grammy Awards when she sang the Janis Joplin song, "Piece of My Heart" with Joss Stone. It also includes her new song "I Run For Life" which is an inspirational song for women everywhere who have had their lives, or the lives of a loved one, impacted by breast cancer. |
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Cirque du Soleil - Varekai (2003) Even by the high standards of Cirque du Soleil, Varekai is outstanding. While this artsy circus often aspires to weave a narrative through its spectacular events, in Varekai that story (about a winged boy who falls to earth and falls in love with a caterpillar girl) is as delightful and engaging as the acrobatic feats--which is saying a lot, because these feats will leave you agog. Acrobats juggle each others' bodies with their legs; identical twins spin on aerial straps; a contortionist twists into uncanny pretzel shapes; and much, much more. The elaborate costumes truly do evoke an otherworldly place--one of the clown characters looks like a man's torso emerging from the mouth of a carnivorous plant. Exceptionally well-filmed, and featuring a wealth of extra features about the making of the show, Varekai is Cirque du Soleil at the peak of its powers: Dizzy, dazzling, and sexy. --Bret Fetzer
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Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - Zoom Tour Live This superlative concert video is a godsend for fans of Electric Light Orchestra, since ELO's Zoom tour was cut short, sadly, because of lackluster ticket sales. Judging from this tour-opening performance (in May 2001, at the CBS studios in Los Angeles), those canceled gigs were a major loss, because Jeff Lynne's revamped ELO is in top form, playing six new songs from Zoom (ELO's first release in 15 years) and 17 hits from the band's beloved legacy. Like the meticulous producer he is, guitarist-composer Lynne plays cordial frontman to an appreciative audience, and his re-creation of ELO's classical-rock sound is astonishing in its fidelity to the studio recordings. From the moment ELO's signature "space-ship" stage blossoms to reveal Lynne's eight-piece ensemble (including, of course, two cellists), there's not a weak song in the brisk 98-minute set. Zoom Tour Live is ample compensation for those who bought useless tickets to an ill-fated show. --Jeff Shannon |
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Rod Stewart - It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook (2002)
It's so different when you see an artist perform in front of you & ROD STEWART was truly a treat to watch in this DVD. For a man who's over 50 he sure didn't act like one and that's a compliment coz you will see how much fun he was having in this concert! ... amazon.com
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Stardust...Volume III is as note-for-note solid as its predecessors--a cozy-up-to-the-fire treat that's also a pleasant reminder of these songs' staying power. "S'Wonderful" settles on the ears winningly, and Stewart's scratch-a-thon voice scalpels the cobwebs off of "Isn't It Romantic" in a way that compels the average listener to reconsider thinking it dopey. In addition, the parade of high-wattage pals recruited to pitch in continues here, resulting in a couple of must-hear combinations. Eric Clapton delivers a rather un-Clapton-like guitar solo on "Blue Moon" and Stevie Wonder blows harp like he means it on "What a Wonderful World," but it is the duets--"Baby It's Cold Outside" with the unsinkable Dolly Parton and "Manhattan" with the indomitable Bette Midler--that dazzle most. --Tammy La Gorce
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) (1993) Amazon.com DVD features |
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Recommended by Alllie This is one of those book that before you are a few pages in, you know it's gonna be great. By the time I read 20 pages I was going online and recommending it. It's one of those books you start reading and you can hardly put it down till you finish. It's very Dickensonian, in the very best sense, making real the lives of the poor, the global poor, as well as the WTO rich. It follows the lives of two brothers, Chano, a poor Mexican activist and Evan, adopted by a rich British family, one of the World Trade Organization's movers and shakers. There's a Prince and the Pauper touch as well when the poor brother replaces the rich one to speak to those in power, who, of course, do not listen or hear only what they want to hear. There's also the story of Chano seeking his lost son Daniel who always seems to be flittering just out of his reach. I believe, as humans, that we like our lessons wrapped in stories, that stories makes it easier for us to learn, to understand. The story of Chano and Evan and Daniel is wrapped around a lesson about globalization, about the World Trade Organization, NAFTA and the Mexican maquiladora plants near the border as they pollute the environment and poison their workers - because they can. The human stories make the global economic stories easier to understand. It's also wrapped around the Seattle protests against the WTO, making them mythic in an almost John Reed way. Except