The Political Union asks each of its guests if there are any books that were instrumental in his or her personal, academic, professional, and/or intellectual development. We then compile these suggestions into a robust list of important reads that our members read for themselves. Here is what we have been reading:
- A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
- Candide by Voltaire – 18th century French political satire
- Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
- Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper
- Discourses, Machiavelli
- Divided America by Earl Black and Merle Black
- Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power by Joseph Marguiles
- Meditation on First Philosophy, Descartes
- On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche
- Our Posthuman Future by Fukuyama
- Politics and Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
- Reinventing the Bazaar, by John McMillan
- The Market Economy: A Reader by Doti
- The Third Wave by Huntington
- The Ugly American by Lederer
- Winston Churchill: A Life by John Keegan – biography
