i also can't seem to find the time to read as much as i used to. i used to get through a book a week. now i'm lucky if i READ 10 books a year, but i have gone full nerd and listen to books on CD from the library on the commute to work each day. here's a couple i've listened to lately.
Detroit - A Biography by Scott Martelle
tells the story of the city of Detroit from first settlement thru the auto boom and bust and touches on the current situation there. after watching The Wire (a story more about the city of Baltimore than drugs/cops) i've been interested in the story of the bigger cities in the us that seem to be off the radar except when something negative is happening.
Hitler's Furies - German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
i'll read anything about world war II and this one had some seriously disturbing sections. talks about women's roles in what happened in german occupied areas during WWII from typing up orders to actively participating in the killings themselves.
Dead Run: The Murder of Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt in the Modern American West - Dan Schultz
came across this by accident while browsing. i had never heard this story before reading the book. here's a copy and paste of the synopsis
"On a sunny May morning in 1998, three friends in a stolen truck passed through Cortez, Colorado on their way to commit sabotage of unspeakable proportions. Evidence suggests their mission was to blow up the Glen Canyon dam. Had they succeeded, the structure's collapse would have unleashed a 500-foot-high inland tsunami, surging across the American Southwest and pulverizing everything in its path
Instead, the truck was pulled over by an unsuspecting small town cop and the outlaws opened fire. After shooting him twenty times, they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and vanished into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. The pursuit that ensued pitted the most sophisticated law enforcement technology on the planet against three self-trained survivalists. Nine years later the last of the fugitives was finally accounted for, but what really happened to them remained shrouded in mystery."