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LAST OF THE BOOK REVIEWS UNTIL AFTER THE 2004 ELECTION

Because of the increasing numbers of political books being published, most leaning unfairly to Left and nearly all authored by the political elite, the DDC will suspend additions to the Book Review section until after the 2004 presidential election. The selections below are the last reviews until after the election:

Addendum: With margin to spare, the radical Left lost the election. Now back to some interesting reading:

Winning the Future:
A 21st Century Contract with America
Author: Newt Gingrich
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
January 2005

In the twenty-first century, America could be destroyed.
The dangers are manifold:
Terrorism.
Judges who think they're God (and who are anti-God).
Rising economic challenges from China and India.
Immigrants and young Americans who know little about American history and values.
Can America survive?

Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life
Author: Michael Medved
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
December 2004

FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers-and more than his share of enemies-by advancing controversial, often counterintuitive arguments, including:

Men in Black:
How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America
Author: Mark R. Levin
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
February 2005

The Supreme Court Endorses Terrorists' Rights, Flag Burning, and Importing Foreign Law.

Is that in the Constitution?

Give Me a Break:
How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists
and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media
Author: John Stossel
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
January 2004

FROM THE PUBLISHER
When he hit the airwaves thirty years ago, Stossel helped create a whole new category of news, dedicated to protecting and informing consumers. As a crusading reporter, he chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers.

Dawn over Baghdad:
How the U.S. Military Is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq
Author: Karl Zinsmeister
Publisher: Encounter Books
July 2004

Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death
Author: Paul Driessen
Publisher: Merril Press
November 2003

It's My America Too:
A Leading Young Conservative Shares His Views on Politics and Other Matters of Importance
Author: Ben Ferguson
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
August 2004

The Pentagon's New Map:
War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Thomas Barnett
Publisher: Putnam
April 2004

PREACHERS OF HATE:
Islam and the War on America

Author: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
October 2003

THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA

Author: Kenneth Timmerman
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
March 2004

INDEPENDANT NATION:
How the Vital Center Is Changing American Politics

Author: John Avlon
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
February 2004

BOTH REVIEWS AT SAME LOCATION

review one

Against All Enemies:
Inside America's War on Terror
Author: Richard Clarke
Publisher: The Free Press
March 2004

review two

The Price of Loyalty:
George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
Author: Ron Suskind
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
January 2004


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LIES: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them..
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Author: Al Franken
Publisher: Penguin Group
August 2003
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DUDE, Where's My Country?
Author: Michael Moore
Publisher: Warner Books
October 2003
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HAD ENOUGH?
A Handbook for Fighting Back
Author: James Carville
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
December 2003
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BUSHWHACKED:
Life in George W. Bush's America
Author: Molly Ivins
Publisher: Random House
September 2003
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IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING?:

The Case Against George W. Bush
Author: Paul Begala
September 2000
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WHO'S LOOKING OUT FOR YOU?
Author: Bill O'Reilly
Publisher: Broadway Books
September 2003
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A NATIONAL PARTY NO MORE:
The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat
Author: Zell Miller
Publisher: Stroud & Hall Publishing
November 2003
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SHUT UP AND SING:
Author: Laura Ingraham
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
September 2003
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WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA?:
Author: Eric Alterman
Publisher: Basic Books
February 2003
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BREACH OF TRUST:
How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders
Authors: Tom Coburn, John Hart
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
August 2003

COERCING VIRTUE:
The Worldwide Rule of Judges
Author: Robert H. Bork
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
September 2003

BIAS:
A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
Author: Bernard Goldberg
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
November 2001

ARROGANCE:
Rescuing America from the Media Elite
Author: Bernard Goldberg
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
November 2003

YOU CAN'T SAY THAT!
The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws
Author: David E. Bernstein
Publisher:Cato Institute
October 2003

USEFUL IDIOTS:
How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First
Author: Mona Charen
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
March 2003

