Book List
A partial list of books I have read recently…
What are you reading?
A Thousand Splendid Suns: Kahled Hosseini
Against all Enemies Inside Americas’ War on Terror : Richard Clarke
All the Shah’s Men An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror : Stephen Kinzer
Armed Madhouse: Greg Palast
Assault on Reason: Al Gore
Audacity of Hope: Barack Obama
Big Lies: Joe Conason
Blackwater The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army : Jeremy Scahill
Blinded by the Right The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative : David Brock
C Street The fundamentalist threat to American democracy : Jeff Sharlett
Chain of Command The road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib : Seymour Hersch
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: John Perkins
Crazy for God How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back : Frank Schaeffer
Crossing the Rubicon The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil : Michael Ruppert
Defying Hitler A Memoir Sebastian Haffner : Oliver Pretzel
Don’t Think of an Elephant Know your Values and Frame the Debate : George Lakoff
Don’t Wave Goodbye The Children’s Flight from Nazi Persecution to American Freedom : Philip K. Jason
Dreams of my Father: Barack Obama
Family of Secrets The Bush Dynasty, the powerful forces that put it in the Whitehouse, and what their influence means for America : Russ Baker
Fooled Again: Mark Crispin Miller
Four Trials: John Edwards
From Stones to Schools: Greg Mortenson
Game Change Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime : John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Girls Like Us Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon–and the Journey of a Generation : Sheila Weller
Griftopia Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America : Matt Taibi
How to Rig an Election Confessions of a Republican Operative : Allen Raymond and Ian Spiegelman
Imperial Life in the Emerald City Inside Iraq’s Green Zone : Rajiv Chandrasekaran
JFK and the Unspeakable Why He Died and Why It Matters : James W. Douglass
Legacy of Secrecy The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination : Lamar Waldren, with Thom Hartmann
Losing America: Robert Byrd
No Logo: Naomi Klien
No One Would Listen A True Financial Thriller : Harry Markopolos
Outliers The Story of Success : Malcolm Gladwell
Overthrow America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq :Stephen Kinzer
Stupid White Men: Michael Moore
SuperFreakonomics Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: Greg Palast The Dispossessed An Anatomy Of Exile (Collaborations) : Peter Isaac Rose, Liv Ullmann
The End of America Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot : Naomi Wolfe
The Family The secret fundamentalisim at the heart of American power : Jeff Sharlett
The Kite Runner: Kahled Hosseini
The Politics of Truth The lies that led to the Iraq war and betrayed my wife’s CIA Identity : Joseph Wilson
The Price of Loyalty: Ron Suskind
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder: Vincent Bugliosi
The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein
The Way of the World A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism : Ron Suskind
Thieves in High Places: Jim Hightower
Three Cups of Tea: Greg Mortenson
Truth and Duty: Mary Mapes
What the Dog Saw: Malcolm Gladwell
Who Let the Dogs in: Molly Ivens