kakoluri.com » books nonfiction http://kakoluri.com Gypsy Chief Blog Wed, 09 May 2012 19:25:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 With Liberty and Justice For Some, #OWS Knows This http://kakoluri.com/2011/10/26/with-liberty-and-justice-for-some-ows-knows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=with-liberty-and-justice-for-some-ows-knows http://kakoluri.com/2011/10/26/with-liberty-and-justice-for-some-ows-knows/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:38:55 +0000 chief http://kakoluri.com/?p=3194

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Why are these people protesting all over America? What on earth do they want? What are their demands? Part of the answer for me was revealed on Tuesday, October 25, last night, when Rachel Maddow interviewed Glenn Greenwald on his new book “With Liberty and Justice for Some“

 

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Transition Handbook is available at Bean Cycle – Matter Book Store

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Justice For All

This week’s Book of the Week is “Justice For All: Earl Warren and The Nation He Made”. The author is Jim Newton. This book was featured on Book TV on C-Span2 on Saturday, April 25, 2009.

Ask anyone what are the three most lasting achievements of the Eisenhower Administration. The Interstate Highway System is one, another is Eisenhower’s farewell address, the most memorable since George Washington. Eisenhower warned about the power of a military-industrial complex. The third, though President Eisenhower didn’t think so, was his appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Earl Warren was the longest serving governor of California. He was, as Governor, a moderate centrist Republican in the tradition of Hiram Johnson. Warren won reelection as governor one time by winning both Republican and Democratic party nominations.

On the Supreme Court, Warren used his considerable political skills to build consensus. In the larger society the Warren Court was characterized by some on the right as a liberal activist court intent on legislating from the bench. Gideon vs. Wainwright (372 U.S. 335) for example extended Sixth Amendment right to counsel to states under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Then Miranda vs. Arizona (384 U.S. 436) required notifications regarding right to silence, right to an attorney, etc. in cases involving police interrogations and confessions.

As a demonstration of Warren’s consensus building skill Newton cites the 9-0 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (347 U.S. 483). Warren got Justice Reed to concur in the opinion.

Was the Warren Court liberal, activist, intent on legislating from the bench? Newton says no. He says that Earl Warren believed in conservative reform not liberal activism.

Gradual, conservative constitutional reform has a long tradion in thought. See, for example, Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France”.

The subject is timely for today because President Obama may have more than one Supreme Court nomination to make. Warren believed that the Court exists to strike a balance between the weak and powerless versus the rich and powerful.

 

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This week’s book of the week is not a book it is a bookstore. Wonder Book which is a useful resource for older books at great prices.

For example, I found a copy of Clinton Rossiter’s classic “The American Presidency” on Wonder Book. Service, communication, and delivery were great.

There is a link on the public service section of this blog.

Wonder Book offers other services as well. Books by the foot is popular with interior decoraters and people producing plays and movies. This service allows one to obtain color coordinated books to be used as props. So, what is a Gaylord? A deviant member of the peerage? Indeed no. Used in this context, a gaylord is a particular kind of triple strength cardboard box. I bet they weigh a lot when filled with books.

 

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The Green Collar Economy

Book of the week for the weekend of February 14 – February 15, 2009 is “The Green Collar Economy” by Van Jones. There was a memorable discussion of the book on Book TV
Jones is a member of the board of Center for American Progress. More information is available at Van Jones Dot Net

 


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How The States Got Their Shapes

This week’s book of the week is “How The States Got Their Shapes” by Mark Stein. The author discussed his book on Book TV last weekend Saturday February 7 – Sunday February 8. An interesting look at events in American History including the Louisiana Purchase, the Missouri Compromise and gold discoveries in several western states.

Quoting now from the introduction on Book TV

Mark Stein recounts how each American state’s borders were drawn and why they have their current shapes. From the peculiarities of the unattached upper Peninsula of Michigan to the reasoning for a West Virginia and not an East Virgina and the boundaries of the Northeastern states of Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire that do not extend to their natural borders of the St. Lawrence River. This event was hosted by Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC.

 

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