The author of Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, reports back from the “Restoring Honor” rally.
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The author of Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, reports back from the “Restoring Honor” rally.
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In her 2008 book The Tyranny of Oil, activist and writer Antonia Juhasz presented a damning and exposed the oil industry–its greed, corruption, extraordinary wealth and formidable political clout. She’s now at work on a book on the Gulf oil spill. Tentatively titled Black Tide and out next April, the book will look at the [...]
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Back in May, at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., Princeton historian Julian Zelizer discussed Arsenal of Democracy, his new history of U.S. national security policy since 1946, at an event co-sponsored by CAP and Progressive Book Club. Zelizer had much to say in conversation with CAP’s John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira about [...]
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In a postscript to his book, Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time, Paul Loeb offers a list of ten principles to guide the engaged citizen along the path of social involvement. They give a pretty good flavor of the rest of the book, which makes an eloquent case for why [...]
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