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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer
from Doubleday
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A MUST READ FOR EVERY AMERICAN 
This is a \"page turner\". I couldn't put it down. We've heard many of these stories before, but to have it laid out in one piece is startling. Never in my life have I ever been so ashamed of my government. (I lived through the Nixon/Watergate era and thought I could never be more disgusted. Nixon pales to a ghost in comparison.)
This should be a \"must read\" for every American over the age of 18. Its a wake up call for how close we've c");
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overpriced at 13.62 for Kindle 
would love to read this when the price is more reasonable i.e. 9.99..... the current premium of more than 35 per cent over the Kindle norm feels like a gouge
Important topic, very boring read 
While this is a very important topic that is covered, the author is far too dry a writer to pull it off. Many of those giving positive reviews see");
document.write("m to only care because of the political slant of the book. If you are unbiased and simply want to read all sides then this book will bore you to tears. Much better works already exist from far more talented writers.
Absolutely spellbinding
Every member of Congress should be assigned this book as required reading. Then after reading it, each member should comtemplate the depths to which our government has sunk since the Bush Administration took over in January 2001.
The minds of Cheney and Addington are evil to the core. And Cheney seems to have known all along just how to push Bush's buttons, proding his cowboy image of himself, to get Bush's signature on the most hellish orders imaginable.
Perhaps the most frightening bit comes...
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria
from W. W. Norton
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The Post American World
Fantastic read. The author sums up a lot of history in a few pages with insights that opened my mind to what was really happening and what is now happening. Wish all our candidates would read this book.
schizophrenic view of the world
Contrary to the title, this book is not about the demise of America. It is about the rise of the rest of ");
document.write("the world and its global implications.
The author makes somtimes contradictory statements. For example, he firmly believes that India will economically surpass China mainly because India is a democratic country (democracy is better for long term economic growth he says). His conclusion ignores his own data that India is growing at 6.9% versus China's 9%, the China's economy is about 3 times as...
Good..even considering the biases
This is a well thought out and clear exposition. It is high on facts and useful concepts which is, unfortunately, punctuated by some non-sequitor political bashing . .");
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Forgive the author the Newsweek (Newsweak?) political bias but buy it for some very solid observations.
The Post-American World
Informative on the world situation (especially economic) today and thought-provoking about the future. It has the broad view usually lackling in media news.
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
by Scott McClellan
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Campaigning replaces governing
This is an easy read with incontravertable details of life in the Bush White House. When you compare the descriptions of what went wrong with the actions of the current candidates, you will see they are in danger of making some of the same mistakes.
what happened in the White House
Sad but true. The author was overly kind to George W Bush. The book is a segment of history that needs to be said. 8 years of the worst president in the history of the United States. This makes for an interesting and informative period of deceipt. The author has nothing to gain by revealing what really is behind the lying and the mistakes that were made by the President. Great reading.
What Happened
Now I understand why Scott wrote this book. Being a religious person and having been lied to by the Bush Inner Circle, he felt betrayed by the people he was trying to protect. I would have written the book also. Anyone who has not read this book is missing out on who Scott McClennan really is. Powerful book.
Larry Holland
Less interesting than the hype it generated
Seriously, this book is fluff. It's not much more than we already knew about the Bush White House, except it was written by McClelland. I would have liked this book better if I had waited for the paperback.
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
from Picador
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Growing technology for a shrinking world
Very interesting review of the developments of the cybernet revolution and its implications for human development.The remaining question is \"What's next\"? From \"flat\" to \"point\"?!
Flattery might get you nowhere
This book is anything but a broad and well-considered critique of where the author sees us heading. I suppose it can best be viewed as a survival kit for our current century. \"Survival\" does not inherently make life more interesting, beautiful or purposeful. For the fortunate few who find the projected future");
document.write(" particularly adaptive, the life ahead of us might be bright and rosy. But for the many, it could simply spell out a higher level of consumerism and considerable ennui.
On the plus side Mr....
Way too long, I know a lot of famous people, by the way everything is Bush's fault 
This book would have been much better if it had been kept to 200-250 pages. I am disappointed in myself that I kept reading the same thing over and over thinking that eventually some new content would appear. It was tedious how the author had to point out how many famous people he knew. To some extent, this can add credibi");
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The book is very partisan, blaming republicans for many problems without making a very strong link. Far from a fair and balanced...
