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Political Books |
"Money-Driven
Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much" by Maggie Mahar |
"Howard Dean's Prescription
for Real Healthcare Reform" by Dr/Gov Howard
Dean |
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"The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the
Midst of a Big One" by David Kilcullen |
"The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military
Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008" by Thomas E. Ricks |
"Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America"
by Nomi Prins |
"The Dark Side : The Inside Story of How The War on Terror
Turned into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer |
"Healthcare, Guaranteed : A Simple, Secure Solution for
America" by Ezekiel Emanuel and Victor Fuchs |
"Robin
Hood Was Right:
A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change" by Chuck Collins et
al. "Change, not charity," is the way this
co-director of United for a Fair Economy, urges people of means to direct their
charitable contributions toward addressing "the root causes of social problems,"
rather than reinforcing the status quo, dependency and control. Lots of detailed
suggestions. |
"The
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by
Naomi Klein |
"Best
Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours"
by Phillip Longman |

"Failed
States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy"
by Noam Chomsky
"Armed
Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White
House Gone Wild" by Greg Palast
"Conservatives
Without Conscience" by John Dean, former
Nixon cabinet member
"American
Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money
in the 21stCentury"by Kevin Phillips
"The
Good Fight: Why Liberals -- and Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and
Make America Great Again" by Peter Beinart
"Take
It Back: A Battle Plan for Democratic Victory" by James Carville
& Paul Begala
"Foxes
in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What
the Democrats Must Do to Run 'em Out" by
Steve Jarding & Dave Saunders
"Money,
Power, & Elections: How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy"
by Rodney A. Smith
"The
Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World"
by Alan Greenspan
"The
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by
Naomi Klein (related
video)

"Dead
Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush" by Robert Draper
"Blood
& Oil: How America's Thirst for Petrol is Killing Us"
by Michael Klare
"Supercapitalism:
The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life"
by Robert Reich, former Clinton cabinet member
"Broken
Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Branches" by John Dean, former
Nixon cabinet member
"When
Corporations Rule the Earth" by David Korten, Yes!
magazine editor
"Sin
Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories"
by Lavaca Collective
"Blackwater:
The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" by Jeremy
Scahill
"The
Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA"
by Jonathan Kwitney
"Charlie
Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Confress and a
Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times" by
George Crile

"Pigs
at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America"
by Arianna Huffington
"Hostile
Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government -- And How We
Take It Back" by David Sirota
"Undercover
Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor -- And Why You
Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!" " by
Tim Harford
"Freakonomics:
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven
Levitt
"Knowledge
and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery"
by David Warsh
"The
(Mis)behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin And Reward"
by Benoit Mandelbrot & Richard Hudson
"Corporate
Predators : The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy"
by Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
"Corporation
Nation" by Charles Derber
"Spectres
of Capitalism" by Samir Amin & Shane
Mage
"The
Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"
by G. Edward Griffin

"Global
Spin : The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism" by
Sharon Beder
"The
War Against the Greens : The 'Wise-Use' Movement, the New Right, and Anti-Environmental
Violence" by David
Helvarg
"Earth
for Sale : Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash"
by Brian Tokar
"Environmental
Injustices, Political Struggles : Race, Class, and the Environment"
editor David Cuesta-Camacho
"The
Struggle for Ecological Democracy : Environmental Justice Movements in the United
States (Democracy and Ecology)"
editors Daniel Faber & Carl Anthony
"Betrayal
of Science and Reason : How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future"
by Paul Ehrlich & Anne Ehrlich
"Losing
Ground : American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century"
by Mark Dowie
"Bushworld:
Enter at Your Own Risk" by Maureen Dowd
"Why
Americans Hate Politics" by E. J. Dionne, Jr.
"A
Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide"
by Samantha Power

"10
Steps to Repair American Democracy" by Steven Hill
"State
of Denial: Bush at War, Part III" by Bob Woodward
"Hegemony
or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" by Noam Chomsky
"The
Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track"
by Thomas Mann
"One
Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century"
by Tom Hamburger, Peter Wallsten
"Fiasco"
by Thomas Ricks
"Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins
"The
Shield and the Cloak : The Security of the Commons" by Gary Hart
"Cobra
II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq" by Michael
Gordon & Bernard Trainor
"Running
On Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future
and What Americans Can Do About It" by Peter G. Peterson

"America
the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism"
by Stephen Flynn
"Crossing
the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil"
by Michael C. Ruppert
"Breaking
the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last Dictators by 2025"
by Mark Palmer
"New
Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy" by Ralph Peters
"The
Case Against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power"
by William Greider, Ralph Nader, Margaret Eleanor Atwood
"Exporting
America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas" by
Lou Dobbs
"The
Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade
are Sinking American Living Standards" by Alan Tonelson
"Courting
Disaster: The Unmaking of American Law" by Martin Garbus
"Corporate
Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry" by P.W.
Singer
"Children
at War" by P.W. Singe

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"Ufos,
JFK and Elvis : Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe"
by Richard Belzer.
FDR
"Franklin
Delano Roosevelt" (The American Presidents)
"Correspondence
Between Stalin, Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill and Attlee During World War II"
"Franklin
and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship"
