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"Sexpose" Of Hedonistic Republicans Threatens To Derail Bid To Woo Christian Voters

Daily Mail (UK)



Republican contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination are desperately trying to win over Christian conservatives as the movement seeks to recover from a series of scandals. But the move has coincided with the publication of a new book by a former political press officer that lifts the lid on the hedonism in conservative circles at the end of the Bush era. In the book "Life of the Party: A Political Press Tart Bares All," Lisa Baron, who calls herself a political press tart, recounts a lifestyle of casual sex and "a seemingly endless supply of narcotics."

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Barbara Sinatra Tells About Her Life With Frank

Lori Obert -- KUSA-TV



Barbara Sinatra was her famous husband's fourth wife. Also his last. He died in her arms in 1998. They had been married 22 years. It wasn't always pretty, although she says she was the "luckiest woman in the world" to be his wife. Sinatra's widow, 84, is now telling what it was like living with Ol' Blue Eyes in her aptly titled memoir "Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank."

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Author Ben Shapiro Claims Sesame Street Has Left-Wing Bias

Debra Killalea -- Herald Sun (CN)

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In his new book, "Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV," investigative author and right-wing columnist Ben Shapiro claims Hollywood has been secretly using hit television shows to promote a "radical" left-leaning political agenda. Shapiro, who has published books including "Brainwashed" and "Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism is Corrupting our Future," claims he has evidence to prove how TV bosses have tried to use the medium of broadcasting to "shape America in their own leftist image."

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Area 51 "Uncensored": Was It UFOs Or The USSR?

WHYY Radio



Audio AND TEXT. In "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base" Jacobsen details how several agencies - including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Defense and the CIA - once used the site to conduct controversial and secretive research on aircraft and pilot-related projects, including planes that traveled three times faster than the speed of sound and nuclear-propelled, space-based missile launch systems. "The UFO craze began in the summer of 1947. Several months later, the G2 intelligence, which was the Army intelligence corps at the time, spent an enormous amount of time and treasure seeking out two former Third Reich aerospace designers named Walter and Reimar Horten who had allegedly created [a] flying disc. ... American intelligence agents fanned out across Europe seeking the Horton brothers to find out if, in fact, they had made this flying disc. The idea behind it remains, why? Why were they looking for a flying disc? And conspiracy theorists have had their hands on this declassified file for over a decade now, and they say it proves that this flying disc came from outer space. If you read the documents, the takeaway that I found fascinating was that at the end of it, the Army admits finding the Horten brothers, and that the Horten brothers admitted their contact with the Russians and that's where the file ends. Everything after that is classified. The child-sized aviators in this craft [that crashed in New Mexico] were the result of a Soviet human experimentation program, and they had been made to look like aliens a la Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, and it was a warning shot over President Truman's bow, so to speak."

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Sugar Ray Leonard Reveals He Was Sexually Abused By Amateur Boxing Coach

Gareth A Davies -- Telegraph (UK)

The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring


The bombshell is reportedly contained in "The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring," which will be on general release next month by Viking Press. Leonard reveals he was sexually abused in 1971 at a tournament in Utica, New York, at the age of 15, by a "prominent Olympic boxing coach." Leonard has detailed that he and another young boxer were bathing in a tub filled with Epsom salts when the unnamed coach was doing "something a bit inappropriate" on the other side of the bathroom. Leonard said the teens did not want to question their coach about the incident.

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Fart Without Fear

WWLP-TV

Video "Fart Without Fear: Comfort Food for Uncomfortable Times" is the world's first laugh-out-loud, instantly useable, self-improvement comfort food cookbook. Find out what uptight politically correct chefs, nutritionists and scientists have known for years but haven't told you. Think fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, and Boston baked beans; this cookbook for everyone includes more than 70 low- to no-odor producing comfort food recipes. Complete with a unique rating system, favorite recipes, special menus, and fun facts, Fart Without Fear will show you how to eliminate odors but not the flatulence caused by your family favorites -- all without sacrificing the flavor, joy and fun they evoke.

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"SEAL Team Six," The Team That Took bin Laden Down

WTTG-TV

Video The Navy's SEAL Team Six is responsible for carrying out the mission that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden. Cdr. USN. Ret. Richard Marcinko was the first commanding officer and founding father of the premier counter-terrorist unit. Marcinko is the author of the book, "Rogue Warrior," which, according to Library Journal, is "An autobiography of a career naval officer who dropped out of high school, enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and spent his ca reer struggling to win acceptance for special warfare SEAL (sea-air-land) units within the Navy establishment from the late 1950s to the present. Marcinko provides detailed descriptions of the early transformation of underwater demolition teams (UDT) into SEAL units." Thanks to "Multics" for bringing this book to our attention.

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Former Sarah Palin Aide Writing Tell-All Book

Associated Press



An imprint of Simon & Schuster announced Monday that it had signed up "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years" a long-rumored tell-all by former Palin aide Frank Bailey. The imprint, Howard Books, will release Bailey's book May 24. Excerpts from an early draft were leaked to reporters earlier this year.

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Next-To-Last Supper? Scientist Claims Historic Meal Was TWO Days Before Jesus' Crucifixion

Daily Mail (UK)

The Mystery of the Last Supper: Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus


In a new book, "The Mystery of the Last Supper: Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus," Professor Colin Humphreys uses a combination of Biblical, historical and astronomical research to address the precise nature and timing of Jesus's final meal with his disciples. He believes his findings, which are likely to cause ripples among millions of Christians, could present a case for finally introducing a fixed date for Easter. They also present a solution to apparent contradictions in the Gospels and logistical issues relating to the hours before the crucifixion.

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Did Marlene Dietrich Plot To Murder Hitler?

David Leafe -- Daily Mail (UK)

Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography


Her prolific love life would involve the seduction of both President John F. Kennedy and his father Joe, not to mention a bizarre plot to assassinate Hitler. She was prepared to go into Hitler's bedroom naked if necessary, but the only detail she could not resolve was how to smuggle in a murder weapon. Extracted from "Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography" by Charlotte Chandler. © 2011 Charlotte Chandler.

