• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I embarrassingly haven't read it yet (radio play downloaded)
• Alan Greenspan -- The Age of Turbulence. Greenspan is fascinating because:
  • he's a republican libertarian, and especially an economic libertarian
  • he's a huge fan of Ayn Rand
  • he's fairly pro-civil-rights (as some libertarians are)
  • he's concerned about income inequality
  • he's really concerned about Social Security and especially Medicare... as a libertarian, of course he thinks Medicare will eventually have to have cuts in benefits... however, his primary argument is a moral one: that it's immoral to keep taking people's money, tell them that they'll have benefits in the future even though we know they won't, and leave them with less opportunity to plan for something else
  • he thinks Hillary is "very smart" and would be a capable president (though she's not necessarily the best candidate... he'd prefer a Republican, of course)
• Peter Sagal -- The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) (NPR discussion)
• Steven D. Levitt -- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (torrent, though registration at demonoid.com isn't available until the 1st of the month)
• Richard Wiseman - Quirkology: How we discover the big truths in small things
• Lawrence Wright -- The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
• John Lewis Gaddis -- The Cold War: A New History
• Steve Coll -- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
• David McCullough -- 1776
• Joseph J. Ellis -- His Excellency: George Washington
• Richard Dawkins -- The Ancestor's Tale
• Margaret MacMillan -- Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
• Steve Fraser -- Every Man A Speculator: A History Of Wall Street In American Life
• Thomas Frank -- What's The Matter With Kansas?
• George Packer -- The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
• Marcia Angell -- The Truth About The Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us And What To Do About It

Mark Penn -- Microtrends
    http://wamu.org/programs/dr/07/09/18.php#13721
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3320/trending_towards_inanity/

Wesley Clark -- A Time to Lead

Bob Woodward -- State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III

Jon Lee Anderson -- The Fall Of Baghdad