A People's History of the United States
1492-Present
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
March 2003

SAVING LIVES & SAVING MONEY
Author: Newt Gingrich
with Dana Pavey & Anne Woodbury
Publisher: Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
April 2003

LEGACY:
Paying the Price for the Clinton Years
Author: Richard Lowry
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
October 2003

FDR's folly:
How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
Author: Jim Powell
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
September 2003

TALES FROM THE LEFT COAST
True Stories of Hollywood's Stars and Their Outrageous Politics
Author: James L. Hirsen, With Newsmax.com
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
July 2003

TERROR IN THE NAME OF GOD:
Why Religious Militants Kill
Author: Jessica Stern
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
August 2003

JOURNALISTIC FRAUD
How the New York Times Distorts the News
and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted
Author: Bob Kohn
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
August 2003

A LONG SHORT WAR:
The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
June 2003

LOSING BIN LADEN:
How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror
Author:Richard Miniter
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
September 2003

MEXIFORNIA:
A State of Becoming
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Encounter Books
June 2003

WHY AMERICA SLEPT:
The Failure to Prevent 9/11
Author: Gerald L. Posner
Publisher: Random House
September 2003

FUNDING EVIL:
How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It
Author: Rachel Ehrenfeld
Publisher: Bonus Books, Inc.
August 2003

HOW TO DESTROY A VILLAGE:
What The Clintons Taught A Seventeen Year Old
Author: Jason D. Fodeman
Publisher: Publish America, Inc.
May 2003

APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY:
How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business, and Society
Authors: Peter W. Morgan, Glenn H. Reynolds
Publisher: Free Press
September 1997

46 PAGES:
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to Independence
Author, Scott Liell
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
March 2003

BLUMENTHAL, CLINTON AND HISTORICAL DISTORTIONS
The Clinton Wars" is little more than Sidney Blumenthal's feeble attempt to revise history to reflect well on himself, the Clinton legacy and the monstrous political lie and deception machine he helped construct.
-- DDC BOOK REVIEW

THE CLINTON WARS
"This major new book part history - part memoir - is the riveting inside account of the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton.
Author: Sidney Blumenthal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2003

THE RULE OF LAWYERS:
How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law,
and others by:
Author, Walter K. Olson -LITIGATION EXPLOSION: & THE EXCUSE FACTORY
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
December 2002

NO CRUELER TYRANNIES:
Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times
Author: Dorothy Rabinowitz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
March 2003

DERELICITON OF DUTY:
The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security
Author: Robert Patterson
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company
April 2003

WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA?:
The Truth About Bias and the News
Author: Eric Alterman
Publisher: Basic Books
February 2003

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS:
Traitors, Crooks & Obstructionists in American Politics, Media & Life
Author: Dick Morris< br> Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
June 2003

TREASON:
Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
Author:Ann Coulter
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
June 2003

BRINKLEY AND CRONKITE - Their Memoirs
Author: David Brinkley & Walter Cronkite
Publisher: Ballantine Books & Random House
1996 & 1097

AFTER JIHAD
Author: Noah Feldman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
March 2003

THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM:
Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
Author: Fareed Zakaria
Publisher: WW Norton
March 2003

THE WAR AGAINST BOYS:
How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
June 2001

USEFUL IDIOTS:
How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First
Author: Mona Charen
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
March 2003

THE DEATH OF RIGHT AND WRONG:
Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
Author: Tammy Bruce
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
April 2003

THE LANGUAGE POLICE:
How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Knopf, Alfred A
April 2003

GLOBAL SENSE
Author: Ken Freed
Media & Politics Journalist
Publisher, Media Visions Journal
http://www.media-visions.com

Increasing democracy at every level makes sense. A book worth reading.
-- DDC

SOCIOECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
February 2003
Praeger Publishers
Greenwood Publishing Group
88 Post Road West
PO Box 5007
Westport, CT 06881-5007

THE SAVAGE NATION
Author: Michael Savage
Publisher: WND Books
December 2002
{Review includes 4 other books
worth reading}

VANISHING VOTER
Public Involvment in an Age of Uncertainty
Author: Thomas E. Patterson
Publisher: Knopf Alfred A
September 2002

HEAVEN ON EARTH
The Rise and Fall of Socialism
Author: Joshua Muravchik
Publisher: Encounter Books
January 2002

MOBOCRACY: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News,
Alters Elections,and Undermines Democracy
Author: Matthew Robinson
Publisher: Prima Communications, Inc.
January 2002

INVASION:
How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals,
and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores
Author: Michelle Malkin
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company
September 2002

Restoration of the Republic:
The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America
Author: Gary Hart
Publisher: Oxford University Press
May 2002

THE CASE AGAINST LAWYERS:
How the Lawyers, Politicians, and Bureaucrats
Have Turned the Law into an Instrument of Tyranny -
and What We as Citizens Can do About it.
Author: Catherine Crier
Publisher: Broadway Books

The Age of Sacred Terror:
Radical Islam's War against America
Author: Daniel K. Benjamin and Steven Simon
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
October 2002

SHOWDOWN:
Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests that Divide America
Author: Larry Elder
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
August 2002

AID AND COMFORT:
Jane Fonda in North Vietnam
Author: Henry Mark Holzer Erika Holzer
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
March 2002

God Has Ninety-Nine Names:
Reporting from a Militant Middle East
Author: Judith Miller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Missed Signals
by Judith Miller
New York Times

BREAKDOWN:
How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
by Bill Gertz
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.,
An Eagle Publishing Company

THE WAR AGAINST THE TERROR MASTERS :
by Michael Arthur Ledeen
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

CREDIT CARD NATION:
by Robert D. Manning
Publisher: Basic Books

FIXING ELECTIONS:
by Steven Hill

AN OLD WIFE'S TALE:
My Seven Decades in Love and War
Author: Midge Decter
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

THE NEW DEALER'S WAR:
F.D.R. and the War Within World War II
Author: Thomas Fleming
Publisher: Basic Books Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.

DEPENDENT ON D.C.:
The Rise of Federal Control over the Lives of Ordinary Americans
Author: Charlotte Twight
Publisher: Palgrave Global Publishing

WHAT COMES NEXT:
The End of Big Government--and the New Paradigm Ahead
Author: James P. Pinkerton
Publisher: Hyperion Press

THE ANATOMY OF RACIAL INEQUALITY
Author: Glenn C. Loury
Publisher: Harvard University Press

THE NEW THOUGHT POLICE:
Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds
Author: Tammy Bruce
Publisher: Prima Communications, Inc.

PC, M.D.:
How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine
Author: Sally Satel
Publisher: Perseus Publishing

SLANDER:
Liberal Lies about the American Right
Author: Ann H. Coulter
Publisher: Random House

The New Challenge of Direct Democracy
Author: Ian Budge
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers

WHY WE FIGHT:
Author:William J. Bennett
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated

EX-FRIENDS:
Author: Norman Podhoretz
Publisher: Encounter Books

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A History
Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Random House

NEXT: The Future Just Happened
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

MAKING PATRIOTS
Author: Walter Berns
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

THE CURRENT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST

THE CORRUPTION OF AMERICAN POLITICS:
What Went Wrong and Why
Author: Elizabeth Drew
Publisher: The Overlook Press

WHAT WENT WRONG?:
Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
Author: Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press

CORPORATION NATION:
How Corporations Are Taking over Our Lives
- and What We Can Do about It
Author: Charles Derber - Ralph Nader (Introduction)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Inc.

SHAKEDOWN:
Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson
Author: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Publisher: Regnery Publishing

:WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT AMERICA
Author: Dinesh D'Souza
Publisher: Regnery Publishing

BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY:

An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization,
Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters
Author: Greg Palast
Publisher: Pluto Press

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