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The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life

2 reviews
Michael Lind

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Essential In Understanding American Security Policy
The first chapter alone justifies buying the book. Michael Lind's American Way of Strategy is essential to an understanding of long-term (200+ years) American security policy. The first chapter applies directly to America's true objectives in prosecuting the war on terror, particularly in regards to nuclear proliferation. I haven't been more enthralled with a book on this subject since Walter ...

Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

22 reviews
Sam Kaner, Lenny Lind, ...

Jossey-Bass, 2007

Great decision-making facilitation!
The 1st edition of Sam Kaner's book was a fairly thin volume that diagramed his divergent-convergent thinking model. It made me laugh when he named the struggle to reach convergence the `groan zone'! Most who have facilitated decision-making have experienced this, the name works well for the process! This 2nd edition is about his model with much more added around essential facilitation skills. ...

Up From Conservatism

26 reviews
Michael Lind

Free Press, 1997

It doesn't get any more real than this
I make it a point to read non-fiction books that encapsulate a perspective that will unsettle me more than non-fiction in any category could ever hope to. Specifically on matters that cut to the quick of what it is to be human in our time: psychology, religious and cultural origins, and controversial views on politics. I can think of only four or five books out of the hundreds I have reviewed and ...

Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict

51 reviews
Michael Lind

Free Press, 2002

Necessary reading on America's role in the world
This is a dense but revealing book. It called my attention while searching for a different perspective to the square-minded, whacky, pacifistic analysis. The auther is, no doubt, a liberal democrat who has engrossed the ranks of the anti-Bush whackos lately. However, he gives us an honest and detailed explanation of the background of Vietnam. He convincingly lets us see the whole picture of ...

The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics

9 reviews
Ted Halstead, Michael Lind

Anchor, 2002

Too bad our politicians don't read books like this
The meat of this book is not so much the specific proposals that the authors offer. Instead, the real point of this book is: Our nation has undergone three revolutionary transformations -- from colony to independence (1770's to Civil War), from agrarian to early industrial (Civil War to 1930's), and from early industrial to full industrial (Depression to 1970's). We are now in the throes of a ...

After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and ...

40 reviews
Emmanuel Todd

Columbia University Press, 2006

After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
In 1976 Emmanuel Todd, predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, in his book "The Final Fall: An Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere" Todd now turns his gaze to the U.S. in "After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order". In this second book Todd's demographic arguments are weak, but his economic and historical analysis seems trenchant, and he predicts that in the ...

What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President

11 reviews
Michael Lind

Anchor, 2006

Eye-opening Analysis of Abe's Views on Race
"What Lincoln Believed" is part of a line of recent presidential biographies (Jefferson, Jackson) taking what some readers think is a hypercritical look at some of this country's leading political personalities. It's no exaggeration to say that "What Lincoln Believed" will, for many, be an eye-opener, especially those who haven't focused on our greatest president since high school. While I ...

The Bluebonnet Girl

3 reviews
Michael Lind

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2003

A child's Love for her people
It was a heart warming story that brought tears to my eyes. It was great. I got it from the library because it was not available for purchase. I read about it in a monthly electric co-op magazine. I am about to purchase 2 for gifts now that they are available in hardback.

NEXT AMERICAN NATION: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution

14 reviews
Michael Lind

Free Press, 1996

Exploding myths, offering solutions
Every so often, I come across one of those books that really makes me think. Michael Lind's penetrating look at modern America, "The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution," is one of those books. I should elaborate a bit on that statement: books that REALLY make me think are ones that I will ponder at odd times during the day, or think about as I am falling ...

Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics

33 reviews
Michael Lind

Basic Books, 2002

Michael Lind scores another big hit with this book
In this book you will find the fascinating story of how sociological conditions in Texas, via George W. Bush's idiosyncrasy, are shaping world history. The "South" (from Virginia to Texas) have been historically dominated by an Anglo-Celt white majority. This dominant group has retained more sociological features akin to the British of earlier centuries (plantation mentality, untrammeled ...

Destinations in Science
David C. Brummett, Karen K. Lind, ...

Pearson Prentice Hall, 1995

Middle School Science Text Book

Wechselspiel
Michael Dreke, Wolfgang Lind

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989

Paired oral activity sheets for beginning through advanced German students. The book consists of 70 reproducible A/B activities emphasizing a specific grammar, vocabulary or language function. Teaching suggestions and follow-up activities are given for each activity.

Parallel Lives
Michael Lind

Etruscan Press, 2008

Michael Lind has been described by Rolling Stone magazine as "that rarest of figures: an intellectual with name recognition." Now the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, Lind has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker , Harper's Magazine , and The New Republic and writes frequently for The New York Times and Financial Times . He is the author of more than a dozen books of history, ...

Espanol en pareja

1 review
Michael Dreke, Wolfgang Lind, ...

Langenscheidt, 1991

Not appropriate for high-school
The concept of this book is great--already prepared information gap activities for all different levels. Unfortunately, most of the tasks are too difficult for Spanish I and II high-school students, and there are a few phrases/expressions taught which are not appropriate for the age group. Also, it uses some very low frequency vocabulary in some of the activities. There are a few brilliant ...

Hamiltons Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition

1 review
Michael Lind

Free Press, 1997

get this book
The introduction is great, but the journey through the different political writings is the best.

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