The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind published by Simon and Shuster, 2004.

This is an explosive account of the George W. Bush administration based on interviews primarily with Paul O'Neill, U.S. Treasury Secretary during the first two years of GWB's presidency. O'Neill is the first George W. cabinet member to resign and talk frankly about the secrecy and smugness of the administrations insiders.

The author was the Wall Street Journal's senior national affairs reporter from 1993 to 2000 and won the Pulitzer Price for Feature Writing. He appears frequently on PBS network news.

The Conscience of a Liberal by Senator Paul Wellstone, published by Random House, 2001.

The late Senator Paul Wellstone speaking for his Minnesota constituents and millions of other Americans said if you get beyond political labels you'll find the overwhelming majority of people don't like anything big--big government or big corporations. But they want the government to be on their side. People respond according to their sense of right and wrong. They respond to leadership of values.

He dedicated his life to the cause of economic justice and equal opportunity for all Americans. Fortunately for us he spelled out his goals and recommendations for achieving them before his untimely death in an airplane accident.

--Flo Wineriter