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Literary Sleuth Jack Cashill Says William Ayers Actually Wrote Obama's Book, "Dreams From My Father"

Douglas Hackleman -- American Thinker

Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President


In Jack Cashill's book, "Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President," we are left with a very different image from the one portrayed in "Dreams" and by the Obama presidential campaign. When our sleuth has put this puzzle together, the pieces accumulate to reveal an image -- but it is not the one on the box cover. If the fourth estate looked anything like America, the preliminary findings Cashill attempted to share with the press in October 2008 would have established Ayers publicly as the ghost of Obama's "Dreams," and Sarah Palin most likely would be the first female vice president of the United States. Had the press done its own digging and reporting much earlier in the campaign of 2007-2008 for the Democratic Party nomination, Hillary Clinton would be the first pants-suited president of the United States.

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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Describes His Hard Feelings Toward Bill Gates In New Book

Paul Allen -- Vanity Fair
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

In this excerpt from "Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft," a new book to be released on April 19, 2011, Paul Allen describes his relationship with Bill Gates from the day they met to the time he left the company, claiming that Gates tried to dilute his share of ownership.

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FREE ON-LINE BOOK
"Secret Fallout: Low-Level Radiation From Hiroshima To Three Mile Island"

Dr. Ernest Sternglass -- Professor of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington

This is the full text of this book, made available by the author, which can be downloaded in several formats or read on-line. From the introduction: "In my opinion the entire nuclear enterprise, both power and weapons, represents a wrong turn for humanity, a development that cannot be tamed, that remains life-threatening not only in all its present manifestations, but all future developments that have been contemplated. Meanwhile the public is subjected to a continuous barrage of propaganda and misinformation designed to reconcile it to an increasingly problematical and expensive support of both nuclear power and weapons." ...

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How Joan Crawford Ruthlessly Used Her Body To Control Co-Stars, Directors, And Anyone Who Could Advance Her Career

Donald Spoto -- Daily Mail (UK)



Rumours of Joan Crawford's freewheeling sex life had circulated Hollywood for many years. Even so, director Vincent Sherman was taken off guard when in 1949, as part of preparations for a movie called The Damned Don't Cry, she invited him to a studio screening room to watch some of her previous work. As the two sat in the dark, she removed her clothes and initiated an afternoon of wild passion. This article is adapted from "Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford" by Donald Spoto.

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Surprises From Donald Rumsfeld's Memoir. Did Saddam Hussein Target His Kids?

Daniel Bates -- Daily Mail (UK)



Donald Rumsfeld has revealed that Saddam Hussein took out a $60million hit on his daughters in revenge for the slaying of his two sons. The ex-U.S. Secretary of Defense said that the former Iraqi dictator offered the bounty to anybody who brought him both girls' heads. He was given the warning in a October 2003 meeting by which time U.S. forces had killed Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay and his 14-year-old grandson Mustapha. Mr Rumsfeld's comments came as part of a promotion push to accompany his new book "Known and Unknown: A Memoir" which detail his time in office until he retired in December 2006.

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Stephen Hawking vs. God

Jim Wilson -- Redding Record Searchlight



Hawking proclaims two mutually excluding propositions in his book, "The Grand Design" according to fellow physicist Dr. Ben Wiker. On the one hand he declares that all existing theories of the origins of the universe are as subjective as they are non-comprehensive. On the other he states that these theories are comprehensive enough - and objective enough - to prove that God neither exists nor is necessary for the existence of everything else. The problem? You cannot have it both ways. If a theory is subjective it is tainted by having been processed through an intellectual lens that sees only what the viewer is prepared in advance to admit. Likewise, if it is not comprehensive it cannot entertain all of the relevant data and so cannot make comprehensive statements. But the declaration that God does not exist is both an objective and a comprehensive statement. It is -- in this case -- a desperate attempt to escape the prime implication of the Big Bang, that there is out there a Big Banger.

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Malachy McCourt On Irish History

Expanded Books

Video Malachy McCourt, author of History of Ireland, enlightens James Michael Tyler about the Emerald Isle's pubs and churches, U2's Bono, and the magic of Irish song.

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International Probe Targets Secretive Catholic Group

Dana Kennedy -- New York Times



"Dan Brown got the wrong group," said Genevieve Kineke, an orthodox Catholic who was a member of Regnum Christi, the legion's lay movement, from 1992 to 2000 and writes a blog about her experiences. "The Legion of Christ is the scary cult embedded in the bosom of the mother church. Not Opus Dei." Two of the most visible priests in America are Father Thomas Williams, a movie-star-handsome CBS News analyst, and Father Jonathan Morris, who is sometimes referred to as "Father Knows Best" on the Fox News Channel. They belong to the Legion of Christ but rarely identify themselves as such on camera. A book, "Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II," written by Berry and Hartford Courant reporter Gerald Renner, was published in 2004 with what one reviewer called "horror stories ... of brainwashing, manipulation, pederast seduction rituals, character assassination, bribes, drug abuse, gulag-type threats -- you name it."

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50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons

Brookings Institution



The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U. S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz.

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Karl Rove Admits Error On Iraq In Book

WTTG-TV

Video Republican strategist Karl Rove says in a new memoir, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight, that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration's credibility and led to dwindling public support for the war.

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The 'Looting' Of $11 Trillion From The U.S. Economy

World Tribune



The New York Times is quoting a spokesman for George Soros as saying that the well-known hedge fund operator is guilty of no wrong-doing in connection with the financial upheaval currently affecting Greece and Europe as a whole. But Zubi Diamond, author of the powerful new book, Wizards of Wall Street: & Washington Lap Dogs; The Scam That Elected Barack Obama: The Economic Crisis, says the agenda of Soros and other short sellers is clear. Their purpose, he says, is "to loot America and any foreign country which invested in America. Greece was one of them. Iceland was ravaged and annihilated."

