FDL Book Salon – Annual Wrap Up

Happy Holidays and here is to looking forward to the New Year.

It has been a great journey over the last twelve months.

We have had (two) Nobel Award and (multiple) Pulitzer Prize winners, Senators, Congressmen, Governors, and Ambassadors, (Paul Krugman, Muhammad Yunus, Peter W. Galbraith, Madeleine Kunin, Robert Wexler, Harry Reid, Lincoln Chaffee), intellectuals, scholars, news makers, and some are now part of President-Elect Obama’s staff and advisers.

We have had best sellers and quiet intellectually stirring books, books that made us think and some made us laugh. We have discussed Intelligence failures, Bush, Rove, Cheney, and Libby. We have discussed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the ground and from intelligence sources, from torture to court cases, with Ambassador Peter Galbraith, James Bamford, Steve Fainaru, Bob Woodward, Dexter Filkins, Mike Chinoy, David Iglesias, Paul Alexander, Jane Mayer, Charles R. Morris, Hugh Wilford, Greg Mitchell, Craig Unger, and others.

We discussed politics before, during and post election, with our best friends, Cliff Schecter, David Sirota, Glenn Greenwald, Thom Hartmann, Eric Alterman, Matt Taibbi, Amy Goodman, John Podesta, Paul Begala, Arianna Huffington, and others.

Looking over these titles has brought out a lot of memories, of the books and the times, what was happening to us when we read them. Who would have thought when we had Jared Bernstein discussing the economy that months later the economy would collapse? And now Jared is an adviser to the new administration.

What were your favorites and what would you like to see this coming year?

Thank you all for your support and great questions and discussions with our authors and hosts.

You make the Book Salons great.

Thanks,
Bev

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