Recent book I finished reading: "The Price of Liberty - Paying for America's Wars" by Robert D. Hormats

I found this to be a mostly interesting and informative read about the history of how America has financed most of its major wars. I found the beginning chapters about the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Civil War to be a bit slow, but as I got deeper into the book the pace seemed to pick-up. However, once I got to the very end it seemed to break down into an anti-Bush administration rant losing some of its perspective. I would think this is because the author was able to objectively examine the facts of the past and comment now that he has more future context around which to base his commentary. This made the chapters on WW1, WW2, Vietnam and the Cold War more interesting; whereas with the Iraq War and the War on Terror still very much going on he allows more subjective and biased commentary to creep in without the benefit of knowing what the ultimate outcome will be in future years. Furthermore, he reveals his liberal leanings with comments on global warming, the ill effects of the Bush tax cuts and other initiatives the current administration has enacted which he feels are leading us down a fiscally irresponsible path that will make us unable to effectively deal with terrorism and any other future problems this country is going to face.