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Sinking the ship of state; the presidency of George W. Bush.

Syndicated columnist Brasch has been writing the social issues column "Wanderings" since 1976, but with the coming to power of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in 2000, Brasch began to wander less and focus more on the administration, its politics, and its effects upon people, largely from a critical perspective. This volume collects those writings, along with some others on the Bush administration that did not appear in "Wanderings" for various reasons. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Street and interurban railroads; a North American bibliography.

Cassan has compiled 1,864 titles of books dealing with streetcars and interurbans. The entries are skeletal: author, title, city, publisher and date. We found no annotations here. The index is only six pages and gives access largely by location, though a few topical terms appear: horsecar, lighting, brakes, cable railways. He admits this to be but a beginning (without promising to carry it forward himself). (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)