This talk happened way back in October 2009. A great discussion nonetheless.
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