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“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged, ready to pull off the shelf. more...

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Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is that many who claim to be transformed by Christ’s love are deeply, even murderously, intolerant of criticism. While we may want to ascribe this to human nature, it is clear that such hatred draws considerable support from the Bible. How do I know this? The most disturbed of my correspondents always cite chapter and verse.' So begins Letter to a Christian Nation... more...

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Brings together the key writings of Marshall McLuhan. In a communications environment transformed by the rapid spread of electronic media, McLuhans insights are fresher and even more applicable than when first written. more...

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PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, was sent straight to a Reconnaissance Platoon, and saw his first combat. So began an odyssey that would make him into one of the most feared and respected men in the Special Forces elite, who made their own rules on the most hazardous frontiers of war. In the exclusive world of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observation Group (MAC-V- SOG), Miller ran missions deep into enemy territory under the most adverse conditions--to gather intelligence, snatch prisoners and to kill. Leading small bands of hard-as-nails Montagnard and Meo tribesmen, he was as fierce and fearless as these primitive hunters--and he fought Army policy to stay in combat for six tours. On a top secret mission in 1970, Miller and a handful of men, all critically injured, held off the NVA in an incredible Alamo-like stand--for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When his time in Southeast Asia ended, he had also received the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and Air Medal and six Purple Hearts. more...

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Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought. more...

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