My vacation books

Your humble blogger is going on a family vacation where Internet oppotunities are limited and opportunities to play Whiffle ball with my son are plentiful.  In other words, all y'all shouldn't be expecting a lot of new posts.  However, this being a vacation, I'll be bringing some light and not-so-light reading material.  1)  David Rothkopf, Superclass.  As someone who flits on the margins of Davos, Aspen,  and other tony addresses, Rothkopf is well-placed to write a book about the rich and the powerful.  Part of the fun is seeing how Rothkopf walks the line between tweaking this uber-elite without alienating them. 2)  Benjamin J. Cohen, International Political Economy: An Intellectual History.  Cohen provides the first history of the IPE field, and marries this intellectual history to biographies of the seven "intellectual entrepreneurs" in the US and UK who have made the field what it is today.  3)  David Singh Grewal, Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization.  Grewal thinks he's cracked the code for how to use network dynamics to explain the myriad social reactions to globalizaion.  I think he's using the term "standard" a bit too freely, and the punk grad student fails to cite my work should have dipped into the existing literature a bit more.  That said, I suspect he's onto something.  4)  Elizabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice, and Marcus Mabry, Twice As Good.  For reasons that will become clearer in a few months, I'm on a Condi reading jag.  5)  Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch and Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth.  I'm on vacation, dammit -- I get to read fiction!!!