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I'm very pleased to announce the TAP Book Club. From time to time we will choose a book and get as many folks as possible to read it and then have discussion about it here. I'm really hoping that plenty of folks will choose to jump right in and I am also hoping that we may be able to get some of the authors themselves to join in the discussion and perhaps even be interviewed.
First, some ground rules:
1. The first rule of Book Club is that everyone talks about Book Club. Tell your friends. Tell anyone and everyone. Not only that, but everyone is welcome at Book Club and that all are encouraged to participate.
2. Anyone can nominate a book for Book Club. Hell, it doesn't even have to be official. Start one in the diaries if you want. Doesn't matter.
3. Have fun and hopefully learn something from both the books and the discussion. Dissenting voices are always encouraged.
 Our first book chosen for the Book Club was chosen by myself. (Feel free to tell me why I and the book itself suck in the comments.) It was chosen because a number of TAPpers received it as a holiday gift. (Thanks, Hannukah Harry! Thanks, Santa! Or, ya know, Mr and Mrs NYBri, as the case may be...) It is also a rather new release and is therefore pretty easy to find in bookstores and libraries for those who may have found themselves on the "naughty" list. What book am I talking about?
I'm talking about Three Men in a Room: The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse by Seymour P. Lachman (w/ Robert Polner). This book seems to me to be a perfect one to start our discussion from as it deals most intimately with the subject most pertinent to most of the discussion here at TAP. Hell, just read the first two sentences from chapter 1:
Democracy takes decades to take root and flourish. New York is learning that it takes just three men in a room to maim and seriously harm a vigorous and representative system of government.
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