31 August. Rest.

Chile

I went a little nuts, and made a serious dent in my “Books to Read List” and bought a bunch. Here is part of the list. A lot are rereads that I just want to have around.

1.Wolff, Tobias. In Pharaoh’s Army Memories of the Lost War. New York: Vintage, 1995. Print.
2. Reid, Robert. Year One An Intimate Look Inside Harvard Business School. New York: Quill, 1995. Print.
3. Richardson, Heather Cox. West from Appomattox The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. New York: Yale UP, 2007. Print.
4. Tetlock, Philip E. Expert Political Judgment How Good Is It? How Can We Know? New York: Princeton UP, 2006. Print.
5. Toll, Ian W. Six Frigates The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. Print.
6. The Defense of Duffer’s Drift, Swinton (and the various knock-offs)
7. The Bear Went Over the Mountain and/or The Other Side of the Mountain, Grau and Jalali
8. Infantry Attacks, Rommel
10. A Short Course in the Secret War. Christopher Felix
11. The Republic, Plato
12.For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
13.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
14.The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
15.Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
16.White Noise by Don Delillo
17.The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott
18.Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
19.Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
20.Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
21.Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
22. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
23. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Ben Franklin
24. The Landmark Thucydides, Thucydides
25.Dahl, Robert A. After the Revolution? : Authority in a Good Society. New York: Yale UP, 1991. Print.
26. Dugard, Martin. Farther Than Any Man The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook. New York: Washington Square, 2002. Print.
27. Easterly, William Russell. White man’s burden why the West’s efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
28.Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. New York: Back Bay Books, 2007. Print.
29.Klein, Gary. Sources of Power How People Make Decisions. New York: The MIT, 1999. Print.
30.Moss, David A. When All Else Fails Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager. New York: Harvard UP, 2004. Print.
31. Nasr, Vali. The Shia Revival : How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future. Boston: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 2007. Print.
32. O’Neill, Joseph. Netherland. Vintage, 2009.
33.O’Sullivan, Meghan L. Shrewd Sanctions. Washington D.C: Brookings Institution, 2003. Print.
34. William R. Johnson Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How To Be A Counterintelligence Officer
35.David C. Martin Wilderness of Mirrors
36.Sam Adams War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir.
37. Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce, eds. Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations.
38. Stepehn Coll, Ghost Wars
39. Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower

My favorite 75 year old.