Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
by Bill Clinton
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Book Reviews of Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
Book Review: Chicken Soup for an ex-president's soul?
Summary: 1 Stars
Does anyone really need an entire book just to tell them that the world would be a better place if we all helped each other out?
I was looking for some world-changing ideas here, but this book reads like a long ghost-written feel-good press release and while the "giving" sentiment is a good one, I think the Bible already covered "do unto others" quite nicely.
I suppose an author can't very well go on a worldwide book tour without having a book first, so this one was obviously quickly produced as an excuse to hit the talk show circuit.
But most people will be able to grasp the book's entire message just from hearing interviews about the book and seeing the title. Actually reading the book is unnecessary.
Book Review: People Helping People
Summary: 5 Stars
What a great idea. Bill just brought it out for us to look at. You can tell how those who wrote negatives on this book are out for them and not others, maybe they are republicans and I say that because they write negatives about Bill and suggest books that make him a bad guy when he did so much good and still does. Wake up folks and stop the partizan stuff and help one another. Is Oprah a one star lady because she is a giver like Bill. No one is perfect look at who we have as our president now and he was not truly elected from the people and he has only done poorly for our country so ther if you want to be political. However he is only human and we need to have a poor president to show how great people like Bill and others were and are.Book Review: How did he get it all into 256 pages?
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a big topic by a profound thinker who is known for his ability to expand and engage the public on issues of grand import to our lives. It is unconscinable that his work was pared down to the bare minimum due to the conventional thinking of the publishing establishment. Giving is by far Clinton's most recent work, but it reveals just how much time the former president has been devoting to his non-writing activities.
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Book Review: How did he get it all into 256 pages?
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a big topic by a profound thinker who is known for his ability to expand and engage the public on issues of grand import to our lives. It is unconscinable that his work was pared down to the bare minimum due to the conventional thinking of the publishing establishment. Giving is by far Clinton's most recent work, but it reveals just how much time the former president has been devoting to his non-writing activities.
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Book Review: What Really Matters
Summary: 5 Stars
I listened to this book on CD in my car with my two teenage children. We three found the addition of Bill Clinton reading his own words very compelling and inspirational. I do agree that if you are looking for deep introspection and a "theory of citizen action," this is not it. It does, however, provide various frames for considering giving, such as gift of time, gifts that keep on giving, etc. The result? I have begun forming an NGO and my children have begun a project with their high school that will extend beyond its borders to other schools--both based on the inspiration of Clinton's words. I doubt there is a better way to "gift" back.