Title: Dude, Where's My Country?

by Rupe | Mar 19, 2004 | Not So Recent Reads

Author: Michael Moore
Date: 19-Mar-04

He is the scourge of Stupid White Men everywhere. He’s taken on fat cats, gun nuts, lying politicians. The Guardian describes him as “a wake-up call, a kick in the mental backside.” And now, Michael Moore is back, daring to ask the most urgent question of these perilous times: Dude, Where’s My Country?
Michael Moore is on a mission in his new book: Regime Change. The man who slithered into the White House on tracks greased by his daddy’s oil buddies is one of the many targets in Mike’s blistering follow-up to his smash #1 Stupid White Men, the biggest selling nonfiction book of the year. Now no one is safe: corporate barons who have bilked millions out of their employees’ lifetime savings, legislators who have stripped away our civil liberties in the name of “homeland security,” and even that right-wing brother-in-law of yours (yes, we all have one) who manages, year after year, through his babbling idiocy, to ruin Thanksgiving dinner.

Fearless, funny and furious, Michael Moore’s new book is the call to arms we’ve all been waiting for, the kind of book that comes along once every so often that rallies citizens with humor and insight, and changes the course of the country.

My Thoughts: Loved it. Don’t really consider myself a liberal on many topics, but I found this book to be lucid and full of things that make you go…hmmmmm?

Title: The Age of Sacred Terror

by Rupe | Mar 19, 2004 | Not So Recent Reads

Author: Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon’
Date: 19-Mar-04

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this project shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the rise of al Qaeda and helped coordinate America’s fight against Usama bin Laden and his organization. They warned about the appearance of a new breed of terrorists who were determined to kill on the grand scale. More than a year before September 11, 2001, they began writing The Age of Sacred Terror to sound the alarm for a nation that had not recognized the gravest threat of our time.
One of their original goals has remained: to provide the insights to understand an enemy unlike any seen in living memory – one with an extraordinary ability to detect weakness and exploit it, one with a determination to inflict catastrophic damage, one that will not be deterred. But after September 11, a second, equally crucial goal was added: to understand how America let its defenses down, how warnings went unheeded, and how key parts of the government failed at vital tasks. The Age of Sacred Terror also describes the road ahead, where the terrorists will look to draw strength, and what the United States must do to stop them. A year after the attacks America continues searching for answers about those responsible, and explanations for the glaring gaps in our defenses. The Age of Sacred Terror provides both with unique authority.

My Thoughts: Definitely a great read and well recommended. I just could not put this book down. Long and good…that’s what I can say.