Not a book, but too interesting to pass up (as mentioned tonight on The Report): Unity ’08 Support or draft your own candidate for president (Pssst! Stewart-Colbert ’08!) Determine the issues and questions the candidates must address Nominate the next president and vice president in the first-ever online convention Make history by creating the re-United [...]

Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music by Tony Bennett

Playing for Pizza by John Grisham

When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World’s Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge by K. David Harrison Harrison is part of the Living Tongues Institute

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman

Bookworms take note: Colbert is probably going to be in your Sunday paper. Like all Parade interviews, it is short, sweet, and tuned to the attention-span of a seventh grader, but worth a read nonetheless. Sneak preview here (thanks to the No Fact Zone).

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton The Jon Stewart interview of the former president is a must see. As the potential first first husband, Clinton discusses his love of politics, his love of giving, the importance of sleep (I hear that!) and the candidate he’s backing in this race [...]

Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper

Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor