Books

THE BIBLE, Ayn Rand (We The Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), William Shakespeare, John le Carre (The Spy that Came in from the Cold, Russia House), Tom Clancy (Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger), Dorothy Parker, Charles Dickens (David Copperfield, Bleak House), E.L. Doctorow (Billy Bathgate), E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (A Room with a View, Howard's End), Anthony Robbins (Unlimited Power), Frederic Bastiat (The Law), Richard Nixon (Six Crises, In The Arena), Iris Chang, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Stephen E. Ambrose (Band of Brothers, Nixon)

Currently Reading:

• Bruce Cumings. Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations (2002)
  
• Wesley Sasaki-Uemura. Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan (2001)
  
• Nayan Shah. Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (2001)
  
• Kumazawa Makoto. Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers (1996)
  
• Shotaro Ishinomori. Japan Inc.: Introduction to Japanese Economics (1988)
  
• Robert T. Samuel. The Samurai: The Philosophy of Victory (2004)
  
• Joseph J. Ellis. His Excellency: George Washington (2004)
  
• David McCullough. 1776: America and Britain at War (2005)
  
• Alexandre Dumas. The Three Musketeers (1844)
  
• Stephen E. Ambrose. The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys -- The Men of World War II (1998) The soldier's stories, drawn from the acclaimed works of historian Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Eisenhower, D-Day, and Citizen Soldiers.
  
• Mark Bowden.  Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (2000)
  
• Patrick J. Buchanan.  Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency (2004)
  
• Kermit the Frog.  Before You Leap: A Frog's-Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons (2006)

Recently Read:

• Barton J. Bernstein, ed. The Atomic Bomb: The Critical Issues (1976)
  
• Yoshida Takashi. The Making of the "Rape of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States (2006)
  
• John Okada. No-No Boy (1957)
  
• Robert Baer.  See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (2002)
  
• Andrew Sullivan.  The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back (2006)  My Commentary: One of the more profound observations of our modern society today.
• Jeannette Walls. The Glass Castle: A Memoir (2005)