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AMERICA'S CRISIS:
The Direct Democracy and Direct Education Solution

Author: Daniel B. Jeffs, founder
The Direct Democracy Center
Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory
October 2000


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A review collection of popular political authors:
Books by Posner, Jacoby, Kaplan, Schippers, Gertz, Baer, Farah, Bugliosi, Barone, Buchanan, Barzun and Hart.

Books by LAURIE MYLROIE and RAYMOND TANTER
about the war against America and the terrorism of rogue regimes.

The War against America:
Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks
Author: Laurie Mylroie
Publisher: Harper Collins
November 2001

STEVEN EMERSON'S
books about the Middle East and the Attack on America

American Jihad
Author: Steven Emerson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
February 2002

SPREADING MISANDRY:

The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture
Authors: Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
October 2001

SHAMELESS POLITICAL AUDACITY BOYS
write a book telling people how to succeed. But it's just another reason why politics and government need to be changed. -- DDC

BUCK UP, SUCK UP!
... and Come Back When You Foul Up
Authors: Paul Begala James Carville
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
January 2002

COLORING THE NEWS:

How Crusading for Diversity has Corrupted Journalism
Author: William McGowan
Publisher: Encounter Books
May 2001.

BIAS: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News

Author: Bernard Goldberg
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
November 2001.

THE FINAL DAYS:

The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
Author: Barbara Olson
Publisher: Regnery Publishing Inc.
November 2001 .

HELL TO PAY:

The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Author: Barbara Olson
Publisher: Regnery Publishing Inc.
November 1999 .

PROFOUND OBSERVATIONS ON SOCIETY AND EDUCATION
BY CHARLES J. SYKES AND ROGER KIMBALL

A Nation of Victims, Dumbing Down Our Kids, Profscam, and Tenured Radicals

THE REVOLT OF THE ELITES:

And the Betrayal of Democracy
Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W.W. Norton & CO.
December - 1995

PERICLES OF ATHENS and the BIRTH OF DEMOCRACY

Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Free Press - 1991

WhOSE DEMOCRACY IS THIS?
National Journal -- Book Reviews
August 8, 2001
A review of The Battle Over Citizen Lawmaking and Direct Democracy or Representative Government?
by Keith White

How much direct democracy is enough? If you are one of the contributors to The Battle Over Citizen Lawmaking, we have not even begun to test the limits. If you are John Haskell, author of Direct Democracy or Representative Government? Dispelling the Populist Myth, we already have an unhealthy amount.

DIRECT DEMOCRACY OR REPRESENTIVE GOVERNMENT?
Dispelling the Populist Myth

Author: John Haskell
Publisher: Westview Press
December 2000

Book Description:

In Direct Democracy or Representative Government? John Haskell deals with the relative merits of populist democracy and representative government. In this expansive, well-written, accessible, polemic account, Haskell traces the development of two dominant strains in American politics: the populist impulse that has fueled efforts to implement direct democracy for two centuries, and a representative political system as envisioned by James Madison in The Federal Papers.

REPUBLIC OF PARTIES?
Debating the Two-Party System

Authors: Theodore J. Lowi and Joseph Romance
Introduction by Gerald M. Pomper
Publisher: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
1998

Republic of Parties?: Debating the Two-Party System is a small book (106 pages) containing a concentrated debate about the history of parties, whether or not the two-party system is working, and whether or not there should be a three-party system

THE O'REILLY FACTOR:
The Good, Bad, and Completely Ridiculous in American Life

Author: Bill O'Reilly
Publisher: Broadway Books
September 2000

IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING?: The Case Against George W. Bush
Author: Paul Begala
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
September 2000
THE TEN THINGS YOU CAN'T SAY IN AMERICA
Author: Larry Elder
Publisher: St. Martin's press
August 2000
"How I accidentally Joined
the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: and Found Inner Peace."
Author: Harry Stein
Publisher: Delacorte Press (Dell)
June 2000.
COMMON SENSE REVISITED
Author: William Smith
Publisher: Writer's Club
March 1999
THE POLITICS OF BAD FAITH
Author: David Horowitz
Publisher: Touchstone Books,
March 2000
NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Verso
1999

THE CASE AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON
Author: Peggy Noonan
Publisher: Harper Trade
March 2000

INSIDE AMERICAN EDUCATION
Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

CREATING EQUAL
My Fight against Race Preferences
Author: Ward Connerly
Publisher: Encounter Books - February 2000
DEMOCRACY DERAILED
Author: David Broder
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company,
March 2000
THE EDUCATION OF TEACHERS
Author: Rita Kramer
Publisher: John M. Ashcroft Center for Public Affairs
Ashland University, Ashland OH 44805
(We paid $3.00 for the booklet through BN.COM)
VOTE.COM
Author: Dick Morris
Publisher: Renaissance Books -- 1999
HOW TOHOW TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT
Author:Arianna S. Huffington
Publisher: Harper Trade (Regan Books) - January 2000

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