Contains all noms and seconds to this point. The stuff with seconds is on the top of the list. (I have withdrawn some of my nominations, since I got the books and I don't like them!) :)
1-- TaleWgnDg: "Crimes Against Nature" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
who is an environmental attorney as well as an environmental activist. Kennedy gives fantastic insight and information about GWBush's environmental catastrophe. It's done with factual information backed up with sources, cites, and endnotes.
**seconded by Tafiti
**seconded by Fleurs du Mal
**seconded by AZDemDist6
2-- Dem Bones Dem Bones: "Imperial Hubris" by Anonymous
About why the U.S. does not understand Osama bin Laden's motivations and why we will not succeed in establishing democracy in the tribal Islamic society of Afghanistan, or fare much better in Iraq.
**seconded by DebJ
**Seconded by 48percenter
3-- OMG: "Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu
Ghraib" by Seymour Hersh
**seconded by Dem Bones Dem Bones
4-- Dem Bones Dem Bones: "American Dynasty" by Kevin Phillips
(about the Bushes)
**seconded by DebJ
5-- Dem Bones Dem Bones: "Against All Enemies" byRichard Clarke
about the screw ups, and the right things done by, four different American presidents that led us to our current situation
**seconded by DebJ
6-- Tesebria: "Charlie Wilson's War" by George Crile
Great book b/c it is funny, however horrifying, and very revealing about how government really (?!) works
**Seconded by crispini
7-- mike6640: "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393315703/qid=1... It is a thesis on evolution and the complexity of life, one step at a time. Dawkins does a pretty good job quoting and rebutting the 'creationist' arguments.
**seconded by Tesibria
8-- Fleurs du Mal: "Freedom Evolves" by Daniel Dennett
**seconded by Tangledog
9-- HuckleB: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. Confessions is simply something that doesn't come along very often. This book should be required reading for every American. Period. Anyone who even begins to wonder why we are in Iraq, why we ousted Allende, why we foment uprisings against Chavez, and on and on and on can no longer wonder, once they have read this book. It's a first-hand account that leaves no question behind.
**seconded by CitySky
10--katinmn: Garrison Keillor's "Homegrown Democrat"
seconded by CitySky
11- OrwellwasRight: Wealth & Democracy--Phillips
seconded by CitySky
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Tesebria: Truth and Consequences: Seven who would not besilenced, by Greg Mitchell (available used at www.amazon.com, www.powells.com and www.abebooks.com ). Story of 7 whistleblowers - the good, bad and gly. Just got this book - Studs Terkel gave glowing review.
Fleurs du Mal: Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court Vs. the American People by Jamin B. Raskin.
Tesebria: Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan, by Mary Anne Weaver. Quick read, fascinating insights into both Pakistan and Afghanistan
Tesebria: The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy, by Noreena Hertz. Another book I just got on the strong recommendation of several friends. "Fast becoming the central text of the antiglobalization movement," according to Christian Science Monitor
Dem Bones Dem Bones: "Iron Triangle" is a must read. It's about the Carlyle Group, as I recall.
OrwellwasRight: Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Revised Edition)--Palast
OrwellwasRight: Downsizing Democracy--Crenson & Ginsberg
48percenter: Lakoff: Moral Politics
48percenter: Lou Dobbs: Exporting America
48percenter: Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff, 1983
billyoc: Hegemony or Survival -- Noam Chomsky. An analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow.
HuckleB: Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi... In my opinion, Resurrecting Empire, is the most history-based evaluation of
administration policy around. It definitely should have gotten better coverage, and bigger sales. Much of what Khalidi informs us, remains outside the debate today, though the content is absolutely necessary to the debate.
AP: Twilight of Equality by Lisa Duggan.
Maddy McCall: Will D. Campbell's Brother to a Dragonfly.
It's about growing up in the south during Jim Crow from the white perspective, and it details the events that led him to be a founding member of MLK's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Simultaneously, while he was fighting for black civil rights (he was with the Little Rock nine when they tried to integrate Little Rock high school), he was trying to nurse his brother through drug
addiction. I PROMISE that this book will not disappoint. Please trust me on this book. Please. Everyone to whom I have lent it has said that it was life altering, as far as their perspective on
race relations in the South. The stories of white progressives are rarely told. Will D. Campbell deserves hero status.
Crispini: "Fraud of the Century" by Roy Morris Jr.
From the Amazon.com review: "Stop me if you've heard this one: election night comes and goes and the race between two American presidential candidates is too close to call. The popular vote supports the reticent Democrat, but the well-connected Republican is named president after a lengthy and controversial fight over recounts and electoral votes. Of course, we're speaking of the 1876 contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden as chronicled in Fraud of the Century by historian Roy Morris Jr."
hfojvt: "Social Security: The Phony Crisis"
Dean Baker; Paperback; $9.00
crispini: "The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media like Real People and Places." by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass.
CitySky: People's History of the United States
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