books about: current

books about: current

books:

Current

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

Picador, 2008

Great Book
Very eye opening, great reading. I read it while i was in Panama last summer and was able to draw paralles to the building of the Panama Canal

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

Andrew Bacevich

Metropolitan Books, 2008

battered wife syndrome
I discovered Andrew Bacevich by reading The New American Militarism; How Americans Are Seduced By War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), a book in which he describes how our culture's normalization and even romanticization of war "pervades our national ...

The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008

Bob Woodward

Simon & Schuster, 2008

The Most Wrenching of the Bush at War Quartet
`The War Within' by Bob Woodward In the 4th of the Bush at War quartet, Bob Woodward's `The War Within' offers the most scathing portrait of the George W. Bush administration's prosecution of the Iraq War. As a person who badly wants to see a successful conclusion ...

Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the ...

Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann

Harper, 2008

Great Read!! We are being FLEECED
This may be a shot heard across the world. hear is a man who us a Moderate democrat who is seeking to set the record straight. There is so much hear I don't know where to start; but I will press on, lets start with Guantanamo, and how important it has been in ...

The Post-American World

Fareed Zakaria

W. W. Norton, 2008

The Post American World
The Post-American World I got a great price and excellent service on the delivery of this book. Zakaria's book is very provocative, and challenges most of the assumptions we have inherited about America from our parents. He gives us a sypathetic look at America from ...

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

James Bamford

Doubleday, 2008

Interesting and Revealing!
Bamford opens by telling us that by 2008 NSA had become the most intrusive spy organization, secretly filtering millions of phone calls and e-mails/hour, programmed to listen for thousands of names and phone numbers. The watch list once contained 20 names - now its ...

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

George Soros

PublicAffairs, 2008

Leverage, Complex Products, Massive Deception
Legendary investor George Soros explains a wide variety of market upheavals over several decades. Although this book was published in May, he identified the problems that would cause a liquidity crunch and capital shortfalls for Wall Street's former investment banks, ...

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

Thomas L. Friedman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Hot, Flat and Crowded
Great book. Just like before, Thomas Friedman tells it like it is. It's amazing how recent many of his references are.

Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

Kevin Phillips

Viking Adult, 2008

The other shoe
This book details the possibly fatal indebtedness of the US to lenders throughout the rest of the world. The only major omission is a discussion of the instruments that may be the final nail in our coffin, Credit Default Swaps.

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

Barack Obama

Vintage, 2008

A good way to get and understanding of Barak Obama
I found myself very impressed by both Obama's understanding of both sides of many issues as well as his ability to write. At the same time I can see how such writing could be considered aloof next to a more Hemmingway-like prose. While I did not personally agree with ...

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Jeffrey Toobin

Anchor, 2008

a remarkable Nine
Toobin's book covers the history of the US Supreme Court from the summer of 1991 through the spring of 2007. Throughout his work, he provides biographical information of the Nine (Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer), plus ...

The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen

Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, ...

Threshold Editions, 2008

Ignore economic deniers
The controversy around the Laffer curve is made by those who do not understand the fundamentals of economics: people respond to the incentives. Ask yourself this simple and easy question, would you work hard (or at all) if someone took out of your wallet $4 for every ...

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

Barton Gellman

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Frightening but balanced
"Angler" paints a portrayal of the most dangerous vice president in US history, based on dozens of interviews and extensive documentary research. Gellman is fair in attributing to Cheney mostly honest motives, a deep belief in what he espoused and did, and honesty in ...

The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril

Eugene Jarecki

Free Press, 2008

Booking the Empire: Eugene Jarecki's AMERICAN WAY OF WAR
Booking the Empire: "Why We Fight" Filmmaker Makes His Case In Print by Rob Williams; editor, Vermont Commons newspaper What happens when an award-winning documentary film producer turns to a print monograph to make his case? If you are Eugene Jarecki, the ...

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman

Picador, 2007

The world is flat 3.0
It is an interesting book, and Friedman brings up a lot of arguable points Its crazy how much outsourcing really goes over seas to China and India.