Tonight I have three: Al Gore's book, The Assault on Reason. For the United States it is maybe more important than An Inconvenient Truth. I've read a critique by a guy who said he didn't think much of Gore because he should have said these things when he was in Congress and shouldn't have waited. Frankly, I appreciate the truth and I don't appreciate disparagement. Makes one wonder how many more books are unwritten and says tons about the problems of this nation.
The second is War on the Middle Class by Lou Dobbs. It is good. It is not much different from Gore's book. It does get at why it is so crazy now as opposed to fifty years ago. The critique on Dobb's book was that he was "nativistic," which meant he was born and raised in Idaho and that somehow trumped a college education at Harvard with a degree in economics.
The third is Impeachment of a President, Bill Moyers Journal, broadcast on Public Television 7/13/2007 and since rebroadcast by popular demand. On the show he interviews Bruce Fein, the constitutional scholar who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Clinton and John Nichols, author of The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. Both strongly recommend impeachment of President Bush for many reasons. Both fault Congress for not initiating the process, suggesting to them that Congress is deficient in knowledge of the Constitution.
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I think Gore didn't write "The Assault On Reason" until he did because the ideas hadn't crystallized in his mind to the point where he could state them as eloquently as he did. I heard that one as an unabridged audiobook, and loved it.
I know I would like the Moyers Journal piece. Not long ago I read "Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush" by Center for Constitutional Rights, and it laid out four very clear areas in which the man is impeachable. It only cost 9.95 new and it's a fast read. I think that if everybody in Congress was required to sit for a few hours and read that book, only the 20-25% of Bush neocon diehards would still be toeing the president's line, and time in office would be short. Same goes for Cheney, who is arguably more dangerous to American than Bush himself...
I would be interested in the Lou Dobbs book, as he often has decent insights into current events. Thanks for the write-ups!
HAve you tried "Don't Think of an Elephant" yet, by George Lakoff? That is some excellent thought fodder for when we just can't seem to fathom how or why conservatives look at things as they do.
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