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Old 12-13-2013, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Danzig View Post
thanks for the heads up. need to get some books in for march anyway!
dan, you might take a look at this one..‘The Unwinding,’ by George Packer.
Packer was a guest on Colbert last nite..book about the struggling masses.

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Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker who produced some of the finest journalism about the Iraq war (including an outstanding book called “The Assassin’s Gate”).
DAVID BROOKS review below link..he had some issues with it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/bo...anted=all&_r=0

Also catch last nite's Stewart show, continues his Fox 'war on christmas' bit
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