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"Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much" by Maggie Mahar
"It Takes a Pillage : Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street" by Nomi Prins
"Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform" by Dr/Gov Howard Dean
"Crash Proof" by Peter Schiff, of Euro Pacific Capital
"The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry" by William K. Black
"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
"Jacked: How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not)" by Nomi Prins
"Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America" by Nomi Prins
"The Inheritance : The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power" by David Sanger
"The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy" by William Greider
"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
"Growing Up Empty" by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel gives the shocking story of life on the other side of the tracks - the hunger that still plagues millions of impoverished Americans and their children. This gripping book is described as an eye-witness account of a worsening epidemic of human suffering that need not exist. "Skillful investigative reporting and a novelist's sympathetic and humanistic eye for detail."
"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.
"Votes, Money and the Clinton Impeachment" by Irwin L. Morris. Professor Morris argues that "our current system of campaign finance enabled House Republicans to impeach the president and provided them with the means to retain their majority in the House." Even though a majority of the people in their Districts opposed these impeachers' effort, the lure of money for politics prevailed.

"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

Large Bullet "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

Large Bullet "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

"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"

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