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

When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery
by Simon Levay