Favorite Books for Holiday Giving 2009
The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office by David Blumenthal and James A. Morone is probably the most important book I read this year—important because of the perspective it offers on healthcare reform through a systematic analysis of how each president since Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted and largely failed at healthcare reform.
Strength in What Remains: A journal of remembrance and forgiveness by Tracy Kidder is a moving story about Deo, a young doctor who survived his native Burundi and Rwanda, only to find himself on the streets of New York.
I don’t know why I had never read The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coehlo until a good friend gave me a copy this year. It’s never too late!
Inside Steve’s Brain (Expanded Edition) by Leander Kahney is an entertaining and educational account of the ways of Steve Jobs and his innovations. Treat yourself!
And finally, an oldie but goodie that I read again this year, Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik is an engaging and delicious account of Paris (and France) from a New Yorker’s point of view.