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How JFK's Riviera Romance Led To Years Of Longing

James Bone -- London Times (UK)



Ms von Post revealed the affair in a book in 1997 entitled Love, Jack. She met Kennedy, 36, when she was 21 and had been sent to the Côte d'Azur to improve her French. They had dinner, danced and went for a walk at 2am before parting with a kiss. According to the book Kennedy told her: "I fell in love with you tonight." Explaining that he was about to marry Bouvier, he added: "If I had met you one week before, I would have cancelled the whole thing."

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The Third Secret

James Michael Tyler -- Expanded Books

Video Steve Berry, the author of The Third Secret: A Novel, talks about the new German Pope, Vatican insiders, and upheaval in the Catholic Church.

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The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

Dave Rosenthal -- Baltimore Sun



Among the promising books out this month is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which examines the extraordinary -- and controversial -- scientific contribution made by a young black woman from Baltimore County's Turners Station community more than a half-century ago. While Lacks was being treated for cancer at Johns Hopkins, a researcher was able to keep some of her cells alive outside her body -- a remarkable breakthrough for medical research. Author Rebecca Skloot notes in this excerpt that the "HeLa cells," spread around the world, helped to develop the polio vaccine and forge advances in such areas as chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization.

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John Edwards Tell-All Book Details Leak: 'Fat Rednecks' And A Sex Tape

Keith Staskiewicz -- Entertainment Weekly



Only weeks after the bestselling campaign book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime laid out for all to see the indiscretions and subsequent political implosion of John Edwards, the former aide/human shield who originally claimed paternity for Edwards' illegitimate child has announced his own tell-all account of the affair, The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down. The book deals with Young's facilitation of the liaison as well as his role in its aftermath and the ensuing cover-up, which Young contends was orchestrated by Edwards himself. ...

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Washington Is In A Frenzy Over 'Game Change'

Greg Milam -- Sky News (UK)



Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, for example, revealed the racially insensitive comments of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid about then-candidate Barack Obama. Obama accepted Reid's apology at the weekend but the calls for the veteran Nevada Senator to resign continue to grow as the partisan squabbling reaches a new peak. But it is the 'revelations' about the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, John McCain and Sarah Palin that are, in political circles at least, the stuff of fevered talk. Like the reported fact that Mrs Palin wanted to call Mr Biden 'Joe' during televised debates because she couldn't stop saying 'O'Biden' in rehearsals. And some of the private details about personal relationships that, frankly, we could all live without knowing.

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 British Writer Gets Sales Boost From Tiger Woods Crash

Agence France-Presse (FR)



Sales of a little-known British scientist's book have soared after it was pictured in Tiger Woods' crashed car, he said Thursday. "Get a Grip on Physics" by Doctor John Gribbin was photographed in a footwell of the car after the US golf superstar smashed it into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home last month. Within days of the pictures going round the world, the book's best-seller ranking on Internet retailer Amazon.com shot up from 396,224th position to 2,268th.

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Palin Book: McCain Aides Had Me 'Bottled Up'

Associated Press

Video In Sarah Palin's new memoir, "Going Rogue," she confirms that she had wanted to speak on election night, but was denied the chance and says she was kept "bottled up" from reporters during the campaign. ...

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McCain Talks About Palin's New Book

KSAZ-TV

Video Arizona Senator John McCain making a stop in the valley on Friday, throwing his support behind an effort to bring the F-35 program to Luke AFB. But there's a controversy brewing over a new book by his former running mate, Sarah Palin. ...

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Tidbits From New Palin Book 'Going Rogue'

Angela Lopez -- Detroit Free Press




The election was more than a year ago, but Sarah Palin isn't going anywhere. Her eagerly awaited autobiography, "Going Rogue: An American Life," will be released Tuesday, we got our hands on a copy and uncovered some of the book's well-guarded secrets.

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Obama's Manager: FOX News-Ready

Mark Silva -- The Swamp



In the cause of a certain book's promotion, it appears, a waiver is being granted in the White House's war with FOX News. That book is Obama campaign manager David Plouffe's The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory. For whatever complaints that Plouffe has about FOX, it appears, Greta Van Susteren's regular audience of about 2 million viewers is too much to resist in an inevitable book promotional tour of the networks. ...

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Andre Agassi:
"Open: An Autobiography"

Alex Tresniowski -- People Magazine



Tennis star Andre Agassi serves up a bombshell in his new memoir: In the late '90s he began regularly using crystal meth. "I can't speak to addiction, but a lot of people would say that if you're using anything as an escape, you have a problem," he tells PEOPLE magazine. Agassi's book, Open, details his descent into drug use, as well as his hair loss, his troubled marriage to Brooke Shields and the love he eventually found with his current wife, Steffi Graf.

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The Book Of Genesis, Illustrated By R. Crumb

Henry Allen -- Washington Post



The words come from both the King James Version and a recent translation by Robert Alter. The pictures come from Crumb's pen, the same sort of art pen that he's done all of his life's work with -- all of it, no pastels, watercolors, pencil, just this pen scritching away for half a century in a fury of crosshatching and black-and-white starkness. God said . . . R. Crumb? Here they are, together at last on the first page of this book, Crumb drawing God as if he were a madman inventor, beard and hair down to his ankles, and the whites of his eyes showing over the tops of his irises and his hairy, thick-fingered hands grasping what looks like a combination of a circle saw and a black hole, "without form, and void."

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Ray Kurzweil Says, "By 2040 You Will Be Able To Upload Your Brain"

Mike Hodgkinson -- Independent (UK)



Ray Kurzweil has spent his life inventing machines that help people, from the blind to dyslexics. Now, he believes we're on the brink of a new age - the 'singularity' -- when mind-boggling technology will allow us to email each other toast, run as fast as Usain Bolt (for 15 minutes) -- and even live forever. Is there sense to his science -- or is the man who reasons that one day he'll bring his dad back from the grave just a mad professor selling a dystopic vision of the future?

