Unger and Engdahl -- Two Good Reads On These Issues

[Yosie]

1. "House of Bush, House of Saud : The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties" by Craig Unger

-Popular "People Magazine" and "Michael Moore" type expose of the ties between the House of Saud and the House of Bush.

2. "A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order" by F. William Engdahl

-Academic, footnotes, good bibliography -- on what I call the "Petroleum-Political Complex" - Not a fast read.

(Thanks to several other appenders who turned me on to this book- My copy of Engdahl arrived from Amazon today)

[Wwagsthedog]

1. Read #1 and endorse your observation.

Local library has #2 on order so I put me on the wait list.

[Englander]

2. Do you realise that this is the I/P forum;

not the Book Club;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=209

nor the Foreign Affairs forum?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=116

And have you seen this?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x21970

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