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...nation's largest left-leaning think tanks - the New Democracy Project and the Center for American Progress Action Fund - this collection of 67 agency-by-agency, issue-by-issue essays serves as a bible of progressive thought. It is modeled after 1980's Mandate for Leadership, a book which greatly influenced Ronald Reagan's transition team. Seeing as John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress, was the head of Barack Obama's transition team, it stands to reason that these recommendations will receive serious consideration. (See a gallery of Obama's cabinet members...
...Lowdown: In case you weren't aware, the sheer heft of this book and its contents serves to remind that Barack Obama has got a ton on his plate - starting now. As the dozens of contributors write, Obama has to: restore America's world leadership role, convince Americans that the government can work for them, responsibly pull out from Iraq, protect the homeland, reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, transition towards a green economy, invest in the nation's crumbling infrastructure, halt torture, close Guantanamo Bay, make the federal government transparent again, reduce global poverty, cut taxes, halt...
...Protestant minister and a Catholic priest. Then in 1949, Rabbi Samuel Thurman from Harry Truman's home state of Missouri joined a Baptist pastor and Catholic priest to deliver a prayer at the Inauguration. This was right around the time when sociologist Will Herberg was working on a book called Protestant, Catholic, Jew, arguing that the three religious traditions had separately shaped mid-20th-century America. It seemed both natural and fair, especially in the wake of the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel, to make sure that Jews were represented along with Catholics and Protestants...
...have closely studied the Bush 43 White House that sometime in his first term President George W. Bush ceded too much authority to his No. 2 and only learned in the second term to take it back. That is an enduring subplot in Angler, Barton Gellman's excellent book about Cheney, and it is widely believed by some of Bush's oldest, and most devoted, political allies...
...Naval Observatory in Washington, he isn't going very far away: Cheney will move to a house in McLean, Va., that he and his wife have just finished building (by design, it is within a few miles of both sets of grandchildren). He is expected to write a book that draws on what one adviser described as "his 40 years of experience" in Washington; it will almost certainly, the source said, be an extended reflection on the appropriate exercise of power in times of peace...