15 Books to Consider Reading This Fall/Winter

[YankeeLeft7x]

1. Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans By Wendell Potter
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press; 1 edition (November 9, 2010)

2. Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America By Matt Taibbi
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (November 2, 2010)

3. Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians By Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Haymarket Books; Original edition (November 9, 2010)

4. Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War By Andrew Bacevich
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Metropolitan Books; 1 edition (August 3, 2010) (American Empire Project)

5. Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope By Chalmers Johnson
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Metropolitan Books (August 17, 2010) (American Empire Project)

6. The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy By William Pfaff
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Walker & Company; 1 edition (May 25, 2010)

7. The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's By Tom Engelhardt
Paperback: 269 pages
Publisher: Haymarket Books (July 1, 2010)

8. Death of the Liberal Class By Chris Hedges
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Nation Books (October 17, 2010)

9. The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street By Robert Scheer
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Nation Books (September 7, 2010)

10. Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future By Robert B. Reich
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf (September 21, 2010)

11. The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power By Paul Street
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers (September 15, 2010)

12. The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism By Roger D. Hodge
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Harper (October 5, 2010)

13. The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad By Tariq Ali
Hardcover: 168 pages
Publisher: Verso (October 17, 2010)

14. Politics After Hope: Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race and Democracy (The Radical Imagination) By Henry A. Giroux
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers (April 30, 2010)

15. Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of Greed (Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy) By Henry A. Giroux
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers (March 28, 2008)

[elocs]

1. Wow! That's sure some escapism and light reading.

Unfortunately I've pretty much given up reading books, although I think I did read one last year. The old eyes aren't what they once were.

[Zoigal]

3. Consider an e reader. You can make the print larger and some have

back up light which really helps my old eyes. Good luck.....z

[elocs]

7. Yeah, the print size is a problem, but I've trained myself over the years

to where reading a book means it's time to go to sleep. Consequently it takes me a long time to get through any book because I start to doze off after a chapter or so.

[pnorman]

23. Consider also spoken word books, such as`from Audible.com.

I haven't checked the above list yet, but I expect that many will be available there. I have several by Chalmers Johnson and Noam Chomsky.

Downloaded into a`pocket media player (including many cell phones), you can listen while doing most of your daily rounds. The narration is generally good to excellent

[malaise]

2. Nice list

Thanks

[nashville_brook]

4. Hedges' new book is totally on my list.

great list!

[Bigmack]

9. "Empire of Illusion" by Hedges (2009) is great, too. nt

[nashville_brook]

11. War is a Force that Gives us Meaning was amazing too! btw -- here's Hedges lecturing on Death/Lib

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYCvSntOI5s&p=FE9840C48B6291E2

this is powerful.

[jwirr]

5. Thank you. I will have to see if the library has some of them. nt

[SidDithers]

6. Unrec...nt

Sid

[apocalypsehow]

15. Yep. People obviously aren't paying close attention to the entire list. n/t.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Rec for reading! Here is my list ( I own stock in none of these)

Tom Paine "Rights of Man"

Leonardo Boff "St. Francis: A Model for Human Liberation"

Roland Barthes "Mythologies"

Max Webber "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism."

Angela Davis "Women, Race and Class"

W.J. Cash "Mind of the South"

Philp Gourevich "We Regret to Inform You That We Will Be Killed Tomorrow"

Gore Vidal "United States: Essays"

Gary Webb "Dark Alliance"

Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72"

[YankeeLeft7x]

10. Yes

Yes, I have some of these books, too.

[nashville_brook]

12. haven't thought about Webber in a while -- might have to pull out my copy.

[HughBeaumont]

13. Both of David Cay Johnston's books, just to let you know how badly you're being screwn.

[corkhead]

14. You left out "The Propheteer". A very annoying flash ad tells me it is good

[Bullet1987]

16. Great list! I may pick up #5

[applegrove]

17. I'm definitely going to read Matt Taibbi's book. BOOKMARKED!

[donheld]

18. If I read all those books I'd only read one more

The Final Exit

[clyrc]

19. 3 of those were already on my reading list

i just hope I can find them. If not, I will look for them when I'm back in the US next summer.

[Skittles]

20. looking for a new book to read, and I've picked one off your list

Matt Taibbi; THANKS

[WizardLeft62]

21. 14 & 15 seem interesting

14. Politics After Hope: Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race and Democracy (The Radical Imagination) By Henry A. Giroux
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers (April 30, 2010)

15. Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of Greed (Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy) By Henry A. Giroux
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers (March 28, 2008)

[Catherina]

22. Bookmarked for winter reading. Rec'd