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read and learn.......2007-01-04
"the fight in the fields" is an excellent biographical account of cesar chavez and the farmworkers movement. it's a must read for anyone interested in making a difference.
Cesar Chavez Merits a National Holiday !.......2006-11-24
"The Fight in the Fields" compelled me to recognize that Cesar Chavez is arguably the greatest humanitarian in US history. He tirelessly and peacefully campaigned on behalf of underpaid and overworked farmworkers and migrants who were forced to toil amidst toxic insecticides and pesticides. Chavez was profoundly influenced by Gandhi, Martin Luther King and St. Francis of Assisi. He was an environmentalist, a vegetarian and animal welfare advocate who denounced dogfighting, bullfighting, cockfighting, slaughterhouses and rodeos because they are all rooted in inhumane violence. Cesar Chavez had reverence for all life and was a paragon of compassion. He was known as America's Catholic Ghandi of the Fields. The United States should have a national Holiday for Cesar Chavez's birthday, specifically, March 31.
a must read book.......2006-11-04
This is a well written book and is fun to read.
A great historical review of the "other" civil rights movement.......2006-07-06
The authors did a great job of detailing the early childhood that shaped the future leader of the farm workers movement. They also do a great job of highlighting the trails, ups and downs of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers movement. One gets a good idea of just how bad conditions were before the movement and how much improvement has been made since the inception of the movement. It also touches the heart with the human aspect of the lives that were shackled in the old system and changed for the good with the reforms that were won. Cesar Chavez is a true humanitarian that should be mentioned with the likes of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. This is truly a must read.
Fight in the Fields.......2005-07-21
This is a book based upon the successful PBS/Sundance Film of the same name. While it has several wonderful attributes (some excellent and rare pictures), it does not stand up to the earlier work of London and Anderson in So Shall Ye Reap. In reality, this is more of a biography of Cesar Chavez than a careful review of agricultural labor history. In the end, I would buy it again/
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Acclaimed throughout the world as a philosopher of liberation and revolution, Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. His penetrating critiques of the ways modern technology produces forms of society and culture with oppressive modes of social control indicate his enduring significance in the contemporary moment. This collection of unpublished or uncollected essays, unfinished manuscripts, and correspondence between 1942 and 1951, provides Marcuse's exemplary attempts to link theory with practice, and develops ideas that can be used to grasp and transform existing social reality.
These papers vividly chronicle Marcuse's increasing, yet reluctant estrangement from Max Horkeimer, director of the Institute for Social Research and his years as an analyst with various U.S. government agencies. Marcuse's later attempts to link theory and practice in the 1960s and 1970s in regard to the New Left, National Liberation Movements and other new social movements were grounded in his work from the 1940s. As the 1940s witnessed the rise to global prominence of German fascism and its defeat in World War Two, and the emergence of the Cold War, Marcuse strived to preserve the radical vision of his youth during a difficult historical period while many turned toward more conservative positions.
Precisely the sort of broad theoretical and political theorizing that Marcuse undertook througout his life is needed today to analyze the momentous changes that we are currently undergoing.
Excerpt: Personal history is interwoven with intellectual and political events in these papers. We debated whether letters belonged here: whether some should be published at all. My father had a deep sense of personal privacy, both as a character trait and as a political expression of resistance to the commodification of the private. Yet the letters contain substantive discussions also. We could have edited out, expurgated some of the material. While not publishing every letter my father wrote, our selection was based on interest, and every letter that is included is included in full. That decision was in part painful for me personally. The juxtaposition of the letters to Horkeimer and the exchange with Heidegger highlights the point. --from the Foreword by Peter Marcuse
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Relevant and interesting early work.......2001-09-23
Marcuse was retained by the United States Office of War Information and later the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor of the CIA) because of his insight into German society.
His insights are attractive to this nonsociologist. Although Lady Thatcher, who seems to be descending into a form of insanity, said recently "there is no such thing as society", ordinary working people, who cannot afford gated communities, must perforce live in society.
Numeric results, innocent of theory, are useless for insight and only theory can match the qualitative texture of daily life. This is perhaps why Adorno's American typists at the Princeton Radio Research project both understood his "complex" prose and were sympathetic to his conclusions, while his "educated" superiors thought him "elitist."
One of Marcuse's insights into Nazi society describes the ordinary person as informed by "matter of fact cynicism". Perhaps because of Marcuse's German background, he here fashions a surprising neologism, a Katzenjammer, a jamming-together of concepts useful precisely because it is striking. This neologistic fashioning of terms-of-art is a permission German gives the speaker which his withheld, superficially, by English.
