NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #59 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
I was sad to see Nick Kotz passed away; he was a great writer on DC, from bombers to MLK. His book on the B-1 (@oriana0214's favorite plane!) is one of the best ever on the military-industrial complex, so I'm featuring tonight books on DC institutions....washingtonpost.com/local/obituari…
PS: Kotz's book on the B-1 is WILD BLUE YONDER, if you've never seen it: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail…
1) Neil Irwin's (@Neil_Irwin) THE ALCHEMISTS is surely the best book written on central banks and the Federal Reserve, as he dove into how Ben Bernanke and other central bankers handled the last financial crisis: bookshop.org/books/the-alch…
2) James Bamford wrote the original—and then earth-shattering—history of the NSA, THE PUZZLE PALACE, an agency so secret that its very existence was classified for decades: powells.com/book/-97801400…
3) Tim Weiner's (@timweiner3) LEGACY OF ASHES is a prize-winning comprehensive history of the CIA, powells.com/book/-97803073… while Evan Thomas's THE VERY BEST MEN tells of the agency's early years: powells.com/book/-97814165…
4) Kate Brower (@katebrower) is one of the first writers to treat the White House as a living institution, and her history of THE RESIDENCE is a deep looks at the professional staff who run the executive mansion regardless of who is in the Oval Office: powells.com/book/-97800623…
5) The Supreme Court is a terrifically hard place to cover, and two of the best are Linda Greenhouse's (@greenhouselinda) BECOMING JUSTICE BLACKMUN bookshop.org/books/becoming… and Jan Crawford Greenberg's SUPREME CONFLICT: bookshop.org/books/supreme-…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are your favorite books are DC or US institutions? Share! #avidreadersunite
