Author: Kevin Phillips
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: deceit, house, bush, politics, fortune, dynasty, aristocracy, american
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-01-05
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0670032646
ISBN-13: 9780670032648

The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance nurtured by gauzy imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots has let national politics create a dynasticized presidency that would have horrified America s founding fathers. They, after all, had led a revolution against a succession of royal Georges. In this devastating book, onetime Republican strategist Phillips reveals how four generations of Bushes have ascended the ladder of national power since World War One, becoming e

Author: Daniel Ellsberg
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: papers, pentagon, vietnam, memoir, secrets
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2002-10-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0670030309
ISBN-13: 9780670030309

A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Author: Jim Hightower
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: bush, beating, stop
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-07
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0670033545
ISBN-13: 9780670033546

America in 2004 is color coded and it s not just a matter of red, white, and blue. The terror alert bounces from yellow to orange. The economy offers up a hundred shades of red ink. The environment is turning brown. National security is cloaked in gray shadows. And Jim Hightower covers it all with uncommon insight, political fearlessness, and laugh-out-loud humor. America s #1 populist gives us Let s Stop Beating Around the Bush a hard- hitting, fact-filled review of the real state of the union that you won t get from the establishment media. With his daily radio commenta

Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: new, connected, world, strategies, radical, rules, economy
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0670881112
ISBN-13: 9780670881116

The old rules are broken. The current revolution in business requires nothing less than a new set of rules. Succinct and memorable, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy. Kelly’s manifesto in Wired brought rave reviews from business gurus such as Tom Peters, and praise from think tanks and business strategists from all over the world. New Rules will wake up the business world. Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means noth

Author: Geoffrey Miller
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: behavior, consumer, evolution, sex, spent
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-05-14
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0670020621
ISBN-13: 9780670020621

A leading evolutionary psychologist probes the hidden instincts behind our working, shopping, and spending Evolutionary psychology-the compelling science of human nature-has clarified the prehistoric origins of human behavior and influenced many fields ranging from economics to personal relationships. In Spent Geoffrey Miller applies this revolutionary science’s principles to a new domain: the sensual wonderland of marketing and status seeking that we call American consumer culture. Starting with the basic notion that the goods and services we buy unconsciously advertise our biological p

Author: Eric Alterma
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: deception, consequences, official, history, lie, presidents
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2004-09-23
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0670032093
ISBN-13: 9780670032099

Lying has become pervasive in American life?but what happens when the falsehoods are perpetrated by the Oval Office? As the lies told by our government become more and more intricate, they begin to weave a tapestry of deception that creates problems far larger than those lied about in the first place. Eric Alterman?s When Presidents Lie is a compelling historical examination of four specific post-World War II presidential lies whose consequences were greater than could ever have been predicted. FDR told the American people that peace was secure in Europe, setting the stage for McCarthyism and

Author: Paul Mariani
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: life, hopkins, manley, gerard
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2008-10-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0670020311
ISBN-13: 9780670020317

An insightful and inspirational biography of the heroic and spiritual poet. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844?1889) may well have been the most original and innovative poet writing in the English language during the nineteenth century. Yet his story of personal struggle, doubt, intense introspection, and inward heroism has never been told fully. As a Jesuit priest, Hopkins?s descent into loneliness and despair and his subsequent recovery are a remarkable and inspiring spiritual journey that will speak to many readers, regardless of their faith or philosophies. Paul Mariani, an award-winning poet him