Yesterday was the groundbreaking on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU. The Times reported much fanfare and self-congratulation among the honored guests. A gaunt, sickly-looking Dick Cheney contended that "history is beginning to come around" on the Bush presidency. Hardly. A Rasmussen poll out yesterday found that 37% of likely voters view Bush as one of the worst presidents in history just slightly improved from the June mark of 40%.
With Bush plunging a shovel into the dirt to kick off construction, I began thinking about what books should, but won't, be housed in the Bush Library. Here's a start. Feel free to add your own suggestions:
- U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
- U.S. Constitution for Dummies
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to the U.S. Constitution
- Geneva Conventions
- Too Close to Call (The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election) by Jeffrey Toobin
- The Lies of George W. Bush by David Corn
- Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix (former Director of UN Inspection Commission)
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks
- Worse Than Watergate by John Dean
- Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government by Valerie Plame Wilson
- The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack Goldsmith
- Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour Hersh
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
- Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror by Mark Danner
- The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of the Truth in Bush's America by Frank Rich
- Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
- Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman
- United States v. George Bush et al. by Elizabeth de la Vega
- Reading Mastery - Level 2 Storybook 1 (includes The Pet Goat)