Misery Loves Company started as a poem. I would perform this Misery Loves Company across the city of Chicago and a few other cities across the country. Many people would say that the poem sounded like a children's story. I took their advice and now we have an actual book with wonderful imagery!

Our trade deficit increases by $2 billion a day. Pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists have such influence in Washington that Medicare, by current law, is not allowed to negotiate lower drug prices. We import oil on an ever-increasing scale, putting ourselves into dept with the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, and other Middle Eastern nations. With their windfall profits, they continue to buy American assets. China's booming economy and abundance of cheap labor are threatening our economic survival. We have mortgaged our fortunes, our principles, and our way of life. In this comprehensive look at the real, human toll of America's unsound trade policy, Senator Byron Dorgan exposes the myth of "free trade." Indeed, free trade is not free; it is something that is slowly but surely draining away American prosperity. Sure, Chinese labor can drive down prices at Wal-Mart; at the same time, however, those saved wages-dollars that would have gone to buy these cheaper goods-are gone. Too soon, it will all come crashing down. Major U.S. corporations continue to ship jobs overseas by the millions and, because of their influence in Washington, avoid paying a king's ransom in taxes. Many billions of dollars that these companies fleece from the government and the American people go overwhelmingly to investments in expanding production capabilities overseas. In short, our government is in the grip of corporate and foreign interests, and the American worker has born the brunt of this culture of corruption. How can we stem the tide of outsourcing? Why has the White House done nothing? Will the middle class survive? From describing corporate profiteering to calling to action a lethargic, inactive government, Byron Dorgan exposes the truth about the destructive relationship between corporations and Congress and proposes strategies for what can really be done to preserve America's preeminence in the world.

. The author's expereince in discovering that he was suddenly living in the middle of a multiple murder puzzle from 1843; . A detailed analysis of the Parke-Castner, Changewater murders with a theory; . Parallels drawn from 1843 with today in societal malaise and a thesis for cure; ties to war, chronic poverty, human turmoil5 . Exposure of violence, by people and by the State, for what it represents and really is; . Extensive illustration of principles and a description of that cure by vivid revelations of the author's past; The control of children by fear and pain and shaming is both widespread and generally accepted. It forms them into new copies of the abusing/neglectful parents. Blindness, self-dealing and ego rule the day. Neuroses abound. Addictions abound. False roles are carried along everywhere. Rage is on all faces of the afflicted, overtly or simmering. All affected persons secretly wait to be forced back into their vulnerabilities emotions-wise and their feelings. The waiting is usually endless in lifes spent outside of feelings. This terrible state of affairs is the last, great social frontier and it begs for the mounted hero of sane humanity. Heroism is the sacrifice of one's self or one's safety to save another or for some ideal or idea. Sacrifice of privacy of a deeply personal past by this author for the public good elevates this book towards that.

The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.

This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in relation to these states, which promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the 'soft power' that is popular culture.