Essayist and columnist, Frank Rich began his career as the scourge of Broadway as the influential theater critic for The New York Times before moving on the paper’s op-ed pages as a passionate political commentator who took the Bush administration to task over it’s post-September 11 erosion of civil rights and its disastrous military escapades in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Below are Frank Rich’s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually.