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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage)

153 reviews
Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Vintage, 2007

A damning indictment
Since I lived for a year in Baghdad's Green Zone, I felt it was necessary for me to read what happened before I got there, under L. Paul Bremer, bureaucrat extraordinaire. That is why I recently found myself reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. To say that the Bush Administration and its chosen Iraq occupation overlords made poor choices during and immediately ...

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

94 reviews
Marc Reisner

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993

Ahead of its time
This was a return engagement to "Cadillac Desert", as I had read the original in the 1980s, amazed at the time, considering it a premier example of thorough history and analysis in a subject about which few people knew much at all. What could have been a "dry" subject was actually quite gripping and informative, and fortunate to have many participants in key moments still available. In that ...

War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

39 reviews
Douglas J. Feith

Harper, 2008

a good first draft of history
This is an excellent background and first draft of history for the last seven years. Feith was a policy/ analyst guy. He is not a foaming at the mouth, neo-con ideologue. He is a DC area lawyer, that worked in the NSC under Reagan/ Bush the elder and then more law work during Clinton, while keeping an amateur hand in the defense/ policy world. As far as managing an office goes, I ...

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

136 reviews
Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann

Harper, 2008

Book review
Very ionformative and non-partisan. Makes you wish that the American public would wake up and throw them all out of office!

Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series)

80 reviews
William Bonner, Lila Rajiva

Wiley, 2007

Entertaining, insightful and very timely
As the debt ridden economy of the U.S. crumbles at an accelerating pace, "Mobs, Messiah, and Markets" helps you laugh to keep from crying by at least explaining how we got here and why. Without being too apocalyptic it also offers some avenues of escape from financial ruin as the house of cards built on Federal Reserve Notes begins to topple.

The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom

226 reviews
David Kupelian

WND Books, 2005

Thank God!
Thank God for patriots like David Kupelian. This is a great book, that really needs to be in every concerned Americans library.

A Nation of Sheep

40 reviews
Andrew P. Napolitano

Thomas Nelson, 2007

An excellent book on a very serious subject
I've often felt as if I were among the few Napolitano calls wolves: Americans that dare to scream, holler and shout when government violates our Constitution. But even knowing of the vast Constitutional abuses I have been witness to in my lifetime, I never realized how widespread (and indeed, how old) some of the most egregious violations of our Constitution are. This book is a must read for ...

The Appeal

423 reviews
John Grisham

Doubleday, 2008

Annoying - but with a powerful message
John Grisham rings a warning bell with this sordid tale of corporate bigwigs and the lengths they will go to screw people. A small community in Southern Mississippi wins a large verdict against Krane Chemical, whose illegal dumping contaminated the town's ground water and led to many cancer deaths. But Krane's billionaire CEO, sleazy politicians, and sneaky offshore political operators arrange ...

The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate

16 reviews
James Rosen

Doubleday, 2008

Pulitzer Worthy
James Rosen has written the defining biography of the Watergate era. This incredibly detailed and painstakingly researched book is worthy of a Pulitzer. Rosen's writing is eloquent, informative, and impossible to put down. His observations are spot on. Reading this reminds me very much of the late David Halberstam who was one of America's greatest authors. This book is a must have for any ...

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

229 reviews
Jeremy Scahill

Nation Books, 2007

The Real Disaster in Iraq
Liberals love to push and fight over who was first to be against the war in Iraq. This distracts from the far more interesting questions that books like this seek to expose. The triumph of private mercenaries who discredit this great country and are allowed to operate unchecked by the noble traditions of military justice is unpatriotic and criminal. How this terrible "business" arose is well ...

The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (4th Edition)

26 reviews
Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Before anything else....
This is THE standard introduction to the science and art of biblical criticism. For decades now, required reading in many if not most Christian seminaries. The 4th edition is co-authored with Bart Ehrman and is an excellent update on the state of the art. Before anything else, this book should be read with the intent of understanding the issues involved in studying the New Testament text. ...

The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

14 reviews
Laton Mccartney

Random House, 2008

The Last Of The American Robber Barons
This reads like a fast paced mystery novel, which in many ways is what it is. One of the US' most massive thefts in the early 20th century is matched by the most corrupt national government we've had thus far. The actions of president Harding and his close associates bring to mind Pope Leo X's remark about taking full advantage of the opportunity. Unlike Leo, the people behind the Teapot Dome ...

Outrage

HarperCollins e-books, 2007

Half of all illegal immigrants came into this country legally--and we have no way of knowing they're still here! Congressmen are putting their wives on their campaign payrolls--so that campaign contributions are really personal bribes! The ACLU won't allow its own directors free speech. Liberals want to strip us of the tools to stop terrorism. The UN is a cover for massive corruption--and eighty countries, who pay 12 percent of the budget, ...

The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos

6 reviews
Ravi Batra

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Stays on message - still the most potent critic of Capitalism
Ravi Batra is still at it, almost three decades since he penned the classic "The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism: A New Study of History". We have come a long way with this author since then and never been bored. Batra's thesis is that we have entered the era of financial capitalism, the last stage of the Age of Acquisitors, where an increasingly uneven distribution of wealth feeds into ...

A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

9 reviews

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007

A Context the Opposite of What We're Told
As an ex-international banker who quit banking for the same reasons John Perkins quit being an Economic Hit Man, I can vouch for the truth of every essay in this fine book. The underlying truth is: the world is increasingly run by the corporatocracy, and it has negligible concern for either the poor countries it purports to help nor the environment in which it functions. The truth is the opposite ...

Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

126 reviews
Robert Baer

Three Rivers Press, 2004

EXCELLENT REVIEW of US/Saudi Foreign "Policy" (In Ketab kheli khube...W'allah!)
Easy 1-2 day read...a book you CAN'T put down! Excellent and exciting writing style with occasional humorous comments by Baer...an informative, entertaining book! The only negative aspect in reading many reviews here, is the failures of many reviewers to recognize the deeper implications of this publication being ONLY ONE example of internal causes and weaknesses of the US government and ...

Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values

52 reviews
Keith Olbermann

Random House, 2007

A truly revealing and excellent book
Certainly, those persons who spend their days as apologists for the Bush Administration, with their heads firmly buried in the sand, will list out all the reasons why this book is owned by the democratic party, and they'll shriek out the usual evangelistic defenses of Dumbya. But truly, Olbermann is a thorough, well-researched and articulate journalist, and his book touches on so many of the key ...

The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption

24 reviews
Bob Ingle, Sandy McClure

St. Martin's Press, 2008

The Soprano State
As a former kid from New Jersey I purchased the book as somewhat of a lark. After devouring the material it was no longer a lark. The pathetic corruption is so clearly detailed and documented it makes your head spin.The New Jersey I left in 1974 had an outstanding public school system which has been decimated by the lads in Trenton, draining resources from small school districts and pumping ...

All the President's Men

92 reviews
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

Pocket, 2005

IT COULD NOT HAPPEN NOW!!!!
"All The President's Men" (2 DISC) is a classic film and book about an important period in American Political History. The Reporters, The Director and his Actors should feel proud. Two intrepid reports expose the rampant corruption within the Whitehouse and bring down a criminal president. What is shocking on seeing this film again is that in the present political climate in America the ...

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies

88 reviews
M. Stanton Evans

Crown Forum, 2007

Roller Coaster Ride of a Read!
Blacklisted exceeded my expectations. I had been looking forward to reading a thoroughly researched study of the events involving Senator Joe McCarthy. And Blacklisted satisfied by providing exhaustive research. This alone would have sufficed - but the reader is also treated to the author's amazing writing ability. Evans has a talent for presenting his research in fascinating style. He ...

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