[bksvol-discuss] Republixcan Gomorrah
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, micka@xxxxxxxxxx, Deborah Murray <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>, Mickey <micka@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:24:07 -0700 (PDT)
Mickey, go ahead and proof. Penney can't at the moment. I'm going to forward
her norte to the volunteer lisst so maybe someone can tell her how a blind
person can proof and what she needs.
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Sat, 10/10/09, Mickey <micka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mickey <micka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Currently scanning
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 7:16 PM
> Hi. I didn't request it, but that
> type book is right up my alley. I'd love to proof it, unless
> someone wants it more. <grin>
>
> Mickey
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 5:45 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Currently scanning
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am currently scanning "Republican Gomorrah: Inside
> the Movement that Shattered the Party" by Max Blumenthal.
> >
> > I think someone--can't recall who--requested this one
> but I don't see it on the wish list. So, if you're out there
> and you want to proofread it, let me know.
> >
> > From the jacket:
> > Award-winning journalist and documentary videographer
> Max Blumenthal has been behind some of the most sensational
> (and funniest) exposes of Republican excesses. Whether it
> was his revelation of Sarah Palin's involvement with a
> Kenyan pastor who boasted of epic battles with witches, his
> shocking reports on rapture-ready fanatic Pastor John
> Hagee's ties to Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman,
> or his expose of the eccentric theocratic multimillionaire
> behind California's Prop 8 anti-gay-marriage initiative,
> Blumenthal has become one of the most important and most
> constantly cited journalists on how a fringe movement became
> the Republican Party mainstream.
> > Republican Gomorrah—his remarkable, muckraking
> debut—is a bestiary of dysfunction, scandal, and crime
> from the heart of the movement that runs the Republican
> Party. Blumenthal describes with no-holds-barred detail the
> people and the beliefs that establishment Republicans—like
> John McCain—have to kowtow to if they have any hope of
> running for president, and how moderates have been
> systematically purged from party ranks. He shows why the
> unqualified Sarah Palin was the party's only logical choice
> and how her most fanatical supporters will be setting the
> strategy for the Republican assault on the Obama
> administration. Blumenthal warns that the Christian right
> will quietly exploit the widespread financial misery caused
> by the economic meltdown while mainstream media pundits
> churn out faddish and unfounded tales of the movement's
> death.
> > Not only an expose, Republican Gomorrah reveals that
> many of the movement's leading figures are united by more
> than political campaigns; they are bound together by a
> shared sensibility rooted in private trauma. Their lives
> have been stained by crisis and scandal depression, mental
> illness, extra-marital affairs, struggles with homosexual
> urges, attraction to drugs and pornography, serial domestic
> abuse, and even murder. For the most zealous foot soldiers
> of the right, the crusade to cleanse the land of sin
> was in fact a quest to purify their souls.
> >
> > Deborah
> >
> >
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