for the beating and shooting and gassing it makes you wanna be there. The Fountain at the Center of the World is a book about global issues but also about personal issues and how the two intersect. That's something that's left out of books these days. People in most books seem to live in a vacuum, unaffected by global issues while in reality are all affected. The Fountain at the Center of the World shows us how we are all affected, shows us in the stories of the dying Evan, the despairing Chano and the lost Daniel. Despite Evan's wealth, his intelligence, his support for and his knowledge about the system, he is isolated even in his death, while Chano and Daniel are surrounded by friends and allies who help them survive and escape as they try to make the world a better place. As does this book. Well worth the read!! |
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Recorded just past his commercial zenith and about a year and a half before he quit the music business for good, this concert recording from Cat Stevens's mid-'70s Majikat tour (filmed in Williamsburg, Virginia) lay unused in the vaults for the better part of three decades, and its 2004 release is a reminder of just how successful and talented he was. Playing acoustic guitar and piano and performing solo, with minimal backing, and with a full band (not to mention a trio of magicians and an impressive stage set), Stevens runs through some 20 songs, drawing from his entire catalog, with particular emphasis on Tea for the Tillerman. The remastered digital sound is excellent, and there are plenty of extra features, including a lengthy and informative contemporary interview with Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam), six additional songs from the archives (one of which, "Moonshadow," is presented in animation), and a reproduction of the original tour program. Even if this weren't the only available visual evidence from Stevens's career, Majikat (Earth Tour 1976) would be a worthy and valuable record of one of the most popular artists of his time. --Sam Graham |
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An important polemic on wealth, power, and class in America, The Family is rich in texture, probing in its psychological insight, revealing in its political and financial detail, and stunning in the patterns that emerge and expose the Bush dynasty as it has never before been exposed. Ms. Kelley takes us back to the origins of the family fortune in the Ohio steel industry at the turn of the last century, through the oil deals and international business associations that have maintained and increased their wealth over the past hundred years. The book leads us through Prescott Bush's first entrée into government at the state level in 1950s' Connecticut, to George Herbert Walker Bush's long and winding road to the White House, to his son's quick sweep into the same office. Along the way, we see the complex relationships the Bushes have had with the giants of the century--Eisenhower, Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Kissinger, Reagan, Clinton--as well as the often ruthless methods used to realize their goals. Perhaps most impressive--and surprising--is the way the book delves behind the obsessively protected public image into the family's intimate private lives: the matriarchs, the mistresses, the marriages, the divorces, the jealousies, the hypocrisies, the golden children, and the black sheep. At a crucial point in American history, Kitty Kelley is the one person to finally tell all about the family that has, perhaps more than any other, defined our role in the modern world. This is the book the Bushes don't want you to read. This is The Family.
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Dreams
from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance U.S. Senate hopeful Barack Obama has an inspiring story to share, and
yet he doesn't simply rest on his laurels in this critical evaluation
of his life and in his continuing search for himself as a black American.
He wrote "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance"
almost ten years ago, but his stock has obviously surged since his star-making
speech at the Democratic National Convention last month, perhaps to
the chagrin of Hillary Clinton...unless she is dreaming of a Clinton-Obama
ticket in 2008! Growing up mulatto in Hawaii and Indonesia, Obama discusses
trying to come to grips with his racial identity through a period of
rebellion that included drug use, becoming a community activist in Chicago
and traveling to Kenya to understand his father's past. It is in Kenya
where he discovers a nation with 400 different tribes, each of them
saddled with stereotypes of the others. It is also in Kenya where he
recognizes the dichotomy that has been his lifelong existence between
the graves of his father and his grandfather. His description of this
defining moment is worthy of a passage in Alex Haley's "Roots".
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To anyone who truly understands what it means to be an American, Michael
Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 should be seen as a triumph of patriotic freedom.
