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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Barack Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope,...    Read More >>

The Great Crash, 1929 (Penguin business) John Kenneth Galbraith Rampant speculation. Record trading volumes. Assets bought not because of their value but because the buyer believes he can sell them for more in a day or two, or an hour or two. Welcome to the late 1920s in the US. There are obvious and absolute parallels to the great bull market of the late 1990s, writes Galbraith in a new introduction dated 1997. Of course, Galbraith notes, every financial bubble...    Read More >>

The American Future: A History Simon Schama A simplistic review of some facets of American history---no real analysis --- I've read about half the book and I am very disappointed, I may put it down-- He quotes that the naming of a town "Columbus" was done after someone had finished reading Washington Irvings book "Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" Too cute--I fwink I may vomit    Read More >>

The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos: Triumph, Collapse and Revival of an American Dream Kenneth Hopper This is a very readable book which abounds with good wit and, like the well rounded manager, is well rounded in its scope from before 1630 until 2006. By the end of the book, I had to conclude that the majority of the ills affecting the decline in American manufacturing, and American prosperity in general, since 1970, can be properly addressed without recourse to an ethics based on Puritanism including...    Read More >>

The Social Contract (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) Jean-Jacques Rousseau This book is a work of genius for the whole, exquisitely written it offers wisdom on most pages and nonsense on the others. It's been a very long time since I learnt such a large amount, the language has a poetic beauty to it and anybody interested in governance should read this. The thesis of the book is well known (as it indeed should be) but there are some startling facts about the author. Rousseau...    Read More >>

FDR: The First Hundred Days (Critical Issue) Anthony J. Badger    Read More >>

The Wind is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman Bear Heart I'm glad I've read this book. I like books that combine logic and spirituality, and ones that cross reference religions, and Bear Heart does these in his book. (especially with Christianity). Then it all adds up as evidence of these ideas being possible truths in the theories of life, universe 'god'/'spirit' and everything. I'm not saying that I necessarily believe all...    Read More >>

The Penguin History of the United States of America Hugh Brogan THIS AUTHOR IS A LECTURER IN U.S HISTORY, WELL....I WOULD NOT LIKE TO BE SAT IN A LECTURE THEATER FOR 4 YEARS LISTENING TO THIS DULLARD! WHAT A CRASHING BORE ! The author obviously has some kind of talent because somehow Hugh Brogan has managed to make the perenially exciting History of the most thrillingly dynamic nation on Earth's about as interesting as being locked in a padded cell for a decade....    Read More >>

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Arena Books) Dee Brown A fantastic book which everybody should read - we owe it to the people who were wiped out. They lost their lives, but the world lost as much - a brilliant culture and people who really appreciated nature and showed enormous wisdom and magnanimity. In the short time they were allowed to survive alongside the white man they sowed the seeds of the ecology movement, which might help to save the planet....    Read More >>

Letter from America: 1946-2004 Alistair Cooke Its not too much of an exageration to say that this book is an oversight of 20th century usa. Alistair Cooke's letter is something i came too only a few years before his death and this book goes through from the 40s right until his last letter. The quality of writing is superb of a man at the cutting edge of history.    Read More >>