DUers! Need your suggestions for new political books out that I can

[CTyankee]

give as gifts during the holidays! There are so many I can't remember them all. I have at least 5 family members who usually get a political book by a good liberal!

[longship]

1. "Conservatives without Conscience" by John W. Dean

The best political book I've read in a long, long time.

Or, this one:
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke

You can safely send both of these to anybody without appearing to be partisan as they were both written by Republicans, or at least people who are perceived to be such.

[CTyankee]

2. I loved "Against All Enemies"!!

but I think my liberal family members have prolly read it. I'll definitely get the Dean book. Ditto Joe Wilson's new book whose title I can't remember. Other than those I'm pretty lost...

[blondeatlast]

3. "Conservatize Me" by John Moe.

Forthcoming in early October, if memory serves correctly.

I'm finishing an advance copy I received from the publisher and it's a hoot.

It's also quite educational about the systematized indoctrination that's led our country so sadly astray.

I highly, highly recommend it.

Please buy from ever-blue Powell's or your local independent!
http://conservatizeme.com/



http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=25652&cgi=product&isbn=0060854014

[chefgirl]

4. Two Excellent Ones

Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast
The Architect , James Moore and Wayne Slater

-chef-

[Casper]

5. David Sirota, Jonathan Miller

David Sirota's "Hostile Takeover" is very readable and actually offers paths to taking back the country from corporate interests. Sirota is great - smart, witty, and wonky. I find this book to be very much my worldview.

Jonathan Miller (the Treasurer of Kentucky and long-time Democrat) has a brand new book out that I think would be a great holiday gift. It's called The Compassionate Community: Ten Values to Unite America. He uses Old Testament excerpts, interwoven with his personal and political story, to show the importance of Opportunity, Responsibility, Work, Family, Freedom, Faith, Justice, Peace, Respect and Life. Al Gore wrote the forward. It was just released last week but I got an early copy - it's good reading and very optimistic.

[RamboLiberal]

6. You might check out the DU Non-Fiction Forum

Here's a couple of suggestions:

The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina by Frank Rich

Foxes in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must Do to Run 'em Out

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Exposes the corruption by Bushies of CPA)

The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind

Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq by T. Christian Miller

Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government--and How We Take It Back by David Sirota

The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats by Gary Hart

Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South by Thomas F. Schaller

F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare by Sam Seder

The Big Encyclopedia of Republican Hypocrites by Randi Rhodes

Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter by William Morrow

Bloodthirsty Bitches And Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise And Risk of the New Conservative Hate Culture by Gerry Spence

The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege by Damon Linker

Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show" by Geoffrey Nunberg

The Audacity of Hope" by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill

The Plan: Big Ideas For America" by Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed

Less Safe, Less Free: Why We Are Losing the War on Terror by David Cole (Author), Jules Lobel

Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers by Elizabeth Edwards

Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow by Kristen Breitweiser