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There's not a lot new here. Conservatives have complained for years about the liberal tilt of the major networks and newspapers. But Bernard Goldberg writes as an insider and it's funny to see how the network that lionized whistleblowers in other industries tried to shut him up.

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In this view from the looney left, Bill Clinton is a closet Republican and Molly Ivins a genius. Mr. Moore obviously wrote the book prior to Sept. 11, so it has the dated feel of an old yearbook. Remember the old jokes about President Bush's intellect and the Florida elections? They're offered up here as original wit.

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Crudities and a blasphemy.

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Mr. McGraw diagnoses a problem-discontentment and unhappiness-and offers the standard self-help cure: Look within. That's where readers should look for keys to understanding their past bad choices and rotten self-images, and it's where readers will discover their true selves and find personal happiness.

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Tom Clancy's name on a book guarantees sales but not quality: Mr. Clancy plus two co-writers on this book equals uneven writing and narrative confusion. Accounts of several special forces operations, including the Achille Lauro hostage rescue, enliven an otherwise pedestrian book.

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Mr. Lewis shows how Islam messed up by setting up obstacles to freedom, science, and development. Muslims did not trust individuals to go out on their own. Westerners lived in Islamic countries and learned from them, but imams never said, Go west, young Muslim. Although Mr. Lewis skips the theological basics, he explains well the cultural manifestations.

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