Rarely has the First Amendment been exercised with such fervor and forthrightness
of purpose: After subjecting himself to charges of factual errors in
his gun-lobby exposé Bowling for Columbine, Moore armed himself
with a platoon of reputable fact-checkers, an abundance of indisputable
film and video footage, and his own ironically comedic sense of righteous
indignation, with the singular intention of toppling the war-ravaged
administration of President George W. Bush. It's the Bush presidency
that Moore, with his provocative array of facts and figures, blames
for corporate corruption, senseless death, unnecessary war, and political
favoritism toward Osama Bin Laden's family and Saudi oil partners following
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Moore's incendiary film
earned Palme d'Or honors at Cannes and a predictable legion of detractors,
but do yourself a favor: Ignore those who condemn the film without seeing
it, and let the facts speak for themselves. By honoring American soldiers
and the victims of 9/11 while condemning Bush's rationale for war in
Iraq, Fahrenheit 9/11 may actually succeed in turning the tides of history.
--Jeff Shannon --This text refers to the Theatrical Release edition.
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Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism uses the inflammatory tactics of the Fox News Channel to demonstrate the conservative bias that's handed down by Fox's owner, media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The documentary gathers interviews from media watchdogs and former Fox employees (including a former anchor, Jon Du Pre, who describes his flailing efforts to create a celebration for Reagan's birthday when the one he was sent to cover never materialized), but their overwhelming condemnation of Fox's skewed news practices isn't half as effective as footage taken directly from Fox itself--an appalling montage of pundit Bill O'Reilly telling guests to shut up; repeated efforts to paint Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry as weak and waffling, while President Bush is captured in respectful, reverent images; and management memos dictating language, subject matter, and point of view. Outfoxed is unlikely to persuade Fox News fans to change their views, but it may spur outraged liberals to take action. --Bret Fetzer |
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Few political memoirs have made such a dramatic entrance as that by Richard A. Clarke. During the week of the initial publication of Against All Enemies, Clarke was featured on 60 Minutes, testified before the 9/11 commission, and touched off a raging controversy over how the presidential administration handled the threat of terrorism and the post-9/11 geopolitical landscape. Clarke, a veteran Washington insider who had advised presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush, dissects each man's approach to terrorism but levels the harshest criticism at the latter Bush and his advisors who, Clarke asserts, failed to take terrorism and Al-Qaeda seriously. Clarke details how, in light of mounting intelligence of the danger Al-Qaeda presented, his urgent requests to move terrorism up the list of priorities in the early days of the administration were met with apathy and procrastination and how, after the attacks took place, Bush and key figures such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney, turned their attention almost immediately to Iraq, a nation not involved in what the attacks. Against All Enemies takes the reader inside the Beltway beginning with the Reagan administration, who failed to retaliate against the 1982 Beirut bombings, fueling the perception around the world that the United States was vulnerable to such attacks. Terrorism becomes a growing but largely ignored threat under the first President Bush, whom Clarke cites for his failure to eliminate Saddam Hussein, thereby necessitating a continued American presence in Saudi Arabia that further inflamed anti-American sentiment. Clinton, according to Clarke, understood the gravity of the situation and became increasingly obsessed with stopping Al-Qaeda. He had developed workable plans but was hamstrung by political infighting and the sex scandal that led to his impeachment. But Bush and his advisers, Clarke says, didn't get it before 9/11 and they didn't get it after, taking a unilateral approach that seemed destined to lead to more attacks on Americans and American interests around the world. Clarke's inside accounts of what happens in the corridors of power are fascinating and the book, written in a compelling, highly readable style, at times almost seems like a fiction thriller. But the threat of terrorism and the consequences of Bush's approach to it feel very sobering and very real. --John Moe |
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Corel® Print House 6 puts a complete home-publishing package at
your fingertips and lets you take your creativity to new levels. You
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Back in the U.S. Live 2002 Paul McCartney Double live CD includes 35 classic McCartney
and Beatles songs from his sold out US tour. CD packaging includes 2
CDs in a slimline jewel box and a 32-page four color annotated collector's
booklet featuring never before seen photographs from the tour. Capitol.
