“12 Axioms”, John Russell & Greg Baldwin

My Mississippi Story Jake Tanzer

Aftershock, Robert Reich

The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House, Bob Woodward

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Ray Kurzweil

Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman

Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

Angler: The Cheney Vice-presidency, Barton Gellman

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shille

The Arabs, David Lamb

Arabs and Jews, David Shipler

Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez

Arrogant Capital, Kevin Phillips

Bad Money, Kevin Phillips

Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan

 A Bed for the Night, David Rieff

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Wallace Stegner

Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future, Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America, J. Anthony Lukas

Birds without Wings, Louis De Bernieres

The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan

Bowling Alone: The Collapse & Revival of American Community, Robert D. Putnam

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson

The Bridge over the Drina, Ivo Andric

Cadillac Desert, Mark Reisner

The Call of Stories, Robert Coles

The Catastrophist, Ronan Bennett

The City in Mind, James Howard Kunstler

A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, Laurie Garrett

The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw

Community and the Politics of Place, Daniel Kemmis

Composing a Life, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Constant Gardner, John Le Carre

The Content of our Character, Shelby Steele

Conversations with Myself, Nelson Mandela

Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

Country Driving, Peter Hessler

Crescent & Star: Turkey between Two Worlds, Stephen Kinzer

Deadly Spin, Wendell Potter

The Disuniting of America, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Earth in the Balance, Al Gore

The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars, Andrew Pham

The End of the Hunt, Thomas Flanagan

The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life, Robert Goolrick

Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser

Fire at Eden’s Gate, Brent Walth

The Fortune Cookies Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, Jennifer Lee

Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis

Four Fish, Paul Greenberg

The Future of Freedom, Fareed Zakaria

The Future of the Past, Alexander Stille

The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

The Great Chinese Revolution, John King Fairbank

The Great Game: on Secret Service in High Asia, Peter Hopkirk

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World, Paul Gilding

Guns, Germs, Steel, Jared Diamond

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicolas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Higher Education in the Portland Area, Report of the Governor’s Commission

The Hours, Michael Cunningham

Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson

A Hundred Little Hitlers, Elinor Langer

Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, Robert McNamara

In the Time of the Americans, David Fromkin

India: from Midnight to the Millenium, Shashi Tharoor

Infinite in All Directions, Freeman Dyson

The Invisible Wall, W. Michael Blumenthal

It’s a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America after September 11, Danny Goldberg

Jerusalem: The Biography, Simon Sebag Montefiore

Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, Steven T. Wax

The Koran

Le Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life, Elaine Sciolino

Let the Sea Make a Noise, Walter A. McDougall

The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, James Howard Kunstler

Loving Kindness, Annie Roiphe

The Man from Beijing, Henning Mankell

Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes

May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons, Elisabeth Bumiller

Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, Ross King

The Most Powerful Idea in the World, William Rosen

The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up in the Big Dry, Joe Wilkins

Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

My Life in France, Julia Child

The New Chinese Empire, Ross Terrel;

The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng, Harrison Salisbury

The New Russians, Hedrick Smith

The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin

Nixon and Kissinger, Robert Dallek

Of Paradise and Power, Robert Kagan

The Oath, Jeffrey Toobin

Oregon land use story, reading materials supplied by John Russell 

The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River, Richard White

Our Choices, Al Gore

Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter

Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer

Perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev

Personal History, Kathryn Graham

Politics of the Rich and Poor, Kevin Phillips

Power, Faith & Fantasy, Michael Oren

President Kennedy, Richard Reeves

The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future, Joseph E. Stiglitz

The Promised Land: the Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, Nicholas Lemann

Race Matters, Cornel West

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi

Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916, Peter De Rosa

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Paul Kennedy

The Road to Hell, Michael Maren

Salt, Mark Kurlansky

Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools, Jonathan Kozol

The Secret Book of Grazia del Rossi, Jacqueline Park

The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein

The Sixth Extinction, Richard Leakey

Snow, Maureen Freely

So Help Me God, Forrest Church

The Sorrows of Empire, Chalmers Johnson

State of the World 1990: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society, Alan Durning et al.

Supreme Command, Eliot Cohen

“Sustainability” as reflected in articles by William Ruckelshaus and Stephen Schneider, Scientific American, September 1989; article in Wall Street Journal, September 19, 1989, on the dying ecosystem around the Aral Sea

Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs

Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Tenants of Time, Thomas Flanagan

This Place on Earth, Alan Durning

Three Billion New Capitalists, Clyde Prestowitz

Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, Adam Hockschild

Traitor to His Class: the Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H. W. Brands

“Turmoil in Eastern Europe” letter refers enclosed articles but they were not attached

The Two Americas, Stanley B. Greenberg

War in a Time of Peace, David Halberstam

Wayne Morse: A Political Biography, Mason Drukman

We Did Nothing, Linda Polman

“What I Did This Summer” discussion

What It Takes, R. Ben Cramer

What Went Wrong, author not identified

When Things Start to Think, Neil Gershenfeld

Why Americans Hate Politics, E. J. Dionne, Jr

Why the West Rules for Now, Ian Morris 

With Wit & Grace, Betty Roberts

Wood Works: The Life & Writings of Charles Erskine Scott Woods, Edwin Bingham & Tim Barnes

World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Amy Chua

The Year of the French, Thomas Flanagan

You Just Don’t Understand, Deborah Tannen