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Book Says Clinton Shrugged Off Helms' Slight

News & Observer



Former President Bill Clinton was not too upset about U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms' comments suggesting he was unfit to be commander-in-chief or that it might not be safe for him to travel to a North Carolina military base, according to a new book, "The Clinton Tapes." The book, by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Taylor Branch, is a collection of private conversations he taped with Clinton during the White House years and agreed not to publish until years later.

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Breaking: Sarah Palin Book So Exciting Publisher Jumps Release Date

Los Angeles Times

You Sarah Palin fans or haters who thought you had until next spring to buy and then read at least the first part of Sarah Palin's book need to change your plans. Pronto! The book is so delicious and revealing they are moving up the publication date. "Going Rogue: An American Life" will now go on sale on Nov. 17.

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Never Reviewed By NYT Or WaPo, Mark Levin's 'Liberty And Tyranny' Has Now Sold 1 Million Copies

Terence P. Jeffrey -- CNS News

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto


Levin is a nationally syndicated radio host, president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, and served as chief of staff to Atty. Gen. Ed Meese in the Reagan Justice Department. Despite Liberty and Tyranny's tremendous sales and high ranking on the Times' best seller list, the Times itself has never reviewed the book, only giving it a few blurbs in its 'Inside the List" feature that runs in the Sunday edition.

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Ron Paul Says The Federal Government Is "One Giant Toxic Asset"

Robert Jay March -- MarchReport.com
Video from CNN

Video Ron Paul was interviewed by Kiran Chetry on the Sept. 14, 2009 episode of CNN's American Morning, plugging his book End the Fed. He said that the economy has not recovered from the recession. "They claim there's a recovery but the recovery ought to be measured by the people working. True unemployment is now 16%, and the people who lost money have not regained the money. The people who lost houses have not gotten their houses back. There is no recovery," said Paul. ...


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A Review Of "End The Fed" By Ron Paul

Reviewed by Charles Scaliger -- New American Magazine



"The entire federal government," laments Congressman Ron Paul in his newest book, End the Fed, "is one giant toxic asset at the moment. It certainly has no business telling the private sector how to run its affairs. It is in worse financial shape than all the companies in the private sector put together." Hard words, but Congressman Paul knows whereof he speaks. It was Ron Paul, unique among congressmen for his understanding of how a free-market economy is supposed to work, who warned repeatedly of the coming economic calamity. It was Ron Paul, too, who warned both the Bush and Obama administrations that attempts by the government to bail out failing corporations with taxpayer dollars and passing massive stimulus packages would only make things worse. And it has been Ron Paul who has warned of disastrous long-term consequences of the inflationary activities of the Ben Bernanke-led Federal Reserve.
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Kennedy Memoir Hits Number Two

Bloomberg News

Video Late Senator Ted Kennedy's memoir hits number two on the Amazon's best seller hits.



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Washington, D.C., Braces For 'Lost Symbol' Seekers

Jayne Clark -- USA TODAY


The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's latest book, super-hyped The Lost Symbol, hits stores at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Can fans clutching dog-eared copies searching for real-life images from its pages be far behind? Tourism honchos in Washington, where the story is set, are so confident the book will be a big tourist draw that they've already launched a website (washington.org/lostsymbol) steering Lost Symbol seekers to places presumably mentioned in it. The plot is under wraps, but carefully choreographed clues, being released via the Today show, Facebook and Twitter, point to Washington and Freemasonry.
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Hero Pilot Sullenberger Tells All In New Memoir

Chris Wragge -- WCBS-TV



Call him Captain Chesley Sullenberger, but don't call him a hero. Since his January splashdown of Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, the pilot has dismissed the notion of heroism. Now, in his upcoming memoir "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters," Sullenberger reveals a very personal motivation in his life's work -- the fact that he couldn't prevent his father from committing suicide. "I'm willing to work very hard to protect people's lives, to be a Good Samaritan, and to not be a bystander, in part because I couldn't save my father," Sullenberger says in the book.
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Madoff's Secretarial Harem

New York Post



Sheryl Weinstein isn't the only woman with whom Bernie Madoff cheated on his wife, Ruth. The jailed Ponzi scum had flings with numerous secretaries that frequently ended with hush-hush settlements, according to Jerry Oppenheimer's new book, "Madoff with the Money." ...

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1959: The Year Everything Changed

Reviewed by Patricia Cohen -- New York Times



The image of the 1950s as placid, suburban and conformist is easily scratched away with the touch of a fingernail. Over the past 15 years or so, historians and writers have revealed that many of the big-bang explosions in politics, culture and technology of the 1960s were rooted in little bangs from the previous decade. Now Fred Kaplan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and columnist at Slate and an occasional contributor to The New York Times, has tried to further whittle down the decisive period to a single year in his new book, "1959: The Year Everything Changed." Citing Lunik I, the Soviet spacecraft that plowed through the Earth's atmosphere, and the strategist Herman Kahn's frank talk about how to win a nuclear war, Mr. Kaplan writes, "It was this twin precipice -- the prospect of infinite possibilities and instant annihilation, both teetering on the edge of a new decade -- that gave 1959 its distinctive swoon and ignited its creative energy." ...

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Science Ponders 'Zombie Attack'
(Yes, Really!)

Pallab Ghosh -- BBC News (UK)

If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out by researchers in Canada. They say only frequent counter-attacks with increasing force would eradicate the fictional creatures. The scientific paper is published in a book -- Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress. ...

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Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic By Ingrid Rowland

Powells.com


Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. By the time Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 on Rome's Campo dei Fiori, he had taught in Naples, Rome, Venice, Geneva, France, England, Germany, and the "magic Prague" of Emperor Rudolph II. His powers of memory and his provocative ideas about the infinity of the universe had attracted the attention of the pope, Queen Elizabeth-and the Inquisition, which condemned him to death in Rome as part of a yearlong jubilee. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking "Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic " establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours ...


Biography Traces Warren Buffett's Road To Wealth

John Mark Eberhart -- Mcclatchy Newspapers


Warren Buffet lives here, warts and all, on the pages of "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," an authorized biography by Alice Schroeder (Bantam, 960 pages, $35) ...


The Unmitigated Joy Of Getting Into Fights

Janet Maslin -- New York Times


A review of "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" By Bill O'Reilly (Illustrated. 256 pages. Broadway Books. $26.) ...


The Crime That Created The Man Of Steel

Neda Ulaby -- National Public Radio


Audio AND TEXT.  In "The Book of Lies," Brad Meltzer posits there's ancient power in the lost, unknown weapon used by Cain to kill his brother -- a bone? a rock? -- and manages to connect this notion, through a breathless series of intrigue and plot twists worthy of The Da Vinci Code, to the mysterious, real-life 1932 murder of Mitchell Siegel. Never heard of him? That gentleman happened to be the father of the creator of Superman. Jerry Siegel dreamed up the iconic, bulletproof comic book character only a few months after his father took three shots in the chest, for no fathomable reason ...


The Master And The Mistress

Eric Foner -- New York Times


Review of "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" By Annette Gordon-Reed
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Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! A Very Brady Drug Habit

Michael Thompson -- Associated Content

Millions of Americans are learning that the blonde pixie Marcia Brady on "The Brady Bunch" (1969 to 1974) also has a real name. She's Maureen McCormick, and now at 52, she reveals that she lived the life of yet another of those troubled child actors. Her memoir, a spin on the show's theme song, is "Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice." ...


Actor Battles To Play A Bigger Role As A Father

Jennifer A. Kingson -- New York Times

Review of "A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce" By Alec Baldwin with Mark Tabb (224 pages. St. Martin's Press. $24.95) ...


Book Review: The End Of Food: The Coming Crisis In The World Food Industry

John Berthelsen -- Asia Sentinel (HK)
(Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., Great Britain, 2008. Paperback, £12.99, 390 pp. Available at Amazon, US$17.16)
   For Paul Roberts, the end of food, like the end of days, is just a matter of time. It could be avian influenza, which he calls only one of a "number of bullets that could plausibly strike the modern food system. A sharp spike in the price of oil, a series of extreme weather events, an outbreak of some new plant disease, the depletion of some critical aquifer, all would send massive and potentially disrupting shock waves through a system that, despite advances in areas such as bio-security, is losing more and more of its overall flexibility and resilience by the week." ...


Digging Deep Into The Secrets Of Titanic's Demise In "Last Secrets"

Bob Simmons -- Seattle Times
The secrets in the title of Brad Matsen's new book are those of greed and deceit -- "Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler" concludes that owners and builders of the ocean liner Titanic made decisions that saved them huge amounts of money and sacrificed more than 1,500 lives. ...


Dying Of The Light

Garrison Keillor -- New York Times
"Nothing to Be Frightened Of" By Julian Barnes (244 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95.)
   "I don't believe in God, but I miss Him," the book begins. Julian Barnes, an atheist turned agnostic, has decided at the age of 62 to address his fear of death - why should an agnostic fear death who has no faith in an afterlife? How can you be frightened of Nothing? On this simple question Barnes has hung an elegant memoir and meditation, a deep seismic tremor of a book that keeps rumbling and grumbling in the mind for weeks thereafter ...


Attractions And Dangers Of Nostalgia

Hayden Carruth -- Powells.com
In many respects Annie Dillard's book, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)," is so ingratiating that even readers who find themselves in fundamental disagreement with it may take pleasure from it, a good deal of pleasure. Of course confirmed city-dwellers, who want no more of nature than a Sunday stroll in the park, will find it a bore. But to armchair naturalists everywhere, and certainly to those who live in the country and seek a good part of their sense of reality in the natural world, her book offers much that is delightful, percipient, and informative. ...


An Atkinson Mystery Is Always Good News

Mary Ann Gwinn -- Seattle Times
A review of "When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel" (Hardcover: 400 pages; Publisher: Little, Brown and Company) ...


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"Sexpose" Of Hedonistic Republicans Threatens To Derail Bid To Woo Christian Voters

Daily Mail (UK)



Republican contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination are desperately trying to win over Christian conservatives as the movement seeks to recover from a series of scandals. But the move has coincided with the publication of a new book by a former political press officer that lifts the lid on the hedonism in conservative circles at the end of the Bush era. In the book "Life of the Party: A Political Press Tart Bares All," Lisa Baron, who calls herself a political press tart, recounts a lifestyle of casual sex and "a seemingly endless supply of narcotics."

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Barbara Sinatra Tells About Her Life With Frank

Lori Obert -- KUSA-TV



Barbara Sinatra was her famous husband's fourth wife. Also his last. He died in her arms in 1998. They had been married 22 years. It wasn't always pretty, although she says she was the "luckiest woman in the world" to be his wife. Sinatra's widow, 84, is now telling what it was like living with Ol' Blue Eyes in her aptly titled memoir "Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank."

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Author Ben Shapiro Claims Sesame Street Has Left-Wing Bias

Debra Killalea -- Herald Sun (CN)

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In his new book, "Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV," investigative author and right-wing columnist Ben Shapiro claims Hollywood has been secretly using hit television shows to promote a "radical" left-leaning political agenda. Shapiro, who has published books including "Brainwashed" and "Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism is Corrupting our Future," claims he has evidence to prove how TV bosses have tried to use the medium of broadcasting to "shape America in their own leftist image."

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Area 51 "Uncensored": Was It UFOs Or The USSR?

WHYY Radio



Audio AND TEXT. In "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base" Jacobsen details how several agencies - including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Defense and the CIA - once used the site to conduct controversial and secretive research on aircraft and pilot-related projects, including planes that traveled three times faster than the speed of sound and nuclear-propelled, space-based missile launch systems. "The UFO craze began in the summer of 1947. Several months later, the G2 intelligence, which was the Army intelligence corps at the time, spent an enormous amount of time and treasure seeking out two former Third Reich aerospace designers named Walter and Reimar Horten who had allegedly created [a] flying disc. ... American intelligence agents fanned out across Europe seeking the Horton brothers to find out if, in fact, they had made this flying disc. The idea behind it remains, why? Why were they looking for a flying disc? And conspiracy theorists have had their hands on this declassified file for over a decade now, and they say it proves that this flying disc came from outer space. If you read the documents, the takeaway that I found fascinating was that at the end of it, the Army admits finding the Horten brothers, and that the Horten brothers admitted their contact with the Russians and that's where the file ends. Everything after that is classified. The child-sized aviators in this craft [that crashed in New Mexico] were the result of a Soviet human experimentation program, and they had been made to look like aliens a la Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, and it was a warning shot over President Truman's bow, so to speak."

