title: Reclaiming America
author:  Randy Shaw 
description: Political activist Shaw (The Activist's Handbook, Univ. of California, 1996) presents two case studies of political activism to underscore his main thesis: successful political reform requires a national focus. He gives detailed accounts of Nike's spin campaign in the 1990s to hide the company's use of Indonesian sweatshop laborers and of a similar attempt by Jessica McClintock, Inc.Aa company manufacturing women's high-fashion clothingAto hide its use of illegal sweatshop labor in Oakland, CA. The second half of Shaw's analysis traces the development of Ralph Nader's Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) and demonstrates how their successes on the environmental front have been in direct proportion to their ability to command national attention. He also examines the minor successes and the rich potential of community-based nonprofit organizations (CBOs), the national media, and the Internet as resources to promote national activism. Though the book is clearly directed at the already converted and is at times sniping, Shaw makes a convincing case for activists to think and act nationally.AJack Forman, Mesa Coll. Lib., San Diego <br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Their past never faded—and neither did their passion.
  
  
  Between running his family ranch and dealing with far too many needy
  relatives, Shaw Jameson doesn’t have time for more trouble. But when his first
  love, former-child-star-turned-businesswoman Sunny Dalton, returns to Lone
  Star Ridge, Shaw senses things are about to get a whole lot more interesting.
  
  
  Shaw isn’t prepared for the memories that come flooding back now...or the
  reignited spark between them that turns into a raging inferno. Still, this
  gorgeous cowboy will do everything he can not to get burned a second time.
  Because Sunny never promised this visit was permanent and Shaw has no
  intention of giving up the land he loves. Letting Sunny go again is certain to
  leave a Texas-sized mark on his soul—and a permanent wall around his heart.
  Unless he can prove their small town holds the promise of the future they both
  always imagined.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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