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Drift the Unmooring of American Military Power
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Rachel Maddow
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, January 02, 2013
Fascinating, informative, and easy to read, Maddow does a great job of explaining why the founding fathers vested war-making powers in the legislative branch, and how the executive branch has been chipping away at that crucial tenet for the last few decades. The result is that we no longer have any sense of what war really means to us, its costs and reasons are shadowy and unknown to most citizens, and because we are no longer having public conversations or congressional debates about war and military actions, we are inclined to not care about any of this as much as we should. This books makes me want to be a better citizen. A must-read for everyone.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Carson McCullers
nikkikaram
, January 25, 2012
"The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow." The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter is as beautiful as the title suggests. It is simultaneously heartbreaking and inspiring, and both of those waters run so deep in this book. I have never read a novel that so perfectly captures what it feels like to have an urgent, burning, singular dream of a thing you want to do in your life, and if things were different you could do it, but they aren't different, and so you can't. That's the heartbreaking part. The inspiring part is having the dream to begin with; the central characters each have the rare capacity to experience that kind of love, and not only that, but they each make the decision to keep experiencing that love, despite the "darkness beyond tomorrow" that they sense is probably inescapable. Look for the description of Mick's violin. If you haven't surrendered to this book by then, Mick's violin will.
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