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Are workers to blame for the fix that General Motors (along with many other corporations) is in? A new book by Roger Lowenstein argues that they are. He couldn't be more wrong. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Are Keith Gessen and his posse really the voice of the Zeitgeist, the intellectual heirs to Norman Mailer and George Plimpton? Or just the highbrow version of Judd Apatow? Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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Do the socially progressive ideals that jump-started 20th-century reform movements have lessons relevant to the concerns of 21st-century America? A new book makes a strong case that they do. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJul 1, 2008
Unitarian Universalist minister Jeffrey Symynkywicz is quite the Bruce Springsteen enthusiast, apparently. The Boston fan has studied Bruce Springsteen's lyrics as though they were Scripture, and the end result is Symynkywicz's new book -- wait for it -- "The Gospel According to Bruce Springsteen." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Are we now ruled by an international "superclass" that hollows out traditional notions of national sovereignty, and whose loyalties are only to the bottom line and its own members? Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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Here's a story, both chilling and inspiring: how prisoners at an Oklahoma prison in the aftermath of the Depression led a struggle to limit the practice of compulsory sterilization. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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For 50 years, Tom Hayden has been an indefatigable organizer on behalf of the disenfranchised, and now, with the publication of his "Writings for a Democratic Society," we have a chance to trace the arc of activism of an American original who continues to make history. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
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A new book by New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse argues that the plight of American workers, both white-collar and blue-collar, is growing worse, putting the American dream out of the reach of tens of millions of citizens. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
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Eric Hobsbawm, one of our most celebrated historians, looks at what makes the American Colossus uniquely dangerous in its imperial overreach at the dawn of the third millennium. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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The just-published journals of Rachel Corrie, killed by an Israeli bulldozer, reveal her to have been a natural-born writer and a spirit full of intensity and yearning whose lust for life and sense of justice made her untimely death all the more tragic. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
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Sheldon Wolin's new book offers a controversial but ultimately convincing diagnosis of how America's democracy has succumbed to an unacknowledged totalitarian temptation. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
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In this first-ever biography of the religious leader many predict will take over Iraq after the Americans leave, Patrick Cockburn, one of the most respected correspondents in the Middle East, provides a dramatic look at a man Paul Bremer denounced as a "Bolshevik Islamist." Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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