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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

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Question your assumptions and challenge what you think you know
Should Have Been Better Than It Was
Required for all psychology students!!!
A fantastic book on how to think.

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Thomas Gilovich
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Vulcans Should Read This Book.......2007-06-02

Hello, my name is Mr. Spock. You may know me from the TV series StarTrek. For years I've been tormented by the illogic of humans. Let's face it, Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy are not the sharpest phasers in the intergalactic utility belt!

Then I read Gilovich's book. It helped me realize that humans are most illogical in times of uncertainty when there is no clear trend and not enough information upon which to make a good decision. In such cases, especially when a decision must be made, logic is not going to be of much help. As a result, people develop simple, but often inaccurate, theories to help them through painful states of indecision. The decision may be good or not, but at least a decision has been made, and that alone provides comfort.

Unfortunately, humans also have a strong desire to justify their theories, and this is where they get into trouble. Data that proves the theory is retained and emphasized, and data that doesn't is heavily discounted. So the theory takes on a life of its own despite the facts, which admittedly may themselves be ambiguous at times.

The bottom line is that this book gave me a greater understanding of humans. As a result, I feel more comfortable communicating with them, and just being around them in general. If you're part Vulcan like I am, or even a logical human, I strongly suggest you read this excellent book about human thinking and decision making. You won't be sorry. Live long and prosper!

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Question your assumptions and challenge what you think you know.......2006-08-24

This book provides a well-organized survey of issues that limit our reasoning abilities:

- Our misperception of random events, as in the "clustering illusions" that lead us to believe in the hot hand, for example.

- Our misunderstanding of statistical regression, which, for instance, affects our perception of the roles of reward and punishment in education.

- Our tendency to seek confirmatory information, as in the justification of our choices.

- Our inability to see what could have happened under different circumstances, as in self-fulfilling prophecies (e.g. a negative first impression or the presumed insolvency of a financial institution).

- Our own biases that make us expose inconsistent information to more critical scrutiny than consistent information.

- Asymmetries that distort what we recall and, thus, what we take into account to evaluate the validity of beliefs (as in multiple endpoints situations or one-sided events).

- Our tendency to believe what we want to believe (specially about ourselves), as if beliefs were possessions.

- The distortions present in secondhand information (a.k.a. sharpening and leveling).

- The influence of what we think others believe (and also of the inadequate feedback we often receive about that).

These limitations make us draw incorrect conclusions and bolster erroneous beliefs. Being aware of them helps us in distinguishing what we know well from what we only think is true. Just this is of utmost importance for thinking clearly. Could there be a better reason for reading this book?

Should Have Been Better Than It Was.......2006-07-29

Gilovich starts this book of with a real bang! After reading the Introduction, I thought this book would be really interesting and change the way I look at the world. He writes in a college-teacher tone that will not be approachable to those he most needs to reach. In other words, I really don't need a book to tell me to avoid holistic cretins, ESP, psychics, mysticism, and all that other garbage.

The first half of his book is concerned with a review of the psychology literature from the '70s and '80s on how people arrive at their beliefs. This is boring and somewhat like a set of lecture notes. The information in it is useful, but it could be summarized and edited. The second half of the book is devoted to why people shouldn't believe in the topics I mentioned above. Most people who read his book wouldn't even dream of subscribing to these beliefs, so the whole second half is pretty boring.

Gilovich finishes the book by telling us that psychologists are best at understanding the world and are the most perceptive professionals out there, bar none. While admitting that the core thought processes that lead to logical decision making come from hard science, Gilovich wants us to believe that the softies have perfected clear thinking about the world. He should have reread that portion of the book when he wasn't overheated and realized how silly it would sound to attorneys, physicians, scientists, and other thoughtful people.

