14.    [Was #14.] The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer, ISBN: 978-0060930486, HarperCollins, 2008, 896 pp.

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction [annually].


15. [Was #9]. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe, ISBN: 978-0195078947, Oxford University Press, 2007, 928 pp.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, History, 2008 [annually].
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11. Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire, First Ed., Harcourt (publisher), by Alex Abella, ISBN-13: 978-0151010813, 2008, 400 pp.

    President Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex referred to the Department of Defense’s involvement with the RAND Corporation (with 27 Nobel Laureates), the prestigious and secretive think-thank from the Kennedy era to our time. The author proves that the RAND think-tank of the 1960s and beyond guided us into nuclear arms buildup, the cold war, entanglements in Vietnam and today’s Iraq War and has pervasive effects on all of us. RAND’s concept that selfish interests are greater than societal (collective) interests like religion and has affected government policies in every field in its role as think-tank.

    According to Kirkus Reviews: “RAND’s detractors accuse the corporation of subordinating morality to the achievement of U.S. government policy, of operating wholly without conscience and of practically inventing the Cold War.”
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12. The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time, First Ed., by John Kenneth Galbraith, ISBN-13: 978-0618013241, Houghton Mifflin,  Ed., 2004, 80 pp.

        A presidential adviser on economics exposé of corporate America’s fraud, control of the political process and Washington, etc.

13.    Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise, by Edmund S. Phelps (Editor), ISBN-13: 978-0521816953, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 178 pp.

    Note: Edmund Phelps received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics.
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