What's your favorite post-9/11 book?

[im10ashus]

It doesn't have to be non-fiction either. I was just reading a review of the new novel by Ian McKewan called "Saturday" that takes place in the course of one day in London, the day before the Iraqi invasion. I think I am going to purchase. The only non-fiction post-9/11 work I have read is CHAIN OF COMMAND: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour Hersh. Any other suggestions?

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[AllegroRondo]

1. America: The Book

hilarious!!!

[im10ashus]

2. Oh YEAH!

And I LOVE the show! OK, done deal. That's what's next.

:yourock:

[American in Asia]

3. Anybody read "Worse Than Watergate"

by John Dean? (yeah, I know, not my favorite guy either).

I'm about half-way in, and wondering what other people's reactions were.

[walldude]

8. I read it. It was very informative

and even though he's not on the inside anymore he was able to make some conclusions based on the what he sees in the media and what he knows about the internal workings of the government. That said I did have a hard time finishing it. He is a very dry, humorless, boring writer. It was kind of like reading a text book. If it were different subject matter I probably wouldn't have finished...

For something a little more fun let me recommend Jim Hightowers Thieves In High Places. A total slam on the corporate takeover of America by Bush and the gang. Funny to boot...
--edit-- It just came out in paperback :)

[im10ashus]

14. Thanks for the tip.

Never heard of that one.

[NAO]

4. Crossing the Rubicon by Michael C. Ruppart

Engrossing and powerful. Highly recommended.

Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0865715408/qid=1115261407/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-6424535-4495136?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects - finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government - by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that the attacks produced the desired result.

Crossing the Rubicon is unique not only for its case-breaking examination of 9/11, but for the breadth and depth of its world picture - an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism - without which 9/11 cannot be understood.

The US manufacturing sector has been mostly replaced by speculation on financial data whose underlying economic reality is a dark secret. Hundreds of billions of dollars in laundered drug money flow through Wall Street each year from opium and coca fields maintained by CIA-sponsored warlords and US-backed covert paramilitary violence. America's global dominance depends on a continually turning mill of guns, drugs, oil and money. Oil and natural gas - the fuels that make economic growth possible - are subsidized by American military force and foreign lending.

In reality, 9/11 and the resulting "War on Terror" are parts of a massive authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale. Peak Oil - the beginning of the end for our industrial civilization - is driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian measures of repression, warfare and population control. Crossing the Rubicon is more than a story. It is a map of the perilous terrain through which, together and alone, we are all now making our way.


From the Wilderness
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/

[Pachamama]

13. Crossing the Rubicon gets my Vote!

Amazing resource with credible references and it left me shaking....literally.... :scared:

[Roland99]

5. The Price of Loyalty: The Education of Paul O'Neill

[American in Asia]

6. I detested O'Neill when he was Treas. Sec.

and was pleasantly surprised by this book - I agree it was a good read and painted a damning picture of how lacking in real policy focus there is in the current Administration. Politics trumping everything. No surprise to us, but I thought it made the points very effectively.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

7. This one I couldn't put down.

"America Unbound-the Neoconservatives and the Global Order" by Stefan Halper and Johnathon Clark. This book covers everything, including Rupert Murdoch.

[agincourt]

9. Against all Enemies, by Richard Clark

Not even a political book, more a historical one. Debunks a lot of BS pertaining to more recent events, and sheds light on some obscure facts as well. As long ago as the Atlanta Olympics the government feared suicide aircraft smashing into civilian targets, too bad hardly anything is told in the mainstream, or sinks in to the average voter.

[realFedUp]

10. David Ray Griffin's books

The New Pearl Harbor and
The 9/11 Commission Report, Omissions and Distortions

[American in Asia]

11. Robert Reich: Reason,

Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America.

Just started it - the introduction already has me hooked. But then, I loved his recent speech on the same subject that someone posted here, I believe.

[BlueIris]

12. "Body of Secrets," by James Bamford.

History of the NSA. So excellent.

[im10ashus]

15. Thanks Everyone!!

It looks like I have my summer reading planned.

:woohoo:

[Stephanie]

16. The McEwan book was mentioned in the New Yorker article on Tony Blair

The writer said everyone in London is reading it.

[im10ashus]

18. It's being delivered to work today. n/t

:headbang:

[malmapus]

17. Dude, where's my country - Michael Moore

Couldn't put it down once I started.

Was also kinda sentimental cause my fiancee bought it for me as a Christmas present. Her and her family were kinda on the right when we met and slowly I've pulled them to the left...so the fact she was buying me a Michael Moore book said alot and opening it in front of her family lol..

EDIT fixed up my bad grammer and typos...man I need to get that coffee

[im10ashus]

19. Dude, congrats! n/t