Required for all psychology students!!!.......2006-06-21

This book is a contemporary classic that should be required reading in all psychology programs. As a psychologist, I am regularly appalled by how few trained psychologists know of the research discussed in this book, indeed, of decision science in general!! It only goes to show, there's scientific psychology (of which this book qualifies), and then, well, there's the other 99%...the crap, fluff, unsupported, unscientific, claims and practices that arise out of pseudo-scientific approaches, misinterpretations of data, and fallacious assumptions and conclusions. As an exemplar of what's good in a field rife with methodological manure and hocus pocus B.S. (e.g. psychotherapy, psychiatry, etc.), this book really shines. Read it and discover why some of psychology really is a science.

A fantastic book on how to think. .......2006-02-17

I first stumbled across this book in 1994, and it has remained one of my favourites ever since. It is clear, fairly short, filled with examples that are backed by supporting evidence from research, and it is excellently organized. Because it describes systematic reasoning errors all of us make, this book should have universal appeal. Unfortunately, its readership seems to have been limited to skeptics, students, academics, and a small group of other people who have been lucky enough to happen upon it.

I'd recommend potential readers use Amazon's "look inside the book" function to browse the table of contents. What you will see is that the book is divided into three sections each containing three chapters. The first two sections outline why people make fallible decisions and why we wrongly believe things to be true that aren't. The final section looks at applied examples of judgment biases and faulty reasoning leading to erroneous beliefs.

15 years since it was first published the book has hardly dated. As a psychology academic, I could point to more, and more recent, research that supports Gilovich's main points, but I can point to almost nothing that contradicts him.

There are several other books that people wanting to free their thinking from errors should read in addition to this one. Gilovich's more recent book "Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them " is again excellent, and covers a lot of errors in everyday financial decision-making. I'd also recommend Jaime Whyte's "Crimes Against Logic" and David Myers's "Intuition", and Dan Gilbert's "Stumbling on Happiness" as good starting points in examining the limits of human reasoning.

Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

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Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Judgment pervades human experience. Do I have a strong enough case to go to trial? Will the Fed change interest rates? Can I trust this person? This book examines how people answer such questions. How do people cope with the complexities of the world economy, the uncertain behavior of friends and adversaries, or their own changing tastes and personalities? When are people's judgments prone to bias, and what is responsible for their biases? This book compiles psychologists' best attempts to answer these important questions.

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Of vast importance.......2005-10-31

This collection of articles has its origin in the work of one of the editors (Daniel Kahneman) and Amos Tversky (now deceased) in the 1970's. The first article in the book gives an introduction to this work and a brief historical survey. This work, along with current developments, is extremely important, for it sheds light on the differences (if any) between "intuitive judgment" and judgment that is based on more quantitative, mathematical, or algorithmic reasoning. If human judgment in uncertain environments is based on a limited number of simplifying heuristics, and not on extensive algorithmic processing, this would be very important for someone who is attempting to implement or simulate human reasoning in a machine. Economics, finance, and political decision-making are other areas that need a more accurate view of human judgment. Indeed, the "rational agent" assumption in classical economics, wherein the person makes choices by assessing the probability of each possible outcome and then assigning a utility to each, is considered to be fundamental, even axiomatic. It is therefore of great interest to examine challenges to this assumption.

In order to test the rational agent assumption, experiments must be conducted to test whether indeed the human assessment of likelihood and risk does indeed conform to the laws of probability. The data obtained in these experiments must then be judged as to whether it can be used to decide between the rational agent model and models of human judgment that are based on "intuition" (however vaguely or mystically this latter term is defined).

The authors of the first article in this book discuss some of the work on these questions, in particular the research that involved comparing expert clinical prediction with actuarial methods. The latter were found to perform better than the former. Even more interesting is that the clinician's assessments of their abilities were very far from what the record of success actually indicated. Some research has also indicated that intuitive judgments of likelihood do not correspond to what is obtained by Bayesian reasoning patterns.

These results, as the authors discuss, motivated performance models that were not based on the assumption of full rationality, but rather on what is called `bounded rationality.' The developers of this model felt that the processing limitations of the human brain dictated that humans must choose very limited heuristics when engaged in decision-making.

Also of great interest, and discussed in another article in the book, is the human ability to engage in affective forecasting. The latter involves the making of decisions based on the predictions of the emotional consequences of future events. The authors study the accuracy of affective forecasting and the accompanying notion of `durability bias.' The latter notion arises when individuals attempt to estimate how long particular feelings will last, and this estimation seems to be considerably longer than what actually occurs. The authors discuss some of the reasons for the durability bias in affective forecasting. One of these is ordinary misconstrual, where events are thought to be more powerful than what are actually realized, resulting in the overestimation of the duration of the affective responses to these events. Another regards the difficulty in forecasting affective reactions to events about which much is known. In addition, the authors point to "defensive pessimism" as to another of the reasons for inaccurate affective forecasting. This allows for mental preparation for the consequences of an event, and for positive feelings when the affective duration is smaller than what had been predicted. The main emphasis of the authors' article though is much more interesting than these explanations, for it involves the notion of a `psychological immune system.' Quoting the research of many psychologists, and arguing in analogy to the ordinary biological immune system, the authors view this system as one that protects the individual from an "overdose of gloom." Further, the functioning of the psychological immune system is optimized when it is not brought into the conscious focus of the individual. This `immune neglect' however has as a consequence the durability bias, in that if an individual fails to recognize her negative affect will decrease and be subjected to psychological mechanisms that assist greatly in this diminution, then she will tend to overestimate the time duration of her emotional reactions. The authors discuss empirical studies of durability bias in their article, and discuss some of the consequences of their studies. One of these concerns the possibility that humans could be mistaken about their own internal experiences. This is a very troubling possibility, but the authors give many references that purport to support it. This research shows that not only can people be completely mistaken about their feelings toward an object, but that their actual behaviors is better evidence of their internal states than what they report verbally.

Another interesting article in the book concerns the topic of automated choice heuristics. This area has arisen as a reaction to the idea that human choice can be predicted using theoretical models of optimal choice. Instead, one must identify the heuristics the people use to simplify their choices. These heuristics are used to restrict or compress the amount of information that is processed by the human brain and also to deal with the complexity in which this information is assimilated. There are many different theories of choice heuristics, and some of these are discussed in the article. Some of these theories involve heuristics that are "deliberate", i.e. involve the elimination of aspects and slower cognitive processes, and some involve heuristics that are "automatic" and judgmental, i.e. that arise from cognitive processes that are rapid and not controllable. Judgmental heuristics is also referred to as `System 1' heuristics in the article, whereas deliberate heuristics is referred to as `System 2' heuristics. The authors give a very interesting overview of automated choice heuristics, involving choices that are based on immediate affective evaluation, and choices that are using the option that is first thought of. All of these discussions, as are all the others in the book, are extremely important.

Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach

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Adult Learning - This Is The Best!
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Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach
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Critical Thinking & Clinical Judgement: A Practical Approach, 3rd Edition recognizes that nurses must be knowledgeable workers who are thought-oriented rather than task-oriented. This resource makes the concept of critical thinking in nursing come alive through an insightful, motivational style that inspires the reader to connect with their own innate talents to develop the skills needed to succeed in today's challenging health care setting. The book is designed to promote the development of critical thinking by providing a clinically relevant, user-friendly text to help learners master content in a meaningful way. The book makes difficult concepts easy to learn by focusing on "how to" (application) while giving supporting rationale (theory). It also stresses the importance of ethics- and standards-based professional practice in a world of increasing accountability. It also carefully integrates gerontology concepts and cultural, spiritual, and diversity aspects throughout.

