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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

BookDaily Genre Sampler: Political Science and Government

 
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Wednesday June 15, 2011

Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon

By Gretchen Morgenson
ISBN: 9780805091205
 

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More Americans should own their own homes, for reasons that are economic and tangible, and reasons that are emotional and intangible, but go to the heart of what it means to harbor, to nourish, to expand the American Dream. —William Jefferson Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, November 1994

The president of the United States was preaching to the choir when he made that proclamation in 1994, just two years into his first term. Facing an enthusiastic crowd at the National Association of Realtors' annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Clinton launched the National Partners in Homeownership, a private-public cooperative ...

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Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

By Maziar Bahari
ISBN: 9781400069460
 

"Are you sure you're pregnant?" I had asked as I leaned down to kiss Paola's stomach. "Maybe it's something you ate."

Her voice sounded tired as she walked me to the door. "Just get back home as soon as you can," she said. She had had more than enough of my traveling. I had spent the last several weeks in Iran, reporting on the upcoming presidential elections for Newsweek and producing a film for the BBC, and now, after just a week in London, I was heading back again. Her patience for my silly jokes was running thin. We gave each other a long kiss good-bye, and when I finally pulled away from her, her eyes were full of tears.

In the taxi from our flat in north ...

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