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When the news filtered out that Roxy (Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil
Manzanera, and Paul Thompson, but, alas, no Brian Eno) were reconvening,
skeptics anticipated a nostalgia trip by superannuated globetrotters.
How wrong they were. These 22 sonically excellent recordings (made in
16 auditoriums, from Stuttgart to Adelaide via Vancouver) exhibit an
envious attention to detail (Lucy Wilkins supplants Eddie Jobson's violin
on "Out of the Blue" and there are even revving motorbike
noises on "Virginia Plain"), but are far from clinically sterile.
The godfathers of glam still manage to stoke up a fire behind the likes
of "Remake Remodel" and Ferry continues to sing like a man
handling a poisonous spider or having his back scratched by a supermodel.
Their influence is still palpable--Suede must have re-written "Street
Life" three times over. Pretty much everything on Live--from the
art-rock of the early years to the urbane sleekness of "Avalon"--sounds
as fresh as the 6 o'clock news. --Kevin Maidment |
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Conspiracy
: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From Recommended by Marij The New World Order, CIA drug rings, UFOs in New Mexico, the JFK assassination, the Elders of Zion--all are the products of politically disaffected and culturally suspicious minds, writes Daniel Pipes, author of The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy. Here he examines the nature of conspiracy theories and asks, "What makes otherwise intelligent people believe in phony phenomena?" and "Why is antisemitism so often its central feature?" Pipes usefully lays out a few hypotheses about conspiracy theories, and distinguishes them from actual conspiracies (which are real, of course). Although the book could benefit from some organizational improvement, it contains many astute observations. Readers interested in its subject will find it worth examining.
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Recommended by alllie This was a good book, a page turner set 60 years in the future when America is on the losing end of what are called the Tobacco Wars, wars that have their origins in two of Bill Clinton's minor actions while he was president, the expansion of NATO and the Anti-Tobacco Accords. The protagonist is Sal, the official biographer of the 109- year old Bill Clinton. Sal, along with three covert ops, is sent back in time to change the past and thus the future. She is drafted and forced to go because she knows more about Bill Clinton than anyone else in the world. Changing the past involves kidnapping the 16 year old Bill Clinton in 1963 and taking him to 1995 to convince his future self to avoid certain actions. It's a little scifi with the paradoxes of time travel but mostly it's a book for political junkies with much mention of the players and the scandals from the last dozen years. It's so well researched and written and includes so many facts that when it includes fictitious events I found myself assuming they were real. (There was no Anti-Tobacco accord propelling American Tobacco companies into foreign markets.) The book is not really friendly to Bill Clinton, though not totally unfriendly either. It sees his flaws and his gifts. Despite it being such a political book I couldn't tell what side the author was on politically. I did learn two little conspiracy facts or fictions: 1) that Kurt Muse, who sounds like a CIA asset, was the real reason for the invasion of Panama and 2) that Timothy McVeigh had met both George Bush and General Schwarzkopf (couldn't find anything on that so it might not be true). It also uses the team's visit with the young Bill Clinton (aka, yBC) as the reason for Clinton's lifelong conviction that he was supposed to be president. Anyway, it was a fun book to read and can be enjoyed by both Clinton's supporters and detractors. |
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The Buying of the President 2004 reveals how the process of choosing a president has moved from the voting booth to the auction block, and highlights the special interests that heavily invest in the politicians seeking the nation's highest office. Lewis and his team reveal and investigate the sponsors and the known and not-so-known conflicts of interest entangling each of the aspirants to the White House. This is the only book of its kind, containing investigative profiles and personal histories of the major presidential candidates. Here you will find answers to questions like
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Fun,
Games, And Big Bangs : The Home And Recreational Use Of High Explosives This book is no longer offered by Amazon. Wonder why? *snicker*
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I really recomend this book for people who have cats. It tells you
how you can teach your cat to read! Yeah I'm not joking your cats I.Q.
is acutually as high if not higher than a chimp! In this book you'll
find a piture on the next page the word also it'll give info. on how
to train your beloved cat.
