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  • "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them" by Al Franken
  • "The Rumsfeld Way: The Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened Maverick" by Jeffrey A. Krames
  • "Bushwacked" by Molly Ivins
  • "Crimes against Nature: How George W. Bush and his Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country and Hijacking our Democracy" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  • "In Denali's Shadow" by Jon Waterman
  • "The Open Space of Democracy" by Terry Tempest Williams
  • "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century" by Bev Harris
  • "The Official Report of the 9-11 Commission"
  • "The Age of Sacred Terror" by Benjamin Nelson
  • "An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood" by Jimmy Carter
  • "Desire and Ice: Searching for Perspective atop Denali" by David Brill
  • "The Trouble with Islam" by Irshad Manji
  • "Against all Enemies" by Richard Clarke
  • "Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle" by Moritz Thomsen
  • "A Season on the Mat: Dan Gable and the Pursuit of Perfection" by Nolan Zavoral
  • "Islam Unveiled" by Robert Spencer
  • "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" by Henri Levy
  • ""So long, see you tomorrow" by William Maxwell
  • "The Iron Road: A Stand for Truth and Democracy in Burma" by James Mawdsley
  • "Crazy Horse" by Larry McMurtry
  • "My Invented Country: a Memoir" by Isabel Allende
  • "National and Joint Force Planning" Air Command and Staff College
  • "The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World" by John Robbins
  • "Vagabonding" by Rolf Potts
  • "The Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World" by Jan Goodwin
  • "Modern Mongolia: a Concise History" by Tsedenambyn BatBayer
  • "Me Against my Brother: at war in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda" by Scott Peterson

  • Books I Read in 2003

  • "Teach Yourself Korean"
  • "Homelands: Kayaking the Inside Passage" by Byron Ricks
  • "Living History" by Hillary Clinton
  • "Looking for Mr. Kurtz: Living on the brink in Mobutu's Congo" by Michela Wrong
  • "Bucking the Sun" by Ivan Doig
  • "A Problem from Hell: America in the age of Genocide" by Samantha Power
  • "Spirit of the Mountains: Korea's San-Shin" by David Mason
  • "Women of Mongolia" by Martha Avery
  • "No Gun Ri: A Military History" by Robert Bateman
  • "We Wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda" by Philip Gourevitch
  • "Thin Air" by Greg Child
  • "The Gate" by Francois Bizot
  • "Gobi: Tracking the Desert" by John Man
  • "War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet" by Eric Margolis
  • "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" by Daniel Yergin
  • "The Koreans" by Michael Breen
  • "See no Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism" by Robert Baer
  • "The River's Tale: a Year on the Mekong" by Edward A. Gargan
  • "Reading the Korean Cultural Landscape" by Je-Hun Ryu
  • "Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag" by Kang Chol Hwan
  • "Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos" by Robert Kaplan
  • "Burying Mao" by Richard Baum
  • "The New Emperors: Deng and Mao" by Harrison Salisbury
  • "Soul Mountain" by Xingjian Gao

    • Books Read in 2002

  • "The Bridge at No Gun Ri" by Charles Hanley, Sang Hun Choe, Martha Mendoza
  • "Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader" by Dai-Sook Suh
  • "Black Tea and Yak Butter: a Journey into Forbidden China" by Wade Blackenbury
  • "My Dark Places" by James Ellroy
  • "Metaplanetary" by Tony Daniel
  • "Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment" by Richard Bernstein
  • "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam" by Andrew Pham
  • "Deadly Feasts: Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague" by Richard Rhodes
  • "Koreas's Place in the Sun" by Bruce Cummings
  • "On Writing" by Stephen King
  • "Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia" by Greg Child
  • "The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History" by Dan Oberdorfer
  • "What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East" Bernard Lewis
  • "A Newer World: Kit Carson John C Fremont And The Claiming Of The American West" by David Roberts
  • "The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology " by Simon Winchester
  • "By any means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold War" William E. Burrows
  • "Hotel Honolulu" by Paul Theroux
  • "Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus" by David Kaplan
  • "Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War " by Mark Bowden

    • Books Read in 2001

  • "The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study in Revenge" by Laura Mylroie
  • "The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910" by Peter Duus
  • "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden " by Peter I. Bergen
  • "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" by Yossef Bodansky
  • "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia" by Ahmed Rashid
  • "John Adams" by David McCullough
  • "The Cold 6,000" by James Ellroy
  • "American Tabloid" by James Ellroy
  • "Compass Points: How I Lived" by Edward Hoagland
  • "The Girl who loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King
  • "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
  • "The Loop" by Nicholas Evans
  • "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx
  • "Return to Mars" by Ben Bova
  • "A Case of Rape" by Chester B. Himes
  • "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear
  • "My Secret History" by Paul Theroux

