The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis. A highly-entertaining insider's view of the mortgage/financial debacle. http://www.amazon.com/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0...

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - Erik Larson Highly entertaining non-fiction that reads like fiction. Accounts of the build-up to hitler's Germany like you're actually there. http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Beasts-Terror-American-Hitlers/...

By invoking Nazi analogies to make your point, you're actually doing a disservice to your argument.

I just finished reading the NYT best-seller In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin [1]. It made me think that, notwithstanding Godwin's Law [2], citizens should continue to be mindful of what can happen in a 'civilized' society.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Beasts-Terror-American-Hitlers/... (not an affiliate link).

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law