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Do NOT buy this book if you care about your rats. This author has no idea what she's talking about. |
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Recommended by Alllie (Make sure you click on the book and not the audiocassette) Ringworld is a marvellously inventive story - two humans and two Aliens, a cariverous, Cat-like kzin and a herbiverous puppeteer - set out to explore a vast world built in a ring around a sun, with a surface area of billions of square miles on which all kinds of societies can flourish. Niven is a trained mathematician, and it makes the story more satisfying that the maths are worked out plausibly. It deserves its many awards for sheer non-stop inventiveness and action. The characters are plausible and fascinating, too. |
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Recommended by alllie An ingeniously thought out novel. In it, Larry Niven succeeds in reconcilling
some of the apparent inconsistencies between the Ringworld books and
his other Known Space novels (by demonstrating that the Ringworld was
built by the Pak protectors), and incorporates the ideas and questions
of his fans (spillpipes, attitude jets, and defense system) into the
operation of the Ringworld, while at the same time telling an exciting,
and fast moving story. That he manages all three so flawlessly is surely
a sign of his genius as a writer...Amazon.com
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Saddam Ouster Planned Early '01? From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam
Hussein was From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about
what we can do "It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of
it. The president And that came up at this first meeting, says ONeill, who adds
that the Confessions of a White House Insider From his first meeting with the President, O'Neill found Bush unengaged
and The
Awful Truth But these irrational Bush haters are body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freaks who should go back where they came from: the executive offices of Alcoa, and the halls of the Army War College. I was one of the few commentators who didn't celebrate Paul O'Neill's appointment as Treasury secretary. And I couldn't understand why, if Mr. O'Neill was the principled man his friends described, he didn't resign early from an administration that was clearly anything but honest. But now he's showing the courage I missed back then, by giving us an invaluable, scathing insider's picture of the Bush administration. Ron Suskind's new book "The Price of Loyalty" is based largely on interviews with and materials supplied by Mr. O'Neill. It portrays an administration in which political considerations satisfying "the base" trump policy analysis on every issue, from tax cuts to international trade policy and global warming. The money quote may be Dick Cheney's blithe declaration that "Reagan proved deficits don't matter." But there are many other revelations. One is that Mr. O'Neill and Alan Greenspan knew that it was a mistake to lock in huge tax cuts based on questionable projections of future surpluses. In May 2001 Mr. Greenspan gloomily told Mr. O'Neill that because the first Bush tax cut didn't include triggers it went forward regardless of how the budget turned out it was "irresponsible fiscal policy." This was a time when critics of the tax cut were ridiculed for saying exactly the same thing. Another is that Mr. Bush, who declared in the 2000 campaign that "the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum," knew that this wasn't true. He worried that eliminating taxes on dividends would benefit only "top-rate people," asking his advisers, "Didn't we already give them a break at the top?" Most startling of all, Donald Rumsfeld pushed the idea of regime change in Iraq as a way to transform the Middle East at a National Security Council meeting in February 2001. There's much more in Mr. Suskind's book. All of it will dismay those who still want to believe that our leaders are wise and good. The question is whether this book will open the eyes of those who think that anyone who criticizes the tax cuts is a wild-eyed leftist, and that anyone who says the administration hyped the threat from Iraq is a conspiracy theorist. The point is that the credentials of the critics just keep getting better. How can Howard Dean's assertion that the capture of Saddam hasn't made us safer be dismissed as bizarre, when a report published by the Army War College says that the war in Iraq was a "detour" that undermined the fight against terror? How can charges by Wesley Clark and others that the administration was looking for an excuse to invade Iraq be dismissed as paranoid in the light of Mr. O'Neill's revelations? So far administration officials have attacked Mr. O'Neill's character but haven't refuted any of his facts. They have, however, already opened an investigation into how a picture of a possibly classified document appeared during Mr. O'Neill's TV interview. This alacrity stands in sharp contrast with their evident lack of concern when a senior administration official, still unknown, blew the cover of a C.I.A. operative because her husband had revealed some politically inconvenient facts. Some will say that none of this matters because Saddam is in custody, and the economy is growing. Even in the short run, however, these successes may not be all they're cracked up to be. More Americans were killed and wounded in the four weeks after Saddam's capture than in the four weeks before. The drop in the unemployment rate since its peak last summer doesn't reflect a greater availability of jobs, but rather a decline in the share of the population that is even looking for work. More important, having a few months of good news doesn't excuse a consistent pattern of dishonest, irresponsible leadership. And that pattern keeps getting harder to deny. |
