Video: Book Discussion on Dark Money (tags)
Jane Mayer talked about her book Dark Money. The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right in which she investigates the wealth and influence of billionaires in the American political system.
Video: Woody Guthrie on BookTV (tags)
Will Kaufman is a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire, England. His books include "American Culture in the 1970s" and "The Civil War in American Culture."
Angry leftists seek silver lining in debt deal and 7 videos (tags)
May we mend our own pockets and put the horse (14 million jobs and drying up the tax havens) before the cart (economic recovery/economic democracy)! Robert Kuttner speaks about this at http://prospect.org/.
Video: Joshua Holland "The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy" (tags)
The effective tax rate is half the nominal corporate tax rate. Two-thirds of US corporations paid no tax. GE took a $3.2 billion corporate tax credit. l.
VIDEO: BookTV Discussion of Rachel Carson "Silent Spring" (tags)
Paul Driessen is author of "Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death." Linda Lear is author of the biography "Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature." "We care more about our green lawns than about songbirds. Pesticides are persistent and can't be simply repressed. Birds and fish have injested pollutants. Humility and arrogance are part of our collective life story. We are not in control of nature and have to think of the whole of things, the interlocking nature of life.." RELATED LINK: "Trees have Standing" William O. Douglas, the longest serving Supreme Court justice (35 years), was an uncompromising civil libertarian and lover of life. Growing up in upstate New York, he grieved when lakes became cesspools. Lakes are not anti-freeze and mountains are more than landfill. Reducing nature to short-term profit is a blindness and path to anthropomorphic self-destruction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Douglas
VIDEO: David Swanson "Daybreak" on BookTV (tags)
David Swanson is the author of "Daybreak. Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a Perfect Union."
VIDEO: "Super-Freeakonomics" (tags)
BookTV presented an interview with co-authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner on December 13, 2009.