Political Bookworm: May 9, 2010 - May 15, 2010
BOOK WORLD: May 16, 2010
1. Spoken from the Heart (Scribner, $30). By Laura Bush 2. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Norton, $27.95). By Michael Lewis 3. The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency (Lyons, $22.95) By...
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May 15, 2010; 12:00 PM ET |
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BOOK WORLD: May 16, 2010
NONFICTION HARDCOVER 1. SPOKEN FROM THE HEART (Scribner, $30). By Laura Bush. The former first lady’s reflections on eight years in the White House and what came before. (1) 2. ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS (Threshold Editions, $16.99). By Jack E....
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May 15, 2010; 11:00 AM ET |
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Can Obama learn from Bush's domestic playbook?
President Bush’s domestic initiatives were often overshadowed by his overseas agenda. In “Bush on the Home Front: Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks,” John D. Graham examines Bush’s efforts on taxes, education, health care, energy and other issues. Here, he argues...
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Steven E. Levingston
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May 14, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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Cash-poor America and its future
Once the country with all the money, America is now a cash-poor international debtor. How did we get ourselves in this position and what does it mean for our future role on the global stage? Stephen S. Cohen and J....
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Steven E. Levingston
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May 13, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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The virtues of lying in politics
Rarely does a book come along with as delicious a title as Martin Jay’s latest offering from the University of Virginia Press. “The Virtues of Mendacity” isn’t a general study of lying but as its subtitle suggests, “On Lying in...
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Steven E. Levingston
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May 12, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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Palin's next book, "America By Heart," due Nov. 23
By Hillel Italie AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah Palin’s new book has a title, “America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag,” and a release date, Nov. 23, publisher HarperCollins announced Tuesday. The Alaska ex-governor and...
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Steven E. Levingston
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May 11, 2010; 4:08 PM ET |
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War fever: 1898 and 2003
In his Washington Post review of “The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst and the Rush to Empire, 1898,” James McGrath Morris provided a modern context for author Evan Thomas’s tale of the march to the Spanish American War. Thomas, the...
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Steven E. Levingston
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May 11, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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History’s shadow at the Arizona border
The Arizona borderlands may be the site today of a high-profile immigration battle ostensibly ignited by inaction from Washington, but the territory is no stranger to taking matters into its owns hands when the federal government is perceived to balk....
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May 10, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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