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Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below [EXPLICIT LYRICS] by Outkast Recommended by ItsMarty "This is a great album. The main reason i got this is cause of
"The Way You Move" Ever since this song came out, i was dying
to have this album. And now i have. I heard every song, and i still
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Recommended by ItsMarty "This album is absolutely awesome, and has something for everyone. It brings together R&B, Rap, and Jazz with socially conscious lyrics." Amazon Review |
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Recommended by ItsMarty "Wyclef hits us off in the '03 with another Lp this time as the Preachers Son. His last Lp wasent that good but for the most part all his other cds have been hot. This cd continues the hot trend by keeping it moving with the hot new single "Party to Damascus" with missy. " Amazon review
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken Recommended by M54CT Having previously dissected the factual inaccuracies of a single bellicose talk show host in Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken takes his fight to a larger foe: President George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Ann Coulter, Bill OReilly, and scores of other conservatives whom, he says, are playing loose with the facts. It's a lot of ground to cover, as evidenced by the 43 chapters in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, but the results are often entertaining and insightful. Franken occupies a unique place in the modern political dialogue as perhaps the media's only comedy writer and performer who is also a Harvard fellow as well as a liberal political commentator. This unique and vaguely lonely position lends a charming quixotic quality to adventures such as a tense encounter with the Fox News staff at the National Press Club, a challenge to fisticuffs with National Review Editor Rich Lowry, and an oddly sweet admissions visit to ultra-conservative Bob Jones University (with a young research assistant posing as his son when Franken's real-life son refuses to participate in the charade).
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Recommended by fatima3 From Publishers Weekly
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Fumbling Towards Ecstasy by Sarah McLachlan Recommended by alllie I've kinda been aware of Sarah McLachlan since I started liking Candian music which I define as anything they played on Due South. She sounded nice on TV but I rarely like female singers so I never bought anything but I liked her new song on MTV so I added her new album and her most popular album, Fumbling toward Ecstasy, to my shopping cart. I decided I couldn't get both so got Fumbling Toward Ecstasy. It's great. I can't recommend it too highly. She has a wonderful voice, the songs are great and the music is so good I found myself looking at the album notes to find out who the guitarist was. At least click on the link above and go listen to the samples on Amazon. If you decide to buy it come back and click on the Buy From Amazon button to the left. It a great album. I know now I'm gonna try to buy her entire oeuvre when I can. |
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Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West by Dale L. Walker, John Jakes Recommended by Deacon A collection of strange and intriguing tales about famous characters of American Western history. The author's research has come upon many mysteries that resist ultimate solution. Prolific writer of the Old West, Walker (a columnist for the Rocky Mountain News) examines the life and death of Davy Crockett, Meriwether Lewis and his Indian guide Sacajawea, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth, Ambrose Bierce, Custer, Crazy Horse and the Mormon leaders who instigated the mass murder of a wagon train of ``gentile'' men, women and children passing through ``Mormon land'' on their way to California. Walker, trying to fill gaps in the historical records by exposition of logical reasoning, finds conflicting testimonies, many rumors, bizarre tales and conspiracy theories, and also credible accounts of the deaths of these larger-than-life characters. |
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Recommended by cbi: <cbi>I recommend the DaVinci Code. Dan Brown. It rocks. You can say I said so. Recommended by Jed: This book was loaned to me by my sister. I rarely read best sellers, but she said I had to try this one. She was right...it captures your attention immediately, and you can't put it down. It explores two secret societies...both of which are part of the Catholic Church. The chapters are short...perfect for times when you want to read...and aren't sure for how long. I recommend it highly! A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his granddaughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's father's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself. Brown has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. |
