[Sam Cree]

I was forgetting that I read Powell's autobiography, I came away from that quite impressed with the guy.

My wife's cousin, who is very liberal, also read it and said the same thing.

[Ramius]

I would recommend "Bush At War" by Bob Woodward, and have, to my liberal friends. Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) is not exactly a conservative writer.

It is mainly about the days after 9/11 and the prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. It is clear, however, that Woodward begins with a general disrepect for G.W.Bush that morphs during the prosecution of the war against Al Queda into a profound respect of W as a wartime President.