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The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Signet Classics)
Signet Classics, 2003
The Origin of our Bill of Rights
"The Anti-Federalist Papers" along with the "Federalist Papers" is an excellent way to really learn about how our Constitution came about. Pseudonyms like The Centinel, The Pennsylvania Farmer, John DeWitt, Cato, et.al. set forth the cons against why various ...
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The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
David Wootton
Hackett Publishing Company, 2003
Necessary reading!
All Americans need to read this. Here lies the foundation. Our Founding Fathers had it right (and what beautiful English!)
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
University of Minnesota Press, 1983
Original, brilliant... insightful, but distorted in perspective.
Why am I giving this book a five star rating? Because this work is an effort at a new theory that is systematic and terminologically consistent and must have been a torture for the writers to conjure up in their head.
It certainly is a torture to read this work. ...
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In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword
Jagdish Bhagwati
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007
A masterpiece
PART I: Hypothesis and Framework
Although there is a glut of literature and debate on the subject of globalization, Jagdish Bhagwati chooses to weigh in again upon this controversial subject. Bhagwati sees that the debate on globalization has become weighed down ...
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Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks)
Carl W. Ernst
The University of North Carolina Press, 2004
Nothing better
This is a splendid book for anyone who is trying to understand Islam. No other book situates Muslim concerns in global contexts and thoughout history. The author is a master at clear writing. In my experience when I have recommended this book to people, they come back ...
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Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
Bill Ayers
Beacon Press, 2008
"Fugitive Days" inspires during troubled times
I bought "Fugitive Days" for my 16-year-old nephew. Ayers' book is an inspirational account of a young person's struggles to do what's right during troubled times when the government and those in power have created an Orwellian world where the truth can be hard to ...
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Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't
Robert Spencer
Regnery Publishing, 2007
The Work of a True Scholar in Islam.
Don't listen to the reviewers who say Robert Spencer is not knowledgeable enough about Islam. He could teach quite a few Muslims about their own books and history, I have studied it deeply for seven years myself.
Also bear in mind the doctrine of Al-Taqiyya and ...
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Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris
Knopf, 2006
loved it!!
this book is great!! it's a quick, easy read, very effective, and says everything it needs to say. i couldn't put it down from the moment i picked it up. i love reading books that actually quote scripture line for line and point out how dispicable it is!! ...
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The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know ...
Iain Murray
Regnery Publishing, 2008
A Little Strident, But Factual
Although the tone of the writing sometimes put me off, I found the six of the seven examples well documented and argued. The author's conclusions were fully supportable from the evidence. However, the equating of "Liberals" to "Environmentalists" is not as exact as ...
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ANTI-CAPITALISTIC MENTALITY, THE (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)
LUDWIG VON MISES
Liberty Fund Inc., 2006
Great book and a short read too!
Ludwig von Mises hit the nail on the head in this book when he explains very clearly why anti-capitalists hate capitalism. It basically boils down to jealousy. So if you want a great read that is less than 100 pages and will leave you with new knowledge, then you ...
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What the Anti-Federalists Were For: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution
Herbert J. Storing
University Of Chicago Press, 1981
Whatever
Guy Smith complains that can't understand Herbert Storing's prose (but is this Storing's fault or Mr. Smith's? This was one of the most helpful books I read in graduate school, and I found Storing's writing academic, but accessible) and then makes errors in his ...
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Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents
Ellen W. Schrecker
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001
A handy research tool
A good bird's eye view and an easy read, suitable for basic research on American politics in the 1950s. However, lacks anecdotes and a personal touch. Needs to be overhauled with new material that has recently been made available to the public.
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Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our ...
Jr., Robert F. Kennedy
Harper Perennial, 2005
Which pill would you like to take the blue pill or the red pill(CAN)
One of the things I find most disturbing in this, book is that Mr. Kennedy describes a strange and creepy right wing character that at one time had been following him around the country while he lectured. This freaky individuals behavior amounted to stalking and ...
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The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11
Dinesh D'Souza
Broadway, 2008
Left decadence is what drives Muslims nuts, and shouldn't conservatives agree?
A thought provoking book, less inflammatory than its cover might suggest. D'Souza, who has become a serious politics-and-religion intellectual, makes a case that many conservatives will find surprising but that bears consideration: that radical Muslims hate primarily, ...
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The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. ...
Elvin T. Lim
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Lim provides the proof
This book offers compelling proof that presidents have dumbed down their public speech in the last two centuries. It is one of the very few political books I've read that is not at all partisan - Lim places equal blame on Clinton as he does on Bush. Lim nevertheless ...
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