2007

November         The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get it back on Track, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

September        Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin

July                   Becoming Justice Blackmun, Linda Greenhouse

March                The Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

January              Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

2006

November         The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman

September        Reagan, Richard Reeves

July                   1984, George Orwell

May                   The Age of  Anxiety, Haynes Johnson

March                Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaacson

January             The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, John Harris

2005

November         Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow

September        Reason, Robert Reich

July                   Against All Enemies, Richard A. Clarke

May                   American Dynasty, Kevin Phillips

March                American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Ellis

2004

November         Triangle: The Fire that Changed America, David Von Drehle

September        They Marched in the Sunlight, David Maraniss

July                   What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis

May                   Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris

March                 Democracy in America, Alexis de Toqueville               

January              Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy

2003

November         Master of the Senate, Robert Caro

September        Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President, Helen Thomas

July                   An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter

May                   Miracle at Philadelphia, Catherine Drinker Bowen

2002

November         Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

September        Biography of Teddy Roosevelt, Volume I, Edmund Morris

July                   Shrub, Molly Ivins

May                   Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis

March                From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman

January              Locked in the Cabinet, Robert Reich

Earlier Readings:
                          E. J. Dionne, They Only Look Dead

                          Katharine Graham, Personal History
                          Richard Caro, Master of the Senate ( Lyndon Johnson)
                          Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
                          David Maraniss, First in His Class (Bill Clinton)
                          Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition the Men Who Made It 
                          Madeleine Kunin, Living a Political Life: One of America's First Woman Governors Tells Her Story
                          Various Books on Life of Abigail Adams
                          George Stephanopolous, All Too Human: A Political Education 
                          Several Books on Eleanor Roosevelt (especially  Vol 2 of Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography, Eleanor Roosevelt
                          Bill Bradley, Time Present Time Past: A Memoir
                          Vaclav Havel, The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice
                          Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
                          Elizabeth Drew, Whatever It Takes
                          Thomas L. Friedman ,The Lexus and the Olive Tree
                          Jack Germond, Fat Man in a Middle Seat
                          Kathleen Barry, Susan B. Anthony: Biography of a Singular Feminist
                          George Orwell, Animal Farm
                          Joe Califano, Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
                          Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life
                          Lou Cannon, Ronald Reagan The Role of a Lifetime
                          Bob Woodward ,The Brethren
                          David Brinkley ,Washington Goes to War