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Comment by Alexandra on October 3, 2007 - 9:22am
Letitia Ufford suggested Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Comments from the Toronto Star: The book is "a painstakingly detailed analysis of how corporations manipulate natural and manmade disasters to line their pockets and further their privatizing agenda, is not a marginal, academic treatise by a lefty think tank targeted at a small, like-minded audience. It is a book by a bestselling writer and activist who also happens to be one of the anti-globalization movement's most recognizable faces."
Comment by Robert Turoff on September 1, 2007 - 1:21pm
Book suggestion: In an Uncertain World by Robert E. Rubin. Published by Random House, 2003. Rubin was, of course, Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary. The book is an autobiography and covers most his time in the Clinton administration, before that, his time with Goldman Sachs, and later, his time on the board of Citigroup. It is deals with decision making both in and out of government. I found it fascinating, a guide to decision making in many areas of life. If there is any rationality in this world it should remain in print for a very long time.
Comment by jenny on August 26, 2007 - 11:36am
These books were suggested in an email (unkown suggester):

The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina by Frank Rich.

A review of this book (and related books) appeared in an article in The New York Review of Books entitled "How Democrats Should Talk" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20217

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson

A review of this book appeared last March in In "These Times" http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3068