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Sugar Ray Leonard Reveals He Was Sexually Abused By Amateur Boxing Coach

Gareth A Davies -- Telegraph (UK)

The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring


The bombshell is reportedly contained in "The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring," which will be on general release next month by Viking Press. Leonard reveals he was sexually abused in 1971 at a tournament in Utica, New York, at the age of 15, by a "prominent Olympic boxing coach." Leonard has detailed that he and another young boxer were bathing in a tub filled with Epsom salts when the unnamed coach was doing "something a bit inappropriate" on the other side of the bathroom. Leonard said the teens did not want to question their coach about the incident.

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The Solar Storm That Could Take Our Power Grid Out For Years

Lawrence E. Joseph -- Huffington Post


John Kappenman, author of Aftermath: A Guide to Preparing For and Surviving Apocalypse 2012, an obscure electrical engineer from Duluth, Minnesota, is determined to save civilization from the mother of all blackouts. If he succeeds, the daily life of billions around the world will continue undisrupted. But if he fails, we may well suffer on a scale that makes even World Wars seem trivial in comparison. Over the past thirty years, Kappenman has accumulated a vast and compelling body of evidence indicating that sooner or later a major blast of EMP (electromagnetic pulse) from the Sun, a space weather Katrina, will knock out the electrical power grid and bring society to its knees. "Historically large storms have a potential to cause power grid blackouts and transformer damage of unprecedented proportions. An event that could incapacitate the network for a long time could be one of the largest natural disasters we could face," he declares.

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The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties To Communists, Socialists And Other Anti-American Extremists

Reviewed by Wes Vernon -- Washington Times



In "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists ," we have a compendium of the result (to date) of the left's mission - started in the 1930s, accelerated in the '60s and realized in the '70s. In the ensuing decades, those who wished our country no good forged ahead full bore, or, as one of them (a mainstream-media journalist) is quoted as saying out loud: "I'm going to bore from within." The real-life "Manchurian" story is "that of a powerful politician whose true past has been intentionally obscured, and who has become a vehicle for implementing a hidden radical agenda." All of that is to be found in these pages, precisely and painstakingly documented.

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Reclaiming The Jeffersonian Tradition Of Nullification

Reviewed by Kevin Gutzman -- Campaign For Liberty



Under today's constitutional law, the "Federal" (really now national) Government can do anything it wants. The speaker of the House literally laughs at the implication that it cannot. For anyone who knows history and loves liberty, this is a worrisome situation. What to do? In "Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century," Thomas E. Woods, Jr.'s answer is to dust off the Jeffersonian tradition of nullification. Nullification lays out the argument for nullification's constitutionality, describes historic and contemporary instances in which the doctrine has been and is being employed, and advocates that it be used more widely today. Finally, in a very useful appendix, Woods provides some of the classic nullification documents from days gone by. The appendix serves both to arm the reader with pro-nullification arguments and to illustrate the variety of circumstances to which it has been applied.

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Intelligent Design Uncensored

evolutionnews.org



Intelligent Design Uncensored: An Easy- To-understand Guide to the Controversy is a book I've long hoped that someone would write. Don't get me wrong -- there are other good books out there that explain the fundamentals of intelligent design (ID) in plain language. But with clarity, elegance, and accuracy, Intelligent Design Uncensored fills this niche better than most. The authors, Dr. William Dembski (an expert in the technical arguments for ID) and Dr. Jonathan Witt (a writer with a strong grasp of the relevant science) -- both Discovery Institute senior fellows -- make an ideal team. This is a book for any reader -- student or otherwise -- who seeks a compelling, accurate, accessible case for intelligent design.

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Review: Glenn Beck's "The Overton Window"

Rob Port -- Say Anything Blog



Unlike his previous books, The Overton Window is a fictional story about the son of an influential PR magnate bent on re-making America and the world in his vision falling in love with a tea party/patriot movement leader who wants a return to the principles of the founding fathers. As a social political commentary, it hit on a lot of the hot political topics of the day: Bailouts, Excessive government grown beyond its constitutional restraints, Nanny statism.

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A Mind-Changing Page

Thomas Sowell -- Townhall.com



Sometimes you can read a book that will change your mind on some fundamental issue. Rarely, however, is there just one page that can undermine or destroy a widely-held belief. But there is such a page-- page 77 of the book "Out of Work" by Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway. What is on that one page in "Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America" that could change people's minds? Just a simple table, giving unemployment rates for every month during the entire decade of the 1930s. Those who think that the stock market crash in October 1929 is what caused the huge unemployment rates of the 1930s will have a hard time reconciling that belief with the data in that table.

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Grisham Does His First Children's Book

Press Association (UK)

Video Best selling novelist John Grisham has released his first children's book, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, about a 13 year old son of a lawyer who finds himself in the mids of the town's murder trial.

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Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The Mind

Jon Hamilton -- National Public Radio



Audio AND TEXT. In the 55 years since Albert Einstein's death, many scientists have tried to figure out what made him so smart. But no one tried harder than a pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who lost his job and his reputation in a quest to unlock the secrets of Einstein's genius. Harvey never found the answer. But through an unlikely sequence of events, his search helped transform our understanding of how the brain works. How that happened is a bizarre story that involves a dead genius, a stolen brain, a rogue scientist and a crazy idea that turned out not to be so crazy. Michael Paterniti describes it all in his book, Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain.

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The Struggle For Tibet

Reviewed by J. Michael Cole -- Taipei Times (TW)



After nearly half a century of Chine occupation of Tibet, riots on an unprecedented scale occurred not only in the Tibetan Administrative Region (TAR), but also in parts of China with substantial Tibetan populations. Prior to what has come to be known as the March Incident of 2008, Tibetan protests had largely been limited to areas within TAR proper. How can we explain the spontaneous -- and violent -- uprising that shocked the world months before the Beijing Olympics and invited an ironfisted crackdown by the Chinese authorities? The answer is the culminating The Struggle for Tibet, a collection of articles written by Tibetan academic Tsering Shakya and the Chinese intellectual Wang Lixiong. In what often reads like a dialogue between the two authors, the book explores the question of Tibetan identity, religion, assimilation and resistance from the perspective of Tibetans.

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Peddling Peril: How The Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies

Reviewed by Jeremy Bernstein -- New York Review of Books



A great deal has been written about Pakistani metallurgist A.Q. Khan and his collaborators, but I have never found an account as detailed as the one in "Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies," by the nuclear armaments expert David Albright. Albright holds master's degrees in physics and mathematics and has taught physics. For five years-between 1992 and 1997-he was part of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Action Team and in that capacity he spent time as a weapons inspector in Iraq. In 1993, he founded the Institute for Science and International Security, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C., of which he is president. In short, Albright is a perfect person to write a book like this.

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Book Review: 'Hellhound On His Trail' By Hampton Sides

Art Winslow -- Los Angeles Times



A bestselling author reconstructs an assassin's life and the events leading up to the killing of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. James Earl Ray, the dodgy career criminal and escaped convict who murdered King and helped turn 1968 into the sad, tumultuous year that it was, is the man with the gun in Hampton Sides' Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin. And yet there are hellhounds aplenty in Sides' book, notable among them George Wallace and J. Edgar Hoover.

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New Biography Reveals Oprah's 'Hidden' Life

Jeremy Olshan -- New York Post



Oprah Winfrey -- who built a billion-dollar empire persuading everyone from celebs to average Joes to reveal the truth about themselves -- is a big phony when it comes to her own past, an explosive new book charges. Winfrey's relationship with longtime "love" Stedman Graham, her reputed dirt-poor upbringing in rural Mississippi, her rumored lesbian crushes on women such as Diane Sawyer -- all are stories she has manipulated for decades in the name of sensational ratings, according to writer Kitty Kelley's latest unauthorized biography "Oprah: A Biography." "Where Oprah got that nonsense about growing up in filth and roaches I have no idea," said a relative, Katherine Carr Esters. "I've confronted her and asked, 'Why do you tell such lies?' Oprah told me, 'That's what people want to hear. The truth is boring.'

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From Cyber War: The Next Threat To National Security And What To Do About It

Richard A. Clarke -- Network World



"The entire phenomenon is shrouded in such government secrecy that it makes the Cold War look like a time of openness and transparency. The biggest secret in the world about cyber war may be that at the very same time the U.S. prepares for offensive cyber war, it is continuing policies that make it impossible to defend the nation effectively from cyber attack." click for an excerpt from Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It, a new book by ex-Presidential adviser Richard Clarke that explores the growing cyberwar threat and raises ideas about how to deal with it.

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Raquel Welch On Her New Book

KTTV-TV

Video 69-year-old veteran movie star Raquel Welch has written a new book about her life called "Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage," and dropped by to talk about her career and why she wrote the book.

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Can Science Explain Heaven?

Lisa Miller -- Newsweek



There are those who believe that science will eventually explain everything -- including our enduring belief in heaven. The thesis here is very simple: heaven is not a real place, or even a process or a supernatural event. It's something that happens in your brain as you die. The author of this article first encountered this idea when she was researching her new book, Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife.

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Hulk Hogan: "I Took Pills And Rum, Put A Gun In My Mouth And Thought, 'Pull The Trigger'"

Simon Rothstein -- Sun (UK)



Hulk was once the man who had everything: a glittering grappling and TV career, gorgeous blonde wife and two kids who worshipped him. But in his new book, My Life Outside the Ring, the 56-year-old reveals how his world was turned upside down. Wife Linda, 50, divorced him after 23 years of marriage. Daughter Brooke, now 21, was refusing to speak to him, believing her mum's claims that he had cheated throughout the marriage. And worst of all son Nick, 19, was facing jail after leaving his best friend in a vegetative state in a car crash, for which some blamed Hulk's parenting.

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John And Abigail Adams: A Marriage That Defied Separation And War

Michiko Kakuta -- New York Times



Although the gender politics of the day did not afford Abigail Adams the opportunities enjoyed by later generations of women, she was John Adams's closest adviser and sounding board before, during and after the Revolutionary War. During his long absences from home, Abigail managed the family farm, oversaw their finances and raised their children. Later, during his diplomatic postings in Paris and London and his tenure as president, she assumed a more public role, so much so that the historian Joseph J. Ellis writes in his new book, "First Family: Abigail and John Adams," that "they were effectively regarded as a political team" -- or as one television dramatization of their lives more crudely put it, "America's first power couple."

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When John Waters Met Little Richard

John Waters -- Guardian (UK)



In 1987, the iconic filmmaker John Waters was sent by Playboy magazine to interview his all-time hero: Little Richard. It was a surreal, almost religious experience for John who had been a lifelong fan of the godfather of rock'n'roll. So why did it almost end in a fistfight? All is revealed in this excerpt from Waters' new book, Role Models.

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"America By Heart": A Harsh Critique Of Obama By Sarah Palin

Michael Falcone -- ABC News (US)



Video AND TEXT. In the book, "America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag", Palin accuses Obama of misunderstanding the American people. "The epitome of progressive thinking was Barack Obama's promise, just before the 2008 election, that 'we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,'" Palin writes in the book. "I guess you could say that he warned us! But the problem is that Americans don't want a fundamental transformation of their country." Palin portrays herself as a modern-day Jefferson Smith, the character played by Jimmy Stewart in the iconic film, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," which she says is her favorite movie.

