Four More for the Wish List

Here are a couple of more writers that I would like to see come down for the Miami Book Fair International:

• Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War - Because any realist worth his salt can't read enough about the Peloponnesian War and Thucydides.

• George Weigel, The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God and God's Choice : Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church - Granted I don't usually agree with him but being theCardinal I of course have a vested interest in issues involving the Church.

• Stephen M. Walt, Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy - I'm always eager to see or hear from other realists, even if I don't agree with them.

• Francis Fukuyama, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century - Another guy I don't always agree with but he is always original and thought provoking. This book is actually over a year old, but shouldn't there be a paperback coming out soon?

By the way you can already get your tickets to the Book Fair...yes they will be charging this year but it will actually make it better. The Fair was getting so crowded that it felt like Calle Ocho but with fewer tattoos. At $5.00 the Fair is still a bargain for bibliophiles but should keep the loafers out.