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Adult Learning - This Is The Best!.......2006-08-15

I am a hospital nurse educator, and was recently challenged by my medical director (not a nurse but a huge team player) to gear all my programs to strengthen critical thinking in nurses. We as nurses can be so task oriented as a result of being so busy and gearing our strengths to meet our immense immediate demands. This book was outstanding in giving me ideas to use as I teach nurses (and myself) to reach that part of the brain that "really thinks", synthesizes and applies. I personally have felt a "new" part of my brain stimulated. For me, a nurse with 30 years in the field, this approach feels fresh and relevant.

AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!.......2004-05-30

This book recieved a 2003 AJN Book of the Year Award. Now that I have digested it, I understand why my mentor gave it to me. I am an MSN student, but this book is a must read for all those involved in nursing education. That includes both faculty and students. The writing style holds one's interest. The topic of critical thinking can be so incredibly dry. This book is anything but dry. It's fabulous."

Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice: Improving the Quality of Judgments and Decisions, Second Edition

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Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice: Improving the Quality of Judgments and Decisions, Second Edition
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Decisions are influenced by a variety of fallacies and biases that we can learn how to avoid. Critical thinking values, knowledge, and skills, therefore, are integral to evidence-based practice. These emphasize the importance of recognizing ignorance as well as knowledge and the vital role of criticism in discovering how to make better decisions. This book is for clinicians--clinicians who are willing to say "I don't know."

Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice, Second Edition is designed to enhance readers' skills in making well-informed, ethical decisions. Making such decisions is no easy task. Decisions are made in uncertain, changing environments with time pressures. Interested parties, such as the pharmaceutical industry, spend millions of dollars to influence decisions made. Drawing on a wide range of related literature, this book describes common pitfalls in clinical reasoning as well as strategies for avoiding them--sometimes called mind-tools. Mental health and allied professionals will come away from this text with knowledge of how classification decisions, a focus on pathology, and reliance on popularity can cause errors. Hazards involved in data collection and team decision making such as groupthink are discussed.

Part 1 provides an overview of the context in which clinicians make decisions.
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Part 4 describes the application of related content to different helping phases including assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Part 5 suggests obstacles to making well-informed decisions and how to encourage lifelong learning.

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An interactive, dynamic book filled with insightful examples, useful lists and guidelines, and exercises geared to encourage critical thinking, Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice, Second Edition provides an essential resource for helping professionals and students.

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From day one Dr. Abby Dolan has felt uncomfortable working in the emergency room of Patience Regional Hospital in tiny Patience, California.  Cut off from the sophisticated staff and equipment that backed her up in San Francisco, Abby Dolan wonders if she has what it takes to succeed in a small-town facility with some big-time problems.

Abby had moved to Patience to be with her fiance, Josh Wyler, but the Josh she lives with now is a different man--manic, hostile, and prone to blinding headaches.  And then one night Josh storms out for good, and Abby is left wondering whether it's the pressures at his new job with manufacturing giant Colstar, or whether Colstar itself is making Josh sick.  In the E.R. she is seeing too many patients with unexplainable symptoms--too many to be normal.

Abby's suspicions about Colstar are shared by E.R. colleague Dr. Lew Alvarez, whose investigating committee has shrunk, as one by one they succumbed to the company's stranglehold on Patience.  Abby is not about to be scared off, but her own in-vestigation reaches a dead end: all the blood samples she sends out for testing come back negative for chemical contamination. Yet Abby is certain the citizens of Patience are slowly being poisoned.  The question is whether she will die proving it.

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Decent Medical Thriller.......2006-09-27

CRITICAL JUDGMENT is the first novel I've read by Michael Palmer. This book is a decent medical thriller. Palmer does a very decent job of building up suspense in the story, and I kept on turning the pages. There is also a good twist at the end of this novel that I didn't expect at all, and I'm usually pretty good at spotting such twists. Overall, I found the book entertaining enough to give it three stars.

My major problem with CRITICAL JUDGMENT was with the characterization, which I thought was rather bland. Abby Dolan, the heroine of this novel, seems too good to be true. She has almost no flaws, and is pretty much a superwoman. The romantic relationships in this novel seemed forced and unnatural.

