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| |  America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order
Stefan Halper, Jonathan Clarke, June 21, 2004, 382pp.
• America Alone: Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order. Fair-minded and fascinating. This book is a damning indictment of neocons and the Iraq War by mainstream Republicans with long experience in government. Amazon |
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| |  The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
George Packer, Oct. 15, 2005, 408pp.
• The Assassins' Gate
Sympathetic to the Iraqi people, it covers both their experience and the ideological debate within the administration. Reveals the monumental impact of neoconservatism on today's foreign policy. "This is a war of ideas, and sometimes even well-intended ideas can be dangerous, and worse, devastating to human life and society." Amazon |
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| |  American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
Kevin Phillips,
• Noted Republican strategist tells how the Bushes get power and keep it. Amazon |
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| |  The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War
Andrew Bacevich, Feb 28, 2005, 270pp.
• New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War
Andrew Bacevich a graduate of West Point, a retired military officer and a moderate conservative, describes how Evangelical leaders found common cause with the neocons and provided the political muscle for Reagan and his successors of both parties. A thorough examination of American foreign policy and where it came from. Amazon |
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| |  Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer
Tracy Kidder, Sept. 2003, 336pp.
• Kidder: the story of Dr. Paul Farmer and his efficient and effective model of community-based health care Amazon |
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Rachel Carson, Oct 22, 02, 400pp.
• The 40th anniversary edition shows we've added global warming to the problems Carson saw, changed some, tried to fix a few, but the warning is still strong and necessary: The human race is endangering its only home. Amazon |
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| |  Hope Dies Last
Studs Turkel, Aug. 2003, 320pp.
• Studs on keeping hope alive even in these difficult times Amazon |
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| |  Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph Stiglitz, April 2003, 304pp.
• Stiglitz: Nobel winner analyzes the ideology and promoters of globalization Amazon |
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| |  The Working Poor: Invisible in America
David K. Shipler, 02/03/04, 336pp.
• How the minimum wage set lives -- or tries to. • Multiple interviews with many people, many reasons for poverty, few suggestions for how to cure the problem. Amazon |
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| |  Wealth and Commonwealth: Why America should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
William H. Gates, Sr. and Chuck Collins,
• Bill's Dad on how the estate tax keeps America a democracy Amazon |
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| |  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich (Editor) , May 2002, 240pp.
• Ehrenreich: How 12 million women pushed into the labor market by welfare reform survive on $6 an hour. Amazon |
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| |  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll, 2/23/04, 720pp.
• Politics as confusion and self-delusion. Amazon |
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| |  Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
Richard Atkinson, contribution by Brad Wye, Sept. 1994, 500pp.
• Atkinson: the realities of the Persian Gulf War Amazon |
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| |  Squandered Victory : The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
Larry Diamond, June 2005, 309pp.
• Details the preventable blunders and missed opportunities, from Bush's giving the Pentagon the lead managing postwar Iraq to our inability to work with Iraqi leaders such as Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Diamond expresses admiration for US Administrator L. Paul Bremer, who sincerely wanted to bring democracy to Iraq, but was wholly unprepared and unrealistic, resulting in "one of the major overseas blunders in U.S. history." Amazon |
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| |  Against All Enemies: Inside the White House's War on Terrorism-What Really Happenend
Richard Clarke,
• Reagan's, Clinton's, Bushes' Terrorism Tzar says, Bush paid little attention to warnings, and Iraq was just a distraction. Amazon |
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