And the sky is falling
This book is an eye-poping-opener to what is happening in the history of economics. This was a mandatory read to the completion of my college degree because most industry leaders have read and believe it. The truth is most industry workers will have to compete for their job internationally. However I like to believe the other side of the coin as Friedman's views are negative towards Amer");
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
from Hill and Wang
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Very moving, impactful, horrific......
Very well written. Gets to the point. This is the FIRST book I've read (other than Diary of Anne Frank) about the concentration camps & the horrific plight of those who endured them. I CAN say - Weisel does an excellent job of conveying what happened during the years being confined and moved among cam");
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Great book
If you haven't read this book then you must read it. I have nothing else to say about it than that. The feelings and emotions this book stirred within me are too great to put into words. At the end of the book there is a speech given by Elie Wiesel and there were two phrases that jumped out at me and that's what I will finish with.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence");
document.write(" encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.
Simple, thought provoking
I've never read such a short book with such a huge impact. When I read this as part of a college class, we learned that it was originally some 600 pages long. Then the author decided to cut it down to the absolute bare bones - and it worked brilliantly.
Too much writing could cushion the devastation - getting bogged down in details could allow a reader to become jaded. However, such stark minimalism forces a reader to think about what is being said. And significantly, Wiesel doesn't describe every...
Words Can Not Describe.....
Man's inhumanity to man from one who survived it.
As Mr. Wiesel notes in the introduction of his book, words can not--do not--describe what it was like--must have been like--to endure man's inhumanity to man. We in this day and time can't imagine, can't begin to fathom, what Mr. Wiesel's words try to describe.
The Holocaust, combined with the Russian Army's treatment of German women and with Japanese treatment of the Chinese surely must mark one of the darkest, most despicable times of man upon...
by Mark Stein
from Collins
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a timely text for tennesseans
Georgia has been undergoing a severe drought for several years now, particularly in the Atlanta area: as with Las Vegas, they are running out of water for lawns, fountains, golf courses, etc. So the governor had a well-publicized and very public prayer for rain. This review is not the place to discuss the religious and political implications of why God did not answer the governor's prayers, but it is very relevant about what happened next. The Bible and the 10 Commandments has imprecations about coveting:...
An Explanation for All Those Vexing State Boundary Questions
This book is especially informative for those of us who live on the east coast where so many of the borders seems to make little sense. One of the questions he never answered though was:
-Where is the island of Rhode Island?
It would also have been interesting as to why the states got their names or what they meant:
-Why is Wyoming named after a valley in western Pennsylvania?
-What is a Utah?
-What is an Idaho? Is the state named after the potato or the potato named after...
Shapes of States...Why is that border there?
I love this book! It is well-written in a straight forward yet interesting manner. I am sort of a map nut/geography/ history fanatic. We carry the book in the car to read when we are driving around and I plan to include the book in the resources for my social studies classes. It's a fun book to keep in a guest room or in the bathroom. The information about the creation of boundries is also useful in genealogy
research. I plan to give the book as a gift to many people.
Enjoyable tidbits
Driving though Northeastern PA, I often passed a historical marker describing that the area was CT in the mid-18th Century. So, when");
document.write(" I saw this book, I purchased it initially so that I could learn more about this intriguing part of history. This book is enjoyable and informative and helps the reader make sense of aspects of American history. It is structured so that you can pick it up now and then and read various state histories when your time and inclination permit. Not only did I learn about PA and CT,...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
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from Vintage
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This book really takes you back to a time when a group of true visionaries change the world. It is really interesting and educational at the smme time. Well worth reading!
Absolutely absorbing
I loved \"The Devil in the White City\" and was thoroughly absorbed by it, something I find to be rare with nonfiction. Larson's writing style is perfect for drawing you and making you feel like you were there in 1890s Chicago. He obviously took a number of creative liberties to add narrative flourish (e.g., describing what people felt, the expressions on their faces, etc.), but I'm happy he did and won't criticize him for it as it made the book so enjoyable.
One criticism I had, tho");
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Excellent historical novel
Erik Larson did a masterful job of blending the historical significance of the Columbian Exposition and life in Chicago at the turn of the century. Well researched, well written and a novel that I really enjoyed.
Such ease, such difficulty
Erik Larson's \"The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America\" captures the evil enthusiam of one man's ");
document.write("murder spree and a group of men's desire to create a great American pleasure ground. This book will disappoint those looking for the grizzly details of the dozens of murders committed by HH Holmes (real name Mudgett). Mr. Larson is not looking to exploit the gruesome tortures the victims underwent--and for this restraint Mr. Larson is to be congratulated. What he...
