The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack L Goldsmith

The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi by Aram Roston

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll

Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership by Madeleine Albright

Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor’s Mansion to the Baja Outback: Reflections and Revisionings by Jesse Ventura Jesse Ventura Colbert Report

I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World by Trevor Paglen

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

Safire’s Political Dictionary by William Safire

On the Colbert Show tonight–not a book, but a great website: Green for All