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And Still Flying...: The Life and Times of Elizabeth "Betty" Wall
Patrick Roberts Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1412013135 |
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George Mercer Dawson: Geologist, Scientist, Explorer (The Quest Library)
William Chalmers Manufacturer: XYZ Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0968360181 |
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George Mercer Dawson worked for the International Boundary Commission and the Geological Survey of Canada. He surveyed the 49th parallel, vast tracts of land in British Columbia's Interior, and many rivers in the Yukon. He knew the value of the Klondike gold fields ten years before the rush of '98.
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The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
Haynes Johnson , and David Broder Manufacturer: Back Bay Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0316111457 |
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Classic political process book.......2006-12-19
CREDIBLE?.......2001-09-08
Our rulers speak. Pay attention, proles!.......2001-06-21
The key is found in the intro, where the authors define "The System" that rules USAmerica -- which includes the Presidency, the Congress, the media ... AHH! The fact that they think the media is part of the govt., just not elected, is itself worth the price of this volume.
Taken in this vein, it is quite good. We must have a national health system like a European country's , because ... well, because they feel embarrassed that we aren't like Europe. That the U.S. was settled, predominantly, by people who WANTED NOT TO LIVE IN EUROPE is unimportant to Johnson and Broder, who know better than to take the this self-govt. nonsense seriously.
What is serious is that the USAmerican public rejects 'socialized medicine.' So instead Clinton wrapped it up in his mess of a bill, and then tried to scare us into panic over our health care, saying the system would collapse if we didn't give control of it to the govt. Not true, and Johnson & Broder know it, but hey, can't let truth stand in the way of ruling.
Frequently THE SYSTEM is unintentionally funny, too, as when the authors take a break from reporting the `horse race' political aspects of the story to criticize the media for concentrating on the `horse race' instead of the policy substance, after which they trash the only attempt ever made to discuss the policy substance (Elizabeth McCaughey's famous piece in The New Republic) and go back to reporting the horse race. You sort of wonder if they read their own manuscript.
But have some sympathy. They do mention the policy substance from time to time -- our rulers think we spend far too much money on foolish things like attempting to save the lives of premature infants. Those resources should go to more important things, like health care for "homeless, drug abusing gay and bisexual men of color." I mean, would you want to defend THAT openly?
It's also very useful in assessing the nature of liberal bias in the press. The last chapter of the hardcover first edition, on sale in 1996, told us about good Pres. Clinton's attempts to `save' the federal budget before runaway health care spending wrecked it, and evil House Speaker Newt Gingrich's attempts to `cut health care spending,' when in both cases they were trying to do the same thing -- cut the rate at which spending on health care would increase in the future. That's one way you bias coverage -- describing things in such a way as to create the desired reaction, which in this case was to get us to run out and vote Democratic.
The last chapter of this paperback edition mentions the Kassenbaum-Kennedy bill, passed by Congress and signed by Clinton. All mention of it was carefully left out of the first edition. That's another way of biasing coverage -- leave out the `unimportant' stuff that might confuse the citizenry.
And if you practice your critical thinking skills as you read, you will learn a lot about the chaotic way Clinton ran his administration, how the Democrats lost control of the House after twenty straight wins, why the bill was so complex, and other fascinating stuff.
What you won't learn how the Clinton health plan would have worked, of course. Obviously, they were afraid of your reaction if you found out. That is probably the most important information in the book.
Stunning inside look at politics.......2000-01-07
The battle the voters didn't see was the important one- the battle which nearly sank the Clinton Presidency and destroyed its ambitious health care proposal. The powers arrayed against the Clinton plan were formidable and well-financed, aided by the Administration's mind-numbing blunders.
"The System" has the entire story- the high hopes, the stunning reversals, the industry's toxic reaction to reform. The Clintonites quickly found that the old adage is true. No good deed goes unpunished.
"The System" is a very good book at who really calls the shots in American government and how little power people really have against the special interests. More valuable than ten years of civics lessons.
Shows Politics As the Messy But Necessary Evil It Is.......1999-12-30
The authors are biased. They believe the Hillary Clinton health care plan should have been enacted and present their study from this point of view. Their slant is annoying. However, it ultimately does not detract too much from a very able telling of the conceptualization, selling, manuevering and strategy employed by both sides over the struggle to socialize medicine in the United States.
Although never pretty or highminded as we are taught in civics class, the book shows a democratic (small "d") system at work. Both sides had true believers who were guided by philosophy and were trying to do what was "right." Both sides had craven opportunists driven by darker more mercurial instincts. The American Congress worked to examine the issue and resolve the dispute as the framers had intended: by providing a forum for parties on both sides of the debate to hash out their perspectives and come to a resolution (one must always keep in mind that an equally legitimate action of any legislative body is to say no to proposals that are unwise or do not have sufficient political support.)
This book will educate the average citizen and fascinate the political junkie.
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The System, The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
Haynes and Broder, David S. Johnson Manufacturer: Little, Brown & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000S60EL6 |
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The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
Haynes, and David S. Broder Johnson Manufacturer: Little, Brown ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J2JYYC |
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The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point.: An article from: Policy Studies Journal
John Rouse Manufacturer: Policy Studies Organization ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00097UKEK Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Policy Studies Journal, published by Policy Studies Organization on December 22, 1997. The length of the article is 2179 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The System : The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
Haynes; Broder, David S. Johnson Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OU32CE |
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The System : the American way of politics at the breaking point / by Haynes Johnson and David S. Broder
Haynes Bonner (1931-) Johnson Manufacturer: Boston : Little, Brown & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WVRJ6K |
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Monday-to-Friday Chicken
Michele Urvater Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1563059312 |
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Joining the James Beard Award-winning Monday-to-Friday Cookbook and Monday-to-Friday Pasta, together with 248,000 copies in print, Monday-to-Friday Chicken presents over 180 recipes for America's favorite bird. Here are roast chickens, grilled chickens, baked chickens, chicken stir-fries and chicken saut,s, chicken soups, salads, sandwiches, and more, everything to help the family cook break out of the same-old-fish rut. The quick: Southwestern Lemon Chicken. The really quick: Chicken Club. The fun: Easy Tasty Asian Wings. The special: Roasted Chicken l'Indienne, Orange Braised Chicken with Almond Sauce.Customer Reviews:
By far the best book of its kind.......1998-12-25
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The Joy of Cockatiels
Howard Richmond Manufacturer: TFH Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0876665547 |
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Mastering Quilt Marking: Marking Tools and Techniques - Choosing Stencils - Matching Borders and Corners
Pepper Cory Manufacturer: C&T Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1571200770 |
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A worthy addition to every quilter's library, this book shows how time spent marking--from crosshatching to fans, features, and cables--pays off by increasing the longevity of a quilt. Included are eleven new quilting designs, tips about marking tools and templates, how to make quilting stencils, methods for preserving designs found in old quilts, techniques for determining proportions for grid quilting, and more. 120 color illustrations.
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Backyard Living: From Gardening & Grilling to Stone Walls & Stargazing
Manufacturer: Time-Life Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0737006129 |
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Loved the photos, did not care for the text.......2001-05-05
The overall tone of the book is at odds with the polished image it projects. This is not so much a utilitarian book as it is a "lifestyle" book. If you need help deciding how to design a garden path or what to do if your seedlings are damping off, this is not going to be of much help. But if you want some ideas as to what looks good and how to be a bit of a garden snob, this will be perfect.
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Turning Around the Upside-Down Kids: Helping Dyslexic Kids Overcome Their Disorder
Harold N. Levinson Manufacturer: M. Evans and Company, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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The second of an extremely successful series of books for dyslexic children.Customer Reviews:
BRINGING HOPE & HELP TO KIDS & KIDS AT HEART.......1998-06-22
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Paradoxia : A Predator's Diary
Lydia Lunch Manufacturer: Creation Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1840680083 |
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" Paradoxia reveals that Lunch is at her best when she's at her worst . . . [and] gives voice to her sometimes scary, frequently funny, always canny, never sentimental siren song."-Barbara Kruger, Artforum
Lydia Lunch relays in graphic detail the true psychic repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, Paradoxia is an uncensored, novelized account of one woman's assault on men.
Lydia Lunch was the primary instigator of the No Wave Movement and the focal point of the Cinema of Transgression. A musician, writer, and photographer, she exposes the dark underbelly of passion confronting the lusty demons whose struggle for power and control forever stalk the periphery of our collective obsessions.
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Ready for a Kick in the Head?.......2004-06-10
I've heard this book described as fiction, then as non-fiction, then as a fictionalized autobiography. I don't think it matters, really, because it's all true somewhere, in some way, to somebody. Tales of people abusing other people, abusing themselves, struggling to crawl out of the gutter only to stumble right back in. Messed-up heads, bruised hearts, ravished souls, all going around in circles reliving the same nightmare over and over again. Some survive, some don't, some break free while others pray for salvation. And there's Lydia declaring that if you want saving then you gotta do it yourself. Wake-up and smell the stench, folks.
Some accuse her of possessing no compassion, no humanity, no sense of beauty. But I think it's there, just painted in various shades of gray instead of the black or white to which many are accustomed. It's there, just raw and aching and unadorned. Sometimes you just have to be cruel to be kind.
Sick And Twisted.......2003-01-09
I should've known something would be a little off with this book when my Mom gave me a note with the book saying how she couldn't believe that I got her to buy this book. But being the good sport that she is, she still got the book for me. Go Madre!
Within about one page of this book I realized that it probably wasn't the kind of booking I was looking to read. I thought I was going to be in for a biography of someone I had hoped would give me more insight into punk music and the punk ideals of her time. What I got was the story of a girl who took out her hate of herself and her life on many, many men (and women).
