Reason,
Your judgment on an enjoyable read is not one I would ever ignore. I've been thinking about something by Fareed Zakaria, Brian Fagan, Allen Guelzo, or more likely my first reading of Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, or Harris.
However, have now added Bill Moyers (whose contributions I've oft enjoyed as well) to my short list.
EDIT:
"Beyond what is officially labelled "secret" or "privileged" information, there hovers on the plantation a culture of selective official news implementation, working through favored media insiders to advance political agendas by leak and inuendo and spin... by outright propaganda mechanisms such as the misnamed "Public Information Offices" that churn out blizzards of facutally selective releases on a daily basis..."
