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neverborn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 01:50 AM
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Reading Material
So. I need good left-wing material. Even though I have tons of books yet in the queue to read -- I need suggestions :)

I have in line to read:
Richard Clarke
"House of Bush, House of Saud"
Shrub - Molly Ivins
The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq

I have read or am reading:
The Price of Loyalty - Suskind
All the Michael Moore
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Franken
Big Lies - Conason
Hegemony or Survival - Chomsky
9/11 - Chomsky
Take Them At Their Words
Bushwhacked - Ivins
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:02 AM
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1. Kevin Phillips' "American Dynasty"
Yes, that Kevin Phillips. The Emerging Republican Majority Kevin Phillips. Excellent read.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:03 AM
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2. hmm lemme see
I recommend People's History of the US by Howard Zinn. The communist manifesto of course :D by Marx and Engels.
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:06 AM
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3. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Actually, I haven't read it yet, but I'm teaching a lesson on a few of his smaller poems tomorrow. The collected poems is on my reading list, too.
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ConsAreLiars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:23 AM
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4. Arundhati Roy
See this thread for why:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1264696
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neverborn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:39 PM
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5. Kick and...
:kick:

I do want interesting books. Some of Chomsky's stuff gets really dry and hard to read after a while.

Just getting more ideas, thanks guys, will check all these out :D
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