    • Books Read in 2000

  • "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild
  • "North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic " by Alvah Simon
  • "Love thy Neighbor: A Story of War" by Peter Maas
  • "Flash 4"
  • "Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written" by Edmund Sir Hillary
  • "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurzweil
  • "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
  • "Parachutes and Kisses" by Erica Jong
  • "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham
  • "Passage to Juneau : A Sea and Its Meanings" by Jonathan Raban
  • "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
  • "Trespassing" by John Hanson Mitchell
  • "Sacred Land, Sacred View"
  • "Snow Crash" by Neil Stephenson
  • "Plainsong" by Kent Haruf
  • "On the Rez" by Ian Frazier
  • "River Horse" by William Least Heat-Moon
  • "Why They Kill" by Richard Rhodes
  • "Fire on the Mountain" by John McLean
  • "Travel in a Stone Canoe" by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall
  • "Sir Vidia's Shadow" by Paul Theroux
  • "Moments of Doubt" by David Roberts
  • "The Lost Explorer" by David Roberts and Conrad Anker
  • "Last Days" by John Roskelly
  • "History of the English" by Paul Johnson
  • "The Life of Thomas More" by Peter Akyroyd
  • "The Songlines" by Bruce Chatwin
  • "In a Dark Wood" by Alston Chase
  • "Eiger Dreams" by John Krakauer
  • "Basin and Range" by John McPhee
  • "Geronimo" by Alexander B. Adams
  • "Operation Shylock" by Philip Roth
  • "In Suspect Terrain" by John McPhee
  • "Loon Magic"
  • "Centennial" by James Michener
  • "The Spanish Armada"
  • "Rising from the Plains" by John McPhee
  • "Assembling California" by John McPhee
  • "The First Immortal" by John Halperin
  • "The Eternal Frontier: an Ecological History of North America and its Peoples" by Tim Flannery

    • Books Read in 1999

  • "In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest" by David Roberts
  • "Once They Moved Like The Wind : Cochise, Geronimo, And The Apache Wars" by David Roberts
  • "The Ends of the Earth : From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy" by Robert Kaplan
  • "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey
  • "Down the River" by Edward Abbey
  • "Abbey's Road" by Edward Abbey
  • "The Colorado Plateau"
  • "An Empire Wilderness : Travels into America's Future" by Robert Kaplan
  • "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry
  • "Streets of Laredo" by Larry McMurtry
  • "Widow for one Year" by John Irving
  • "The Ghost Writer" by Philip Roth
  • "Cold Oceans: Adventure in a Kayak, Rowboat , And Dogsled" by Jon Turk
  • "Zuckerman Unbound" by Philip Roth
  • "The Ninemile Wolves" by Rick Bass
  • "The Tracker" by Tom Brown, Jr.
  • "Cowboys and Cave Dwellers: Basketmaker Archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch " by Fred Blackburn
  • "Dead Man Walking" by Larry McMurtry
  • "Killing Mister Watson" by Peter Matthiessen
  • "Gerald's Game" by Stephen King
  • "Lost Man's River" by Peter Matthiessen
  • "The New Wolves" by Rick Bass
  • "Winter: Notes from Montana" by Rick Bass
  • "Desert Notes" by Barry Lopez
  • "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell
  • "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation"
  • "Bone by Bone"by Peter Matthiessen
  • "Black Lamb, Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (1941)" by Rebecca West
  • "The Serbs : History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia" by Tim Judah
  • "Turkey in Europe" by Charles Elliot
  • "The Croat Question" by Jill Irvine
  • "War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice" by Aryeh Neier
  • "To End a War" by Richard Holbrooke
  • "Seasons in Hell: Slaughter and Betrayal in Bosnia" by Ed Vulianny
  • "Burn this House: The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia" by Jasminka Udowicki and James Ridgeway
  • "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water" by Mark Reisner
  • "Martin Dressler" by Steven Millhauser
  • "End game: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II" by David Rohde
  • "Forging War: The media in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina" by Mark Thompson
  • "One for the Road" by Tony Horwitz"
  • "Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey" by V. S. Naipaul

    • Books Read in 1998 and before (coming as I find time to type them in)

  • Sunday, February 04, 2007

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    National Intelligence Estimate: WaPost: U.S. Has little control in Iraq anymore

    Update on U.S. Attorney firings: Set for Congressional Showdown. Good. The Bush Crime Family no longer has a rubberstamp politburo for a Congress.

    Must Read: John Pilger: Iran, A War is Coming

    Frank Rich: Timeline of Deceptions. He has an excellent post in today's Times, available on Times Select if you have it. Update: Truthout has the complete article with links.

    Booman Tribune: Traitorgate: Dick Cheney was briefed by CIA on Niger

    posted by Steve Bremner @ 11:46 AM

    1 Comments:

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