Year End Book Recomendations

Posted on December 8, 2006
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The Economist published their annual year end list of book recommendations spanning everything from business to history to fiction. I haven’t read many of these, but the book on Alexis de Tocqueville will probably make it into my bag when published. The Battle for Spain is also one that I have been hoping to find time to read. I was disappointed to not see more narrative works on economics in the list, especially with the passing of Friedman just a couple of weeks ago, and I didn’t much agree with their current events picks as it related to foreign policy and the GWOT. I have added some picks that I would have put on the list (even though they were not necessarily published in the last year… it’s my blog so I can do whatever I want):

“Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition” (Milton Friedman)

“The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor” (David S. Landes)

“Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition” (Jared Diamond)

“A Short History of Nearly Everything” (Bill Bryson)

“Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam” (John L. Esposito)

“Small Wars Manual” (U. S. Marine Corps)

“Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy And the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East” (Ali M. Ansari)

“The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry” (Steven F. Hayward)

“The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future” (Vali Nasr)

“Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution” (Peter Baker, Susan Glasser)

“The Federalist Papers: In Modern Language : Indexed for Today’s Political Issues” (Merril Press)

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