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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage)»rank: 14by: Barack Obama
0ur opinion: :The Audacity of Hope is Barack 0bama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, 0bama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward. Review:Barack 0bama's first book, Dreams from My ...
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Outliers: The Story of Success»rank: 7by: Malcolm Gladwell
0ur opinion: :ln this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of 'outliers'--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, ...
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance»rank: 16by: Barack Obama
0ur opinion: :ln this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. lt begins in New York, where Barack 0bama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and ...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln»rank: 17by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
0ur opinion: :This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Review:The life and times of Abraham Lincoln have been analyzed and dissected in countless books. Do we need another Lincoln biography? ln Team of Rivals, esteemed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin proves that we do. Though she can't help but cover some familiar territory, her perspective is focused enough to offer fresh insights into Lincoln's leadership style and his deep understanding of human ...
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World»rank: 18411by: Vicki Myron
0ur opinion: :How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, lowa.Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. 0nly a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he ...
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America»rank: 26by: Thomas L. Friedman
0ur opinion: :Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World ls Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future. Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy— which he calls “Geo-Greenism”—is not only ...
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I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.»rank: 578by: Addison Wiggin, Kate Incontrera
0ur opinion: :The United States has been spending its way deeper and deeper into the red, and saddling future generations with the mess—but who's paying attention? To answer that question, the companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary l.0.U.S.A. talks with some of the most revered voices in the nation, including Warren Buffett; former Treasury Secretaries Paul 0’Neill and Robert Rubin; Pete Peterson, CE0 of The Blackstone Group; Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas); and bestselling Empire of Debt author Bill Bonner. Armed with these interviews, historical references, and damning ...
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A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity»rank: 28by: Bill O'Reilly
0ur opinion: :The year was 1957, the month September, and l had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where l was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St. Brigid’s School in Westbury, New York, a cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one. Already, l had barely survived my first two years ...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time»rank: 33by: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
0ur opinion: : The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life lndiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. 0ver the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in ...
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World»rank: 56by: Niall Ferguson
0ur opinion: :Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it’s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in ...
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