Mika Brzezinski
The two most respected figures in American foreign policy define the international challenges facing the next president in the must-read foreign policy book of the season.
Welcome to Julie’s Recommended Reading page. Here you will find a list of books personally suggested by Give and Take’s guests and prominent public figures. The list reflects the program’s wide range of subjects and the vibrant personalities that appear on the show. Check back often to find out which titles each new guest or featured newsmaker has recommended just for you.
Ann Veneman
Long Island native William Powers is one of only a small number of Westerners who have lived long-term in Liberia and traveled throughout the country. In 1999, he began a two-year assignment directing food distribution, agriculture, and education programs for the largest non-governmental relief group in Liberia. In this novel-like memoir, Powers describes his eye- opening experiences of living and working in a beautiful but endangered African country torn apart by war, arms trafficking, diamond smuggling, ecological destruction, and the spread of AIDs, and in which global institutions are unable to contain these ongoing threats to stability.
Cristina Cuomo
How It Ended: New and Collected Stories
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation and whose seventh and most recent, The Good Life, was an acclaimed national best seller, a collection of stories new and old that trace the arc of his career over nearly three decades. Only seven of these stories have ever been collected in a book, but all twenty-six unveil and re-create the manic flux of our society.
Emily Rafferty
A Moveable Feast (The Restored Edition)
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author intended it to be published.
Shamim Jawad
One day in 1993, high up in the world's most inhospitable mountains, Greg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world's deadliest peak. When the people of an impoverished village in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya took him in and nursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive promise: He would return one day and build them a school.
Lucy Danziger
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist's life. Still as vital today-or perhaps even more so-than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work.
Diana Taylor
Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
A masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe. The narrative is certainly elegant and the arguments are on-target; the author lambastes shoddy risk management at financial firms, the foolish principles that have guided the behavior of sophisticated Wall Street traders and the common man in this current crisis, and the problems caused by the new complexities of the financial markets.
Betsy Gotbaum
Christopher Dickey, who has reported on international terrorism for more than twenty-five years, takes readers into the secret command center of the New York City Police Department's counterterrorism division, then onto the streets with cops ready for the toughest urban combat the twenty-first century can throw at them.
