BookDaily Genre Sampler: Political Science and Government

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Nonfiction/Politics Wednesday June 22, 2011 Why Catholics Are Right By Michael Coren ISBN: 9780771023217   When I first told friends and colleagues about this book, they were intrigued by its proposed content but disturbed by its title. “Sounds a little proud,” “Is that sufficiently conciliatory for these progressive and pluralistic days?” and “You ought to be careful because it might offend people.” Which is odd in that when I suggested to them titles for other books such as Why Liberals Are Right, Why Conservatives Are Right, even Why Muslims Are Right, and especially Why Atheists Are Right, they thought the suggestions to describe the various subjects entirely reasonable and unlikely to cause any problems at all. To believe something is, self-evidently, not to believe ... Read more     unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation By Brooks Jackson ISBN: 9781400065660   From Snake Oil to Emu Oil A century ago a self-proclaimed cowboy named Clark Stan- ley, calling himself the Rattlesnake King, peddled a product he called Snake Oil Liniment. He claimed it was “good for man and beast” and brought immediate relief from “pain and lameness.” Stanley sold it for 50 cents a bottle—the equivalent of more than $10 today—as a remedy for rheumatism, toothache, sciatica, and “bites of animals, insects and reptiles,” among other ailments. To promote his pricey cure-all, Stanley publicly slaughtered rattlesnakes at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. Stanley was the most famous of the snake-... Read more       BookDaily Top Five In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American ... Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of ... Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and ... A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five Bossypants   Nonfiction/Politics Top Five Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-... The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive ... The 48 Laws of Power Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

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