Rick Perlstein is an excellent writer and friend who was recently interviewed by the Columbia Journalism Review about the Washington Post’s coverage of ACORN. Rick has a website that is worth a look, and of course his 2008 book Nixonland should be read by everyone.
Books by Tom Geoghegan
On Tom’s Bookshelf
Barbara Ehrenreich - Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
Jefferson Cowie - Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Elias Canetti - Die Fackel im Ohr, Lebensgeschichte 1921-1931 (The Torch in My Ear)
Olivia Manning - Fortunes of War: the Balkan Trilogy