You've Come A Long Way, Maybe; Sarah, Michelle, Hillary And The Shaping Of The New American Woman

By Leslie Sanchez
"Leslie Sanchez -- strategist, writer and political seer -- spent much of 2008 as an analyst on CNN, examining, investigating and deciphering the historic moment for women and politics that was the presidential election. And what she sees in the future is a landscape changed drastically for women the world over and their expectations. In You've Come a Long Way, Maybe, she debunks the cultural and political myths surrounding women, and looks at the wide range of reactions Hillary, Michelle and Sarah provoked from the small towns to the big city salons to the Sunday talk shows. She pays special attention to those most active and most examined during the election: the disappointed Hillary supporters, the rabid Sarah Palin fans, and everyone else wondering about the role of the new First Lady. Along the way, Leslie takes a hard look at what the election will mean for women now and in the future, and also at what leaders might emerge in 2012, and beyond." (Publisher Description)
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America For Sale; Fighting The New World Order, Surviving A Global Recession, and Preserving USA Sovereignty

By Jerome R. Corsi

"#1 New York Times bestselling author's sequel to The Late Great USA shows how we're driven by economic crises to accept globalist solutions. (Publisher Description) "Explains how the United States is being driven by economic crises to accept globalist solutions and offers a way to build a strong U.S. economy by enforcing employment laws, ending U.S. dependence on foreign oil, and strengthening the middle class." (Bookseller Description)

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Beyond Repair: The Decline And Fall Of The CIA

By Charles S. Faddis
"Faddis (Operation Hotel California), a career CIA operations officer, pulls no punches in this provocative critique of the iconic and dysfunctional spy agency. Noting that the CIA was created to protect the U.S. from another Pearl Harbor, the author points to 9/11 as proof that the agency can no longer perform that task and is so beyond reform that it must be replaced. In his portrayal of the CIA, "risk-taking, daring and creativity" are discouraged, bureaucratic concerns are given precedence, senior leadership is lacking and morale has been sapped by "crippling purges and witch hunts." The author concludes that the agency "is dying a death of a thousand cuts" and offers "a blueprint for a new OSS," modeled on the legendary Office of Strategic Services, FDR's WWII spy agency that spawned the CIA. " (PW Reviews)
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Scroogenomics; Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents For The Holidays

By Joel Waldfogel
"Waldfogel (Business & Public Policy, Wharton Sch., Univ. of Pennsylvania; The Tyranny of the Market) assesses holiday gift giving through the lens of economic tenets such as opportunity costs and deadweight loss. The result is a short but engaging manifesto on the inefficiency of the tradition, concluding with several solutions to increase satisfaction for both givers and receivers. Although his own suggestions mandate that you not buy this book for someone who wanted something else, fans of Freakonomics and The Economic Naturalist may love it." (LJ Reviews)
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Why Our Health Matters; A Vision Of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future

By Andrew Weil
"Rather than another advisor on healthy living, Weil's new book is a remarkably comprehensive brief for health-care reform. Three long-held American beliefs; the U.S. health care system is the best in the world, U.S. medical technology is that system's greatest asset, and U.S. medical schools and research facilities produce the best physicians and medical knowledge are now just myths, he says, as comparisons with other nations' health statistics and trends in domestic health confirm. Moreover, the system's costliness is bankrupting American business as well as the government. What is needed instead is a system in which doctors interact with patients much more than they do now; in which all citizens receive care; and in which insurance and care, the latter considered an art, not an industry, are affordable. The prevention of disease and the promotion of health should animate such a system, and if they entail legal restrictions on bad food similar to those on alcohol and tobacco, so be it. " (Booklist Reviews)
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Superfreakonomics; Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

By Steven D. Levitt

"A sequel to the megaselling Freakonomics (2005). ... this follow-up is certainly more of the same, a relentlessly enthusiastic cheer for the application of the dismal science to everyday life. That is, everyday life as the world knows it,....not least that the average street hooker in Chicago earns only $27 an hour and works only 13 hours a week, drawing about $350 a week. They're priced out of the market, the ever-provocative authors assert, by women willing to have sex for free. ....The authors also write that it's safer to travel by car than by most other means of transport, thanks in part to no less a personage than Robert S. McNamara, and by far less safe to walk drunk than to drive drunk. The authors' view of the climate crisis through an economic lens is similarly spirited, but certainly worth adding to the debate.Jaunty, entertaining and smart. Levitt and Dubner do a good service by making economics accessible, even compelling. " (Kirkus Reviews)

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Aid Trap; Hard Truths About Ending Poverty

By Glenn R. Hubbard
"Hubbard and Duggan, respectively dean and lecturer at Columbia Business School, make the case that current foreign aid and Third World projects, particularly in Africa, aren't working and that the developed world must rethink how it allots aid money. The authors dissect (and disagree) with the U.N.'s Millennium Goals strategy for attacking poverty, pet project of Jeffrey Sachs and a host of celebrities. They condemn the strategy as a "charity trap," that perverts local economies and "keeps corrupt leaders rich." The authors contend that poor countries can attain prosperity and self-sufficiency only if aid money goes to cultivating a functioning business sector. Microfinance, they say, is working but stops short; they propose something much more ambitious: a new Marshall Plan, an almost prohibitively daunting task given the vast differences among developing countries, the controls each puts on business and the input required from other developed nations. But the plainly stated thesis and the authors' willingness to confront conventional wisdom and examine and energetically attack the problem are refreshing and necessary." (PW Reviews)
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Losing The News; The Future Of The News That Feeds Democracy

By Alex S. Jones
"As a member of "the fourth generation of a newspaper-owning family," Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jones, currently at Harvard, knows news and the business of news inside and out. In this defining mix of history and analysis, he ponders the state of newspapers and, more importantly, the future of "serious" news. As the print world confronts the ever-morphing Internet, Jones focuses on the "iron core of information," that is, the "fact-based accountability news" that he asserts is "at the center of a functioning democracy." This "iron core" sustains radio, television, and Internet news, "free riders" who co-opt the difficult, risky, time-consuming work of investigative journalists. As newspapers gut their newsrooms, who will provide the resources necessary for authentic, responsible reporting? Jones tracks the evolution of journalism ethics, compares "citizen" and professional journalism, and reminds us of how crucial newspapers are to communities." (Booklist Reviews_
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