The cynical are not usually thought of as matter-of-fact, and the matter-of-fact, not usually thought of as cynical. The two sets, while not considered disjoint, are not considered to largely intersect.
Nonetheless, Marcuse's insight captured something about German society during the war that many observers missed. The ordinary German mind was thought by Anglo-American commentators to share in the mysticism of Hitler.
But Marcuse saw that the ordinary German, although silenced, was quite cynical about the war and Hitlerdom. Much later, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's research has confirmed Marcuse's hypothesis, for in the latter's book HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS, Goldhagen finds that many Germans were, as matter-of-fact cynics, not willing to participate in the Holocaust but equally unwilling to make a protest. This combination may have resulted from what Marcuse described as the destruction of pre-war Wilhelmine patriarchy and the regression to the matter-of-fact cynicism which is the protective coloration of silenced women.
The execution of a Rosa Luxembourg had shown countless Germans the consequence of protest while not necessarily convincing them that their leaders were anything but fools and madmen. The patriarchal response, commencing with the German revolts to Napoleon's rule during its awakening in 1800, was to act on the revolutionary belief. The matter-of-fact cynical response was quietism.
The Nazis in their origin in reaction to the Left revolutions of 1918 had succeeded in "debunking" liberatory narratives and in making resistance seem foolish. Young Germans of the Weimar period would be psychically familiar to young Americans of today, in the naivete of believing oneself free of "illusions."
The destruction of German patriarchy also foreshadows the consequences of the destruction of patriarchy good and bad in American life, where Lost Boys, filled with fancies but empty of "illusions", curse women in darkened streets and bars reminiscent of Cabaret.
This is the most troubling aspect of Marcuse's work: the fact that modern Americans, at least prior to the watershed of Sept 11 2001, were in their high levels of cynicism, their growing inability to treat their psychological troubles with anything other than legal or illegal drugs, and their pseudo-sophisticated, "ironic" rejection of narrative grand and small, closer to Weimar and Hitler period Germans than their grandparents.
Marcuse's insights led him in later life to a more general critique of society as composed of "one-dimensional", disempowered atoms. Only by actively maintaining an alternative stance to generalized depression can one prevent cynical matter-of-factness from taking over one's life.
Marcuse's Genius.......2000-06-16
There is so much to be said about Herbert Marcuse that this short space will not suffice.
What can be said about this collection of essays is its outline of the modern age, relating as the title suggests: "Technology, war and fascism."
Often, we think of technology as being simply the increasing of our tools' efficacy, in all other ways benign, that war is perpetrated by nations and leaders, and that fascism is a dead ideology based on hate, suspicion, and opposition to everthing in the status quo. Marcuse helps us find an understanding of these elements of the twentieth century, placing them in the context of world civilization, industrialization, political development, and capitalism.
In relation to my personal collection, I do not have a book more relevent to understanding the world, than those which Marcuse contributed.
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Elizabeth Drew, longtime Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, provides an up-close look at the scandalous roots of America's political culture. With its focus on campaign-finance reform, The Corruption of American Politics is not a flashy read but a surprisingly engrossing one, full of vivid characterizations and sly observations (one senator, for example, is described as "unburdened by brilliance"). Drew places her subject in the larger context of what has happened to American political life since Watergate. The public has lost most of its faith in government, she writes, warning: "Lack of trust creates the risk of susceptibility to demagoguery, or of abuses of the democratic process." Her behind-the-scenes descriptions are a real strength--she has incredible access to Washington's movers and shakers--but they also give rise to a weakness: the politicians who double as sources tend to come off well, while the reverse is true for those who didn't invite Drew into their confidence. In addition, readers who lean conservative may detect a whiff of liberal bias on these pages; yet they need not agree with all of Drew's judgments to appreciate her journalism. For a glimpse at how Washington really works--from the naked partisanship of Congress to the White House spin machine--Elizabeth Drew is hard to beat. --John J. Miller
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Drawing on her superb skills as a probing journalist and shrewd analyst, Washington reporter Elizabeth Drew details precisely how money and ideology, as well as a lower quality of politicians and lower standards of political behavior, have debased American politics over the past twenty-five years. Wise, insightful, and timely, The Corruption of American Politics offers invaluable suggestions as to how we can restore our government to be responsive to the needs of its citizens.
"[Drew] nimbly brings to life the machinations on Capitol Hill and the White House with fresh perspective, behind-the-scenes detail and convincing analysis. . . . In fact, Drew's examination of campaign finance makes a compelling narrative."--Richard L. Berke, The New York Times Book Review
". . . one of the most skillfully written, as well as insightful, looks inside the Beltway to appear in a very long time."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
"There is no one better on Washington than Elizabeth Drew."--Joan Didion
"What Rachel Carson was to the nascent environmental movement of the 1960s, Drew is to the campaign finance reform movement of the 1990s. . . . [A] profoundly important and disturbing work . . . Elegant, magisterial, and persuasive, this book establishes Drew as the political conscience of the nation."--Library Journal
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Careerism.......2005-09-19
Careerism is driving the Senate downward. Former House members who have entered the Senate are more aggressive than others. Politics has become difficult and nasty, Drew contends. Each vote affects fundraising. Political institutions are now simply reactive. The decline in civility is caused by fewer people thinking about the whole. Office-holders think in terms of message, not politics, and that isn't leadership. People used to socialize across the aisles. There was an exodus in 1996 of fifteen senators. A substantial body of experience and judgment left. There used to be an interdependence. Senators used to talk to each other. Now they talk to their staff. The role of political consultants has grown. Consultants will always focus on the short term advantage. Virtually all the meaning of the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act has been obliterated over time. What has evolved in Washington is a pre-occupation with money. It has transformed politics and subverted values. People now seek to benefit financially from government service.
The Clinton White House engaged in pre-emptive leaking to head-off news during the Thompson Committee Hearings on the 1996 Presidential Campaign. The Clinton campaign engaged in desperate efforts to raise money. The Committee obtained videotapes showing Clinton with questionable contributors. Unfortunately the Thompson Hearings were rendered useless by partisan attacks on both sides. Fred Thompson had believed that the hearings could be conducted in statesman-like fashion along the lines of Watergate and Iran-Contra Hearings of the previous decades. Interest groups sought to defy the Thompson Committee's subpoenas. Evasion and protection produced new lawlessness. The cover story used to shut down the hearings was that the committee would engage in finance reform efforts. Christopher Shays thought that Thompson was a hero. Even with limited exposure the hearings had an impact.
Nothing has contributed more to public cynicism than the hypocrisy of politicians. One of the problems is that there is no financial base for the core issues of the Democratic Party. Clinton enjoyed the political fruits of prosperity but advanced only mini-proposals. Clinton was the most resilient politician in memory, but tactical skills don't constitute leadership. Balkanization in Washington increased. Everything was up for grabs. John McCain has pointed out that influence buying leaves out the ordinary citizen. Fred Thompson reflected that campaign finance reform is difficult because the political class has become professionalized. Being risk averse is one of the characteristics. The House passed a campaign finance reform bill but it did not go before the Senate because there were insufficient votes to shut down the filibuster.
This is an excellent guide to politics on the national scene, new style.
Money talks, regardless of political stripe.......2005-03-12
The theme of this book - that political favor can be bought with hard currency in Washington - is neither surprising nor really the point. Rather, one main reason that Drew's book is recommended is the insider access to the banality of it all; how Republicans and Democrats alike feed at the trough of private political contributions, and refuse to reform the system because any such reform will, almost by definition, reduce the power of those who hold it. This is really the key, although often unstated, theme of the book: power. In Washington, money = power, and, as noted, the most interesting aspect of the book is that no one really denies this. They just try to keep it bottled up in committee.
Drew is sometimes charged with that dogmatic descriptor "liberal bias," but her heroes in this book are two Republicans: Fred Thompson and John McCain. So I don't think said "bias" influences this book one way or another (anyone can find bias if looking for it). Rather, the heroes of the book are those who try to "do something" for the public good, and the villians are those who manipulate the policital process to block the do-gooders.
Drew can be a bit pithy and spiteful, but isn't that part of her charm? Any hack can report the facts of a Senate floor debate, but very few (1) have access to the much more important behind the scenes deal-brokering and (2) have the integrity and journalistic chops to gossip about it. Reading her describe a Senator that you've always suspected of being an idiot as an idiot shoud be part of the fun, regardless of your political preference.
In sum, if you follow politics with any sort of a balanced view, you should enjoy The Corruption of American Politics. It's an insider account of how Congress slowly works for the public good, but only to a point. Good stuff.
Longing for the past.......2004-04-08
I picked up this book hoping to learn something about the nature of political corruption and the implications of McCain-Feingold. Unfortunately, this is little more than a colorful apologia for Democrats suffering through the Clinton impeachment. It probably brought a warm glow to the intended readers, but hardly offers any guidance for those emotionally less engaged.
Drew outlines her story line very quickly. Chapter 1 is called 'Setup' and describes the impossibility of 'good' people getting anything done in Washington. Chapter 2 argues Washington has become a hateful place. This allows Drew to delight her Democratic audience with 1-liners on Washington luminaries.
The [lack of civility] 'can be attributed to Newt Gingrich' (pg 20).
'Daschle is a great tactician'.
'There are only a few great legislators anymore. Senator Edward M. Kennedy is one of them' (pg 24).
'So, by the time Newt Ginrich become Speaker of the House, the religious right and Republican Party had effectively merged' (pg 34).
'[Mike] Mansfield, always a laconic, modest, unflashy man, did, as he acknowledged, enjoy a majority of 65 Democrats to 35 Republicans,"Think of it!" he said in a rare moment of impishness. '(pg 40).
'Carter himself became an exemplary ex-President; unlike Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan until he became to ill' (pg 62).
What pathos! The evil Reagan persists in his error until Alzheimer's takes away his memory.
After making it clear that most Republicans are evil and most Democrats saints, we return to campaign finance. Chapter 3, 'The First Amendment' argues campaigns finance and free speech are unrelated. Chapter 4, 'The Money Culture', argues that fund raising speech has replaced political discourse.
With this moral framework established, Drew spends the rest of the book being play-by-play announcer for events in Washington between 1996 and 1999. As best I can tell, Drew argues the ideological and mercenary Republicans impeached Clinton because the Religious-Right threatened to stop donating money.
For someone who dislikes both Democrats and Republicans, there isn't much substance. For someone seeking to understand the impact of McCain-Feingold in 2004, it isn't there.
One Word - Money.......2002-11-04
I have enjoyed reading this authors work in the past so I was interested to see what she did with this topic. I was not disappointed with the book, but I felt that the title and dust jacket description was misleading. The book is presented as going to be a history sense Nixon as to the steady decline in American politics. What the book delivered is some history, but basically a complete review of the Fred Thompson 1996 campaign financing hearings and the President Clinton Impeachment process. With this said I was not disappointed because the author is great at adding interesting insights into the personalities of the House and Senate members she talks about. Many descriptions could be called biting, she does not side step comments that could be considered non-politically correct. She also goes after everyone involved, I have heard that some people think she is a bit liberal in her views but judging by the comments she makes on Clinton et all I was hard pressed to find the liberal soft spot.
Overall she gives a very good analysis of the current state of American politics, which comes down to one thing - it takes lots of money to win. Unfortunately that means that the politicians we have spend a great amount of their time asking, begging and anything else to get money. I also found the discussion on the increase levels of partisan tactics to be very concerning. How can anything worth while get done in the current environment? Lastly she also dropped into the book interesting details of the rules of the House and Senate. Overall the book was interesting and well written.
Was this book a factor in campaign finance reform passage?.......2002-03-12
Campaign finance reform finally passed, and this book may have been a factor. I have been reading Elizabeth Drew since the Nixon years, and am happy to report that she still writes as well as ever and still offers a trenchant analysis of issues that most of the public, regrettably, doesn't give a damn about. Since a campaign finance reform bill finally passed, much of what Drew writes about here will soon be obsolete, and she would probably be happier about that than anyone. But, if history is a guide, some way will be found around the new laws, and Drew will be writing another book about corruption in years hence.
The corruption, she writes, is endemic to the system itself. Its' very simple--it takes money to win an election, and those with a lot of money have an inherent advantage. Those who don't have money need to get it somehow, and this book will tell you how that's done, sometimes legally, sometimes quasi-legally, and sometimes downright illegally. Drew spares no one. Although it is clear that Drew leans to the liberal side on issues, she is equally scathing in her laceration those whose machinations perpetuate the current system. Probably the one person she treats most mercifully is Bill Clinton, deservedly so for what he has done to demean the presidency. She also deplores the intense partisanship and lack of civility that have pervaded Washington in the past decade.
If the book has a hero, it is Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee, who, regrettably, just announced he will not be seeking reelection. Other reformers like McCain, Feingold, Shays, and Meehan come off well at least insofar as being principled, if not especially keen legislative tactitians. It is essential, however, for any conscientious citizen to be informed about the issues with which this book deals.
