The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Book List 2008

Week of August 11, 2008

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

by Ron Suskind

A Sense of Belonging: From Castro’s Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man’s Pursuit of the American Dream

by Mel Martinez

Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

by Philip P. Pan

Tropic Thunder [Blu-ray]

Week of August 4, 2008

Pineapple Express [Theatrical Release]

Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time

by Chuck Schumer

Week of July 28, 2008

Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters

by Nancy Pelosi, Amy Hill Hearth

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart

by Bill Bishop

Fighting Words: A Tale of How Liberals Created Neo-Conservatism

by Ben J. Wattenberg

Week of July 21, 2008

Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider’s Tale of Greed, Fraud, and Ignorance

by Richard Bitner

Step Brothers [Theatrical Release]

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution

by T. J. English

Week of July 14, 2008

The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves

by Andrew Ward

Mamma Mia! [Theatrical Release]

A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East

by Kenneth Pollack

The Dark Knight [Theatrical Release]

Week of June 23, 2008

Wanted [Theatrical Release]

Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin into a Global Business

by James Harding

Viva La Vida

Week of June 16, 2008

In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration

by David Iglesias

Get Smart [Theatrical Release]

The Love Guru (Single-Disc Edition)

Week of June 9, 2008

A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America

by Jim Webb

Dark Horse: A Political Thriller

by Ralph Reed

Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter

by Rick Shenkman

Week of June 2, 2008

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception

by Scott McClellan

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

by David Sedaris

Audition: A Memoir

by Barbara Walters

You Don’t Mess With the Zohan [Theatrical Release]

Week of May 26, 2008

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

by Matt Taibbi

Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent

by Fred Burton

Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters

by Richard A. Clarke

Week of May 12, 2008

War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

by Douglas J. Feith

Moyers on Democracy

by Bill Moyers

Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power

by John Harwood, Gerald F. Seib

Week of May 5, 2008

by Harry Reid, Mark Warren

The Post-American World

by Fareed Zakaria

Blogwars: The New Political Battleground

by David D. Perlmutter

Week of April 28, 2008

A Remarkable Mother

by Jimmy Carter

Days of Infamy

by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen

White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters

by Robert Schlesinger

Week of April 21, 2008

The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country

by Howard Fineman

Then She Found Me [Theatrical Release]

Week of April 14, 2008

Forgetting Sarah Marshall [Theatrical Release]

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration

by Jack L. Goldsmith

A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America

by Peter Steinfels

Week of April 7, 2008

Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

by Cokie Roberts

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

by Steve Coll

The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi

by Aram Roston

Week of March 31, 2008

America: Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions, Straight Answers

by Chuck Hagel, Peter Kaminsky

When Science Goes Wrong

by Simon LeVay

Safire’s Political Dictionary

by William Safire

Leatherheads [Theatrical Release]

Week of March 17, 2008

The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

by Brian Fagan

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate

by Sen. Arlen Specter

Week of March 10, 2008

Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives

by Grover Norquist

The U.S. Army Leadership Field Manual

by Leadership The Center For Army, Army Department of the

The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack

by Ronald Kessler

Week of March 3, 2008

The Seventeen Traditions

by Ralph Nader

Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World

by Martin Fletcher

Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis

by Tom Daschle

Week of February 25, 2008

Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership

by Madeleine Albright

Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America

by Allen C. Guelzo

Week of February 11, 2008

The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation

by Philip Shenon

Weekly Standard

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West

by Benazir Bhutto

Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

by Lee Siegel

Week of February 4, 2008

Project Runway – The Complete First Season

Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the ’60s and Today

by Tom Brokaw

The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

by Laton Mccartney

Week of January 28, 2008

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era

by Peggy Noonan

The Wall Street Journal (6-month subscription)

Week of January 21, 2008

The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America

by Jim Wallis

On The Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World)

by P. J. O’Rourke

Newsweek

Week of January 14, 2008

Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations

by John Bolton

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

by Jonah Goldberg

How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative

by Allen Raymond

Week of January 7, 2008

Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again

by David Frum

Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit

by Lou Dobbs

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