Bing West: "BarackObama approved the deployment of an additional 22,000 troops." [The Wrong War] Af-Pak Books dld.bz/PT6y

Jonathan Alter: ".. dozens of campaign promises Obama quickly kept .." [The Promise] Politics Books dld.bz/P6DR

"It's one man, many women," Stephanie Coontz citing examples from the Old Testament. [A Strange Stirring] Books dld.bz/PvtE

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Gabrielle Hamilton: ".. she was stewing and braising and simmering to feed.." [#Blood, Bones & Butter] Books dld.bz/QjsJ

Laura Ingraham: "... conclusions about Obama, his intimates, and their designs." [The Obama Diaries] Books dld.bz/RVp4

Abu Ghraib and its follow-on effects, including the continued drum-beat... [Donald Rumsfeld: Known and Unknown] Memoirs dld.bz/K9cd

Maryn McKenna: MRSA kills almost 19,000 Americans annually [Superbug] Nonfiction Books Medicine Health dld.bz/JgwB

Fresh Air began in 1975 at an NPR affiliate, WHYY in Philadelphia. [NPRFreshAir Books] dld.bz/JgwB Interesting Nonfiction

Obama: Gramps was told, "Talk to your daughter! White girls don't play with coloreds in this town!" [Dreams... My Father] dld.bz/N3KY