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From Poverty to Power Moves
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A powerful tool for the underestimated generation. That is the quote from Lidia Mitchell from Vibe Magazine in response to Dashawn Taylors new book; From Poverty To Power Moves. Since a young boy, Dashawn has set out to defy the odds and accomplish things even greater than his own existence. Being a product of the inner-city only encouraged him to work harder. From Poverty To Power Moves is an in-dept look into the life of this entrepreneur. Here, Dashawn walks us through his battle with poverty and discouragement to his near death experiences-from his educational excellence to his hip-hop aspirations. His emotional journey serves as a major inspiration. By ending with THE TEN HUSTLE COMMANDMENTS, Dashawn looks to inspire the hip-hop generation to make history and leave a lasting impression on society.
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Entrepreneur.......2007-08-13
As a young boy living in New Jersey making a dollar for his first hustle to the present time, Dashawn Taylor has given us an up close and personal look into his life. From his struggles and disappointments to his triumphs Dashawn has continued to be positive while looking at any negativity as a lesson learned.
Now as a collage graduate and business owner Dashawn shares some excellent tips... dos and don'ts for success in today's business world.
An inspiring read!
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I have to admit, I enjoyed co-writing this book.......2007-08-10
As I stated in the foreward, I really took pride in the opportunity to get into DaShawn's world. Hearing his stuggles and seeing how he finally made it to the top was quite encouraging.
Thanks DaShawn,
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This Book Serves a Purpose.......2007-02-14
This book was not only a good read but it serves as a manual for what could happen when you don't let your situation overtake you. I really enjoyed this book and passed it on to a couple of young men that I know. After reading it, I could see a change in them and that made me proud. Thank You for writing such a great book.
An Overcomer's Story.......2007-01-26
This book is excellent!!!! It highlights yet another real-life story of someone coming from a struggle and striving their way through challenges to reach success in life. The 10 Hustle Commandments are true jewels of wisdom.
GOOD READ~.......2007-01-20
HE IS THE ULIMATE HUSTLER....HE'S BEEN THOUGH ALOT AND THIS BOOK TELL YOU WHAT HE WENT THOUGH...TO GET TO KNOW HIM IS TO COP THE BOOK. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED I REALLY ENJOY THE BOOK..... READY TO SEE WHAT HE BOUT TO TAKE BY STORM NOW.................
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1906. Contents: The Path of Prosperity; The Lesson of Evil; The World a Reflex of Mental States; The Way Out of Undesirable Conditions; The Silent Power of Thought; Controlling and Directing One's Forces; The Secret of Health, Success and Power; The Secret of Abounding Happiness; The Realization of Prosperity; The Way of Peace; Powers of Meditation; Acquirement of Spiritual Power; Realization of Selfless Love; Entering into the Infinite; Saints and Sages; and the Realization of Perfect Peace.
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A road map out of misery and into harmony........2005-12-19
This is an amazingly healing book that will change the way you think about everything! I highly recommend it.
An excellent guide to the development of the human spirit........1998-09-07
From Poverty to Power is a concise and informative guide to the development of the human spirit and how this development can consequently affect the events in your life. It provides a basic understanding of the Laws under which the Universe operates and how you are part of their operation. The author presents this information in a friendly and instructive manner without seeming patronising which makes the book very easy to read. Although written at the turn of the century its themes are still current. A joy to read.
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In this hard-hitting analysis of the war on poverty, Judith Russell charges that since FDR's New Deal, the U.S. government has introduced many public policies attempting to address poverty, yet it has failed to produce coherent programs to combat it. Focusing on the genesis of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, the core of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson's antipoverty crusade, Russell asserts that the war on poverty could have been an inclusive policy of government-sponsored jobs programs, but it failed to confront the deep-rooted problems endemic to American poverty.
While the macroeconomic strategies devised by the Keynesian Council of Economic Advisors in 1963 and 1964 eventually rejected proposed jobs programs to combat unemployment, Russell argues that this was the wrong strategy for fighting the structural unemployment at the center of hard-core poverty. At the same time, liberal policymakers ignored direct calls for jobs programs emanating from black Americans who were disproportionately affected by structural unemployment. Without these programs at the center of the war on poverty, it was doomed to fail. Drawing on a plethora of archival sources, including the Kennedy and Johnson Presidential Libraries, and interviews and a ten-year correspondence with former Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, this forceful examination brings a fresh perspective to a key era in American economic policymaking and to contemporary policy debates.
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Two books in one: "The Path to Prosperity" and "The Way of Peace". Very inspirational and motivational!
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The realization of prosperity and peace. I looked around upon the world, and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and suffering. I looked within, and found the cause and the cure. Some of the contents: Lesson of Evil; World a Reflex of Mental States. In two parts Part1: The Path to Prosperity Part 2: The Way of Peace
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