Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright

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

The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country by Laton Mccartney

What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross His blog Also: Doris Kearns Goodwin – Pulitzer Prize winning author and presidential historian

On the Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World) by P J Orourke

Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ’60s and Today by Tom Brokaw Also: Malcolm Gladwell’s article on I.Q., Andrew Young

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam by John A Nagl

Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them by John McCain

In the Words of Our Enemies by Terence P Jeffrey From the Inside Flap: “Death to America!” Years before September 11, our enemy warned us–and we weren’t listening. We are being warned today–by enemies like Iran, North Korea, and radicals and terrorists across the globe–but we are still not listening. Sounding the alarm is bestselling [...]