My Life - Bill Cinton
An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the former president as a son, brother, teacher, father, husband, and public figure. Clinton painstakingly outlines the history behind his greatest successes and failures, including his dedication to educational and economic reform, his war against a "vast right-wing operation" determined to destroy him, and the "morally indefensible" acts for which he was nearly impeached. My Life is autobiography as therapy--a personal history written by a man trying to face and banish his private demons.
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By reading the memoir first, you will find yourself so drawn to this son of a scholar from Kenya and a teacher from Kansas, that you will be unable to refrain from barreling through "Audacity of Hope" in order to discover what thi... By reading the memoir first, you will find yourself so drawn to this son of a scholar from Kenya and a teacher from Kansas, that you will be unable to refrain from barreling through "Audacity of Hope" in order to discover what this remarkable leader had in mind for the future of our great nation. AND HE'S OUR PRESIDENT!!
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Great Book!!
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Obama argues with himself on almost every page of this lively autobiographical conversation. He gets you to agree with him, and then he brings in a counternarrative that seems just as convincing. Son of a white American mother and... Obama argues with himself on almost every page of this lively autobiographical conversation. He gets you to agree with him, and then he brings in a counternarrative that seems just as convincing. Son of a white American mother and of a black Kenyan father whom he never knew, Obama grew up mainly in Hawaii. After college, he worked for three years as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side. Then, finally, he went to Kenya, to find the world of his dead father, his "authentic" self. Will the truth set you free, Obama asks? Or will it disappoint? Both, it seems. His search for himself as a black American is rooted in the particulars of his daily life; it also reads like a wry commentary about all of us. He dismisses stereotypes of the "tragic mulatto" and then shows how much we are all caught between messy contradictions and disparate communities. He discovers that Kenya has 400 different tribes, each of them with stereotypes of the others. Obama is candid about racism and poverty and corruption, in Chicago and in Kenya. Yet he does find community and authenticity, not in any romantic cliche{‚}, but with "honest, decent men and women who have attainable ambitions and the determination to see them through."
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A book of Obama's speeches. It is also a special inauguration edition as well!
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A history book about inauguration day up until 2009. It includes a map and parade routes for the upcoming inauguration as well!
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Get to know John McCain a little better. Know what makes him such a great American hero.
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Here is the latest collection of the satirical comic strip Trouble town, the satirical view of our mishaps in the war in the Middle East.
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This might be the funniest book I've ever read. Mark Crispin Miller, a New York University professor of media studies, has fashioned a devastating compendium of President George W. Bush's grammatical gaffes, syntactical shipwrecks... This might be the funniest book I've ever read. Mark Crispin Miller, a New York University professor of media studies, has fashioned a devastating compendium of President George W. Bush's grammatical gaffes, syntactical shipwrecks, mind-boggling malapropisms and simply dumb comments. It took me a while to read this hilarious book because I found myself re-reading in complete disbelief many of these flabbergasting ramblings.
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