books about: america

books about: america

books:

America

Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise

Three Rivers Press, 2008

informative
i like this book. it is clearly written. it doesn't include lots of hesitancy that's found in soooo many books written by attorneys!!! this book very clearly describes senator obama's positions on so many issues. it's not, of course, absolutely comprehensive, but, ...

The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future

T. Boone Pickens

Crown Business, 2008

The First Billion
The author provides some very important pearls of wisdom on the subject of making big money. First, big deals take time to reach fruition. In addition, decision makers can not get bogged down in "analysis paralysis". At some point, action is required. Leaders need to ...

The Revolution: A Manifesto

Ron Paul

Grand Central Publishing, 2008

IMPORTANT American Document!!
REQUIRED READING: This book reveals the lies every American suspects of their government. Other than the Constitution which is being destroyed, this book is an education of protecting our liberties.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Thomas L. Friedman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Required reading
Clear, insightful, and meaningful; a great sequel to "The World is Flat," this book should be required reading for informed and influential persons today. It is well researched with impressive and diverse references giving their varied perspectives on timely topics. ...

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Erik Larson

Vintage, 2004

Creepy-cool slasher history
Creepy-cool history of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, intertwined with the history of the serial killer H. H. Holmes who was operating at and around the Fair and may have accounted for anywhere from 9 (confirmed) to 50 (suspected) to even 200 (conjectured) murders. ...

A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)

Howard Zinn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

This should be required reading in our schools
Our country will never be able to live up to the lofty ideals of our founding documents unless we come to grips with the truth of how we got where we are. This book tells the truth about how the people on top have butchered and suppressed others in order to STAY on ...

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage)

Barack Obama

Vintage, 2008

Obama is the man baby, the next president in 2008!
Obama is the man baby, the next president in 2008! This book is GREAT, and everyone should read it. Sorry my review is not a novel like everyone else.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition

Joseph Gibaldi

Modern Language Association of America, 2003

Answers my questions
This book seems to answer all questions I had and all questions I am likely to have.

The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Naomi Wolf

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007

Must Read!
This is a great book. Very informative, a little bit scary. I purchased extra copies to share with family & friends. This information must get out to everyone.

Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

Paul Tough

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

"Let us put our minds together...
... and see what life we can make for our children", a quote by Sitting Bull, embraces the philosophy and vision of outstanding educator, reformer, and leader Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone. Part biography, part call to action, "Whatever it ...

The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America

Jim Marrs

William Morrow, 2008

Well Documented and Difficult to Refute
This book is extensively sourced and footnoted, making it easy enough to verify the allegations for yourself if you are so inclined. I took a few weeks to go through this book and was able to trace many of the key assertions. Sadly, the Bush Administration has moved ...

I Am America (And So Can You!)

Stephen Colbert

Grand Central Publishing, 2007

So far so good....
Read the first few chapters and it is very Stephen Colbert. Whitty, funny, in depth, blunt...good book so far

The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most ...

Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

Empowering Tool for Deliciousness
Prolific culinary author duo Page and Dornenburg are at it again! Supplying truly remarkable, creative,useful tools for the chef who desires max delicisiosio for their guests. This continues their trajectory in the earlier "Culinary Artistry" of not being ...

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition

Warren E. Buffett

The Cunningham Group, 2008

New Edition of Classic
This is the new edition of the classic original The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, making its debut at Berkshire's 2008 Annual Meeting. I just skimmed this one and it is even more amazing than the original (which, as the reviews over there ...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie

Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
I'll admit -- I put off reading THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN for well over a year, in favor of more "exciting" books. Boy, what a mistake I made! Told from the perspective of thirteen-year-old Arnold Spirit, an intelligent, observant, sarcastic ...