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by Michael Dobbs
from Knopf
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New Scholarship Makes this a Good Purchase
The new details uncovered by Mr. Dobbs makes this a \"must purchase\" for anyone genuinely interested in this historical episode.
However, I must admit that, from an entertainment perspective, the first half of this book dragged a bit while the second half was much more riveting.
One Minute to Midnight
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Excellent reading, not only for those of us who lived through the Cuban Missile crisis;but It is a must for those too young to remember as well as any student of history .
The book reads like a novel. It is a thrilling and chilling story of what really went on during t");
document.write("hose 13 days or so in October of 1962. Mr. Dobbs did some amazing research and uncovered many things that heretofore were unknown.
After reading...
Excellent Recounting of Events; Some Flaws in the Analysis
Mr. Dobbs' detailed and enthralling account of the Cuban missile crisis is excellent--except for his postmortem in the final chapter where he glosses over the Kennedy Administration's numerous foreign policy blunders that led to the crisis (e.g., Bay of Pigs invasion, JFK's abysmal performance at the 1961 Vienna summit with Khrushchev, Operation Mongoose, etc.) and lauds Kennedy for his ");
document.write("\"restraint and sense of history.\" And he can't resist taking a gratuitous shot at the Bush Administration, stating that we...
One Minute To Midnight
I thought the book was exstremly well written.I was particularly interested because my husband Chuck Maultsby was the U2 pilot that accidently overflew Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis.I furnished information and a photograph of him to the author!
People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn
from Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Peoples History of the United States
Amazing book. I am 63 years old and wish I'd been interested in american history sooner. I spent most of my life blindly believing the history of school textbooks. Howard Zinn blows the lid off of most of what I had accepted as gospel. This book certainly opened my eyes to what went on behind the scenes. We may not be bad people, but we've sure had some very bad leaders over the years, who made some very selfish decisions without regard to the long term effects of their actions. Three cheers for Howard...
No sugar coated, political correctness here!
Well written, intensely compelling, and mind expanding. This book should be a mandatory read for every high school student in the country. Throw away The American Pageant, and hand out Zinn's book instead.
A political, not a cultural, history
Professor Zinn definitely fills a need--a well-documented political history of the United States from the point-of-view of those who work to move this country nearer to a realization of the democratic values expressed in The Declaration of Independence--in other words to transform the beautiful rhetoric of the Declaration into politica");
document.write("l reality. This work has only begun and has a long way to go. Zinn's book does disappoint me, though, in touching so lightly on cultural history: just to pick two examples,...
real history isn't pretty
People in America love the fairy tale of America being the greatest best hope of mankind, and all that blind patriotic crap that we've all had shoved down our throat our entire lives. This book is a reaction to the fairy tales that most American so blindly believe. Zinn honesty admits this book is biased, just like any work of art is. You only have to look at the title of the book to realize that t");
document.write("his is history told from the perspective of the oppressed and violated. Does it leave out the perspective of...
Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
by David Blume
from International Institute for Ecological Agriculture
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This books helps strip away the myths of history.
This book delves into the kind of in");
document.write("formation that could help us avoid making the same mistakes over and over. If it can help create awareness of how susceptible the public is to being flim-flammed by the Oil Industry experts and its sycophants imbedded throughout the government and media we could clean this mess up. The book shows that it was the oil interests who politicized energy not the author of this book.
Contrary to the specious complaints of some, this book doesn't pretend to be a \"How To\"...
Masterpiece
I am an environmental educator at the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm community in Summertown,Tennessee and author o");
document.write("f Shutdown: Nuclear Power on Trial (1979); Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do (1990), and most recently, The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times, from New Society Publishers and Amazon.
Arriving in Sao Paulo, Brazil for the International Permaculture Conference in 2007, I checked the online schedule and saw that the...
What a Waste
I purchased this book with the primary intention of learning how I could convert all the waste fruit I generate in my grove into alcohol. The author is well educated and does know his stuff and shares his experie");
document.write("nce in creating alcohol to be used as fuel. However, the book includes chapter after chapter of political information (and mis-information) which really hurts the books ability to inform. When will people realize and understand that mixing in your political beliefs into a \"how-to\" type book just...
Great Book!
This book is Huge! Full of really great information, everything from the history of alcohol fuels to how to convert any gas engine to alcohol. This is a must read for those that want to get off foriegn oil.
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