Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society; edited by S.T. Joshi.

Ohio University Press

when he was a bit older (maybe 10th grade!) Paul Wellstone's The Conscience of a Liberal. It made a big impact on him. (Disclosure: he had grown up in Minnesota, and this was just after Wellstone's tragic death, so maybe that played into his interest. But perhaps it is still relevant and interesting to a younger reader, given that it deals with childhood memories and how they contributed to his eventual beliefs about justice and politics.)

http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-conscience-of-a-liberal

I never read Krugman's book, but I wonder if he credited Wellstone in it?

An Amazon description:
Publication Date: March 19, 1999
The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book -- with over 200,000 copies sold -- has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance's fateful trip. To write their authoritative story, Lansing consulted with ten of the surviving members and gained access to diaries and personal accounts by eight others. The resulting book has all the immediacy of a first-hand account, expanded with maps and illustrations especially for this edition.

Thank You

May be a little young for that, but we have talked about Anarchism (What I think I understand) it started because shares a birthday with Noam Chomsky. I do not consider myself to be an "Anarchist" nor do I believe I fully understand what "Anarchism" is... but I love me some punk!