The Economist's Best Books of 2007 (Politics & Current Affairs)

a list by Peter, the avid reader who runs Flashlight Worthy

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Arsenals_of_Folly_The_Making_of_the_Nuclear_Arms_Race');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0375414134'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Arsenals_of_Folly_The_Making_of_the_Nuclear_Arms_Race');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0375414134'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Arsenals_of_Folly_The_Making_of_the_Nuclear_Arms_Race');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Arsenals_of_Folly_The_Making_of_the_Nuclear_Arms_Race');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0375414134'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 400 page hardcover \|$19.11 \|12 reviews This book also appears on The New York Times' 50 Notable Books of 2007 (Non-Fiction)


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Atomic_Bazaar_The_Rise_of_the_Nuclear_Poor');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0374106789'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Atomic_Bazaar_The_Rise_of_the_Nuclear_Poor');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0374106789'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Atomic_Bazaar_The_Rise_of_the_Nuclear_Poor');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Atomic_Bazaar_The_Rise_of_the_Nuclear_Poor');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0374106789'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 192 page hardcover \|$14.96 \|27 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/How_Capitalism_Was_Built_The_Transformation_of_Central_and_Eastern_Europe_Russia_and_Central_Asia');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0521865263'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/How_Capitalism_Was_Built_The_Transformation_of_Central_and_Eastern_Europe_Russia_and_Central_Asia');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0521865263'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia by Anders Aslund onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/How_Capitalism_Was_Built_The_Transformation_of_Central_and_Eastern_Europe_Russia_and_Central_Asia');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/How_Capitalism_Was_Built_The_Transformation_of_Central_and_Eastern_Europe_Russia_and_Central_Asia');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0521865263'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 372 page hardcover \|$64.99 \|1 review


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Art_of_Political_Murder_Who_Killed_the_Bishop');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0802118283'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Art_of_Political_Murder_Who_Killed_the_Bishop');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0802118283'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Art_of_Political_Murder_Who_Killed_the_Bishop');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Art_of_Political_Murder_Who_Killed_the_Bishop');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0802118283'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 416 page hardcover \|$18.25 \|14 reviews This book also appears on The New York Times' 50 Notable Books of 2007 (Non-Fiction)


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Through_the_Darkness_A_Life_in_Zimbabwe');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/177022002X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Through_the_Darkness_A_Life_in_Zimbabwe');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/177022002X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Through the Darkness: A Life in Zimbabwe by Judith Garfield Todd onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Through_the_Darkness_A_Life_in_Zimbabwe');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Through_the_Darkness_A_Life_in_Zimbabwe');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/177022002X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 472 page paperback \|$18.48 \|5 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Gomorrah_A_Personal_Journey_into_the_Violent_International_Empire_of_Naples_Organized_Crime_System');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0312427794'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Gomorrah_A_Personal_Journey_into_the_Violent_International_Empire_of_Naples_Organized_Crime_System');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0312427794'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Gomorrah_A_Personal_Journey_into_the_Violent_International_Empire_of_Naples_Organized_Crime_System');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/Gomorrah_A_Personal_Journey_into_the_Violent_International_Empire_of_Naples_Organized_Crime_System');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0312427794'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 320 page paperback \|$10.20 \|33 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/India_After_Gandhi_The_History_of_the_Worlds_Largest_Democracy');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0060198818'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/India_After_Gandhi_The_History_of_the_Worlds_Largest_Democracy');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0060198818'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/India_After_Gandhi_The_History_of_the_Worlds_Largest_Democracy');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/India_After_Gandhi_The_History_of_the_Worlds_Largest_Democracy');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0060198818'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 912 page hardcover \|$23.07 \|20 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Eight_OClock_Ferry_to_the_Windward_Side_Fighting_the_Lawless_World_of_Guantanamo_Bay');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1568583745'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Eight_OClock_Ferry_to_the_Windward_Side_Fighting_the_Lawless_World_of_Guantanamo_Bay');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1568583745'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo Bay by Clive Stafford Smith, Clive Smith onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Eight_OClock_Ferry_to_the_Windward_Side_Fighting_the_Lawless_World_of_Guantanamo_Bay');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Eight_OClock_Ferry_to_the_Windward_Side_Fighting_the_Lawless_World_of_Guantanamo_Bay');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1568583745'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 320 page hardcover \|$18.43 \|7 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Nine_Inside_the_Secret_World_of_the_Supreme_Court');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1400096790'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Nine_Inside_the_Secret_World_of_the_Supreme_Court');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1400096790'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin Amazon says: Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important and secret legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Court through personalities -- from Anthony Kennedy's overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas's well-tended grievances against his critics to David Souter's odd nineteenth-century lifestyle. There is also, for the first time, the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Gore and Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with George W. Bush, the president she helped place in office. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Nine_Inside_the_Secret_World_of_the_Supreme_Court');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/The_Economists_Best_Books_of_2007_Politics__Current_Affairs/The_Nine_Inside_the_Secret_World_of_the_Supreme_Court');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1400096790'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 384 page paperback \|$10.85 \|170 reviews This book also appears on: Every Book by Jeffrey Toobin The New York Times' 5 Best Books of 2007 (Non-Fiction) The New York Times' 50 Notable Books of 2007 (Non-Fiction) Time Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2007 (Non-Fiction)

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