In a blog written nearly two years ago I suggested that Marwan Barghouti was an Israeli intelligence operation. Now, with his likely release it is beginning to look like I read international intelligent data pretty well.
Joyce Appleby: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
Niall Ferguson: The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
Jonathan Israel: The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
Jerry Z. Muller: The Mind and the Market : Capitalism in Modern European Thought