In essence, Lydia Lunch was the type of girl that all of the other girls hated. She'd steal their boyfriends from right in front of them, take them to the bathroom, have her way with them and send them right back to when she was done. She's the girl that the guys wanted for their girl in High School because she put out. She's NOT the girl they brought home to show Mom, she was the girl they brought around when Mom wasn't home.
This book basically covers the various messed up relationships and sexual escapades that Lydia had had throughout her life. Whatever freaky thing you are into, whether it's as extreme as S&M or as mild as plain ole normal sex, this book covers it all. It even covers some stuff you probably haven't even heard about yet. I don't even really know how else to describe this book. There might be one or two pages in the book that don't deal with sex... maybe... I'd give some examples of some of the nastier things in this book, but I'm keeping this place PG-13 for now.
Another disappoint was that the cover claimed that "No names were changed because no one is innocent." I took this to mean that I was at least going to get some nice gossip on some punk stars that would shock me, but I think that sleeping with a musician was only mentioned one-time during the whole book!
But the book isn't all bad, after all I did read it all in just a few sittings. One of the highlights were the tales of her exploits in California with her adrenaline-seeking boyfriend of the moment. You just had the feeling that by the end of that doomed relationship something big was going to happen. Nobody died, but there was some serious damage done and I can't even imagine how either made it out of the relationship with their sanity. I don't know why, but it was nice to read about the dysfunction of others.
After reading this book, you'll find yourself thinking that it's pretty amazing that Lydia Lunch even survived to write this book. You'll probably also find yourself thinking that you can't even believe half of what you just read. How could anybody live such a crazy life and not either A) Die or B) Be commited or jailed.
If you are into the more perverted and twisted side of life, this is the book for you. If you are looking to learn more about the life of a famed punk icon, you might want to do like I'm going to and try another one of her books.
Amazing Book........2001-02-28
Modern Adventure Story.......2000-12-20
Lydia Lunch brings us along her twisted sexual landscape in Paradoxia where everything is allowed to the point where it almost kills her and others die or episodes of extreme ecstasy and pleasure transpire. What she achieves through the series of violence, sex, and psychosis is what we all should be trying to do instead of working some job.
She illustrates the consequences of living an autonomous life, thereby refusing the status quo and security of the "straight life" in exchange for living life to its extreme boundaries of death, pain, and suffering. And where has it all gotten her? Well, I believe she's what you call an artist.
Paradoxia is also partially a documentation (and I assume everything she is saying is basically true) of New York in the late 70's and L.A. into the early 80's when artists still had a chance to be just that instead of working 40+ hours/wk just to pay rent. She was living an adventure not a routine, and paying for it every step of the way. In return she received her personal freedom, which simply meant continuous struggle with either other people or her own mind. Life ain't easy.
Paradoxia stands as a constant reminder to continually recreate your life, to live it as an adventure, in order to retain control of it from your psychotic lover, your totalitarian government, or your own personal demons.
Edgier than I expected, so raw it's still steaming.......2000-01-03
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Rookie Cop: Deep Undercover in the Jewish Defense League
Richard Rosenthal Manufacturer: Leapfrog Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0965457885 |
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About the authorBefore becoming Chief of Police in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Richard Rosenthal spent twenty years in the New York City Police Department, where he ran the Heavy Weapons and Undercover Weapons Training programs and, as a detective in the Bronx dealt with homicide, narcotics, and armed robbery. Before joining the NYPD, he worked for U.S. Air Force military intelligence as a Russian language specialist. Pocket Books published his two popular books of police craft, Sky Cops and K-9 Cops, as well as his novel, The Murder of Old Comrades, "a spicy police procedural about KGB assassins on the loose in Manhattan," according to The Wall Street Journal, which "put Mr. Rosenthal on the map in big-league publishing."
"A strange true tale of a Jewish NYPD cadet recruited into the department's elite intelligence unit to spy on the Jewish Defense League, offering vivid portraits of a politically incendiary era and revealing secrets of intrusive police tactics...This is a well-tuned portrait of the stress and acrimony that permeates such radical cliques, and of the lonely, paranoid personalities at their centers - and it offers insights into the radically charged violence of the early 1970s...Rosenthal has a fine eye for human detail and a cop's mordant sensibility. Altogether an exciting tale of unusual police practices, and a solid portrait of a quintessential fringe radical group inhabiting insecure, volatile times.-Kirkus Reviews (June 15, 2000)
Excerpted from Chapter One
Sol Hurok immigrated to the United States from the village of Pogar, Russia in 1906 and made a small living for himself by producing concerts for New York City's burgeoning labor societies. Over the years, the workers' craving for high-brow entertainment grew to such an extent that his concerts were staged in the enormous amusement hall built by P.T. Barnum, the Hippodrome. Hurok became the personal manager of the great Afro-American contralto Marian Anderson and arranged the first U.S. tour for the young violin sensation and son of a poor Israeli barber, Itzak Perlman. Within several generations Hurok became known as The Impresario, importing such world class entertai
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Dammit, this is funny!.......2005-08-09
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