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Book Club IdeasSubmitted by jenny on November 18, 2008 - 3:49pm
Suggest books or other ideas about the book club here by adding a new comment below.Suggestions are periodically purged after a a few months -- feel free to re-post if you still want to promote your book.
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I'm suggesting The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby. Published in 2008 I think the book is--ominously--even more timely now. Here's a detailed book review by Laura Miler of Salon.com:
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/15/susan_jacoby/
Russ Weiss
Huffington Post Blog post highlights Niebuhr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bj-gallagher/why-do-good-people-form-b_b_433616.html
I heard about an interesting-sounding book for an old school friend over the holidays. It is called "Nudge", by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, and is about how to create "choice architecture" to help individuals make smarter decisions about their lives while still maintaining freedom of choice. I think the book has many public policy implications, as well as personal relevance. Here is a link to the book's web-site:
http://www.nudges.org/thebook.cfm