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          <body><![CDATA[This book is good as travel guide to some of the landmarks in Berlin but as a social history it is severely lacking.  The critique of Berliners as people who love and love to mock their autocrats wears increasingly thin as one continues to read. ]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[more like 6 or 5]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:26:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:22:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A great collection of Marx's early writing.  Should be on everyone's bookshelf.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:57:00 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Tom Franks attempt at becoming a mainstream intellectual. Hence, it is his poorest effort. Frank tries to explain why white blue collar and rural voters vote for free market republicans against their own economic interest.  However, after identifying the problem, like most baffled liberals, he fails...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Tom%20Franks%20attempt%20at%20becoming%20a%20mainstream%20intellectual.%20Hence,%20it%20is%20his%20poorest%20effort.%20Frank%20tries%20to%20explain%20why%20white%20blue%20collar%20and%20rural%20voters%20vote%20for%20free%20market%20republicans%20against%20their%20own%20economic%20interest.%20%20However,%20after%20identifying%20the%20problem,%20like%20most%20baffled%20liberals,%20he%20fails%20to%20offer%20a%20solution.%20The%20truth%20is%20that%20humans%20are%20not%20entirely%20driven%20by%20economic%20interest.%20%20The%20quicker%20the%20left%20comes%20to%20this%20realization%20the%20quicker%20we%20can%20actually%20offer%20an%20alternatives%20to%20centrist%20neo-liberal%20policies.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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