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"Dishonest"

2008-10-06T22:34:00Z

John McCain criticized Obama by attributing some of his positions to "the ambition to be president". He was projecting his own unconscious drive to be president, which he openly admitted in his own memoir.

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"Dishonest"

2008-09-29T04:36:30Z

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"Dishonest"

2008-09-29T02:36:54Z

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McCain vs. McCain: The Ambition to be President

2008-09-29T02:36:54Z

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Authors@Google: Daniel Ellsberg

2008-10-08T04:40:59Z

Daniel Ellsberg visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers." This event took place on August 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Richard Nixon made attempts to prevent anymore extracts from the Pentagon Papers being published. The Supreme Court ruled against Nixon. Ellsberg's trial, on twelve felony counts posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him, which led to the convictions of several White House aides and figured in the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon.

Since the end of the Vietnam War he has been a lecturer, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era and unlawful interventions. In 2002 he published Secrets.

Link to Ellsberg's official site: www.ellsberg.net

This event took place on August 22, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.

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Authors@Google: Daniel Ellsberg

2008-09-08T12:40:28Z

Since the end of the Vietnam War he has been a lecturer, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era and unlawful interventions. In 2002 he published Secrets.

Link to Ellsberg's official site: www.ellsberg.net

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King to McClellan: Couldn't You Have Taken It to the Grave?

2008-07-09T06:35:44Z

Rep. King (R-IA) questioning former WH press secretary Scott McClellan, June 20, 2008

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FORA.tv's Summer Reading List!

2008-07-09T12:58:53Z

Get to know the FORA.tv staff as they walk you through their picks for summer reading! Authors discussed include:

Walter Isaacson on Einstein: His Life and Universe
http://fora.tv/2007/04/20/Walter_Isaacson_on_Einstein

A.J. Jacobs - The Year of Living Biblically
http://fora.tv/2007/10/24/A_J__Jacobs_Year_of_Living_Biblically

Mary Roach on Bonk
http://fora.tv/2008/04/15/Mary_Roach_In_Conversation_with_Beth_Lapides

Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
http://fora.tv/2007/06/08/Khaled_Hosseini_A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns

Michael Krasny on Off Mic: A Memoir of Talk Radio
http://fora.tv/2007/10/18/Michael_Krasny_A_Memoir_of_Talk_Radio

Fareed Zakaria on The Post-American World
http://fora.tv/2008/05/20/Fareed_Zakaria_The_Post-American_World

Tom Wolfe on American Novels
http://fora.tv/2008/05/12/Tom_Wolfe_on_the_Journalistic_Approach_to_American_Novels

Raj Patel on Stuffed and Starved
http://fora.tv/2008/05/16/Raj_Patel_Discusses_Stuffed_and_Starved

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins
http://fora.tv/2008/04/07/A_Selection_of_Poems_by_Billy_Collins

Leslie Bennetts - The Feminine Mistake
http://fora.tv/2007/05/02/Feminine_Mistake

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Ari Fleischer Attacks Scott McClellan On Today

2008-10-08T04:42:59Z

Ari Fleischer the world's first ever lapdog/ pitbull.

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Kao Kalia Yang's "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir"

2008-10-08T04:19:57Z

Kao Kalia Yang's first book, "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir," is available from Coffee House Press.

She was in Iowa City to give a reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

http://www.coffeehousepress.org/

http://www.prairielights.com/

http://atomburke.com

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Charlie Rose - Dame Helen Mirren

2008-07-05T02:52:38Z

Helen Mirren discusses her new memoir, "In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures" and preparing for her Oscar winning role as The Queen.

Visit charlierose.com to see the full interview

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Riz Khan - Love in Black and White -18 Dec 07

2008-06-13T15:33:45Z

We speak to the authors, William Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen who published a book that candidly describes their experiences with racial and ethnic attitudes in modern-day America: Love in Black and White - A Memoir of Race, Religion and Romance.

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Clarence Thomas - The Virtues of Debate

2008-06-11T15:37:53Z

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas discusses the virtues of debate. This excerpt is taken from a program in which Justice Thomas talks about his memoir, "My Grandfather's Son."

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered this address at the 2007 Annual National Lawyers Convention on Thursday, November 15. Introductions by Hon. Lee Liberman Otis, Faculty Division Director and Senior Vice President of the Federalist Society, and Hon. C. Boyden Gray, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. - Federalist Society

Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, was born in the Pin Point community of Georgia near Savannah June 23, 1948. He married Virginia Lamp in 1987 and has one child, Jamal Adeen, by a previous marriage. He attended Conception Seminary and received an A.B.,
cum laude, from Holy Cross College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. He was admitted to law practice in Missouri in 1974, and served as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri from 1974-1977, an attorney with the Monsanto Company from 1977-1979, and Legislative Assistant to Senator John Danforth from 1979-1981. From 1981-1982, he
served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1982-1990.

He became a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1990. President Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat October 23, 1991.

He is the author of the book, "My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir."

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Authors@Google: Liz Perle

2008-06-07T09:33:14Z

Liz Perle speaks at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters about her book, "Money, A Memoir." This event took place as part of the Liz Perle speaks at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters about her book, "Money, A Memoir." This event took place as part of the Authors@Google and Women@Google series.

