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Parameters Winter 2003/2004	Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2004 Bill Mann	The Death of the Dollar Is the dollar standard -- and the strength of our economy -- coming to an end? In their new book, Financial Reckoning Day, Bonner and Wiggin use demographic evidence and a review of economic and political history to show that fiat currencies eventually collapse -- the dollar may be next.
Knowledge@Wharton	Tales from the Trenches: Lessons from 30 Years of Career Warfare We might like to believe that the way to get ahead in the corporate world lies in hard work and brain power. But in his new book, Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It, John Hancock Financial Services CEO David F. D'Alessandro stomps firmly on that idea.
HBS Working Knowledge January 12, 2004 Chris Zook	Moving Beyond the Core Business Chris Zook hit a home run with Profit from the Core. In an excerpt from his new book, Beyond the Core, Zook finds opportunity in new directions.
BusinessWeek January 19, 2004 Howard Gleckman	The Great Tax Rip-Off In Perfectly Legal, journalist David Cay Johnston lays out in great detail how U.S. tax laws have become a cesspool of special-interest benefits. But it isn't enough simply to expose these sweetheart deals. So he spices up his book with a heavy dose of populist outrage.
Reason January 2004 Charles Paul Freund	Barbarians Inside the Gates Lists of the greatest-ever books have a long pedigree. Under the middlebrow reign of the 20th century, cultural consumers yielded power to elite gatekeepers in exchange for the status to be gained by becoming "well rounded." That deal, however, is over.
Reason January 2004 Julian Sanchez	Raw Deal Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely credited with saving America from economic ruin. But Jim Powell's new book, FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, promises to send FDR's inflated reputation crashing like a stock on Black Monday.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 Diane Brady	What Doesn't Get In The Paper Ken Auletta's Backstory: Inside the Business of News is best viewed as a collection of disparate pieces that roam across the newsroom -- or the psychological landscape -- of its key occupants.
Reason January 2004 Mike Godwin	Cybergreen An interview with novelist Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future
Reason January 2004 Brendan O'Neill	Uncritical Masses Was the public too stupid to oppose the war in Iraq? That is what Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber suggest in Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq.
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