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post #16 of 23
10/29/09 at 2:23pm
Just returned from the library with Russ Baker's Family of Secrets (2009). Don't assume you know what this one is about. Baker's investigative reporting is first in its class. The Pequod is about to get rocked.
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post #17 of 23
11/2/09 at 12:05pm
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Has anyone read this? It is apparently the best post-hoc analysis of the Watergate scandal (written in the early '90s I think).
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post #18 of 23
11/2/09 at 3:24pm

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post #19 of 23
11/2/09 at 3:58pm
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post #20 of 23
11/2/09 at 6:24pm
The book with political elements that has probably influenced me the most is Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It is not a political book, per se, but has political elements to it.
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post #21 of 23
11/2/09 at 6:30pm
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The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam.

+1 all political books by David

Here's another 3 (he has many more) :

The Powers That Be
The Reckoning
The Fifties
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post #22 of 23
11/2/09 at 6:33pm
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I am in the process of reading The Power Broker. I'm only about 100 pages in but it is already awesome.

Never read the book, but I met the guy. At the opening of the Verrazano. Scary guy (but probably because I wanted to be scared).

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post #23 of 23
11/2/09 at 9:41pm
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I hear Speer's memoir is great.

It's a project, but very informative.

Titan by Ron Chernow is also good as others have mentioned.
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