Wednesday, August 30, 2006

President's Reading List

Here it is

It's ek-a-lek-tik

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky

American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin (a biography of Robert Oppenheimer, an inventor of the atomic bomb)

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss (about the late all-star Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder)

Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Powe
r by Richard Carwardine

Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural by Ronald C. White Jr.

Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks

Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky (discussing how polio affected the United States in the mid-20th century)

The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth by Leigh Montville

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

The Stranger by Albert Camus


I read Barry's book back in January. It is highly critical of a super-secretive propaganda obsessed US wartime government. Makes you wonder.

My own reading list seems to growing again... but I've been told I'm supposed to read Mile Zero by Thomas Sanchez before I can get moving on it. Can anyone recommend anything else on the ek-a-lek-tik list?

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