Scott Ritter has a new book out: Target Iran: The Truth about the White House’s Plans for Regime Change. You can imagine all too well what Ritter has to say. It isn’t pretty.

Christian Alfonsi has: Circle In the Sand: Why We Went Back to Iraq Says Bill Moyers: “A riveting can’t-put-it-down account of how history kicks back and keep getting it wrong.”

And for something more practical, and optimistic, we have Bill Scher’s Wait, Don’t Move to Canada. He’s over at FireDogLake being interviewed. Lots of good talk about the book.

I ran into an old friend at Book Passage in Corte Madera following the great Jerry McNerney fund raiser Wednesday evening (more later.) He was there reading, with others, from a new Maxine Hong Kingston edited book, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. Maxine has been running writing-and-meditation workshops for veterans and their families for many years. These 80 or so short peices, mostly memoir, are a result of that work. From my brief reading so far it’s a book many of you will want on your night table, to read slowly and then to meditate: war does not end when the war ends. [If you hurry over there are still autographed copies available.]

And finally, Barak Obama has a new book out, The Audacity of Hope, prompting speculation by the Chicago Tribune that a Presidential run may come sooner rather than later. [By the way, Bay Area folks, Obama is at Marin Civic Center, Exhibition Hall, Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:00 noon.]