Looking for good reading material

Books on politics, the economy, and foreign policy.

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Gotta love the title at least, I haven't read it yet. =)

I'll look for it -- pretty new though, library probably won't have it.

Oh and when I say politics, I'm not just looking for books on today's politics, but also Stalin, Lenin, and all others who have had great political influence throughout history.

Lies and Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Dude, Where's My Country

You too can be on a list of Ashcroft's :)

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for older material on economics, John Kenneth Galbraith and Maynard Keynes

By Chomsky, Galbraith, and Keynes?

Have any recommendations for critiques of modern economic policies?

Lies and the lying liars who tell them. I havent, but I plan to. I hear its a interesting read.

anything by Carville, Conason or Franken.

by Zbigniew Brzezinski

The playbook for Neoconservative Imperialism.

worth a read.

howard zinn.

I started on a self-education mission a couple months ago and here is my list of 20 books. First are the ones I've read and then the one's I have in a stack yet to read. I also have a list of Chomsky books on my wish list if your're interested, as well as some other political readings I've come across since I started this quest.

Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth Joe Conason

Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America Molly Ivins

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters Greg Palast

What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News Eric Alterman

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Al Franken

Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And Its Time to Take It Back Jim Hightower

Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative By: David Brock

The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder
By: Mark Crispin Miller

The Clinton Wars
By: Sidney Blumenthal

Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
By: Michael Moore

Dude, Where's My Country?
By: Michael Moore

We're Right, They're Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives James Carville

Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
By: Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose



Books I have yet to read. I just started our own Will Pitt's, "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence: Four Years in America"


The Greatest Sedition Is Silence: Four Years in America
By: William Rivers Pitt

The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics
By: Ted Halstead, Michael Lind

The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception
By: David Corn

It's Still the Economy, Stupid : George W. Bush, The GOP's CEO
By: Paul Begala

The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
By: Paul Krugman

Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up : 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room
By: James Carville , Paul Begala

The HUNTING of the PRESIDENT – The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
By: Joe Conason & Gene Lyons

Sure, give the list of Chomsky books. Read Manufacturing Consent and Media Control. Good books.

It's all politcal reading cuz I'm a political junkie. Otherwise have a bunch of mystery novels from years ago.

I was told that as a beginner to Chomsky "Manufacturing Consent" and "Media Control" would not be good one's to start with because they would give me brain freezes, and that there were other no-so-heavy writings he did to for me begin with, so here are the Chomsky books on my wish list.

On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume
by Noam Chomsky, Mitsou Ronat

Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project)
by Noam Chomsky (Author)

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
by Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel (Editor), Peter R. Mitchell (Editor), Peter Mitchell


I also got a good tip on Howard Zin

The Twentieth Century : A People's History
by Howard Zinn (Author)

Declarations of Independence
by Howard Zinn

Other books on my list that i hope to get to.

The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition
by Timothy Patrick McCarthy (Editor), John McMillian (Editor)

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
by Kevin Phillips (Author)

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
by Gore Vidal

Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal Of American Democracy
by William Greider (Author)

The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism
by Michael Lerner

Globalization and Its Discontents
by Joseph E. Stiglitz

I just reread 1984 and now I'm looking for something that's actual like Goldstein's book -- you know: Chapter 1: Ignorance is Strength, Chapter 3: War is Peace.

I've heard it's very similar to Marx's Das Kapital, but it's seems like a tedious read - probably the fact I was reading it on a computer monitor is what's making it unenjoyable.

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, and The Iron Heel by Jack London. Also George Orwell's 1984 if you haven't read it already.

Very instructive reading. Note the parallels with what is happening to the U.S. under the Bush regime.

When I was a kid, I read the original Boxcar Children and Sideways Stories from Wayside School like a million times. Doesn't sound like that will interest you though. LOL, Good Luck with that!;)

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