I also found the conspiracy plot in this novel to be unbelievable. Why would so many respectable people conspire to do something so horrible to so many innocent townspeople? Palmer doesn't do a good job of explaining their motivations.

Palmer is also a rather verbose writer and I found myself skimming his rather excessive descriptions of all the different locations. This book is relatively long, and I think it could have been shortened by at least 50 pages without any major changes to the plot.

Still, Palmer is a good enough suspense writer that I plan to read more of his books. If you like this novel, I would suggest Tess Gerritsen's books, which have superior characterization and are more leanly written.

I loved Dr. Dolan.......2005-05-19

Dr. Abby DOlan moves to a small town with her live in almost finace, and starts working in the ER. With any small town, you have a lot of gossip, but wth Abby's skills as a dr. she soon wins most of the town over. Its not untill she starts pokeing around and asking questions about patients with weird symptoms, do bad things start to happen...

Michael Palmer did a great job of making Abby into a strong women. She may have been played a bit at first, but her qit and smarts didn't let it happen for too long.

Dr.Superwoman.......2004-12-16

Dr.Abby Dolan has moved from being a hotshot Emergency Room specialist in a major city hospital to being head of the Emergency Room team at a hospital in a small Californian town, to be with her boyfriend, Josh.
When many locals succumb to the same mysterious symptons, Abby begins to explore the possibility of the illnesses being work related and linked to the towns' major industry, a huge chemical plant which makes batteries. As the towns' economy depends on this factory, Abby's enquiries meet with downright resentment.Josh and a few other townspeople become dangerously violent and are showing signs of seizures which cause blinding headaches and even more violent behaviour.It all becomes rather exciting when Abby, with the help of the town renegade, visits the factory illicitly, making her way through secret underground passages and finding secret labotatories where scientists are working on antidotes for induced diseases, all in the name of research and supposedly with government approval.Abby manages to escape, up and down cliffs, over impossible terrains and fending off bullets, proving herelf to be the equal of any Wonderwoman(with a stray bullet in her leg AND being almost torn to pieces by falls from the cliff face) It's all a pretty good yarn but it's served as another reminder to me to stay away from hospitals at all cost!

Classic Michael Palmer.......2004-07-20

Dr Abby Dolan moved to Patience, California, to work at the Regional Hospital because her fianc? Josh found work at Colstar International in the same town. Colstar is the largest producer of portable power sources and they specialise in producing several types of batteries. Truly enough, Patience owes its wealth to this large company. After about five weeks in Patience, Abby notices that Josh is becoming irritable, distracted, easily fatigued and more and more frequently suffers from violent headaches which make him reach for the bottle, something he never used to do before. Furthermore, several patients treated by Abby seem to suffer from the same symptoms as Josh. After having had their blood analysed by an independent laboratory, it appears that these patients were all contaminated by cadmium. Colstar refuses to locate the source of the contamination because it would cost them too much to close the plant for any length of time. When Abby's investigations become too pressing, the director of Patience Regional Hospital, Joe Henderson, asks her to resign, menacing her with the falsified report on the death of one of her patients, Peggy Wheaton. But it is only when one night, returning home from work, Abby is shot at several times that she understands that the threat from Colstar is not to be taken lightly...
A very good medical thriller.

Round and round.......2003-04-23

Definitely is a good book that will keep you reading and thinking if you really want to go to a doctor, for me it has two little mistakes but that doesn't mean that the book doesn't deserve five stars.
The first is that the book keeps a circle that doesn't goes out and you will know what will happen next (you will know who is the bad guy at the time that he comes to the book, why Abbey Dolan didn't know?)
The second is that you really doesn't know what will happen to some characters at the end of the book.
The book will never goes out of the story and you will learn one or two thinks of medicine.
If you tell me that this book was written by Dr. Robin Cook I will believe it, because the end is exactly as he writes, and the story of all kind of doctors that the only thing they want is money no matter what.

