IR Book Suggestions

In no particular order, here are some suggestions for those of you looking for books that will satisfy the requirements for your independent reading assignment.

I will have hard copies of this list available in class on Monday, but this weekend I strongly encourage you to write down some titles that seem interesting to you, head down to a bookstore, and browse through them in person to get a better sense of what you may want to read.

THE WAR ON TERROR

Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Anderson, Jon Lee. The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan

Mortenson, Greg and Relin, David Oliver. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time.

Darwish, Nonie. Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror

Ratner, Michael. Guantanamo: What the World Should Know

Baer, Robert. See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Kaplan, Robert D. Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

IRAQ

Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq.

Karpinski, Janis. ONE WOMAN'S ARMY: THE COMMANDING GENERAL OF ABU GHRAIB TELLS HER STORY

Clarke, Richard A. Against All Enemies

RACE RELATIONS

Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

Browne, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land

McCall, Nathan. Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

Souljah, Sister. No Disrespect.

Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography.

Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice.

Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

Jackson, George. Blood in My Eye

Seale, Bobby. Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM / THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM

Obama, Barack. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.

Stewart, Jon. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America

Humes, Edward. Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation.Clinton, Bill. Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

Moore, Michael. Stupid White Men

Moore, Michael. Dude, Where's My Country?

Franken, Al. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

Franken, Al. Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot

Glassner, Barry. The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

Hightower, Jim. Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back

Hightower, Jim. If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They'd Have Given Us Candidates

Coulter, Ann. Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Huff, Darrell. How to Lie with Statistics.

O’Reilly, Bill. Culture Warrior

Buchanan, Patrick. State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America

Dobbs, Lou. War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back

Ivins, Molly. Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America

Boortz, Neal. Somebody's Gotta Say It

Giuliani, Rudolph. Leadership.

McCain, John. Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life

McCain, John. Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

McCain, John. Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir

Brownell, Kelly and Horgen, Katherine Battle. Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It.

Richardson, Bill. Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life

Edwards, John and Auchard, John. Four Trials

Clinton, Hillary Rodham. Living History

Huckabee, Mike. From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPS to Restoring America's Greatness

Biden, Joe. Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

HUMAN RIGHTS

Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Cheadle, Don and Prendergast, John. NOT ON OUR WATCH: THE MISSION TO END GENOCIDE IN DARFUR AND BEYOND

Steidle, Brian and Wallace, Gratchen Steidle. The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur

Flint, Julie, and de Waal, Alexis. Darfur: A Short History of a Long War

Jean Hatzfeld, Susan Sontag, and Linda Coverdale. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Dallaire, Romeo. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Gourevitch, Philip. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Steyn, Mark. America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

Ansari, Ali. Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy And the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East

Ritter, Scott. Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change

Jafarzadeh, Alireza. The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis

Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

GENDER RELATIONS

Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique

De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex.

Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Kilbourne, Jean. Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel

hooks, bell. Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America.

Page, Christina. How the Pro-choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, And the War on Sex

Pollitt, Katha. Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time

Press, Eyal. Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa

SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Smith, Jennifer (editor). The Gay Rights Movement

Eisenbach, David. Gay Power: An American Revolution

Bull, Chris and Gallagher, John. Perfect Enemies: The Religious Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics of the 1990s

Duberman, Martin. Stonewall.

Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete?

Parenti, Christian. Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis.

Dyer, Michael. The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime

Humes, Edward. NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court