If you stop in at your nearby Barnes and Noble, you will usually find
current affairs and political books prominently displayed on a table
close to the front door. Inevitably, there will be a slew of books with
titles like “How George W. Bush turned the U.S.A. into the Rottenest
Country in the World” or “Why the Republican Party is Making You Sick”,
etc. written by people from Air America, the Nation Magazine or
Salon.com. Since the Republican Party has become so tainted by nearly 8
years of malfeasance in the White House, conservative books have
suffered a bit of an understandable decline.
What you will not find is anything quite like Dennis Perrin’s “Savage
Mules”, a slashing attack on the Democratic Party so badly needed in a
time when so many false hopes are now invested in the party of “peace”
and “progress”. “Savage Mules” is a pithy, sharp and funny survey of
Democratic presidencies (and failed bids) going back to Woodrow Wilson
that takes no prisoners. While it was written prior to the rise of
Obamamania, it would certainly provide a useful corrective to a “change”
campaign that seems to be recycling the centrism of the past 30 years at
least.
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/savage-mules/
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