Book TV Schedule: December 29th - January 2nd

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: December 29 - January 2
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM, Monday 12 AM and 3 AM ET
Amy Chua explores the history of societies that due to their unequaled military and economic superiority achieve world dominance. From the Mongols to Rome and the United States, Ms. Chua denotes the reasons why a small number of societies have reached hyper power status and the reasons for their demise. Ms. Chua discusses her book with Cullen Murphy, managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and author of Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America.


Weekend Highlights - Four Days of Book TV
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Join us for four days of Book TV programming this holiday weekend, beginning Saturday, December 29, at 8 AM ET and running through Wednesday, January 2, at 8 AM ET.
Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller documents the life of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The author's talk is followed by comments by Walter Isaacson and David Rothkopf.
(Saturday 7 PM, Sunday 7 AM and 2 PM, Tuesday 3 PM ET)

Tom Brokaw, Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Tom Brokaw talked with artists, politicians, activists, business leaders, journalists, and Vietnam veterans to document their insights on the impact of the 1960s. Mr. Brokaw also offers his own personal reflections throughout the book. This Atlanta Press Club hosted this event.
(Sunday 6 AM, Tuesday 10 AM ET)

Jared Cohen, Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Jared Cohen discusses the views and lifestyles of the young living in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Iraq. This talk was hosted by the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC.
(Sunday 9 AM and 5 PM, Monday 8 AM ET)

John Kerry, and Teresa Heinz Kerry This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, write about current challenges confronting the environmental movement and describe the work of ranchers, city planners, activists, and other citizens who are addressing these challenges in all regions of the country.
(Monday 7 PM ET)

Kayce Freed Jennings et al., Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
Friends and colleagues of the late ABC News anchor, Peter Jennings, discuss his life and career. Mr. Jennings' former ABC colleagues Ted Koppel, John Cochran, Kyle Gibson and their spouses hosted a party to celebrate the publication of the book. Kayce Freed Jennings, Tim Russert, Bob Schieffer, Lynn Sherr, Justice Antonin Scalia, and Peter Osnos of PublicAffairs Books were in attendance.
(Saturday 11:30 AM, Monday 10 PM ET)


In Depth - January 6, 2008 - Author Nell Painter
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January's In Depth will feature author and historian Nell Irvin Painter. Ms. Painter is the author of six books: The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South; Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877- 1919; Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol; Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction; Southern History Across the Color Line; and Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. The program will air LIVE on Sunday, January 6, from 12-3 PM ET.



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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).

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Saturday, December 29, 2007

8:00 AM 48 min History
Retained By The People: The "Silent" Ninth Amendment And The Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have
Author: Daniel Farber

9:00 AM 45 min Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other
Author: Leslie Sanchez

10:00 AM 1 hr, 31 min An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
Author: Randall Robinson

11:30 AM 23 min Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
Author: Kayce Freed Jennings et al. (editors)

12:00 PM 1 hr, 13 min 50th Anniversary of "Atlas Shrugged" : A discussion on Rand's life, writing and impact in academia
Authors: Nigel Ashford; Mimi Gladstein; Anne Heller; Edward Hudgins; David Kelly

1:15 PM 1 hr, 1 min 50th Anniversary of "Atlas Shrugged" : A discussion on Rand's thinking on economics, business ethics, and entrepreneurship
Authors: Robert Bidinotto; Rob Bradley; Ed Snider; Edward Younkins

2:15 PM 1 hr, 13 min 50th Anniversary of "Atlas Shrugged" : A discussion on Rand's views on politics, the fight for freedom, and the future of objectivism
Authors: Edward Crane; John Fund; Fred Smith

3:30 PM 48 min Frank Streeter Library Sale (47:38)
Author: Various Books

4:15 PM 12 min What's New in Lincoln Books? Interview with Harold Holzer & Frank Williams
Authors: Harold Holzer; Frank Williams

4:30 PM 45 min History
Jason Emerson, "The Madness of Mary Lincoln"
Author: Jason Emerson

5:15 PM 42 min Battlefield tour with Marc Leepson, Author, "Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History"
Author: Marc Leepson

