It's worth reading the entire article for the historical background on the subjects of the books.
FYI
I don't care what this dimwit says, "Salt" is a great piece of historical writing. I learned all kinds of stuff from it.
Very highly reccomended. Really.
Ah, Alexander II. The Ruskies did not know what a great leader they had until he was gone.
Ya see folks, ignorance like this is what happens when you only listen to the other idiots who have your same ideological axe to grind. The fact is, was, and was easily known to anybody who didn't hate the man, is that Bush reads ALOT. More than I do, I am ashamed to say.
My mother-in-law (College English Professor) is a flaming lib. She looked me square in the eyes and said, "You know Bush doesn't read, he has people do it for him. "
It was regarding the book "The case for democracy".
Bush wanted his staffers to read it, and was bothering Rove to read it too, Rove wanted to borrow the Presidents copy.
Bush refused, according to Rove (I believe this exchanged appeared in either Newsweek or Time and was according to Rove), Bush wouldn't lend his copies of his books out or buy them for others, Rove claimed that "He's cheap".
LOL.
I love books like these on salt and the flu and I'm conflicted as to whether to read them or not now that I find out these weirdos are hostile to Bush.