MB Civic

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Chait-t.html?sq=chait&st=nyt&scp=1&pagewanted=print

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill), by David Cay Johnston

“A reporter chronicles how corporate abuse at the top has hurt those below.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/books/04thom.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Commission, by Philip Shenon

“Not wanting to point fingers and name names — and set off partisan wrangling among the commissioners — the 9/11 Commission shied away from holding anyone personally accountable. The commission ended up blaming structural flaws for the government’s failure to protect the nation and recommended appointing a national intelligence director to ride herd. The nation now has such a director, but with weaker authority than what the commission proposed, and the position may turn out to be no more than another layer of bureaucracy. Ultimately, as Mr. Shenon shows, the failure at the highest levels of the United States government was human. That is the real back story of 9/11.”