Aug. 2008 - The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events that Shaped Modern North Carolina by Rob Christensen The well-told story of North Carolina’s 20th-century political dynasties forged by patronage, cronyism, kickbacks, fraud, character assassination and the high art of stealing elections honorably. . . . Christensen succeeds where most political historians fail; he makes the story interesting. . . . A must-read for all who value insight into the realities of winning campaigns and governing in a democracy.” —by John N. Davis, Raleigh News and Observer Read ReviewsSubmit a book or review

Apr. 2008 - Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow by Jim Hightower with Susan DeMarco The New York Times bestselling author and America's funniest activist gives the lowdown on how to put up-not shut up-in the fight for our future. Hightower, the country's #1 populist, has picked up some useful advice over the years, from "never eat at a caf? featuring 'bargain kebobs'" to "never hit a man with glasses; hit him with something much heavier." As he and his longtime co-conspirator Susan DeMarco have rambled through grassroots America, however, they've also come up with more serious words of wisdom to share here, namely: question authority, trust your values, seek alternatives, break away, stand up for your beliefs, and swim against the current! Their book introduces readers to people across the country who have actually done this-people in business, politics, health care, farming, religion, and other areas who are taking charge, living their values, doing good, and doing well. Hightower and DeMarco show how they are doing precisely what the elites want us to believe can't be done: changing their lives and making a difference. He tells the stories of these people and offers inspiration and information that will help readers tap into their own maverick potential in order to navigate a different, more satisfying course of their own. --from http://jimhightower.com/store Read ReviewsSubmit a book or review

Feb. 2008 - Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, ... Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way by Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom "The book is a who's who of the '60s, '70s and '80s, and certainly of the women's movement: Erma Bombeck, Jimmy Breslin, Susan Brownmiller, Mim Kelber, Maxine Waters, Geraldine Ferraro, Ed Koch, Esther Broner, Hillary Clinton, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, and many others. In less skilled hands, this format, a sort of Judy Chicago dinner party of a biography, would have been clunky, cacophonous, forced. But the good ears of the authors (both are prominent authorities on women's issues and former editors at Ms. magazine), their sense of humor about their subject (as well as awe) and the honesty that Abzug so obviously inspired in the people around her make this a remarkable work of oral history. It is also a fond, provocative testament to a remarkable life." --by Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Read ReviewsSubmit a book or review

Dec. 2007 - Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman "The gross inequality of the Gilded Age that led up to the Great Depression morphed into a stunningly middle-class economy because of concrete initiatives forced through via Roosevelt's New Deal. The growing inequality of the past 30 years is directly attributable to policies enacted by the conservatives who first broke through with Ronald Reagan and reached their apogee with George W. Bush." -- by Andrew Leonard, Salon Read ReviewsSubmit a book or review

Oct. 2007 - The Political Brain by Drew Westen "A scathing, sobering diagnosis of what ails a political party whose beliefs are in line with the majority of Americans on almost every issue and yet fails to translate that alignment into sustainable electoral success. Armed with numerous studies on how the brain operates in that crucial interplay between emotion and reason that energizes voters, Westin has succeeded in penning a manifesto on behalf of bringing the passionate back into the narrative - and actions - of the Democratic Party." -- by SusanG, Daily Kos. Read ReviewsSubmit a book or review

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