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Recommended by Deacon Deacon: I've always been a huge fan of Cat Stevens music. His style and tempo were distinctive. If you like Cat Stevens and you are not willing to shell out the money to purchase his anthology, then this is the CD you should buy. Most of his great, well-known songs are here. |
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Recommended by Deacon Deacon: This CD provides all the hits they've put out. If you are a No Doubt fan you will like it. It's great for casual fans too; especially those that like to hear them on the radio, because it includes just those hits. No Doubt is new wave and fronted by lead vocalist Gwen Stafani. She is rich with energy and I think we can expect much more from this innovative troupe in the future. |
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Like many a pop singer, Stewart returns here to what's become generally known as the Great American Songbook, that evergreen body of mid-20th century songcraft that continues to inspire singers across oceans and generations. It's said that Stewart has been vocalizing many of these songs in private for years, and given the warm, human scale of most of the performances here, it's not hard to believe. Producer Phil Ramone's spare, unobtrusive arrangements inspire the singer to some of his most subtle and rewarding performances in years. Stewart's slightly weary vocal tack handsomely suggests the smoke, booze, and aching heart that lie at the best of these songs. Such back-to-the-future efforts can often sound like a last career gasp; here, they seem a refreshing breath of fresh air. --Jerry McCulley |
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As Time Goes By...The Great American Songbook: Volume II by Rod Stewart Recommended by Deacon |
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Law of Success In Sixteen Lessons (2 Volume Set) by Napoleon Hill
Recommended by Deacon Deacon: The late Napoleon Hill was a pioneer of modern success thinking, and almost every achievement expert today refers to his ideas in one way or the other. His books provide timeless and illuminating advice on a wide spectrum of subjects that may very well be the best you'll ever hear. Whether you have minimal education or enough degrees to wallpaper a room, you are sure to gain knowledge of something new and enriching. |
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Ian Stewart, the author of the equally witty sequel, Flatterland--which adds to Abbott's store of science the key discoveries made since--does a superb job of explaining the original book's enigmas, allusions, ironies, implausibilities, and what Douglas Hofstadter would call "metamagical themas." Among other things, Stewart comments on Abbott's comments on such things as the nature/nurture controversy, the fourth dimension and beyond, the role of multidimensional spaces in economic systems, infinite series and perfect squares, celestial mechanics, and other matters close to the hearts of cosmologists and science buffs alike. Stewart's notes make an entertaining and learned addition to an already classic bit of writing--one that has never been out of print since its first publication. For both devoted Abbott fans and newcomers to his work, this is the edition to have. |
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Recommended by MariJ From Publishers WeeklyWith this intricately detailed novel of the American South and the Revolutionary War, President Carter becomes our first chief executive, past or present, to publish a work of fiction. By concentrating on Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas from 1763 to 1783, Carter takes a fresh look at this crucial historical period, giving life and originality to a story usually told from the viewpoint of the northern colonies. There's a large cast of characters, but the focus is on the families of Ethan and Epsey Pratt and neighbors Kindred and Mavis Morris, backwoods Georgia homesteaders who are swept up, albeit reluctantly, in the revolution against the British. Among many other subjects, Carter covers military tactics, natural history, 18th-century politics, celestial navigation, the causes of the war, the sexual practices of both Indians and pioneers and how to tar and feather a man without killing him. Fascinating tidbits about well-known historical figures abound: "After some New Jersey militia actually mutinied [George] Washington decided to set an example of stern discipline; he forced the top leaders to draw lots, and the winners shot the losers." Carter's style leans toward the academic ("Mr. Knox, what's the difference between Whigs and Tories?"), but readers who can put up with the occasional lecture will learn fascinating truths about this exceedingly brutal war and the stories of the men and women who lived and died in the course of it. Those seeking a riveting prose style would be advised to look to more experienced fiction writers, but anyone who has ever wondered about the difference between a Whig and a Tory will find this an interesting and informative read. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
