Lists of Bests: Washington Monthly's "What Obama Should Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/62999 Washington Monthly asked some writers and intellectuals to recommend books to the president. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:10:06 GMT en-us 0 50 25 0 0 The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5151620 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5151620"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YUTpM8vbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hooman Majd</div> Irony of American History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5313696 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Reinhold Niebuhr</div> The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660668 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660668"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41sk40hlDEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William James</div> Character And Opinion In The United States http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660670 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660670"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51y7udqUvtL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Santayana</div> Memoirs (George F. Kennan Memoirs) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82162 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82162"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394716248.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440094_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George F. Kennan</div> The Invisible Cure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5297372 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5297372"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nBYf99KoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Epstein</div> People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> America's Defense Meltdown http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660699 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Center for Defense Information</div> The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10028 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10028"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385267320.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Schwartz</div> The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92369 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3959713 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3959713"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y8QkPW1kL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ramachandra Guha</div> Coldest Winter, The: America and the Korean War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4381618 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Halberstam</div> The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/363013 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Garrett Epps</div> The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38139 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38139"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039024.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299771 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/299771"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393321126.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439901_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Avi Shlaim</div> The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660738 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660738"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gszsO%2B2LL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Flynn</div> A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5186963 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5186963"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gdIqj5B9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Bookstaber</div> The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3854001 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3854001"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/315%2BfrL4YuL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Warren E. Buffett</div> Lost in the City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/428381 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/428381"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006079528X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward P. Jones</div> Free Market Monetary System & The Pretense of Knowledge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660796 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660796"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41sPWps-2%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F A Hayek</div> Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11301 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11301"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395317045.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irving L. Janis</div> Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3545416 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3545416"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01gzeUBRpXL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Tapscott</div> The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4890832 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4890832"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jQUlh3ExL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Zogby</div> Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2178712 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2178712"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743299639.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Garry Wills</div> Beyond Human Scale: Large Corporation at Risk http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660790 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eli Ginzberg</div>