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Robert Stone - Excerpt from "Prime Green"

2008-06-07T09:35:24Z

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Acclaimed novelist Robert Stone recounts his experiences in working for a supermarket tabloid in an excerpt from his book, "Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties."

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Robert Stone delivers "Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties." Robert Stone has written some of the most iconic American fiction of the last three decades. The legacy of the "burnt-out '60s" - Vietnam, drugs, the failure of counter-culture dreams - has informed much of his best work, not least of all his National Book Award-winning novel "Dog Soldiers." In "Prime Green," his first ever book-length work of non-fiction, Stone offers a candid memoir that recalls his own extraordinary experiences during the most turbulent, yet magical, decade in our history. In 1958, Stone is in the Navy, circumnavigating the globe on a transport ship. Ten years later, he would encounter a different kind of military engagement, as he witnessed the disastrous invasion of Laos as a correspondent in Vietnam.

In between, he would alight in New York amid the burgeoning art scene on the Lower East Side, in New Orleans where jazz and poetry fused in Beat-inspired clubs, and in California, where he joined the Age of Psychedelia, experimenting with LSD along with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and an up-and-coming band called The Grateful Dead. Stone's personal take on the Sixties as he lived it is indelible, capturing those heady times with both hindsight and insight.

"Opening the trunk on the American Sixties might seem at first to be a fearsome, even a rueful, undertaking," says Richard Ford. "However, the incomparable novelist Robert Stone is obviously destiny's choice for the role of narrator-guide...he writes with unnostalgic compassion and intelligence for that tumultuous time, now surprisingly low on our horizon, but that by some necromancy of history has presented us with all we see around us today" -Cody's Books

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William Poy Lee - Chinatown During the Civil Rights Era

2008-06-07T09:35:22Z

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Chinese-American author William Poy Lee recounts his participation in a 1968 civil rights march through the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown.

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William Poy Lee talks about "The Eighth Promise."

This is an evocative memoir of a relationship between a mother and son - and the Chinese-American experience - while growing up in the housing projects of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1960s and 70s. Gloria Steinem says "One of the very few books that completely conveys a life as lived from the inside and makes us as readers feel we are living it too." - Book Passage

William Poy Lee graduated with a Bachelors of Architecture, emphasis on urban design and planning from the University of California in Berkeley and completed his juris doctor degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California.

He has been a licensed California attorney since 1979 and has enjoyed a career as an international banking attorney with Bank of America and as an advertising co-principal serving Fortune 100 corporations.

"The Eighth Promise" is his first book.

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Ishmael Beah - Excerpt from "A Long Way Gone"

2008-06-07T09:35:33Z

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Author and Sierra Leone war refugee Ishmael Beah reads an excerpt from his book, "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier."

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Ishmael Beah introduces "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier."

You will never forget Ishmael Beah and his heart-breaking, gripping story of a child's journey through hell. There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Beah used to be one of them. He is the first to tell his story in his own words. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does he become a killer? How does he stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have imagined their lives. Until now, there hasn't been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived to tell the tale. In A LONG WAY GONE, Beah relates fleeing attacking rebels, wandering a land rendered unrecognizable by violence, being picked up by the government army, and finding that he was capable of truly terrible acts. After three years as a soldier, a truck pulled into the army base and Ishmael and other young soldiers were released by their commander to UNICEF workers. Sent to a rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to convince the world of civilians who viewed him with fear and suspicion. It is, at last, a story of redemption. Beah, now 25, came to the US when he was seventeen, and graduated from Oberlin College in 2004. He is a member of Human Rights Watch Children's Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations on several occasions. He lives in New York City. - Cody's Books

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Linda Furiya - Learning English as a Second Language

2008-06-14T19:38:08Z

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Author Linda Furiya reads an excerpt from her book, "Bento Box in the Heartland," in which she discusses her Japanese immigrant mother's difficulties with learning English as a second language.

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Linda Furiya introduces her memoir "Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America" an insightful and reflective coming-of-age tale. Beautifully written, each chapter is accompanied by a family recipe of mouth-watering Japanese comfort food.

While growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern America with the Japanese traditions of her home life. As the only Asian family in a tiny township, Furiya's life revolved around Japanese food and the extraordinary lengths her parents went to in order to gather the ingredients needed to prepare it.

As immigrants, her parents approached the challenges of living in America, and maintaining their Japanese diets, with optimism and gusto. Furiva, meanwhile, was acutely aware of how food set her apart from her peers: She spent her first day of school hiding in the girls' restroom, examining her rice balls and chopsticks, and longing for a Peanut Bullter and Jelly sandwich.

"Bento Box in the Heartland" is an insightful and reflective coming-of-age tale. Beautifully written, each chapter is accompanied by a family recipe of mouth-watering Japanese comfort food. - Books Inc

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Donald Rumsfeld, war profiteer

2008-09-27T01:00:38Z

According to a report in the NY Sun, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been touring major New York publishing houses seeking a "large cash advance" for a memoir he is writing "justifying the military stradegy for war in Iraq." Rumsfield has previously stated that implications there was anything wrong with the war plan "is amusing." Read more at ThinkProgress.