6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
Author: Jessica Stern

7:00 PM 1 hr, 18 min Politics
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller

8:15 PM 45 min Privacy In Peril: How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
Author: James B. Rule

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"

10:00 PM 1 hr, 28 min Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror By Breaking Free of Oil
Author: Robert Zubrin

11:30 PM 33 min In an Instant
Author: Bob and Lee Woodruff


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Sunday, December 30, 2007

12:00 AM 1 hr, 19 min Ghettonation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless
Author: Cora Daniels

1:30 AM 1 hr Feds in the Classroom
Author: Neal McCluskey

2:30 AM 1 hr 40th Anniversary of the Third World Press
Authors: Haki Madhubuti; Walter Mosley

3:30 AM 1 hr, 37 min Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
Author: Norman Solomon

5:15 AM 40 min Charge: History's Greatest Military Speeches
Author: Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY)

6:00 AM 56 min History
Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Author: Tom Brokaw

7:00 AM 1 hr, 18 min Politics
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller

8:15 AM 39 min Politics
The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President: Who the Candidates Are, Where They Come From, and How You Can Choose
Author: Mark Halperin

9:00 AM 56 min Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Author: Jared Cohen

10:00 AM 49 min History
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815
Author: Daniel Walker Howe

11:00 AM 56 min Politics
The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House
Author: Garrett Graff

12:00 PM 53 min Politics
Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers
Author: Karl E. Campbell

1:00 PM 1 hr, 7 min Power to the People
Author: Laura Ingraham

2:00 PM 1 hr, 18 min Politics
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller

3:15 PM 1 hr, 38 min Hezbollah
Author: Augustus Richard Norton

5:00 PM 56 min Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Author: Jared Cohen

6:00 PM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"

7:00 PM 59 min After Words: Rick Atkinson author of "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944" interviewed by Patrick O'Donnell

8:00 PM 1 hr, 1 min iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era
Author: Mark Andrejevic

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"

10:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min History
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
Author: Stephen Mihm

11:15 PM 48 min History
The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics
Author: Kim Long


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Monday, December 31, 2007

12:00 AM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"

1:00 AM 51 min Making War to Keep Peace
Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

2:00 AM 49 min Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Author: John Dean

3:00 AM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"

4:00 AM 1 hr, 33 min Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick

6:00 AM 58 min 2007 Miami Book Fair International: Cal Thomas, "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America"
Author: Cal Thomas

7:00 AM 27 min 2007 Miami Book Fair International - Calls with Hanna Rosin
Author: Hanna Rosin

7:30 AM 33 min 2007 Miami Book Fair International - Calls with Chris Matthews
Author: Chris Matthews

8:00 AM 56 min Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Author: Jared Cohen

9:00 AM 1 hr, 47 min Escaping the Resource Curse
Author: Jeffrey Sachs

11:00 AM 1 hr, 5 min History
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Author: Edward Larson

12:00 PM 42 min Battlefield tour with Marc Leepson, Author, "Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History"
Author: Marc Leepson

1:00 PM 59 min History
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
Author: Pat Shipman

2:00 PM 1 hr, 16 min Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Author: Bjorn Lomborg

3:15 PM 46 min Politics
Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders
Author: Christine Pelosi

4:00 PM 57 min 2007 Texas Book Festival:Trish Wood: "What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War"
Author: Trish Wood (editor)

5:00 PM 1 hr 2007 Texas Book Festival: Brandon Friedman and Marcus Luttrell on the War in Afghanistan
Authors: Brandon Friedman; Marcus Luttrell

6:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min Public Lives
Leni: The Life And Work Of Leni Riefenstahl
Author: Steven Bach

7:00 PM 1 hr, 13 min This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
Author: John and Teresa Heinz Kerry

8:10 PM 12 min What's New in Lincoln Books? Interview with Harold Holzer & Frank Williams
Authors: Harold Holzer; Frank Williams

8:30 PM 33 min In an Instant
Author: Bob and Lee Woodruff

9:00 PM 35 min Politics
The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits
Author: Diana Walker

9:30 PM 30 min Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America
Authors: Bob Beckel; Cal Thomas

10:00 PM 23 min Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
Author: Kayce Freed Jennings et al. (editors)

10:30 PM 52 min "My Grandfather's Son"
Author: Clarence Thomas

11:30 PM 1 hr, 6 min Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
Author: Jeffrey Ogbar


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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

12:30 AM 49 min You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think
Author: Kinky Friedman

1:30 AM 52 min Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq
Author: Ian Klaus

2:30 AM 1 hr, 11 min Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Author: Maryanne Wolf

3:45 AM 1 hr, 31 min Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse
Author: Sylvain Cypel

5:15 AM 54 min 2007 Miami Book Fair International - Walter Isaacson, "Einstein: His Life and Universe"
Author: Walter Isaacson

6:00 AM 1 hr, 11 min Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Author: Eboo Patel

7:15 AM 54 min History
Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What's Happened Since
Author: Stephen Mansfield

8:00 AM 44 min Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
Author: Don Cheadle John Prendergast

8:40 AM 12 min An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Author: Al Gore

9:00 AM 49 min History
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815
Author: Daniel Walker Howe

9:45 AM 3 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Margaret Burroughs (Co-author), "Close-ups of History: Three Decades through the Lens of an AP Photographer"
Author: Margaret Burroughs

9:50 AM 3 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Bob Deans, "The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James"
Author: Bob Deans

10:00 AM 56 min History
Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Author: Tom Brokaw

10:55 AM 4 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Shannon Perich (Co-author), "The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family by Richard Avedon"
Author: Shannon Perich

11:00 AM 58 min After Words: Nassim Nicholas Taleb author of "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" interviewed by David Brooks

12:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity
Authors: Arianna Huffington; Robert Kuttner

1:00 PM 1 hr, 4 min The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker

2:00 PM 51 min Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Author: Shannon Brownlee

3:00 PM 1 hr, 18 min Politics
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller

4:15 PM 45 min Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program
Author: Pat Duggins

5:00 PM 55 min Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle
Author: Alan Weisman


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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

6:00 AM 46 min The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Author: Ronald Kessler

7:00 AM 1 hr 2007 Texas Book Festival: Brandon Friedman and Marcus Luttrell on the War in Afghanistan
Authors: Brandon Friedman; Marcus Luttrell

http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx


Nepal

[EFerrari]

1. Kickers

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. huggers

:hug:

:D

[Bozita]

3. Thank you, Viva

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Thank YOU, Boz!

:loveya:

[Bozita]

5. How did you identify that school bldg in the Seniors Forum?

It's been driving me nuts.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. I am the Google Queen! Bwaaaahaaahaaa!

:D

That's what my Boss calls me, he's kinda befuddled with this whole Internets thing...


This is what I did...
1. I spent several fruitless minutes browsing images in Google using the search term "old school" "old school plains" and "school 1900 1910" (clues from the scenery and architecture, and my vague child-hood memories of seeing a few schools very similar while growing up in NE CO)
2. Just when I was getting nowhere and very frustrated, one of the others piped up with a comment about the old fire-chute. So I Googled "school fire-escape" and it was on the second page.

It used to be that you had to be in the right place at the right time to get anywhere in this crazy world.
Now-a-days you just have to figure out the right search term. :evilgrin:

[Bozita]

8. Your boss is right.

It makes perfect sense to me ... now.

[EFerrari]

11. I KNEW someday being too intuitive would pay.

:toast:

[tech3149]

7. Thx nice compilation

I'll be sure to catch "Children of Jihad" but it looks like there will be more than a few hours of good programming to get my attention.

[Kurovski]

9. K&R.

Thank you Vivala! :hug:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. Darling! Sweetness! Light of my Life!

how ya doin? :hug:

[Kurovski]

12. All is well now, and as always when enfolded within the beautiful wings of my wondrous dove.

:hug: :D

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. Ever since the last DUzys came out, you've just been insufferable...

I, for one, just can't stand it any more! :stampsfootsmilie:

edit: heated miss-spelling

[Kurovski]

14. Coo,

coo-coo.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. ..

:rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

16. Kickin for Viva!

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

Ya does such a great job every week :D

:ThouDostRockSo:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. I Dost Rock? Cool!

:hi:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

19. U betcha

And then some :hug: :)

*shares my french toast witcha*

Naptime!! :rofl:

A perfect winter's saturday ;)

[Kurovski]

18. Kick! (nt)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

20. Kick!

Dubrovnik

[UTUSN]

21. Thank you for this service you do!1 On right now, Amy CHUA on empires

I would have missed it without your thread. Thanks!1

[Kurovski]

22. Kick. (nt)

[Judi Lynn]

23. Thanks. Great photo of excellent children. K, got here too late to R. n/t

[NuttyFluffers]

24. it's tragic, my comcast took away CPSAN-2...

i need to call them and give them a serious piece of my mind. i have zero intentions of upgrading to a higher package (currently basic). but i think they're pulling this channel removal crap to rough up their bottom rung customers to either upgrade or go away. sonzabitches.... i wonder if anyone has any experience w/ Comcast getting their favorite channels restored. and i'd kill to get CSPAN-3 to replace one of those junky Shop TV channels. but i'm not paying the cable bill, so i shouldn't stress, ohmmmm, must find my center, ohmmmm, may they get explosive diarrhea, ohmmmmm...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

25. I felt the same way when they took away my MSNBC

You seem to be handling it much better than I did. :P


Japan

[Kurovski]

26. Kick. (nt)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

27. Amy Chua is one smart cookie!

Her theory of Hyper-empire sounds absolutely correct, imho.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

28. kick!

Africa

[Kurovski]

29. Kick!

Happy New Year! :hug:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

30. Happy New Year!

Are you going to be around at Midnight so I can get my kiss?
:batseyes:

[Kurovski]

31. probably, YES!

I'm having friends over for dinner...right now. They'll be cleared out by eight

See you at midnight! :loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

32. good little inside tidbits of the Clinton (and before) admins from Diana Walker

glimpses of life inside the White house, behind the scenes. :)

[Kurovski]

33. Happy New Year, Vivala!!

:loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

37. I see tongue!

:rofl:

Happy New Year you sexy, sexy man! :loveya:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

34. New Years Day kick!!

Happy 2008 Viva!! :hug: :loveya: :hug:

[Bozita]

35. kick

[Viva_La_Revolution]

36. kick!

Warsaw

[Hidden Stillness]

38. "Squandering of America," A. Huffington. R. Kuttner

First of all, a very Happy New Year to all the Book TV thread people: the Last Year of Bush, Cheney, Rove, and all those bastards--wait for the celebration when they leave; it'll be like the end of World War II!

This book, as shown on the C-SPAN program, seems to be really great, a great way of telling a very important but dry and boring topic, and I am going to order it. This is a story of how our entire political system and the kinds of things it ever even attempts anymore, have been completely co-opted by "economic elites," as they called it, and as they surely are. It is a book mainly focused on economics and the changes to our system over the past generation or so since the late 1970s, and how the takeover by those moneyed classes have since narrowed, and thwarted, all actual populist legislation, or even public discourse on it or anything else. There have been other good books on this topic over the past several years--"Perfectly Legal," for example--but they are generally so technical, "mathematical," and unreadable, that you can't manage to get through any of them. This discussion sounded lively, and grounded in the real world where people's real interests and lives are, and so may be different.

Part of the discussion gave a little background on the current era of deregulation, and how disastrous it has been, undoing the careful checks and balances of New Deal legislation, and inviting the kind of large-scale corporate crime waves we have now. Started by Carter, deregulaing industries, leading to the corporate lawlessness of the Reagan era, with its multiple--generally hushed-up by corporate media--scandals, the S&L scandal where "we" bailed "them" out, and even to the killing of the law--by Clinton!--keeping investment banks and commercial banks separate, 1999, so that investors were now speculating with Government-guaranteed funds, just like the S&L scandal, but reworked to get around the new situation. The "free trade" lie was discussed, and the author described it as something I usually do not hear, but which I also think it is: these are not "trade" agreements at all, where you can sell here, and I can sell there. They are actually financial-markets deregulation of other countries, so that the U.S. investment cartels can monopolize and control even larger and larger regions of the world's total capital and resources, like oil, and governments.

A very interesting, true story was told here, about John Kerry, involving AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney and this shady "D"LC/corporate lobbyist/banker Robert Rubin, of Clinton Administration, Inc. When John Sweeney went to meet with Presidential candidate Kerry at Kerry's home, Rubin was already there when Sweeney got there, and Sweeney was later ushered out, and Rubin was still there when Sweeney left. It was a sign. (I could say, this helps explain why Kerry ended up being such a "D"LC fuckass, but I won't.) Rubin helped to deregulate banking and investment practices under Clinton, of course, then left for a job with Citigroup Bank, one of the worst offenders during the current mortgage/loan scam crisis. Of course now, with no loyalty to America or democracy at all, the biggest capitalists are moving to their dream home--Communist China, where they treat workers as capitalists always wanted to treat them here, with total oppression, and no law.

There was some discussion of how movements and political/social ideologies really catch fire, and the columnist Ellen Goodman was quoted, about how "political and social change occurs when people learn what they already know"--when the knowledge is reinforced, stated as a politcal principle, but they recognize it as this thing they have always known but never paid attention to, and experience they have always had, ignored. There were some references to the great, angry populism of Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and other Democrats who broke away from paid consultant advice, were not "Republican/'centrist'," and were anti-corporate; all won their elections. I hope there will be more in the book, because it is a huge lesson to those who actually believe that the American people are "conservative," or need to be "framed" or "spun" to--which is WHY you always lose them! The author Robert Kuttner, however, seemed to be confused as to why the message of John Edwards does not resonate more with people--really. Here is a clue: Edwards is a complete, "D"LC phony rich, ruthless hedge-fund capitalist (speaking of ways the rich people have changed the economy, benefitting themselves and killing us, that most people are not even aware of...yet), a phony who was warned at least twice that the hedge-fund managers were doing predatory loans, kicking people out of their homes in the Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita, and yet did nothing. Edwards says weird, rich boy things like "What are YOU going to do?" "Can you BELIEVE, in AMERICA, that people cannot afford to buy...?" etc. No fucking kidding, rich boy--and you supported the Bankruptcy Bill, too.

The national media now has complete collusion with Wall Street and the rest of Big Business, and this is why you cannot even get a public discussion on most of the ordianry range of life, politics, economics, and all the rest, anymore. They now set the complete parameters of things, how they will be treated, who will be laughed at and considered "crazy" "naive" or "extremist," and they have derailed our whole country and brought it down to the lowest corporate self-interest and greed. A great example of that was mentioned by Arianna Huffington, about the Detroit auto industry, the collapse of which is the cause of most of our Depression here in Michigan. The corporate "deregulate everything/kill government" crowd always claims that "the market" will solve everything, magically, on its own, and "competition" will give everyone bounty and low prices, etc., even though it never happens. The example given was, first, that when Japanese car-makers first started to cut into the U.S. market, the American manufacturers did not answer it with "competing" improvments of their own, as they claim they do, but went to Washington with millions of dollars of lobbying money, to give themselves advantages so they would NOT have to change anything. Then later, when it was a disaster--they went to Washington to be bailed out with subsidies, tax cuts, and other unfair advantages! The corporate world always does this--every time. Even though health care costs are a huge part of the higher cost of U.S. vehicles--because other countries have universal health care, costs not bourne by the employer--the industry still, always, fights any attempt to make health care coverage more available as a Government program. They would rather suffer all of these calamities than to help the Government, or the workers.

All the operations of Government--from legislation to what things get investigated and whether or not there are ever any penalties, etc.--have been hijacked and co-opted by the now overwhelming power of organized Big Business. Everybody knows it, but you can't get the real opposition of the people organized until you can think and tell it well. Until then, there will be only the "infotainment industry" appearance of change, and us still cut out and censored; we need a clear presentation of the situation we are living through. This books seems to be it.