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Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element—the “lunatic fringe� of the Right that has taken over the Republican Party. Despite holding views at odds with the majority of Americans, these zealots have given us an endless war in Iraq, a sputtering economy, a health care system on life support, a war on science and reason, and an immoral embrace of torture.

But they haven’t done it on their they have been enabled by a compliant media that act as if there is no such thing as truth and are more interested in cozying up to those in power than in holding them accountable, and by feckless Democrats who have allowed themselves to be intimidated into backing down again and again.

Both a withering indictment and a hopeful call to arms, Right Is Wrong is an explosive, boldly incisive work that will help set the national agenda.]]> 400 Arianna Huffington 0307269663 Larry 5 3.64 2008
author: Arianna Huffington
name: Larry
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2008
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]]> 12513560 457 Carl Sagan 0307801047 Larry 5
This book covers so many items that it is a must read for all who care.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.�
� Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark]]> 4.45 1995
author: Carl Sagan
name: Larry
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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Carl tried to warn not only the US but world of the dangers of not understanding science, the lack of education, the understanding the interconnectedness of nature and the human species. Right now we living with the fact that the US and other nations paid little attention to his astute conversations in books, before the US congress and in interviews.

This book covers so many items that it is a must read for all who care.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.�
� Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
]]> 57615583 A chronicle of events that shook the world from the author of Capital in the Twenty‑First Century

Over the past four years, world‑renowned economist Thomas Piketty documented his close observations on current events through a regular column in the French newspaper Le Monde. His pen captured the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Macron’s ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always through the lens of Piketty’s fight for a more equitable world.
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This collection brings together those articles and is prefaced by an extended introductory essay, in which Piketty argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the hypercapitalism that defines our current economic ideology. These essays offer a first draft of history from one of the world’s leading economists and public figures, detailing the struggle against inequalities and tax evasion, in favor of a federalist Europe and a globalization more respectful of work and the environment.]]> 360 Thomas Piketty 0300259662 Larry 5 3.38
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]]> 53497963 Amazon Larry 4 3.89 2011
author: Amazon
name: Larry
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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date added: 2020/10/15
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