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Vigilance, Readers!
In fairness, I have not yet finished the book.Yet I am already disappointed that so little was included about the European ideological and theological heritage that went into the Articles and the Constitution.Also, very little was said about the motivations and concerns of the Anti-Federalists.Read more

Subjects:  1. Civics & Citizenship    2. General    3. Political Science    4. Politics / Current Events    5. Politics and government    6. Politics/International Relations    7. United States    8. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    9. Political Science / General    10. USA   

Subjects:  1. Christianity - Christian Life - General    2. Christianity and politics    3. Church and state    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism    6. Political Process - Elections    7. Political Process - General    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Progressivism (United States politics)    10. Religion    11. Religion And Politics    12. Religion, Politics & State    13. United States    14. Religion / General   

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For the layman's library as well as the expert's
If you--like this reader--want to be an educated newspaper reader and voter, then this book is worth the investment in time and money.Professional reviews indicate Amar's brilliance in the field of constitutional law, but that brilliance translates into a highy readable book.
For lawyers and scholars only
America's Constitution follows the US Constitution, from the soaring brillinace of the preamble, through article 7 and each of the amendments.Amar describes in depth the historical and political background of each section and explains what the drafters had intended, why it was written with the particular words and expressions that were used, and the intended and unintended consequences of the choices made by the framers.
great intro to the constitution
Amar explains in his postscript that his aim in writing this book was "to offer a comprehensive account of America's Constitution, introducing the reader both to the legal text (and its consequences) and to the political deeds that gave rise to that text." He has achieved this aim splendidly. This phrase-by-phrase guided tour through the document never fails to inform and provoke, whether or not one agrees with its author (and I don't always). It's also a very approachable book, in terms of both style and content. The knowledge base assumed here is considerable, but not forbidding: anybody with a good working knowledge of the Seven Articles and the better-known Amendments ought to be able to thread his way profitably through Amar's lucid and energetic narrative.
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Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Constitutional History    3. Constitutions    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Political Science    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Politics/International Relations    8. U.S. History - Constitutional Period To Civil War (1789-1860)    9. United States    10. United States - General    11. Political Science / Constitutions   

Editorial Review

In the first of his three debates with George W. Bush, 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry argued against the war in Iraq not by directly condemning it but by citing the various ways in which airport and commercial shipping security had been jeopardized due to the war's sizable price tag. In so doing, he re-framed the war issue to his advantage while avoiding discussing it in the global terrorism terms favored by President Bush. One possible reason for this tactic could have been that Kerry familiarized himself with the influential linguist George Lakoff, who argues in Read more

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Is Framing really the issue?
I came to the 'Elephant' book by way of O'Reilly's Culture Warrior. I'm not one to be spoon fed something without checking out details, if they are provided. O'Reilly provides plenty of names, events, organizations for someone like me to verify the truth or 'stretch' or a point.
secularist advice for guaranteed failure
George Lakoff's advice and efforts to help John Kerry in the election really worked out well. It's obvious Lakoff is dispensing the same wonderful advice to the DNC Chair Howard Dean. As an Independent conservative I am thrilled with George Lakoff's work. Thanks, Georgie

Very Clarifying
I read this in one sitting on Christmas Day at a relative's house. It's such a useful book that I ordered my own copy. Lakoff just makes sense, and I try to frame my political conversations accordingly. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 2001-    2. Communication in politics    3. Government - U.S. Government    4. Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism    5. Political Process - Elections    6. Political Science    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics and government    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Progressivism (United States p    11. Progressivism (United States politics)    12. Reference    13. United States    14. Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies   

Subjects:  1. Accounting    2. Accounting - General    3. Accounting - Governmental    4. Business & Economics    5. Business / Economics / Finance    6. Business/Economics    7. Finance, Public    8. Non-Profit Organizations Management    9. Nonprofit Organizations & Charities    10. Nonprofit organizations    11. Public Finance    12. Public Finance (General)    13. Standards    14. United States    15. Business & Economics / Accounting / Governmental    16. Central government    17. Local government    18. Non-profitmaking organizations    19. Public finance accounting   

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Excellent supplementary text to accompany a personnel course
Hays and Kearney are well know for their edited readers. This text is a compilation of articles from leading writers in the field of public personnel management. As such, the book serves as a useful discussion textwithin the classroom environment. The subjects treated run the gamut ofpersonnel issues, but most noteworthy are the articles on constitutionallaw, public ethics, and civil service reform. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil service    2. Entrepreneurship    3. General    4. Personnel management    5. Political Science    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Public Affairs & Administration    9. United States    10. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    11. Political Science / General   

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An interesting book that is relevant to US times
The idea of Wallis' book "God's Politics" was to have the general public, liberals in particular, learn something while both parties work together to improve their political differences that are having some negative effects on the world around them. For anyone in search of ways on how to make those transform those ideas into reality, this book is a must-have. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Christianity - Christian Life - Political Issues    2. Christianity and politics    3. Christians    4. Civics & Citizenship    5. Political activity    6. Religion    7. Religion - Christian Life    8. Religion And Politics    9. Religion, Politics & State    10. U.S. - Contemporary Politics    11. United States    12. Christian Interest    13. Religion / Christian Life    14. Religion / Church & State   

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Pretty Good
Winning Elections is a compilation of articles that have been assembled by Editor, Ronald Faucheux.As a newcomer to politics I found this book to be especially informative. It is about processes and strategies that campaigns employ.This book, however, is not a beginner's book. It is not about building a campaign, or learning the nuts and bolts of campaigns.It is much more than that.This book is meant to build upon existing skills that successful managers and consultants are doing.In reality, there are not set right or
A Superb Compilation of Articles from C&E Magazine
This book is a compilation of practical political advice, originally published as articles in the excellent Campaigns and Elections Magazine, published by the author.
Excellent Resource for any campaign!
This book is an excellent resource for anyone involved in electoral campaigns. I will never regret my purchase. A must read for political activists!
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Subjects:  1. Campaign management    2. Elections And Voting    3. Management    4. Political Process - Elections    5. Political Science    6. Political campaigns    7. Politics    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Reference    11. United States    12. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    13. Political Science / Elections   

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Socialism
This book would be better titled as "Moving Towards Socialism: America's turn to try the worst social/economic system ever devised."
War on Terror Chapter is Buried in Back of Book
Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed do not even deal with terrorism, the greatest threat to the citizens of the United States, until page 148!This would be hysterically funny if the stakes were not so high. Neither the Daily Kos nor George Soros are ever mentioned in the entire book. The authors are very well aware that disingenuous pacifism pervades the Democratic Party.Sadly, they are doing their best to hide the truth from the American people. Did they actually think they could get away with it?
"Communist Youth League" and Shadow FBI ??
I am glad that "progressives" (liberals) have begun to propose policy, in stead of just bashing Bush on Iraq and Katrina. Read more

Subjects:  1. 2001-    2. Democratic Party (U.S.)    3. General    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism    6. Political Parties    7. Political Process - Political Parties    8. Political Science    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Politics and government    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Public Policy    13. Public Policy - General    14. Reference    15. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )    16. United States    17. Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies    18. USA   

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Hayek--Orwell's Mentor
At the height of socialist popularism in England, cir. 1944,George Orwell, a leading proponent of socialism, believing in its promises as did many,if not most of Eurpose's leading intellectuals and politicians, wrote a review of Hayek's famous book, "The Road to Serfdom."Orwell wrote the review in the "Observer," London April 9,1944.
Brilliant, timeless classic
The Constitution of Liberty is "a comprehensive restatement of the basic principles of a philosophy of freedom" (p. 3).It is often considered the magnum opus of Hayek's political writings, even if The Road to Serfdom is perhaps better known.
Shows why there is no elsewhere elsewhere
This is a book that can be right in ways that confound all expertise, a basic text of political economy, brilliant enough to summarize all the mistakes of the twentieth century while they were still happening.With an author born in Europe, aware of a society with classes based on great wealth, where culture was largely the activity of a few thousand incredibly intelligent people, but, due to a bestseller of his own, exposed to the dynamic economic growth of postwar America, teaching in an offbeat center like the University of Chicago, concerned about liberty, law, "The Decline of Socialism and the Rise of the Welfare State," Social Security, and utterly convinced of his main point:the necessity for taxation to pay for whatever benefits a government can contrive.Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. History & Theory - General    3. History - General History    4. Liberty    5. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    6. Political Science    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Public Policy - Social Policy    9. Rule of law    10. Social policy    11. Constitution: government & the state    12. Political Science / History & Theory   

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Shipment early, packing condition
Book arrived on earliest date listed.Packing was simply a tight bubble wrap envelope that (I am sure) resulted in bent corners of book.Otherwise, book in great condition.

Why the Change?
This review is somewhat belated.I read the book shortly after its original release. The copy I have has a scarlet letter "A" in the title, which I thought represented perfectly the legacy of this brilliant, but terribly flawed man.It's too bad the title was retooled.
A well-documented and biased book
Richard Lowry delivers a well-documented, but highly lopsided view of the Clintons. This is definitely not a book for the critical thinker, or for anyone who wishes to learn more about a brilliant, but unstable president who lacked confidence in his own convictions. Lowry does bring up a few interesting topics, such as Clinton's obsession with his legacy, along with his inability to truly face shaky foreign relations. However, it is too unfortunate when a good writer loses himself in the fissured psychodrama of American politics, which Lowry exhibits in this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1946-    2. 1993-2001    3. Biography    4. Clinton, Bill,    5. Government - Executive Branch    6. Government - U.S. Government    7. History & Theory - General    8. Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism    9. Political Process - Leadership    10. Political Science    11. Politics / Current Events    12. Politics and government    13. Politics/International Relations    14. Presidents    15. U.S. Political History    16. U.S. President    17. United States    18. Biography & Autobiography / Presidents    19. Central government    20. Political leaders & leadership    21. Political science & theory    22. USA   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Policy sciences    3. Political Science    4. Political planning    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Public Policy - General    8. United States    9. Central government policies   

Subjects:  1. Business Law    2. General    3. Law    4. Law (General)    5. Law and ethics    6. Legal System    7. Politics / Current Events    8. United States    9. Law / General   

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A fascinating look at the Governator
This book is a fascinating look at a different type of politician.Far from being simply a movie star now "playing" Governor, Mathews' book demonstrates that Schwarzenegger gets involved in the details of public policy to an extent much greater than one would expect.It also is apparent that Schwarzenneger is actually interested in trying to solve some of the state's long term problems, rather than simply staking out positions for political advantage.This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand recent California political history (assuming it can be understood!)

The Governator: a fair and balanced look
I won't spend a lot of space going over the same ground as the two capsule reviews, but suffice to say that Los Angeles Times writer Joe Mathews has done an extraordinary job examining Schwarzenegger and how he came to be governor of California, in terms of both the man's strengths and weaknesses. While making the typical mistakes one expects of someone "new" to California politics (though he met Howard Jarvis and closely followed the machinations involved with Prop 13 many years earlier in the late 1970s), Schwarzenegger comes off smarter than one might expect.
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Subjects:  1. 1951-    2. California    3. Government - State & Provincial    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. Political Process - Elections    6. Political Science    7. Politics - Current Events    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics and government    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Schwarzenegger, Arnold    12. U.S. - Contemporary Politics    13. U.S. Elections And Voting    14. United States - 21st Century    15. Political structures: democracy   

