I have been on a history kick for the last year.

Water and power (about the theft of the Owen’s valley water rights by LA). I finished it a while back, but I can’t take it off the nightstand.

Blood and thunder (about Kit Carson and the settlementconquering of the west). Half way through.

They both put our ranquous political times in needed perspective. We live an an era of unparalleled transparency.

Btw, Polk was a unappreciated man of epic proportions, and a Eunuch to boot!