[Alberta's Child]

I'm about halfway through The Predators' Ball (it's about Michael Milken and the junk-bond industry in the 1980s), and when I'm finished with it I'll start Clarence Thomas' My Grandfather's Son. Both of these have come highly recommended.

George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty -- the book that served as the foundation for "Reaganomics" -- was one of the most influential books about economics I've ever read.

[Oclan]

Anything written by Vince Flynn!

[corbie]

Revisiting World War II with 2 works on Hitler: John Toland's bio and Alan Bullock's Hitler: A Study in Tyranny.

I peeked in my Christmas stocking and noticed Timmerman's Shadow Warriors and After the Reich, a book on Allied atrocities in Europe after the fall of the 1,000-year Reich, waiting for me.

Don't read much of anything other than history and politics anymore. The philosopher has moved into the realm of the pragmatic.