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'The Big Con' Examines the GOP's Crackpot E-Con 101

By Jim Newsom

Port Folio Weekly | October 4, 2007

Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence may have been getting all the publishing headlines lately, but Jonathan Chait's book is actually more noteworthy in its analysis of the Republican economic revolution of the last three decades.

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Tags: Jonathan Chait, The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics, Nonfiction Reviews

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With the presidential primary season in overdrive, I had to ask this icon of the flower power era for his take on the current campaign.

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On their most recent CD, A Love Supreme, the Turtle Island Quartet dropped the word "String" from the middle of their name.

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"I was always writing songs," Jeff Daniels said when he called a couple of weeks ago, "god-awful bad songs. I kept them in a notebook."

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The Smithfield author hears voices from the grave. Literally. Or, more precisely, literarily.

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Port Folio Weekly | Leigh Kohnle | 10-24-2007 | Poetry

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