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More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2004-10-25 Summary: Insightful! ... British journalist and historian Godfrey Hodgson dissects the rise of conservatism in the U.S. during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Hodgson is an unapologetic liberal, and though he's ultimately optimistic about America, he finds much to lament in this period. Even die-hard conservatives might be given pause by his warnings about growing social stratification and inequality. Hodgson's greatest contribution to the political discussion may be his examination of this time period from so many angles, exposing ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2004-05-16 Summary: All animals are equal, but... ... There is general agreement in the United States that the last few decades have been much more profitable for the wealthiest few percent of the population than for everyone else. "More Equal Than Others" makes the point that even this understanding of inequality is greatly underestimated by most Americans. Godfrey Hodgson, who is a long time Washington correspondent for the British media and who wrote this book for The Century Foundation in New York, believes that the US media have consistently presented a picture of ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2004-05-01 Summary: Ruling Class Holiday ... In this densely factual and amply documented explication of the conservative counterrevolution in the U.S. over the past quarter century, Godfrey Hodgson demonstrates how this brew of Christian cowboy populism and free market absolutism has undermined the United States' historically tolerant, egalitarian culture, installing in its place an unnatural system where the measure of every person, every motive and every institution is the dollar almighty. Full of counterexamples to the works of conservative think tanks, Hodgson ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation, but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural democracy. Now, renowned British journalist and historian Godfrey Hodgson takes aim at this popular view in a book that promises to become one of the most important political histories of our time. More Equal Than Others looks back on twenty-five years of what Hodgson calls "the conservative ascendancy"...more
Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa (Updated with a New Afterword)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2004-01-22 Summary: Views from both sides ... Goodman has compiled a great book here with views on important events in South African history. These events are examined with narratives from both sides, white and black. The aftermath of each event is traced as well. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 1999-05-22 Summary: An excellent introduction to present-day South Africa ... I first heard about this book on a radio talk show and immediately ordered it through Amazon.com. Listening to the author talk about his views on South Africa was quite interesting because he loves the country and its people and is cautiously enthusiastic about its future, but reading his book reveals that the vast problems South Africa faces are incredibly complex and that it may well take several generations to create an egalitarian society. One really wonders if South Africa will stand the test of time and not become ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 1999-04-10 Summary: Expands on what I saw in South Africa, October, 1998 ... Having visited South Africa in October, 1998, and seen the extensive squatters areas described by the author, I do not believe that readers of his book can adequately understand the extreme poverty he describes. It has to be seen and experienced to be appreciated. Mr. Goodman's portraits of the eight people in his book gives flesh and humanity to the otherwise dehumanizing nature of apartheid. I think his work is best appreciated if you have seen South Africa for yourself. For your readers who have not been to South ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | South Africa has experienced one of the world's most dramatic political transformations. David Goodman, a journalist and activist who has witnessed South Africa's struggles since the darkest days of apartheid, chronicles the historic transition from apartheid to democracy. This compelling story is told through the lives of four pairs of South Africans who have experienced apartheid from opposite sides of the racial and political divide. Taken together, these profiles provide the first...more
[2] ... Review | In April 1994, South Africa held its first ever democratic elections, ushering Nelson Mandela into office as the nation's first black president. What has followed that election, as the country attempts to reinvent a society founded on racism and the indignities of apartheid, is the subject of Fault Lines . "How does a nation deal with the memory of its brutal past?" is perhaps the question that most guides David Goodman, a journalist and longtime observer of South African life. Like the Truth and Reconciliation...more
The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent history of American higher education. The contributors--whose perspectives range from that of FSM leader Mario Savio to University of California president Clark Kerr---shed new light on such...more
In a Time of Torment 1961-1967 (A Nonconformist history of our times)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2004-04-24 Summary: Wonderful Compilation Of Stone's Essays! ... I.F. Stone was a virtual legend among political junkies in the sixties and seventies, as indeed he was for well over a half century in various journalistic capacities from the Depression era until the late 1980s. He published an independent weekly journal for well over twenty years from the early 1950s until the mid-1970s in which he acted as soul reporter, editor, and publisher, and the work was acclaimed for its consistent accuracy, poignancy, and verve. He caught many scoops others were either not clever enough ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 1998-08-15 Summary: I.F Stone does it again ... I.f Stone writes a contemporary acount of the begining of the vietnam war. He also tells us what kennedy did wrong during the cuban missile crisis. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | A view of America in the Sixties is offered in this collection of journalistic writings. The pieces cover the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, the violent white reaction to civil rights legislation and the rise of black power, Vietnam and the student riots....more
A Vietnam Reader: Sources and Essays
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | A collection of 61 important primary source documents used by all scholars of the Vietnam War. ...more
Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers Are Unhappier Than Ever
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-08-06 Summary: What a great book! ... This is a "must-read" for workers and employers, told by a master storyteller. The author offers insights into work life in modern America through interesting stories of people and the companies for which they work. You will see behind-the-scenes what's really going on in Microsoft, Boeing, and other top corporations. So gracefully written, this book is a joy to read. Give yourself and treat and get it today. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-06-23 Summary: The Tough Reality of the Job Marketplace Today ... "Love the Work, Hate the Job" is a book that basically discusses how the relationship between employers and employees has dramatically changed over the years. It all began in the early days with a master-slave approach, then turned into making the work environment as pleasant as possible with the implementation of "human management", and finally due to global competition and other related evil, stepped backwards by companies starting to treat employees as disposable resources, or "costs to be cut instead of assets ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Praise for Love the Work, Hate the Job "With energy, fine reporting, and a sure grasp of the realities of people's working lives, David Kusnet has written one of the most important studies of how people do their jobs since Daniel Bell's Work and Its Discontents. Kusnet makes a case everyone needs to hear: America's workers, including high-tech professionals, want to do their jobs right and they want to do them well, and what they need is more freedom in the workplace to achieve those ends....more
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