A regular sampling of the best articles, reviews, essays, and reviews from around the web.

Speed Read: The top 11 revelations of Taylor Branch’s Clinton Tapes (The Daily Beast)

* Related Title: Giving by Bill Clinton

50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know (The Telegraph)

* Related Title: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman

All You Need to Know About the 2009 Booker Prize (Guardian)

* Related Title: Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini

A Conversation with William Safire (Fresh Air with Terry Gross)

* Related Title: Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

The Waxing and Waning of America’s Political Right (New York Times)

* Related Title: Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party by Max Blumenthal