Books: Politics and Affairs
Currently listing articles 897-851:
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Book Review: Once an Arafat Man - The True Story of How a PLO Sniper Found a New Life by Tass Saada and Dean Merrill— Once a sniper, now a servant, Saada presents a vision for peace within the story of his own life.
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Book Review: Guests of the Nation by Mike Palecek— Lack of character development undermines effectiveness of novel contending 9/11 was a government conspiracy.
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Book Review: A Man Most Wanted By John Le Carre— Le Carre makes our worst fears about the excesses of the intelligence community come to life without hyperbole or melodrama.
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Book Review - Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right, and Other American Idiots by Marty Beckerman— A sardonic search and destroy mission aimed at extremist positions plaguing modern politics.
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Book Review: The Forgotten Man - A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shales— Should be on the read list for every informed American citizen before they take to the voting booths in November.
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Book Review: Say It Like Obama by Shel Leanne— Obama has reinforced the notion that the speech, in and of itself, can be its own work of art.
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Book Review: Kafka Comes to America - Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror by Steven T. Wax— Steven T. Wax discusses some up-close ramifications of the policies and practices the U.S. has employed in the War on Terror.
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Interview with Amir Makin, Author of A Worthy Muslim— "I realized that the way of life called Islam directed all to protect the indigent from tyranny while preserving the dignity of the dispossessed."
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Book Review: The Road to Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam— After a harrowing childhood of whippings, cruelty, and abuse, the author’s “grandfather” a Muslim man who has been abusing her, sells her into a brothel.
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Book Review: How The States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein— A fascinating history of how the borders were drawn in the United States.
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Why The Maverick Stands Alone— John McCain won’t win the Presidency. Not because Obama is so much better, but because McCain is a bigger threat to the Neocons.
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Book Review: Mike's Election Guide 2008 by Michael Moore and The Do-It-Yourself Constitutional Amendment Kit by Nathaniel Whitten— Two new works of political satire each achieve mixed results in combining humor, advocacy and education.
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Book Review: 2030 The Lottery by Peter Moore— In a pseudo-Orwellian peek at a possible British future, Civil war racks Britain. A Pandora’s box’s of mayhem ensues…
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Book Review - You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values by Win McCormack— A fascinating and trashy spin through Republican scandals.
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Book Review: Blue Dixie - Awakening The South's Democratic Majority by Bob Moser— Moser should speak loudly to all of us, whether progressive or not. For if we don't hang together in this world, we surely will hang
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Book Review: The Coming China Wars - Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won by Peter Navarro— Telling people in China, or any developing nation, to give up getting rich quickly is like telling Americans to give up 80% of their wealth.
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Book Review: Unjust Justice by Chantal Delsol— In our eagerness to see justice done we run the serious risk of committing a serious injustice.
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Book Review: The Way We'll Be - The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream by John Zogby— John Zogby reports on the future of American values with more than poll results in mind.
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Examining The Faith of Barack Obama With Stephen Mansfield— A discussion of a new book about the faith of the Democratic presidential nominee.
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Book Review: The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso— David Freddoso's thorough, fact-based treatment of Obama's career shows that he is just another Chicago politician.
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Book Review: Faith In Fakes - Travels In Hyperreality by Umberto Eco — Umberto Eco examines topics from blue jeans and theme parks to ideologies and semiotics in this superb set of essays.
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Book Review: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi— This is no unsophisticated Bush-bashing routine; this is the real deal.
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Book Review: The Peacekeeper by Shabbir Ahsan— The best book set in a war zone that you're liable to read in a long time.
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Book Review (Play): The Portrait Of Mahatma Gandhi by Himendra Thakur— Surely there must be a better way of defending the Mahatma's grand vision than this?
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Book Review: Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally— "Towards Asmara" by Thomas Keneally travels through Eritrea's war of independence, a conflict that ousiders interpret.
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Book Review: Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie Jackson— Distracted author Maggie Jackson is more distracted by her own predetermined opinions.
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Book Review: America Unraveling: A Politically Incorrect Analysis of Public Faith and Culture by L. Scott Smith— L. Scott Smith's book is further evidence of the scarcity of reason and intellect in the discussion of religion and politics.
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Book Review: The Last Of The Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi— A beautiful book that does the seemingly impossible of holding humans up to ridicule while exalting their potential simultaneously.
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Book Review: Very Hard Choices by Spider Robinson— An intelligent and thought provoking book that might have you challenging your own assumptions.
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Interview: Elizabeth Pisani, Author Of The Wisdom Of Whores And HIV/AIDS Advocate— "If we don't spend the money on those most at risk what are we really doing to stop the spread of the disease?"
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Book Review: From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Freidman, and Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart— A cartoonish satire amplifies the most salient revelations from a non-fictional and nuanced consideration of the political and social climate in the Middle East.
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Book Review: This Land is Their Land - Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich— An important book about the social condition in the U.S., This Land is Their Land should be read by every American.
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Book Review: Blood River - A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher— Takes you gently through the 20th-century horror ride that is the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Book Review: A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr— Andrew Marr challenges my impression of a bland and lifeless post-war Britain.
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BC Radio Live: Filmmaker Katy Chevigny and Authors Ed Strosser and Michael Prince— From presidential elections to bird guano...
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Interview with Phyllis Zimbler Miller, Author of Mrs. Lieutenant— "I’ve wanted to write this book for 38 years, ever since I was a new Mrs. Lieutenant in the spring of 1970 during the Vietnam
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Book Review: The Spanish Inquisition – An Historical Revision by Henry Kamen— Details the ideology, processes and consequences of an infamous pursuit of religious purity.
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Book Review - American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau - Edited by Bill McKibben— "In wildness is the preservation of the world," said Thoreau. Environmental writing wages war on exploitation in this sublime anthology.
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Book Review: The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing— A look inside the revolution, tea-cosies and all. As relevant and compelling as when it was first published.
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Dissonance and Dissidents Between Marxist Theory and Practice in Tom Stoppard’s Rock 'N' Roll— In two contrasting worlds, Stoppard's play shows how Marxist materialism became indefensible in the Soviet bloc.
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Book Review: The Best Book on the Market: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Economy by Eamonn Butler— Just in time for the possible recession: a reminder of why markets work so well.
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Book Review: All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America by John McWhorter— The author argues that hip-hop is metaphysical at best, mystical at the least, but a political tour de force? Not yet, and maybe never.
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Book Review: This Land Is Their Land - Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich
— Do you care about where America now is economically in relation to where it used to be?
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Republican Truths for Fun and Profit— Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the political water...
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Book Review: The Dumbest Generation - How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein— Despite his heavy reliance on statistics, author Mark Bauerlein doesn't convince the skeptics that we're getting dumber.
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Book Review: A Case Of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif— A refreshing antidote to today's omnipresent War On Terror rhetoric.
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Book Review: Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester— A story set in Hong Kong, a city that is almost a character, where immigrants grapple with globalisation.
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