A Book Under the Proverbial Tree

Trey Smith

As the Baroness mentioned earlier today, I had pitched a suggestion to my fellow scribes that we each pen a post of book recommendations for this gift giving season. My thinking is that you can never go wrong with a good book. The trick, of course, is that what the giver thinks is a fantastic book may not appear so to the receiver!

Since I utilize the books I read as typical fodder for blog posts, I have decided not to bore you with a bunch of recycled text that you may (or may not have) already read once before. I will simply point you to the posts themselves, in the case of non-Taoist books, and suggest you click on the Taoist Resources page (or my Taoist Book Reviews) for a good sized list of books related to Taoism.

• Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook
• Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) by David Cay Johnson
• With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald
• The Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
  
• Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America by Matt Taibbi
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean