Uncivilized
Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels
With an NPR
Correspondent
by John F.
Burnett
In this candid, intimate account, John
Burnett exposes the whoa he's known
through his adventures as an NPR reporter.
The result is a revealing and personal
account that will fascinate not only NPR
listeners, but anyone interested in the
state of our world today and how the media
covers it.
As a radio journalist whose work
appears regularly on Morning
Edition and All Things Considered,
John F. Burnett has reported from the
Branch Davidian standoff in Waco and the
Kosovo conflict; covered the guerilla wars
in Central America; ridden with US marines
during the invasion of Iraq; and reported
from the flooded streets of New Orleans
after Hurricane Katrina and from New York
City, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in the
weeks and months following 9/11.
100 People
Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al
Franken Is #37)
by Bernard
Goldberg
Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the
America Bashers (the cultural elites who
look down their snobby noses at "ordinary"
Americans) ... the Hollywood Blowhards
(incredibly ditzy celebrities who think
they're smart just because they're famous)
... the TV Schlockmeisters (including the
one whose show has been compared to a
churning mass of maggots devouring rotten
meat) ... the Intellectual Thugs (bigwigs
at some of our best colleges, whose views
run the gamut from left wing to far left
wing) ... and many more.
Goldberg names names, counting down the
villains in his rogues' gallery from 100
all the way to 1 -- and, yes, you-know-who
is number 37. Some supposedly "serious"
journalists also made the list, including
the journalist-diva who sold out her
integrity and hosted one of the dumbest
hours in the history of network television
news. And there are those famous
miscreants who have made America a nastier
place than it ought to be -- a far more
selfish, vulgar, and cynical
place.
But Goldberg doesn't just round up the
usual suspects we have come to know and
detest. He also exposes some of the people
who operate away from the limelight but
still manage to pull a lot of strings and
do all sorts of harm to our culture. Most
of all, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up
America is about a country where as long
as anything goes, as one of the good guys
in the book puts it, sooner or later
everything will go.
This is serious stuff for sure. But
Goldberg will also make you laugh as he
harpoons scoundrels like the congresswoman
who thinks there aren't enough hurricanes
named after black people, and the
environmentalist to the stars who yells at
total strangers driving SUVs -- even
though she tools around the country in a
gas-guzzling private jet.
Read Dr. Mike Adams' review of
this book by clicking HERE.
Lipman-Blumen, a professor of public
policy and organizational behavior at
Claremont Graduate University, examines
the seemingly inexplicable reasons why
many employees are loyal to CEOs and
politicians who abuse power, cook finances
and otherwise virtually destroy their
companies.
With his acclaimed wit and acuity,
Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he
calls the "thirty-year backlash" -- the
populist revolt against a supposedly
liberal establishment. The high point of
that backlash is the Republican Party's
success in building the most unnatural of
alliances: between blue-collar
Midwesterners and Wall Street business
interests, workers and bosses, populists
and right-wingers.
Political Class Dismissed
is an unrelenting assault on America's
(and Buffalo's) political class: the
people who have seized political power and
used it to advance their own private
interests--domestic and foreign--at our
expense. The author is uniquely qualified
to expose the political class, growing up
in a political family, being a former
liberal Democratic activist and candidate,
and practicing law in state and federal
courts for twenty years. His trenchant and
unprecedented critique of today's courts
is alone worth the price of the book. He
has been fighting the political machine
for over twenty-five years, culminating
with this broadside. The centerpiece of
the book is a 25,000-word essay detailing
the decline of Buffalo, the quintessential
rust belt city, from 1960-2000, explaining
its causes and identifying its villains.
Weaving together economic analysis,
political theory, historical research and
extensive personal experience, the author
offers a panoramic view of the decline of
one of America's great industrial
cities.
From Rush Limbaugh to Howard Stern,
America tunes in to its radio hosts both
on the air and between covers, accepting
them as truth-tellers without agendas, the
perfect gadflies for the age of too much
information. In an era where everyone
seems bought and paid for, they cut
through it all to tell it like it is. For
Fall 2000 -- just in time to enter the
fray for the presidential election
season-St. Martin's is happy to present
the most unfettered voice of all, Larry
Elder.
The Vision of the Anointed:
Self-Congratulation as a Basis for social
Policy
What to know what really wrong with
American society today? This book will
give you an excellent perspective on the
problems of modern social policy.
Devastating!
