Best political book you've read in the last 12 months?

[undeterred]

I haven't read ANY, so I am looking for recommendations.

[mike_c]

1. The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson....

I'm actually reading it now, and haven't finished yet, but it is excellent. Second choice is probably Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.

[donco6]

2. I got a kick out of Truth - With Jokes.

Or was it depressing? I'm still deciding.

[rock]

12. Definitely my choice

I cried and laughed at the same time. It produced what you call mixed emotions, you know like watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new car. (Don't jump on me, I personally love my mother-in-law.)

[Terran1212]

3. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

[bookman]

4. Here's the best one I read...

State of War : The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration by James Risen

[Gabi Hayes]

5. Ha....I got that for Valentines day! reading it now

also reading Dick, by John Nichols; highly recommended....really goes after him, and is supposedly the ONLY booklength bio of the real president

love the part in the Risen book where Condi is called the WORST NSA we've ever had, by somebody who worked in the admin

[bryant69]

6. The Godless Constitution

The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State

Quite a good book - i did a review of it at my website --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com/archives/2005_11_20_politicalcomment_archive.html

Bryant

[wellst0nev0ter]

7. "White Like Me" By Tim Wise

I wish there were more people like him in the Democratic party, let alone the rest of the country.

[CTyankee]

8. The book about the CBS "fake" memo on BUsh's air national guard service

by Mary Mapes. Cannot recall the title. Good read.

[sakabatou]

9. "BUSHIT! "

[globalvillage]

10. There are so many

What are you looking for?

When Presidents Lie by Eric Alterman (From FDR and Yalta to GW, an interesting complex historical look at presidential deception)

Gag Rule - On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy by Lewis Lapham

One Car Caravan by Walter Shapiro. (Fun insider look at 2004 Dem Candidates)

The New War by John Kerry. (He wrote this book about international crime and terrorism almost 10 years ago)

The Politics of Truth by Joseph Wilson (I thought it would be dry, but it is absolutely not)

Worse than Watergate The Secrect Presidency of GWB by John Dean

Confessions of an Economic Hitman, which I loaned out a month ago and doubt will ever see again. :-(

The KiteRunner by Khaled Hosseini is a must read novel. Don't read it in public if you cry easily.

[Dulcinea]

11. Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke.

OK, I don't have much time to read these days, but it's a great book.

[Hamlette]

13. The Assissin's Gate by George Packer

I've read tons of political books, right now I'm reading American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips which is very good. But Assissin's Gate was great. It is everything you want to know about Iraq. How we got there and every misstep we made and why.