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

Thomas L. Friedman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

30% recycled content
Haven't read more than the synopsis yet, but are we to believe Friedman's call for a "green revolution" when it's published on 70% new paper, and only 30% recycled material? That's a revolution? When Friedman apologizes for his part in cheerleading for the waste ...

Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency

Robert Kuttner

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008

Outstanding book on multiple levels
Ronald Reagan famously (and wrongly) said that government wasn't the solution to the problem; it was the problem. In fact, it is the solution to the problem. We have now suffered through thirty years of a federal government that has been intentionally impaired so ...

The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation

Michael Medved

Crown Forum, 2008

Balance to What My Children Hear in School
My high-schoolers' history textbooks casually spout several of the lies that this book debunks in easily-understood, well-researched chapters. I was looking for something that would present the "other side" of what they hear, and this is authoritative and so ...

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

T. Boone Pickens

Crown Business, 2008

the truth behind gas prices
A great book! T. Boone Pickens is a true Patriot. One who loves this country and mankind before the love of money. I enjoyed knowing more about the man and his direction for America's energy future; even though I did not agree with everything he says. For example, as ...

Time President Obama: The Path to The White House

Time, 2008

Barack Obama's path from Hawaii to Indonesia to the White House represents one of the most unlikely and fascinating journeys in U.S. political history. With this special publication that is sure to become an instant collector's item, "Time" will mark Obama's rise with an illustrated 96-page book. "Time Obama" will contain original "Time" magazine ...

The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are ...

Bill Gertz

Crown Forum, 2008

Disturbing, yet highly informative
This book makes me sick to my stomach and extremely fearful for our national security. Slimeballs from each party have infiltrated our security and military administration and are working to defeat our country from the inside. It's a hard subject to stomach but more ...

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

Three Rivers Press, 2008

cometh the hour cometh the man
Barack Obama's latest book, Change We Can Believe In, is indeed a sincere attempt to put forth his views and plans to renew America. The amount of thought he has put behind his seven arousing speeches speaks volume of the quality of a leader passionately engaged in ...

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

Erik Larson

Vintage, 2004

this book was a bestseller for good reason
This is an excellent book which stands out amongst true crime books as one of the best. The author handles a gruesome topic without making the reader feel depressed. Every aspect of the crime is examined while the writer illuminates an historical perspective which is ...

The Plan: Big Ideas for America

Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Reed

PublicAffairs, 2006

Raised to a Four Against the Extremist Reviews
ON STRIKE UNTIL AMAZON STOPS DELETING FAVORABLE VOTES FROM FANS AND COUNTING NEGATIVE VOTES FROM THOSE WHO HATE THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE BOOK BEING REVIEWED MORE THAN THEY CARE ABOUT THE REVIEW. The extremist republican reviews are dismally childish. I am an ...

Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America

Mike Huckabee

Sentinel HC, 2008

Enjoyable read
Even if you only paid cursory attention to this years election, this is a good read. For political junkies and policy wonks, this is great read. For the 87% of Americans who think the country is on the wrong track, this is a MUST READ.

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

Paul Tough

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

Whatever It Takes
This is both an important and an excellent book. Canada's own book staked his claims in a forceful, eloquent and caring way. Paul Tough's WHATEVER IT TAKES attempts to present objectively some of the performance outcome data of Canada's concept, both in a ...

The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

James Bamford

Doubleday, 2008

criminals in charge
Bamford's latest book is certainly well researched, and comes to some alarming conclusions: Israel has virtually bugged the entire world, and our government colludes with them in handing over all of our most private information, contrary to all of our laws and ...

The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition

America's Test Kitchen

America's Test Kitchen, 2006

Best. Cookbook. Ever.
I have tried a dozen different recipes out of this book in the two months I've owned it, and every one was One Of The Best Things I Have Ever Cooked. These are not recipes that you will have to tweak a little the second or third time you do them. They are ...

Champlain's Dream

David Hackett Fischer

Simon & Schuster, 2008

History Like It Ought to Be
I appreciate his narrative style, without an agenda or ax to grind. This history is not for the ideological nor the squeamish. It's one of those books that you don't want to end. It made me wish I could have seen North America as Champlain did--wild, fertile, a ...

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

Amazing Answer to a Prayer
Bought this book w/o a whole lot of information about it. Can't believe it -- I now have the resource I've been looking for -- I'm a cook with some years of experience, a huge cookbook collection, a list of classes taught by renowned experts and cookbook writers, ...