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In this special edition, CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon, CFR's Director of Studies Jim Lindsay and Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy Gayle Lemmon start off the summer with a list of books that they will be reading in the weeks ahead. Listen in for recommendations from their reading lists.
Gayle's Picks:
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, by Mihir Desai
Code Girls, by Liza Mundy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, by Souad Mekhennet
"Halt and Catch Fire" on AMC
"Berlin Station" on EPIX
Robert's Picks:
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones
Redeployment, by Phil Klay
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann
"All Things Considered," produced by BBC Wales
Jim's Picks:
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, by Dean Acheson
Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy and Ted Sorenson
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam, by Mark Bowden
"Dunkirk," dir. Christopher Nolan (U.S. release date: July 21, 2017)
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