The Latest Books I've Read
       
  Title Author Comments
       
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Eckart Tolle  
       
Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter  
       
State of Denial: Bush at War Part III Bob Woodward  
Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway: A Vicious and Unprovoked Attack on Our Most Cherished Political Institutions Dave Barry  
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis Jimmy Carter Oh oh, I didn't finish this one. I guess I got morally bored.
House of War:The Pentagon and the Disasterous Rise of American Power James Carroll  
Game of Shadows:Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams What a dick.
Hardtack and Coffee:The Unwritten Story of Army Life John D. Billings  
Screw-Jack:The Death of a Poet Hunter S. Thompson  
Al Franken:The Truth (with jokes) Al Franken  
The Google Story :Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time David A. Vise Starts strong and gets progressively boring.
Jimi Henxrix:The man, the magic, the truth Sharon Lawrence  
The Survivor:Bil Clinton In The White House John F. Harris  
The Secret Man:The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat Bob Woodward Awesome read.
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas L. Friedman Pretty dry, couldn't finish.
First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan Gary Schroen  
How Your Horse Wants You To Ride: Starting Out - Starting Over Gincy Self Bucklin  
The Burn Journals Brent Runyon  
Taking Heat: The President, The Press, And My Years In The White House Ari Fleischer You can't say I don't read BOTH sides...
The Fall of Baghdad Jon Lee Anderson  
Survive! : My Fight for Life in the High Sierras Peter DeLeo Riveting! I loved this one.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcom Gladwell  
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror Richard A. Clark  
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
Robert B Reich  
Terrorism and War Howard Zinn  
The 9/11 Commission Report National Commission on Terrorist Attacks 2nd half is very dry; did a lot of skimming.
The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill Still Reading; Churchill's kind of wordy.
American Soldier Gen. Tommy Franks Got bored with 1st half personal history. Skipped to the war.
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative David Brock  
Mein Kamof Adolf Hitler Just looking for ideas for a childrens book I'm writing...
Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live Jay Mohr Perfect between Mussolini and Hitler!
Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions Benito Mussolini  
Plan of Attack Bob Woodward  
Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Al Franken  
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story Tamim Ansary  
According to the Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones  
Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security
Robert Patterson Ah, he wasn't that derelict.
Jeff Gordon: Portrait of a Champion
Jeff Gordon,
Bob Zeller
 
Behind the Oval Office: Getting Reelected Against All Odds
Dick Morris  

The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, And Why the FBI and CIA
Failed to Stop It

John Miller,
Michael Stone

 
George Harrison Alan Clayson  
America and Americans John Steinbeck  
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King  
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Stan Redding,
Frank W. Abagnale
 
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien  
Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy Very Boring
The Pearl John Steinbeck  
JIMMY CARTER: A Comprehensive Biography from Plains to Post-Presidency
Peter G. Bourne  
Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides  
Living Faith
Jimmy Carter  
To Have And Have Not Ernest Hemingway  
Master of the Senate: The Years of LBJ, Vol. III Robert Caro  
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas  

Jack: A Life Like No Other
Geoffrey Perret  
East of Eden John Steinbeck  
Proving Ground G. Bruce Knecht  
Lost at Sea Patrick Dillon  
Walden Henry David Thoreau I was supposed to have read this in school. 30 years of guilt later, I can move on with my life! (And I know a lot more about ants too.)
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years Joseph A. Califano, Jr.  
Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard  
Big Red: Three Months On Board a Trident Nuclear Submarine Douglas C. Waller  
Play Ball: The Life and Hard Times of Major League Baseball John Feinstein  
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom  
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Beck Weathers