What I've Been Reading
Here is a list of some of the books I read in 2008, in order of recommendation.
- Legacy of Ashes, by Tim Weiner
60 years of blundering and malfeasance at the CIA - The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
How free marketers exploit catastrophes to remake societies - The Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell
A very modern look at some very medieval Puritans - 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, by Michael Brooks
Questions scientists will be working on for the next century - The Defining Moment, by Jonathan Alter
How FDR saved capitalism and democracy in 100 days - The Way of the World, by Ron Suskind
Intermixed personal narratives of ordinary foreigners caught in war - The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria
Not about the decline of America, but the rise of the rest - A Splendid Exchange, by William J Bernstein
A history of globalization; it didn't start with the Internet - The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby
A grab bag critique of American anti-intellectualism - The Appeal, by John Grisham
Melodramatic telling of how our courts are owned by big business
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