A cool dozen: A political reading list for 2008

A number of new nonfiction books are out that seem to be worth a read. I’ve only included those I have yet to finish. My short list includes:

• E.J. Dionne Jr., “Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right”
• Glenn Greenwald, “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”
• Chalmers Johnson, “Nemisis: The Last Days of the American Republic”
• Jane Mayer, “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals”
• Bill Moyers, “Moyers on Democracy”
• Rick Perlstein, “Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America”
• Kevin Phillips, “Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism”
• Charlie Savage, “Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy”
• Cliff Schecter, “The Real McCainWhy Conservatives Don’t Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn’t”
• Robert Scheer, “The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America”
• David Sirota, “The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington”
• Matthew Yglesias, “Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats”

Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet