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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0-393-05850-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (171 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Three stars for raising the issues
Comment: The Great Unraveling, like Greg Palast's book, "The Best Democracy Money can Buy," may be flawed in places and written from a left-wing perspective but it does provide important information regarding how our country is abandoning its principles and ultimately its people. My only complaint is that Krugman, like so many others these days, is an ideologue; as a result, he still believes there is a difference between left and right, Republican and Democrat. Although he may not see it this way, his book discusses the ways in which a global, corporate Sovietization of America is quickly subverting families, communities and ultimately the country. Though Palast's book is better, Krugman does provide information which so-called conservatives don't ever address. Unfortunately, Americans are being deceived into accepting the absurd idea that the leaders of our two parties are men of vision and principle with actual political philosophies they seek to implement - as if Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton were similar in stature to a Pericles, Cicero, or Bismarck. If the company you work for has sent jobs offshore, increased your copays, engaged in regular, year-end layoffs; if your HR department has engaged in Skinner-like behavior modification programs by showing you the absolutely ridiculous "Fish" program and talking endlessly about valuing its employees while rolling back benefits and increasing your amount of work; if you no longer trust your child's teacher; if you wonder why low-paying service sector jobs grow like weeds while white collar jobs disappear; if you know more and more people who have to declare bankruptcy even though they are a two-income family; if you know more and more people in their early to mid fifties who are being laid off not because of job performance but because their job has been "eliminated;" if you wonder why the pirates at Enron could go free while Martha Stewart is rounded-up; if you wonder why our government is bombing various countries for vague and/or indefinite reasons that mention "pre-emption" or "stabilization in the region" while our government kow-tows to human rights abuser Red China; if you wonder why more and more illegal aliens keep flooding the country - perhaps cooking the food you eat at fast-food and higher end restaurants, or working for the company that has agreed to put a new roof on your house; if crime seems to be a problem in your city, though you have been told crime it is at an all-time low; and, if you wonder why so-called conservatives talk endlessly about reducing the size of government yet support a president who is deficit-spending like crazy and expanding the role of the federal government, then read Krugman's book for clues - though not necessarily answers.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
Comment: A well-known commentator for the New York Times, Fortune, and Slate, Krugman (economics, Princeton) has collected more than 100 of his columns that ran between 1997 and spring 2003. Following a substantial preface, he presents the pieces, organized into topical sections that include introductions. The result is a coherent whole. For those not familiar with the author's work, this is a scathing (and, to some minds, well placed) collection of critiques, all aimed squarely at the White House and its current administration. He takes on George Bush from all angles: the fuzzy math inherent in the tax cuts to cronyism to the exploitation of 9/11 that furthered his agenda in the Middle East. Enron, the environment, and globalization are other large targets that also receive their due. This is a thought-provoking book, at times enraging or depressing, sometimes even funny (depending on one's political leanings). Highly recommended for all collections
Rating: 5
Summary: Bush fans need not read! Keep your head in the sand......
Comment: If you are a George Bush fan this book is probably not for you. Paul Krugman is currently a columnist for the New York Times but is an economist and has been involved with politics since he worked with committeemen in the Reagan administration. The book was taken from his columns from 2000 to 2003. While he tries to simplify things his primary method of explaining things is through the use of numbers.
Krugman explains what happened to the surplus and why the big tax cuts are aimed at ELIMINATING Social Security. Paul Krugman also has some harsh words for his fellow journalists for taking comments from the administration at face value without even doing minimal investigation to check on their validity. If you are a moderate or left in your politics and want to know what happened in the last 3 years this book is for you. If you just want snappy comebacks for your right wing friends then I suggest Al Franken' book instead.
After all, the top 20 reasons for going to war stated by Bush, Cheny, Powell, and Rice have ALL been PROVEN wrong. We give tax breaks to the rich, yet the Bush administration announces they want to cut back on Social Security benefits. WOW! Don't you see something wrong with this?
Economist and Princeton professor Krugman explains why we are back into deficits, why the right-wing GOP refuses to work within the limits of the American political framework, why Americans are now pessimistic about most things, and he exposes George W. Bush for what he is -- A power hungry liar.
But, not only does Krugman point all this out with his great logic and wit, he also (unlike most current political authors) offers ideas on how we can get our great country back on the right track again.
If you are open minded and looking for those books begging for its pages to be turned...look no further. I just read a copy of Edgar Fouche's 'Alien Rapture,' which also blew me away. Fouche was a Top Secret Black Program 'insider', whose credibility has been verified over and over. I also really liked Dan Brown's 'Angels and Demons.' Want to be shocked, check out Dr. Paul Hill's 'Unconventional Flying Objects' which NASA tried to ban.
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Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken ISBN: 0525947647 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bushwhacked : Life in George W. Bush's America by LOU DUBOSE, MOLLY IVINS ISBN: 0375507523 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason ISBN: 0312315600 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 25 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke ISBN: 0743260244 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 22 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind ISBN: 0743255453 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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