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Author: David W. Moore

“You will never regard political polls the same after reading David W. Moore's devastating inside account of their severe limitations and misapplications. This book should be required reading for journalists, political junkies, students, scholars and citizens.” —Robert W. McChesney, author of The Political Economy of Media

"We all know that the corporate press conducts its own opinion polls and keeps headlining the results as if such stuff were news. What we don't know is just how sloppy—and misleading—most of that work really is. In this important book, veteran pollster David Moore meticulously notes the many defects in such polling." —Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform

"The next time your phone rings with questions from a pollster, beware. David Moore rings an alarm bell that democracy is endangered by the way the news media use public opinion polls. The Opinion Makers demonstrates what James Madison said 200 years ago-a misinformed public becomes a threat to democracy." —Ben H. Bagdikian, author of The New Media Monopoly

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"This powerful, unprecedented, and compelling book brings real Christianity out of the shadows. It lights up the religious roots of American society at a time when progressives need to challenge conservative politicians who use Christianity as a false prop for their ideology." —George Lakoff, author of Don't Think of an Elephant!

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Author: Forrest Church

"Forrest Church, a deeply spiritual but always practical visionary, is a minister to us all with this moving and instructive book on the lessons of life and death. A lovely, important book." —Tom Brokaw

"Truly a gift, one that will echo in my own preaching and teaching, and in my own life as well … Church blesses us with his eloquence, his faith, and, mostly, his love." —Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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