Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow | 
| Author: Jim Hightower
Creator: Susan Demarco
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 83841
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1
ISBN: 0470121513
Dewey Decimal Number: 322.30973
EAN: 9780470121511
ASIN: 0470121513
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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Condition: new cond,minor shelf rubbing only, 110
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Pssssst! Bookstore browsers! Don't look around, but the corporate and political powers that be want you to put this book down, right now. It definitely is NOT on their approved list. Swim against the Current is one of those books that the power elites don't like seeing in stores, much less in your hands—not merely because it challenges their established order, but especially because our book reveals paths that folks like you can use to escape their rigid, hierarchical structures and discover a bit more satisfaction in life. They prefer that you pick up one of those escapist novels over there across the store, rather than finding out that the greatest escape of all can be from stultifying conventional wisdom. We Americans are constantly harassed into thinking that we can't break the mold that those in charge have made for us. But as a friend of ours puts it: "Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." It's the uplifting stories of mavericks that we tell here. They've broken free of the corporate tentacles, free of business-as-usual politics, free of top-down elites. They're figuring out new ways to do commerce, ways to create political channels that empower grassroots Americans, and ways to live their lives. As these folks show, resistance is not futile . . . it's fertile. Join the fun! Happy reading!
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 You don't have to be a jerk to be successful July 17, 2008
Nor do you have to be a loser to be socially responsible. Jim Hightower, irreverent NPR commentator and activist Susan de Marco show ample proof in "Swim Against the Current." They profile the sort of folks who use honesty and ingenuity to bypass the corporate catch trap. It's a can-do sort of book that will make you believe that America can still be a place where anyone can succeed without stomping all over one another, and, yeah, all over the Constitution.
In this day and age it's not only radical to think that way, but it's downright subversive! But if you have even an ounce of populist feeling in you, it'll make you cheer to read these stories. Ethical values and social responsibility aren't antithetical to success; who knew?
The current seems too strong July 7, 2008
This is a nice collection of stories about people acting the way people should act. We might ask, why don't people act this way more often? I rather suspect more people do but stories about good behavior tend to sell fewer books. It looks like this book is suffering the same fate.
Clearly even publishing reflects the strength of the current cultural flow.
Intelligent View of the World June 26, 2008
Jim Hightower has long been a voice of reason in a crazy world. In Swim Against the Current, Jim Hightower explores the societal norms of business and corporations, and illustrates success stories of people who have gone against the grain, marched to the beat of their own drummer, and found success and happiness at the same time. You will find the book enlightening and inspiring.
 A printed set of papers that is as deeply hypocritical as it is unsatisfying May 30, 2008
A printed set of papers that is as deeply hypocritical as it is unsatisfying this "work" adds nothing to its assumed ends, while reading like an assortment of internet newsgroup postings, radio scripts or blog entries. For example, it purportedly seeks to exalt a Naderite business point of view, jazzed up with maverickarism, yet the book isn't published or distributed by a Coop printing venture or a so-called nonconformist distribution chain. It is published by a publicly traded corporation more than 200 years old, sadly sullied by publishing this populist, sloganistic piece of crap. The authors' regressive views on everything from the current brand of propagandistic environmental hysteria--while apparently not demanding to use 100% percent recycled paper and soy-based ink in the printing of this set of papers--to its mediocre examples of the aforementioned maverickarism--easily superseded by any issue of Forbes or Money magazine--fail to add anything of value to either those who share their perspectives or those who don't. If you partake of their world view and have been active in any of the activities the authors parlay, you will not find anything new in it. Likewise, if you don't share their way of unthinking, nothing here will serve as fodder for rethinking your views. In other words, there's truly nothing new, nor interesting about it. If you think that governmental regulation on pretty much all aspects of your life, the end of Wal Mart as we know it and regressing into some imaginary communitarian neotopia is a good thing, you do not need the well worn aging-hippy-socialist-lite angle of this printed set of papers as you already know what they are saying, you already practice it and there are better ways to reinforce said views than this mediocre printed set of papers. If you do not share the aforesaid angle of this "work," be thankful you didn't read it. There are far better ways to challenge your true Maverick spirit as you engage life with capitalistic abandon, hence benefiting yourself above and beyond anyone else as you benefit others by founding companies like the publisher of this so-called "work" that thankfully does not share the alleged values propounded by this printed set of papers.
Excellent Perspective May 26, 2008
Once again, Jim Hightower combines easy-reading with a positive message. His refreshing point of view delivers political dissent while avoiding the common trap of cynicism, a theme used all-too-often by intelligent authors just like him.
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