h/t
The Progressive Reader: Steven Levingston, "Political Bookworm" blogger for
The Washington Post recommends My Father at 100, the upcoming biography of former President Ronald Reagan written by Reagan's liberal son Ron Reagan (who once hosted a radio show on the defunct Air America Radio network). That book, according to
Amazon.com's listing, is to be released January 18. One revelation from the book, that Nancy waited five years post-diagnosis to tell Ronald that he had dementia, has
generated buzz here on DU.
Levingston also promoted the new books by Donald Rumsfeld, Scott Brown, Tim Pawlenty, and Mike Huckabee. :puke: But wait! For something better than right-wing bargain-bin drivel, check out
Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, TBR on Feb 15. Or:
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Our Last Best Chance: Peace in a Time of Peril by King Abdullah II of Jordan, Feb. 22
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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (it's a book about Hawaii written by someone from the public radio show
This American Life)
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama, April 12
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On China by Henry Kissinger, May 17