It sank after sailing less than a mile, drowning dozens of crew members. Lastly, three copies please of “Main Street.” All talk of the Scranton lace-making relatives aside, none of these candidates have been there in a while.For Senator Obama, a gem from another anxious, bloated, speculative age, “The Great Gatsby,” that perfect tale of the American dream gone off the road.As a reminder of the price of idealism, especially in an inflationary era, “The Quiet American” for Senator McCain. "Salazar was ahead of his time, Gutiérrez said, in his coverage of race relations, immigration and police misconduct.He was also a singular figure, Gutiérrez added, because he cared about marginalized people.
Eisenhower was a far more fluent writer than his stumbling performances behind a microphone suggested, so I would choose his memoir, “Mandate for Change.” Ike was the last nonpolitician elected president, and his moderate vision of American government and the restrained use of American power provide potent lessons in how to truly govern from the center.Forget the personality claptrap: our next president will need to know how to restructure the carbon-based economy, pronto. These questions have perplexed Westerners, and Americans trying to understand their own society, for two centuries. That force is assimilation. and remind you whether the Waziris are on our side or not. (Fair disclosure: I wrote the chapter on black Americans. The canny overachiever will do so between “Harry Potter” jackets.All three candidates have written memoirs well in advance of this election year, unlike the contenders of long ago who counted on third-person “campaign biographies” to introduce them to the public outside their home states. It is to an understanding of just how distinctive a nation it is that this work is dedicated. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or Search WorldCat. Credit... Brian Rea. Truth to Power is the title and the theme because Gore says the facts and solutions have to be accepted by world leaders to affect real change. I prescribe E. O. Wilson’s “Future of Life” and, for follow-up care, Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.”They could finish with any novel by Wendell Berry. If Obama has not already read this great, compact book he might find renewed inspiration in Williams’s large vision and detailed perception of the United States and its past. June 1, 2008. The problem, he shows, in a work that is urgently recommended to all three candidates, is not globalization itself, but the fundamentally flawed and often unfair one-size-fits-all economic policies pursued by international agencies like the I.M.F. What’s really going on? Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. But the other 20 are indispensable. Copies all around of Roth’s “The Human Stain” as well; moral bankruptcy surely tops our other stunning defaults. I would urge our three senators to have a look at Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Life of Franklin Pierce” (1852), in which the writer specifies qualities that supposedly recommend his old college chum for the highest position in the land.Any history of Pierce’s hapless presidency might serve as a cautionary tale for aspirants to the office, but Hawthorne’s artful pre-presidential tribute can remind them, at this stage of things, not to take too seriously even the best-written endorsements and encomia, which inevitably proceed, at least in part, from the secret hope of reward. [Charles Ortleb] Home. No matter how miscast Obama is in that part, “Nixonland” will give him unrivaled insight into what the G.O.P.
Many of the great Progressive’s insights seem prophetic, all three candidates might agree.William Carlos Williams: “In the American Grain.” A fundamental work of American literature, this book’s vivid prose refreshes familiar characters and events. For Clinton: “The Denial of Death,” by Ernest Becker. Completed in 1628, the Vasa was envisioned by King Gustavus Adolphus as the most formidable military vessel in history. Robert Scheer’s “Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America.” This indictment of the military-industrial complex explains why any president committed to preserving our Republic must end a policy of permanent war. ... were aware that the vessel was unstable, but all were terrified of breaking the news to the king. Cather’s account of an artist’s life begins with the deprivation, loneliness and yearning of a small town on the Plains. He believed in the First Amendment, and I hope for young people there is something about his decency and integrity that they can take away,” Phillip Rodriguez, producer and director of the Salazar often served as a bridge between the Mexican American and the white communities in Los Angeles. Rather than run from it, they should claim it proudly, as John F. Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt did, and then dare their opponents to continue to defame it.I would urge the three presidential candidates to read or reread two books from the 1970s that could help them confront the deepening (and now deeply intertwined) problem of our food and energy economies. Robert M. La Follette (foreword by Allan Nevins): “La Follette’s Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences.” McCain, in particular, might find much to admire and consider in the straight-talking La Follette, among the most admired and forceful United States senators ever to hold the office. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help.
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