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Recommended by ItsMarty Minnesota Senator Wellstone opens this memoir with his attendance at the funeral service of archconservative Barry Goldwater. Wellstone was there because as a boy he had read Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative. Paradoxically, he credits his admiration for Goldwater's political integrity with providing the moral basis for his own liberalism. The first part of the book explains Wellstone's unlikely ascension to the Senate (he was once a college professor), and some of his campaign war stories are fun reading for political junkies. One of the most amusing passages describes how he once nearly clocked New York Republican Alfonse D'Amato over a disagreement: "When the train reached the Senate chamber, I jumped out and lunged forward, intending to catch D'Amato and deck him. My body was shaking with uncontrollable anger." Another senator held him back, and Wellstone calmed down. The bulk of The Conscience of a Liberal, however, is given over to laying out a political agenda that includes universal health care, reversing welfare reforms, prekindergarten education, raising the minimum wage, and campaign-finance reform. He closes with a call for a new politics: "This is not a conservative America.... There is a huge leadership void in this country that the Democratic Party, emboldened by political courage and a commitment to the issues that made our party great, can fill." Sadly, one of the politicians who helped fill that void is now gone himself. Still, his ideas live on. |
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Had Enough? : A Handbook for Fighting Back by James Carville Recommended by ItsMarty From Publishers Weekly For liberals who think Al Franken and Michael Moore show too much restraint, the Ragin' Cajun launches another no-holds-barred assault on the conservative powers-that-be. Carville's shtick remains intact, so the political commentary is saturated with jokes about being married to a Republican, stories about his family down in Louisiana and recipes for barbecue shrimp and bread pudding. But if you thought he was mad before, wait until Carville tears into George W. Bush and his administration. Not content with merely attacking Bush's Iraqi war strategy, Carville denigrates the entire war on terrorism, reminding readers that Senate Democrats proposed tougher homeland security proposals that the president consistently rejected. He also suggests that not only could Gore have handled 9/11 better, it probably wouldn't even have happened. And he's just getting started at that point, gearing up for tough criticism of tax cuts, school vouchers, tort reform and other GOP policies. But finger-pointing isn't enough; Carville provides a "nice little progressive playbook" of counterstrategies to rebuild economically and socially the way he says only Democrats can. |
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Recommended by Algorythm Algorythm: Read all 500 pages in about one shot yesterday. I didn't
realize how fast I read now. It's very hard sience fiction, all the
chick stuff is basicaly a waste of time :) The interesting part is the
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Recommended by PlatterKat. From The Sound of One Hand Clapping: All this you will understand, but can never know, and all of it took place Richard Flanagan's beautifully written and very moving novel is a modern-day myth which has its roots firmly anchored in recent history. His flawed hero, Bojan Buloh, is like many thousands of refugees who, after surviving the horrors of war, tried to make a new life in Australia. But the story centres around Buloh's daughter, Sonja, who has the better chance of starting afresh in a safer world.
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Recommended by Sharonelle Sharonelle read a review of it in Free Inquiry which she said was very funny. "It's a comic science fiction by Tom Flynn - Nothing Sacred - I might just buy this one."
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Recommended by Trickster and Alllie This books consists of essays and fragments published long after Twain's death. "Letters from the Earth" are written by Satan to Michael and Gabriel after Satan is exiled to earth for a day, aka a thousand years. He reports on his Earthly investigations into the human-race experiment. There are other such writings, e.g., "Letter to the Earth," "Something about Repentance," and "The Damned Human Race."
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman Recommended by LoneNut From Library Journal: Grossman (psychology, West Point) presents three important hypotheses: 1) That humans possess the reluctance to kill their own kind; 2) that this reluctance can be systematically broken down by use of standard conditioning techniques; and 3) that the reaction of "normal" (e.g., non-psychopathic) soliders to having killed in close combat can be best understood as a series of "stages" similar to the ubiquitous Kubler-Ross stages of reaction to life-threatening disease. |
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Enemies Foreign And Domestic by Matthew Bracken Recommended by SharpEye One week later, congress bans the private possession of all semi-automatic
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Recommended by Nightbird : Ross Low Carbohydrate Chocolates are a selection of low carb/sugarfree chocolate bars made from imported Belgium chocolate. I love them and buy them all the time. All of them are delicious and are great for diabetics or anyone on a low carb diet. I would rather have one of them than a Hershey bar. They are delicious.
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