Greetings from Amazon.com Delivers Politics and Current Events Editor, Ron Hogan FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL: * What We're Reading: "Deliberate Intent" and "Blind Eye" * Meet the Candidates: John McCain and Steve Forbes * Featured Excerpt: "Bill and Hillary: The Marriage" * Bestsellers: "Shadow," "The Lexus and the Olive Tree," and "Guns, Germs, and Steel" * New in Paperback: "Victory in Our Schools, "An Empire Wilderness," and "We Wish to Inform You..." * Coming Soon: "Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century" WHAT WE'RE READING ****************** "Deliberate Intent" by Rod Smolla http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609604139/entertainmentsit Why would a First Amendment attorney agree to sue a small publisher? Rod Smolla explains why he chose to represent a murder victim's family in their suit against Paladin Press, the publishers of a how-to manual for would-be assassins. "Blind Eye" by James B. Stewart http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684854848/entertainmentsit The FBI estimates that Michael Swango may have murdered as many as 60 hospital patients entrusted to his care. Acclaimed investigative journalist James B. Stewart, author of "Den of Thieves" and "Blood Sport," tracks down the evidence. MEET THE CANDIDATES ******************* Over the next few months, we'll use this spot to showcase several books by and about the candidates for the United States presidential election in 2000. You can also see a list of all the books at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/?keyword=presidential+candidates&tag=entertainmentsit "Faith of My Fathers" by John McCain http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375501916/entertainmentsit Senator John McCain, the son and grandson of U.S. Navy admirals, spent more than five years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. In "Faith of My Fathers," he writes about how the lessons he learned from his family helped him survive that ordeal. "A New Birth of Freedom" by Steve Forbes http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0895263203/entertainmentsit Libertarians will be drawn to Steve Forbes's economic ideas, and social conservatives will appreciate his chapter on "the moral basis of a free society." The underlying principle informing his position on issues like the flat tax, health care, and Social Security: "Less government and more freedom." Next month: Bill Bradley and Dan Quayle FEATURED EXCERPT **************** "Now Bill Clinton faced the most daunting task of all: telling his wife. Hillary had gone to bed shortly before 11 P.M., and had been sound asleep since then--blissfully ignorant of the breaking Post story and Bill's frantic efforts to counteract it. It was not unusual for the First Lady to be unaware of her husband's nocturnal activities; like their idols Jack and Jackie Kennedy, Bill and Hillary Clinton slept in separate bedrooms. In fact, the Clintons had not shared the same bedroom--much less the same bed--for at least seven years." You can read more from the first chapter of Christopher Andersen's bestselling "Bill and Hillary: The Marriage" at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/?keyword=Bill+and+Hillary&tag=entertainmentsit BESTSELLERS *********** "Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate" by Bob Woodward http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684852624/entertainmentsit Bob Woodward was half of the reporting team whose investigative work forced Richard Nixon out of the White House. In "Shadow," he looks at the repercussions of the Watergate scandal on American politics over the last 25 years. "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" by Thomas L. Friedman http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374192030/entertainmentsit Engaging in a form of "information arbitrage," New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman combines data from the fields of politics, culture, technology, and finance to make the "big picture" of post-cold-war globalization comprehensible. "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393317552/entertainmentsit How did the European nations get to be world powers? Diamond, a professor of physiology at UCLA, suggests that the geography of Eurasia was best suited to farming, the domestication of animals, and the free flow of information-- and that its fragmentation and subsequent competition led to scientific innovation. NEW IN PAPERBACK **************** "Victory in Our Schools" by John Stanford http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553379747/entertainmentsit John Stanford retired from the U.S. Army and took on a new fight--saving the Seattle school system. Before he died in 1998, Stanford set down the principles of his celebrated education reform in this passionate manifesto cum memoir. "An Empire Wilderness" by Robert D. Kaplan http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679776877/entertainmentsit Robert D. Kaplan has reported from locales as diverse and chaotic as shantytowns in the Ivory Coast, death camps in Cambodia, and the frontlines of the war-ravaged Balkans, but his most challenging assignment may have been covering his own country. In this ambitious and evocative study, Kaplan vividly chronicles his "travels into America's future." "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families" by Philip Gourevitch http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312243359/entertainmentsit "Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute. COMING SOON *********** "Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century" by Neil Postman http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375401296/entertainmentsit Books like "Technopoly" and "Amusing Ourselves to Death" have made Neil Postman one of the most prominent critics of modern society. In his latest book, he offers a potential cure for the 21st-century blues in the rediscovery of the values that shaped the Enlightenment. ****** You'll find more great books, articles, excerpts, and interviews in Amazon.com's Nonfiction section at Nonfiction
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