onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Peter_Steinbergs_Favorite_NonFiction/Truman');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0671869205'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Truman

by David McCullough

Thinking it would be jussssttt interesting enough to keep me awake during the flight, I brought this biography on a week-long lazy vacation.

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by Bill Roorbach

I first read this sweet love story in the Summer of 2000 while working in a little bookstore. I had a mad crush on a co-worker and tried to woo her with passages from this book. (It sort of worked... we went on to have an on-and-off-again relationship over the next 12 years.)

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by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn

As someone who's made his home in New York for the last 9 years -- and literally watched the first of the Twin Towers fall -- reading about 9/11 can be extremely difficult. This title -- a literal minute-by-minute account from the moment the first plan struck to the moment the 2nd tower fell -- strikes me as the perfect balance of dispassionate, inspiring and honest.

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by Michael Pollan

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by Jared M. Diamond

This book is about history... biology... the spread of species... geography's role in shaping the rise and fall of civilizations... it's hard to say exactly, so you'll just have to trust me when I say it's one of the best books I've ever read. (And yes, despite being an amazing read, the last chapter could be dropped or edited down dramatically. Feel free to just skim it.)

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