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Exercise In Neo-Marxist Scholasticism Short on Relevance
"Empire", which is now going on five years, attempts in its atmospheric prose to elucidate a totalizing world view of the future of the global economy.What emerges is an optimistic, incurably Hegelian proposition that the current globalization of economics and society, despite its oppressive characteristics, are a necessary (and inevitable) stage of modern capitalist development which must exist in order to bring about the mobilization of the "multitude."Hardt and Negri's boundless faith in the eventual triumph of the "multitude" (i.e. proletariat) is definitively neo-Marxist and utopian.Hardt and Negri further view the struggle as cutting across culture, class, race, and nationality, and that it must be seen as as multi-disciplinary liberation.
A Neither Nor Book
If it were really serious postmo scholarship, it would be a bit more honest about its starting points and sources (namely, Deleuze, Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard). Certainly an edition edited for America should have more bibliographic information. On the other hand, this book should prove largely inaccessible to the bestselling audience who have bought it and tried to read it (Michael Moore this isn't). That's because they will lack the background in philosophy and the 'superstructuralist' approach to social theory. To conclude, at least I'm honest enough about the book and with myself: having waded the whole way through the book, I'm still reluctant to give it a great review simply because I feel proud about getting through it. It actually made me, after a 20 year hiatus, start reading long works of fiction again.

The Emperor Has No Clothes! Beware.
Junk! A pretentious tract that stubbornly applies verbs to abstractions, delights in pompous reification, and curses clarity of thought and word. Some of the historical commentary has limited value; most of the text is like the very worst Hegelian philosophy with few emergent insights. The infamous critisms of Hegel apply exponentially to this text.Read more

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An interesting, personal glimpse into politics as an insider sees it
Joe Klein has spent his career interviewing and writing about politicians.This book, Politics Lost, pulls together various threads from this experience to give an interesting, personal glimpse into politics for those of us who have never met a president or presidential candidate.Unfortunately, it's not a pleasant picture.Our schools tend to teach us that our system of government works very well, a shining example for the world.Not so, according to Joe Klein's view of it.He sees, as the subtitle says, that American democracy has been trivialized.
The Melodrama of the Mediocre Pundit
It sure is easy for pundits and commentators to get book deals these days, when you can sell a tirade of personal opinions and second guessing as in-depth political analysis. Joe Klein has the added distinction of criticizing other people for doing exactly what he does, and of complaining about political and media trends from which he benefits directly. Klein has a reasonable basic point here about modern lowest-common-denominator politicking, in which image and sloganeering are seen as more important than knowledge and leadership. But Klein, in a display of mind-boggling myopia, can't even see that this exact same phenomenon allows weak and opinionated books like this to qualify as serious political analysis.
Political Lying is the Issue
I purchased this book after reading an interview with Joe Klein online. His thesis that both or either the politicians or their "handlers" think we, the public, are stupid may have been misplaced. After reading this book describing ad nauseam the culture and egos of political handlers, I'm left with the impression Klein thinks his readers are stupid. I admire his writing ability but "Politics Lost" could be summed up by a comment Klein made in his Internet interview: America has become a culture of lying, where the public knows their leaders are lying, but get caught up with media fascination with "How good a liar is that particular leader" -- or for that matter any public figure. Lying, unfortunately has become a political art form (i.e., "spinning") rather than being treated as a sign of not really caring or gross "indifference" toward the public. Were he really to focus on the "art of lying" by politicians and political operatives in America this book would not be a lost opportunity, for example, by documenting an "insider's" view of Karl Rove's Machiavellian machinations.Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has stated that "The opposite of love isn't hate; it is indifference." The real danger of "Politics Lost" is that it fails to recognize that we have come to a perilous point in our society where the public has become too inured to lying to do something about it! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Democracy    2. General    3. Government - U.S. Government    4. Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism    5. Political Ideologies - Democracy    6. Political Process - Elections    7. Political Science    8. Political culture    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Politics/International Relations    11. U.S. - Contemporary Politics    12. United States    13. Political Science / General   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Education And The State    3. Education and state    4. Health/Fitness    5. Labor    6. Labor Market    7. Manpower policy    8. Medical policy