I have a few extra bucks and I want to expand my horizons...

[Subdivisions]

I have enough money to purchase two hard-bound books and I'd like them to be non-fiction political or big-picture type books. I'd like to hear your suggestions for which two books you would choose if you were to be the one buying them.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions. :hi:

[cherokeeprogressive]

1. I think I know what you're requesting. I have a really big book with pictures on my coffee table...

It's called "Big Bear: The First 100 Years".

I think it fits your bill perfectly; it's big, it has pictures, and it's non-fiction.

Glad to help ;)

[Subdivisions]

2. LOL! Not THAT kind of 'big-picture'! I mean the state-of-the-world big-picture, hyphen-hyphen! n/t

[physioex]

3. Hmmm...why not a book by Stephen Hawking?

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Oh. Never mind.

Whoa! I'm looking around and I just realized they moved this post. No wonder I didn't recognize the wall treatment.

It's a good book though; you'd like it, honest ;)

[UrbScotty]

5. Going Rogue and The O'Reilly Factor. Oh, you said NON-Fiction?

How about True Compass and Blood of the Liberals? :-)

[SocialistLez]

6. What kind of subjects are you interested in? NT

[pscot]

7. Nixonland by Rick Pearlsteirn

is a heck of a book, and it truely informs the present. Going deep, maybe Arthur Schlessinger's Age of Jackson. I read that on library loan. I wasn't resdy to send it back, but it was on the hold list. Still hot after 50 years. Happy huntiing. :hi:

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. 2 ideas.

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski
or any other by him.
He outlines exactly the imperialist path we are taking, he should know, it is his road map.

America's Three Regimes: A New Political History
Author: Morton Keller

I can get many good and fairly current books from the free book swap site paperbackswap.com,
most of them are in new condition, so I save a ton of money by recycling my books thru them, and getting new ones.

[tulsakatz]

9. my suggestions.......

The Backlash by Will Bunch. Mostly it focuses on the tea parties and their main inspiration, Glenn Beck.

2nd suggestion, Idiot America by Charles B Pierce

[didact]

10. One idea...Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World

not political, but it is big-picture...not heavy on math and equations.

[Lucy Goosey]

11. The Shock Doctrine - big picture politics & economics

[meeshrox]

14. You beat me to it!

Shock Doctrine (just purchased it myself)
Can't go wrong with Hawking, either!

Always enjoy Sagan: Billions and Billions is my favorite by him...

[amyrose2712]

15. +100 nt

[Bigmack]

12. The Limits to Power

by Andrew Bacevich. Not long or difficult to read AND PROBABLY THE BEST BOOK I'VE READ about US foreign policy and military actions. He's a retired military officer, USED to be a Republican, but has come to see the world thru the lens of reality, as opposed to ideology. He's currently a professor at Boston University. Truly, this is a BRILLIANT book, and I can't speak enough about its clear, strong merits. Please buy THIS book.
Ms Bigmack (or if you can't buy it, get it from your library, but I promise you won't regret reading it)

[AndrewP]

13. I've got a few....

I've been reading a few lately.

Obama's War by Bob Woodward

The Clinton Tapes by Taylor Branch

The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House by John Harris

The Shock Doctrine is a very good book.

[stormpilot]

16. Some recommendations for you

I know it's been a while since you first posted this. Did you pick up any books yet? Either way, I highly recommend the following:

Noam Chomsky (2010) Hopes and Prospects. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1931859967

Noam Chomsky (2010) Making the Future: The Unipolar Imperial Moment. City Lights Publishers. ISBN 978-0872865372.

Chalmers Johnson. Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope (August 17, 2010 ed.). Metropolitan Books. pp. 224. ISBN 0805093036.

-Stormpilot

[stormpilot]

17. and just in case you've never heard of Chomsky

"Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on
foreign policy on the planet."

--The New York Times Book Review

I'd recommend ALL his books. ;D

good luck!

[Bigmack]

18. OK. so tell....

What'd you buy?