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		<title>The Steel Factory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Ezra F. Vogel, 2011 Three Stampers A thorough (800 pages) account of the life and impact of Deng on the modernization of China. Deng&#8217;s history including his years in France, where he first met Zhou Enlai and Ho Chi Min, and Russia, his roles in the war against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oligarchy Won</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republic Lost, How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop it, Lawrence Lessing, 2011 Lessing makes a compelling case that the republic a government responsive to the will of its citizens has been lost. Since 89% of Americans believe that Congress is broken, this seems like a simple job. But Lessing, the lawyer, goes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mutanteggplant.com/agog/2012/01/16/oligarchy-won/</link>
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		<title>Lawless Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Liberty and Justice for Some, Glenn Greenwald, 2011 Federalist Authors Madison, Hamilton, Jay Greenwald begins with a look at the founding fathers grappling with the question of how to constrain the absolute power of a monarch by creating a system, as Thomas Payne, noted, where the King is law. John Adams said in 1776; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scamming the President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Confidence Men, Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, Ron Suskind 2011 The title is intended as a play on the word &#8220;confidence&#8221;, used to describe the primary motivations of Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke and Larry Summers in dealing with the financial crisis as in &#8220;the proper role of government is to restore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Disaster Tourist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boomerang, Travels in the New Third World, Michael Lewis, 2011 Kyle Bass, scavenger of nations In 2008 Lewis interviewed Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital, a Texas hedge fund, who predicted that a number of first world countries, starting with Greece, but including Japan, France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland were destined to default on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prelude to the Great War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They Were Divided, Miklos Banffy, 1940 Book Three of The Writing on the Wall, the Transylvania Trilogy, translated into English in 2001 Miklos Banffy The Tolstoy of Transylvania Kolozsvar Romania This book covers events from the time of Austria&#8217;s annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 to the start of the Great War (WWI) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Follies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deadly Monopolies, Harriet A. Washington,2011 Washington is a medical ethicist and bioethicist whose attitude seems to be summed up in this quote from Thomas Browne; &#8220;No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.&#8221; The Real Henrietta Lacks, unsung hero of Polio vaccine Who owns our bodies? Apparently not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civilization Lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Price of Civilization, Jeffrey D. Sacks, 2011 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Sacks quotes Supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.; &#8220;I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.&#8221; Hence the title of his book and its subtitle &#8220;Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity.&#8221; Fortunately, Holmes, who died in 1935, would not live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mutanteggplant.com/agog/2011/11/18/civilization-lost/</link>
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		<title>Liberal&#8217;s Capitulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Death of the Liberal Class, Chris Hedges, 2011 Most accounts of our current political paralysis starts in the 1970s or with the election of Reagan and focus on the role of the Neocons and their greedy corporate masters. This history starts with the outbreak of the Great War (WWI) and asks the question: What happened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mutanteggplant.com/agog/2011/11/17/liberals-capitulation/</link>
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		<title>Coyotes, Goats, and Chestnuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver, 2000 An ecological tale from Appalachia. The main characters are two educated women. Deanna Wolfe is a forty two year old forest service ranger &#8211; game warden who guards the mountain overlooking Zebullon Valley and the town of Egg Fork where she was born and raised. Her master&#8217;s thesis was on [...]]]></description>
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