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Book Recommendation: Bad Samaritans
I am right now finishing up Ha-Joon Chang's fantastic new book, Bad Samaritans. Without giving too much away, he shows that the current claims about free trade - specifically, about how free trade supposedly delivered us a great economy -...
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Book Recommendations: From Unions to Mines to Disasters to Nixonland
On this cold, snowy day here in Colorado on the eve of our February 5th caucus, I had some time to send out my once-in-a-while list of book recommendations from the pile of books I am reading right now. These...
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Shock Doctrine
I'm reading Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" right now. She is a fantastic writer, and her book really delivers. It is meticulously researched, and all-in-all, a great read. Pick it up....
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Book Recommendation: Connie Schultz's "...And His Lovely Wife"
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Connie Schultz, my new colleague at Creators Syndicate, has just released a book entitled ...And His Lovely Wife. It is a first-person account of Ohio's 2006 U.S. Senate race - the race in which her husband Sherrod...
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Book Recommendation: The Secret Lives of Citizens
I have just finished reading a truly prophetic book called The Secret Lives of Citizens by Thomas Geoghegan. It's hard to quantify exactly what this book is about, other than to say it is about the loss of the idea...
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About David Sirota
David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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