Last weekend was a flurry of finishing books I’ve started but never finished.

It’s My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America

by Christine Todd Whitman

Not a bad book. She definitely takes the social conservatives to task. I take her for being someone who truly cares about conservation (I hate using the term environmentalist). Its mostly an autobiography, her time growing up in the GOP, her run for state legislature, then senate and eventually Governor of NJ. She was W’s first EPA secretary. Her experience there wasn’t pleasant, and she was less than thrilled with Cheney and the GOP Congressional leadership.

Kremlin Rising : Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution

by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser.

Two Washington Post foreign corespondents describe life under Yeltsin and Putin. You can tell they have an anti-Bush bias, but since the story is mostly about Putin it is tolerable. The authors have the typical American “democracy is grrreat!” attitude, and it colors their writing. Still it is a good, detailed story of what has been going on in Russia the past 5 years and worth a read.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

by P. J. O’Rourke

Dated but still funny. Written under the first George Bush, it lampoons idiots in Congress, the President, K-Street and the media. P. J. O’Rourke rocks!

Next up on the reading queue:

I need to fit some fiction in sometime.