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Developing Reflective Judgment (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

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Developing Reflective Judgment (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
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Miniature guide to understanding the foundations of ethical reasoning
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Kant's Conception of Moral Character: The "Critical" Link of Morality, Anthropology, and Reflective Judgment
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An extremely important book

An exhaustive, path-breaking work

Kant's Conception of Moral Character: The "Critical" Link of Morality, Anthropology, and Reflective Judgment

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Currently fashionable among critics of enlightenment thought is the charge that Kant's ethics fails to provide an adequate account of character and its formation in moral and political life. G. Felicitas Munzel challenges this reading of Kant's thought, claiming not only that Kant has a very rich notion of moral character, but also that it is a conception of systematic importance for his thought, linking the formal moral with the critical, aesthetic, anthropological, and biological aspects of his philosophy.

The first book to focus on character formation in Kant's moral philosophy, it builds on important recent work on Kant's aesthetics and anthropology, and brings these to bear on moral issues. Munzel traces Kant's multifaceted definition of character through the broad range of his writings, and then explores the structure of character, its actual exercise in the world, and its cultivation.

An outstanding work of original textual analysis and interpretation, Kant's Conception of Moral Character is a major contribution to Kant studies and moral philosophy in general.

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An extremely important book.......2001-05-01

This is an exteremly important book from the bibliographer of the N. American Kant Society. It draws heavily from the work of Makkreel and the editors of Kant's Lectures on Antropology in Marburg, e.g., Werner Stark. As such both Makkreel's book and volume 25, the lectures, (Kants Lesungen uber anthropologie, from de Gruyter) should be bought along with this book if possible. The first is available from Amazon.com, the second from Amazon.de However, Munzel's book is more than worthwhile even without the pricy Kant lectures, and ultimately deals with some very different areas than those focused on in Makkreel's book. It's only real faults are its somewhat too-wordy presentation, and its tendency to present the ideal Kantian as a kind of moral saint.

An exhaustive, path-breaking work.......1999-09-20

This exhaustively researched and carefully argued book explores an entirely new dimension of Kant's work. Examining the relationship between Kant's ethics and his work in anthropology, it uncovers an aspect of his work that has typically been overlooked in other accounts: his discussion of the shaping of moral character. Readers who assumed they understood Kant's moral philosophy will be constantly amazed at how much they managed to miss. Those who have always found something slightly implausible about Kant's ethics will find a much stronger reconstruction of his argument than they might have expected. The scholarship here is staggering: Munzel seems to have read everything. This book is essential reading for anyone trying to come to terms with Kant's achievement.

Judgment Day At the White House: A Critical Declaration Exploring Moral Issues and Political Use and Abuse of Religion

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A theological view of Clinton's manipulation of religion
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Judgment Day At the White House: A Critical Declaration Exploring Moral Issues and Political Use and Abuse of Religion

Manufacturer: Eerdmans Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0802846718

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A theological view of Clinton's manipulation of religion.......2000-02-28

This collection belongs on American bookshelves somewhere near the Federalist Papers and Common Sense. Written by American theological academics, few of whom could by any stretch be considered conservative, this book nonetheless objectively and honestly discusses the misuse and manipulation of religion by Bill Clinton to innoculate his presidency against the consequences of his sexual relations with "that" intern. This book is unique in that it presents an honest critique from the left on the Clinton presidency, and cannot be dismissed as driven by a conservative agenda to discredit the opposition. In fact, both sides of the discussion are thoroughly represented by various writers. Well written, articulate and thoughtful, this book is a valuable resource to be passed down to future generations in understanding the effect of the Clinton presidency on the American spirit.

Time tells.......2000-02-25

This is a thought-provoking book that will find a bigger audience with time, as history gives the electorate more perspective on our secular leaders who parade moral postures. Who one is does inform how one leads, and whether one should. The generation whose creed was "Question authority" should remember to require more answers.

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