Review:As an Arkansan and an acquaintance of the Clintons and an amateur student of their governship/presidency, I especially welcome Noonan's masterpiece of insight on the issue of "what the Clintons are". I have attempted for over twenty years to articulate that definition, and have found that if I had just waited for this book, I could have saved myself the trouble. The Clintons are everything Noonan says they are, and it's not a pretty picture.
For the reviewer from New York: if you don't... Read more

Review:A must-read for any English major! Other than that. . . sections of Hobbes' argument have been greatly helpful in writing articles for my blog; you'd be surprised at how much video games and certain works of literature cross over. Read more

Review:1968 did change everything and Chris Matthews recalls it with readable detail. I learned so much more than I knew previously after growing up during that era. It clarified the murky and made me think about those who impacted 1968 in a new way. Read more

Review:Chris Hayes has penned a book that contains the same breadth of perspective and depth of inquiry that made "Up" so much fun to watch. He has identified a critical element of our current intellectual and political malaise, and explores it with interesting insight and analysis. It's too soon to tell if his prediction about how we might find our way out of the mess we're in will come true, but I hope it will - the problem he describes is real and dire, and if we can't find the way toward a new meth... Read more

Review:Good account of the hacking of the USA election and the manipulation of it uninformed citizens. This should be a wake up call for all in the USA to become more involved with our political process and understand how the media (all of the media from FOX and CNN to NPR) parses the news. It should say to all of us verify your sources and consider many sources. Look at the media sources that you don't necessarily agree with. Look at sources that maybe contrary to what you believe. Evaluated it, think... Read more

Review:This book ties together historical threads which leads to the consistent notion of American exceptionalism. Are we truly making progress or do we simply recycle through the patina of individual liberty covering our desire for certainty and want for caretakers? Th carefully crafted explanation of the never resolved civil war which morphed into ongoing manifold terrorism both physically and verbally continues. The book is clear about this until the year 1968. The last 50 years are given short shri... Read more

Review:This book is about marketing meets public relations meets political science. In other words Corporate Power. Something I hadn't adequately considered. It's published in 2000 so I'd really be interested in an update or 2nd edition that was more current. Even though dated, this book will enjoy a privileged position on my book shelves. Read more

Review:This a well written and interesting biography about the man, Roger Ailes, and the cable "news" network he created to promote the rightwing agenda and generate huge profits. Love or hate Roger Ailes, the guy is brilliant, inspired, cunning and devious. The book was a good read and every time I happen to turn on Fox News, I better understand how it seeks to manipulate public opinion and cater to its and the Republican Party's base, old white men. Read more

Review:Excellent book, filled with important facts. I had forgotten that Bill Clinton had agreed with Gingrich to privatize social security, i.e. hand it over to the tender mercies of Wall Street. Fortunately, the Monica business exploded the very day after and saved real FDR liberalism from traitors like those who now run the party. A neoliberal neocon Democratic party is a disaster and must be redeemed, if not by Sanders, then by a successor. Franks' best book yet. Read more

Review:Al Franken does not waste time. He starts by lambasting conservative authors and politicians, and he delivers a pretty brutal crush at the end. This is not a book conservatives will like in any sense.
Franken's best chapters detail America's involvement in Aghganistan, starting in the 1980's with the Aghgan resistance to the Soviet invasion. He tells the story of Aghganistan's collapse, albeit breifly, and how that collapse was neglected (Project Neglect). He then tells the story of how Clint... Read more