Rolling Stone political columnist Matt Taibbi's books include
Spanking the Donkey: On the Campaign Trail with the Democrats,
Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire, and
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire.
He told
Newsweek about his five most important books.
Number One on the list:
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.
I've probably read this book 50 times. A great novel about how human society is basically an unbroken string of tragic misunderstandings.
Read about
the other four titles.
--Marshal Zeringue
