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While Bourrie’s historical perspective is useful, he misses the chance to place Canada’s experience in an international scope. Many of the same restrictions seen in Canada are part of a worldwide trend.

Globe and Mail

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...heartening about Saul’s book is his profiling of a new generation of aboriginal leadership perfectly capable of dealing with their counterparts in government and business.

Toronto Star

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Inauthentic though Foer's creations may seem, they are suffused with... a yearning to reconstitute a shattered past, to... express the inexpressible. In this he is as sincere and committed as he needs to be.

Guardian

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Overall, the book would have benefitted from more stringent editing. The consistent use of working class Dublin colloquialism versus using the dialect only in dialogue might grate and runs the risk of making the work less accessible.

NY Journal of Books

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This is a must-read book -- most especially for every member of the Oireachtas and local authorities, for senior officials in central and local government, and -- yes -- for political lobbyists too.

Independent.ie

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“In One Person” gives a lot. It’s funny, as you would expect. It’s risky in what it exposes.

NY Times

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offers a case study in an important truth: Far better to read one well-researched volume, like this, than to wade through day after day of fragmentary, often overwrought and ultimately overwhelming media coverage

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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This book makes a decent stab...(although it is largely written by a group that is close to, if not in, the one per cent themselves). But nothing in it feels as convincing as the movement itself.

Financial Times

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For ultimately, while there is a great deal of betrayal portrayed, there is a constant glimmer of hope, a glimmer that helped the victims of this tragedy rise up and begin to heal again.

Jenn's Bookshelves

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Maddow’s incisive look at the follies of militarism needs a deeper understanding of why America has so often embraced it.

Publishers Weekly

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"Chomp" is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

LA Times

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Artfully done, but can it mask (or compensate for) outbreaks of an abrupt, careless style, a throbbing undercurrent of arrogance evident in her novelistic methodology?

LA Times

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Michael Klare’s outstanding book -- exhaustively-researched, beautifully-written, and convincingly-argued -- helps move this vital project forward.

History News Network

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...it is highly desirable that the book becomes widely distributed and forms part of any sustainability discussion whether in the educational, commercial or political sector.

The Zed Books Blog

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Readers of his new book, "Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues," will feast on four dozen wide-ranging conversations...

Star Tribune

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