Political Bookworm: June 6, 2010 - June 12, 2010
BOOK WORLD - June 13, 2010
1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Norton, $27.95). By Michael Lewis 2. Spoken from the Heart (Scribner, $30). By Laura Bush 3. To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine (Regnery, $29.95). By Newt Gingrich 4. War (Twelve, $26.99)....
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June 12, 2010; 12:00 PM ET |
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BOOK WORLD - June 13, 2010
NONFICTION HARDCOVER 1. THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE (Norton, $27.95). By Michael Lewis. The murky world of financial derivatives. (12) 2. WOMEN FOOD AND GOD: AN UNEXPECTED PATH TO ALMOST EVERYTHING (Scribner, $24). By Geneen Roth. Tackling compulsive...
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June 12, 2010; 11:00 AM ET |
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The curse of consumerism
The American economy is off-track -- creeping along on mistaken beliefs: that free trade and gobalization are always good, that the market is always right and government regulation always wrong and that consumption rather than production should power growth. Clyde...
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Steven E. Levingston
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June 11, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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| Tags: fixing the U.S. economy; u.s. consumerism; consumption society; problems of globalization;
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The myth of post-racial America
Was the election of Barack Obama the turning point in America’s racial development? Is the United States now set on a path to realize all its hopes and dreams of the civil rights era and narrow the divisions between the...
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Steven E. Levingston
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June 10, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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Frauenfelder's do-it-yourself happiness
If you got the time and ability, Mark Frauenfelder has a strategy for you for coping in the modern world. It's summed up in the title of his book "Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World." Frauenfelder...
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Steven E. Levingston
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June 9, 2010; 11:46 AM ET |
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Ocean research funding gap
Would greater funding for ocean science research and technology have left us better prepared to respond to the Gulf coast oil spill? Ellen Prager, a scientist with extensive experience in undersea research, argues that investment in ocean sciences takes a...
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Steven E. Levingston
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June 9, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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Spill’s danger to migratory birds
The BP oil spill isn’t a disaster relegated just to Gulf coast life. The area becomes an important stopover point for many migratory birds. Slickened waters and fouled feeding grounds pose a danger during the migrations and underscore the wide...
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Steven E. Levingston
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June 8, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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BOOK WORLD - June 6, 2010
NONFICTION HARDCOVER 1. THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN PROSPERITY: FREEMARKET DELUSIONS, AMERICA’S DECLINE ... (Free Press, $26). By Clyde Prestowitz (1) 2. TO SAVE AMERICA: STOPPING OBAMA’S SECULAR-SOCIALIST MACHINE (Regnery, $29.95) By Newt Gingrich. More pummeling of the president. (2) 3....
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June 7, 2010; 10:30 AM ET |
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Oil spill opens door to Cuba
Could the oil disaster in the Gulf have a silver lining for U.S.-Cuba relations? Ann Louise Bardach, an award-winning reporter, explores the potential for oil diplomacy with our long estranged neighbor in the wake of the BP accident. Bardach’s latest...
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June 7, 2010; 5:30 AM ET |
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