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J.F.K. Secret Service Detail Speaks Out

WNYW-TV

Video The secret service agent who jumped onto the back of the limousine carrying President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Texas when the President was shot and killed is sharing his recollection of the tragedy for the first time. Former agents Clint Hill and partner Jerry Blaine have written a book about their service: The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence.

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The Battles For Late Night

Louis Menand -- New Yorker



The Leno-O'Brien debacle might not have happened if Jay Leno had used representation. As Bill Carter tells the story in his hugely entertaining recap, The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy, Leno fired his manager in 1992, shortly after taking over from Johnny Carson as host of the "Tonight Show." Leno believed that his manager had said things to poison his relationship with Carson. As it was, David Letterman, who, as the host of "Late Night," had been following Carson for eleven years and was considered the heir apparent, felt resentment about being passed over for Leno, whose reputation had been built partly on his many guest appearances on "Late Night." Leno was professional to the core, but he did not want business to ruin friendship. He never used a manager or an agent for his contract renewals again.

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Bush: 'Damn Right' I Gave The Go-Ahead On Waterboarding Terror Suspect

Alex Eichler -- Atlantic Monthly



In George W. Bush's new memoir, Decision Points, the former president explains that the CIA approached him about the possibility of waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaeda operative often called "the architect of 9/11." In his memoir, Bush writes that his response was "Damn right." This seems to be a straightforward admission that Bush approved the use of waterboarding on a detainee--even though this technique is widely regarded as inhumane, and its use is thought by many to violate the United Nations Convention Against Torture, of which the United States is a signatory. (In media outside the U.S., waterboarding is almost always referred to as torture.)

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The Rise And Fall Of America's Jet-Powered Car

Steven Lehto -- Jalopnik



Video AND TEXT. We almost had jet-powered cars. Chrysler quietly developed a Jet-powered car in the 1960s. Steve Lehto's new book "Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation" explains how bureaucracy killed one of Detroit's engineering triumphs.

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Review Of Bob Woodward's New Book, "Obama's Wars"

Michiko Kakutani -- New York Times



It's no secret that there have been ferocious arguments within the Obama administration over the war in Afghanistan: both substantive policy debates. Bob Woodward's new book, "Obama's Wars," underscores just how vociferous and highly personal those altercations and message wars often became. Mr. Woodward adds lots of detail and anecdotal color to the story of how the White House's policy on Afghanistan evolved over the administration's first 18 months, and how the decision was made to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan (to try to wrest momentum away from a resurgent Taliban) with a drawdown of American forces scheduled to begin in July 2011.

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Peter Hitchens Talks About His Faith And His Atheist Sibling Christopher

Charles Lewis -- National Post


Almost everyone knows how his elder brother Christopher Hitchens feels, but less well known are the views of Peter Hitchens, a conservative columnist for the The Mail on Sunday in London, who was inspired to write his latest book, The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith, because of the "dangerous" teachings of men like his brother. It is not a faith book, at least not in the conventional sense of defending doctrine or even making a philosophical case for God. The book is devoid of "faith talk"; the name Jesus does not appear once in the book. "Remember, I'm an ex-Trotskyite, so I'm quite suspicious of the man of total conviction and certainty. What I did not want, coming away from Marxist utopianism, was to find another mirror image of utopianism," he said. "The argument I'm making for religion is largely a negative one: if you get rid of [God] you will be in a tremendous fix."

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Bozo The Clown: "The Man Behind The Nose"

Philip Potempa -- Northwest Indiana Times



Did you hear the one about when Bozo ran for president? Or how two assassination attempts were made on his life? How about the time that Bozo flew into the jungles of New Guinea to see if he could bond with dangerous cannibal tribes? Well then, you must know about the time his size 83 AAA shoes saved him from being swallowed whole by a giant, murderous python in Thailand, right? These are just a few of the "prizes" plucked from "The Man Behind the Nose: Assassins, Astronauts, Cannibals, and Other Stupendous Tales," (HarperCollins $25.99) a new 256-page hardcover by Susan Harmon, widow of Larry Harmon, the man credited with creating "the world's most famous clown. The book, released in time for Bozo's 50th anniversary, was co-authored by Thomas Scott McKenzie. The late Larry Harmon reportedly drafted most of the book before his death.

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New Book Celebrates George Herriman's Krazy Kat

Doug MacCash -- Times-Picayune



Video AND TEXT. "George Herriman's Krazy Kat, A Celebration of Sundays" is a dynamite introduction to one of the most dysfunctional duos ever found on the funny pages. It's also a book-shelf must-have for anyone devoted to jazz-era expression. But beneath the quirky comedy of the antique cartoon, Herriman's real life story is a disquieting detour through the bad ol' days of American race relations that begins in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Starting exactly 100 years ago (July 26, 1910), Ignatz the cartoon mouse began hurling bricks at the head of his Coconino County neighbor, Krazy Kat. Zip! Pow! It's no wonder that a mouse, given the chance, would torment a cat. Here's the weird thing: For the next 34 years, Krazy Kat fell more deeply in love with Ignatz with each beaning. Try as he might, police officer Pupp could do nothing to dampen either Ignatz's violent obsession or Krazy's misplaced ardor for the mouse that he or she (we're never quite sure of Krazy's sex) called "L'il Anjil."

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Fight Over Evolution Still Simmers 85 Years After Scopes Trial

Bob Smietana -- The Tennessean



Rachel Held Evans had a choice while growing up in Dayton, Tenn., site of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. Believe the Bible or believe evolution. "I was taught that if you don't interpret Genesis 1 and 2 literally, then you don't take the Bible seriously," said Evans, 29. "I held on tightly to that for a long time." Evans says creationism -- the belief that God created the Earth around 6,000 years ago in six days -- was commonplace in her town. Unable to reconcile science with her faith, Evans embraced evolution. "I learned you don't have to choose between loving and following Jesus and believing in evolution," she said. She chronicled her personal journey in a new memoir, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions.

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