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  What books do you recommend to the Group that was featured on the Daily Show/Colbert Report?

  This is for all Stewart and Colbert lovers. What is the most interesting author/list of authors would you recommend to the Group that was featured on the Daily Show/Colbert Report?

  ksjhalla started this discussion 2 years ago. ( reply )

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  maggie_may 

  Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas? was really informative. Unfortunately, the friend I lent it to has never given it back for me to reread.

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    ksjhalla 

    Its on the list now. Welcome aboard :)

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  W. W. Norton 

  Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" (W. W. Norton, 2007) was recently featured on the Colbert Report. If you saw the show and were curious about the book let me know and I can mail you a free 318 page excerpt. Just send me a note: scolca at wwnorton dot com.
  
  More video can be found here: www.fora.tv/reclaiminghistory

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• jbur816 

  I would recommend Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. (Also the Third Chimpanzee by the same author.) I also read Al Gore's new book and it was pretty good. I am putting the Francis Collins, Language of God, book on my must read list as well.

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    saguaro 

    "The World Without Us" by science writer Alan Weisman. What would happen to Earth if humans were abruptly eliminated? How long would it take for all vestiges of our presence to disappear?
    
    The author is interviewed on The Daily Show today http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml
    
    A multimedia site about the book is available here: http://www.worldwithoutus.com/index2.html

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    katiefellows 

    I'll definitely be reading "Guns, Germs and Steel" soon. It was referred to quite a bit in my classes, and my eyes lit up when I saw it on television. And, though I've heard lots of great things about "Guns, Germs and Steel", I've also been told that "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" (the follow-up to GGAS) is an interesting read, as well.

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  Matt 

  I know Freakonomics was on the show quite a while ago, but it's a great and very interesting read.
  
  I love this group by the way, I always want to read the books talked about on the shows and then forget about them! =]

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• Ma Titwonky 

  Mission Al Jazeera by Josh Rushing. Rushing is a former Marine who now works for Al Jazeera English, and he shares his insights both as a marine assigned to CentCom and as a working journalist for Al Jazeera now. Rushing was also part of the documentary Control Room which is very good and well worth watching.

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  katiefellows 

  The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News.
  
  I picked it up after a teacher made a smug comment about its feature on The Daily Show, and actually ending up liking it.

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  Danielle R 

  Havana Nocturne by T.J. English is a great read! Informative and thoroughly engrossing.

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  Meghan G 

  I just finished Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and God's Harvard by Hanna Rosin. I recommend both, though God's Harvard will probably be read with new perspective after the election.

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  Judy M 

  Outliers is one of those great books that makes you think about familiar things in unfamiliar ways. Now I see applications for it all over the place. Freakonomics is similar in that way, though on a different topic. I haven't read Guns Germs & Steel but there was a 3-part series based on the book on PBS a while ago; I'd like to read it.

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  Mrs S 

  Started Angler about VP Dick Cheney, by Barton Gellman. As Stewart says you will not be able to sleep at night! so true.

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  Hector/Pockets 

  I would definitely recommend American Lion. That was an awesome book. It was really thought provoking for me.

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  Daniel X 

  I am surprised that Valarie Plame Wilson's book FAIR GAME has gotten so little attention! I would highly recommend the book to be read--and perhaps
  used as a comedy format against the White House and the Bush Administration(s) -- which doesn't seem to have a clue as to what the Intelligence Network
  really does or should/should NOT do!

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  Marianne F 

  A book I just read is "How to Break a Terrorist" by Mathew Alexander. Great book!

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  Remi Logan (edited)

  There are so many, but just a few I've read:

  Don't Get Too Comfortable, by David Rakoff (hilarious)
  Religious Literacy, by Stephen Prothero
  Its Getting Ugly Out There, by Jack Cafferty (great read, though I felt he was a little racist when it came to the discussion of illegal immigration)
  Just How Stupid Are We? by Rick Shenkman
  Your Government Failed You, by Richard A. Clarke

  I'm currently reading The American Way of War, which is proving to be very insightful, but also a pretty dry read for me =(

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  Silvarius (Melissa) 

  I just read On The President's Secret Service by Ronald Kessler (TDS guest) & I really would recommend it. It was better than I thought it would be.

  Also, if you're into the collapse of the stock market, House of Cards by William Cohen was good too.

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  Remi Logan 

  I'm currently reading "Cosmic War" by Reza Aslan; another good read. It educates you on the history of the three major Abrahamic religions and their influence on the world and how there are extremists in each religion. Aslan is able to take what could've potentially been a very dry history lesson and makes it interesting and engaging. It probably also helps that he didn't choose microscopic font =D

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