Books for Liberals
Bold Important
Contents
Government, Social Services and
Lifestyles
Increased Inequality and Private
Risk
Autobiographies and
Biographies
Recent
Political History
2008 Elections and Barack Obama
Turning States from Red to Blue
Liberal Values
Raymond
Arsenault (ed.), 1991, Crucible of
Peter Beinart, 2006, The Good Fight, Why Liberals—and Only
Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make
Alan Brinkley, 1998, Liberalism and
Its Discontents
Senator
Robert C. Byrd, 2004, Losing
Glenn Greenwald, 2006, How Would a Patriot Act?
Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
Gary Hart, 2002, Restoration of the Republic, the
Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century
Thom Hartman,
2004, What Would
Neil
Jumonville and Kevin Mattson (eds.), 2007, Liberalism for a New Century
Caroline Kennedy (Editor), 2003, A Patriot’s Handbook, Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating
the Land We Love
Richard C. Leone and Greg
Anrig, Jr. (eds.), 2003 , The War on Our
Freedoms, Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism
Michael Lux, 2009, The
Progressive Revolution. How the Best in
John McGowan, 2007, American Liberalism, An
Interpretation for Our Time
John E. Schwarz, 2005, Freedom Reclaimed, Rediscovering the American Vision
Harvard Sitkoff (ed), Perspectives on
Modern American, Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
Paul Starr,
2007, Freedom’s Power, The True Force of
Liberalism
Cass R. Sunstein, 2004, The Second Bill of Rights, FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need
it More than Ever
Paul Wellstone,
2001, The Conscience of a Liberal
Jules Witcover, 2003, Party
of the People, A History of the Democrats
Alan Wolfe, 2009, The Future of Liberalism
Randall B. Woods, 2006, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition
Donna Zajonc, The Politics of Hope, Reviving the Dream of
Democracy
John
Zogby, 2008, The Way We’ll Be, The Zogby
Report on the Transformation of the American Dream
Duane
Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin,
1993, Your Money or Your Life
Christian Liberalism
Dan Brown, The DaVinci Code
William Slone Coffin, Credo
Donna Cross, Pope Joan
Michael Lerner, The Left Hand of God,
Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Bishop John Shelby Spong, Rescuing
the Bible from Fundamentalism
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
Clint Wallis and Nate
Hardcastle (eds.), Jesus is not a
Republican
Jim Wallis, 2005, God’s
Politics, Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. A New Vision for Faith and Politics in
Mark
Stricherz, 2007, Why the Democrats Are
Blue. Secular Liberalism and the Decline
of the People’s Party
Grass
Roots Organizing
Saul Alinsky, 1946, Reveille for Radicals.
Saul Alinsky, 1972, Rules for Radicals.
The
following books about the
R. Brian
Stanfield, 1900, The Courage to Lead
R. Brian Stanfield, 2002, The Workshop
Book: From Individual Creativity to Group Action
Laura Spencer, 1989, Winning
Through Participation
Institute of Cultural Development, 1989, Approaches that Work
Paul
Rogat Loeb (ed.), 2004, The Impossible
Will Take a Little While, A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
Paul Rogat Loeb, Soul of a Citizen,
Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time
Liberal
Political Strategy
Jerome Armstrong and
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, 2006, Crashing
the Gate, Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
Paul Begala, 2002, It's Still the Economy, Stupid, (George W.
Bush, the GOP's CEO)
Jared Bernstein, 2006,
All Together Now, Common Sense for a Fair
Economy
James MacGregor Burns, 2006, Running Alone, Presidential Leadership, JFK
to Bush II, Why It Has Failed and How We Can Fix It.
James Carville and
Paul Begala, 2006, Take It Back, Our
Party, Our Country, Our Future*
Earthworks Action, 2006,
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the
Right
Laura Flanders, 2007, Blue Grit, True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians
Mark Halperin and John F.
Harris, 2006, The Way to Win, Taking the
White House in 2008
Gary Hart, 2006, The Courage of Our Convictions, A Manifesto
for Democrats
Don Hazen and Lakshmi Chaudhry, 2005, Start Making Sense, Turning the Lessons of Election 2004 into Winning
Progressive Politics
Glenn
Hurowitz, 2007, Fear and Courage in the
Democratic Party
Matthew R. Kerbel, 2006,
Get the Party Started, How Progressives
Can Fight Back and Win
Robert Kuttner, 1987, The Life of the
Party
Bill Lofy (ed.) Politics the
John Podesta, 2008, The
Power of Progress. How
Ted Rall, 2004, Wake
Up, You’re Liberal
Thomas F.
Schaller, 2006, Whistling Past
Bill Scher, 2006, Wait! Don’t Move to
Chuck Schumer, 2007,
Positively American, Winning Back the
Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time
Tony Schwartz, 1973, The
Responsive Chord, How Radio and TV Manipulate You, Who You Vote For, What You
Buy, and How You Think
David Sirota, 2008, The
Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and
Washington
Joe Trippi, 2004, The Revolution Will Not be Televised. Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of
Everything
Paul Waldman, 2006, Being Right Is Not Enough, What Progressives
Must Learn from Conservative Success
Eric Greenberg with Karl Weber, 2008, Generation
We. How Millennial Youth are Taking Over
Michael Connery, 2008, Youth to Power. How Today’s Young Voters are Building
Tomorrow’s Progressive Majority
Liberal Framing
George Lakoff, 2004, Don’t Think of an Elephant, Know Your Values
and Frame the Debate
George Lakoff, 2006, Whose Freedom, The
Geoffrey Nunberg, 2006, Talking Right
Jeffrey Feldman, 2007,
Framing the Debate, Famous Presidential Speeches and how Progressives Can Use
Them to Change the Conversation (and Win Elections)
Jeffrey Feldman, 2008, Outright
Barbarous, How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy
Bernie Horn, 2008, Framing the Future, How Progressive Values
Can Win Elections and Influence People
Liberal
Political Policy
Peter
Beinart, 2006, The Good Fight, Why
Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, 2005, The Next Attack, The Failure of the War on
Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right
Barry Bluestone and
Bennett Harrison, 2000, Growing
Prosperity, The
Lester R. Brown,
2003, Plan B, Rescuing a Planet under
Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed, 2006, The Plan, Big Ideas for
John Kenneth
Galbraith, 1996, The Good Society
Norton Garfinkle, 2006, The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth:
The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy
Ted Halstead (ed.), 2004, The
Gary Hart, 2006, The Courage of Our Convictions, A Manifesto for Democrats
John Kao, 2007, Innovation
Nation, How
Jeff Madrick, 2002, Why Economies Grow, The Forces That Shape Prosperity and How To Get
Them Working Again
Matthew
Miller, 2003, The 2% Solution, Fixing
Randall
Rothenberg, 1984, The Neo-Liberals,
Creating the New American Politics
Chuck Schumer, 2007,
Positively American, Winning Back the
Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time
Gene Sperling, 2005, The Pro-Growth Progressive, An Economic
Strategy for Shared Prosperity
Election Reform
Douglas J. Amy, 1993, Real Choices New Voices, The Case for
Proportional Representation Elections in the
George Farah, 2004, No Debate, How the
Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
Howard Friel and Richard Falk, 2004, The Record of the Paper, How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign
Policy
Steven Hill, 2002, Fixing Elections, the Failure of Winner Take
All Politics
Steven Hill, 2006, 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy
Larry Sabato, 2007, A More Perfect Constitution. Why the Constitution Must Be Revised: Ideas
to Inspire a New Generation
Corporations Aren’t People; They Are Abusive
Marjorie Kelly, 2001,
The Divine Right of Capital, Dethroning
the Corporate Aristocracy
Thom Hartman, 2002, Unequal Protection, The Rise of Corporate
Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
William Greider, 2003, The Soul
of Capitalism. Opening Paths to a Moral
Economy.
Charles
Derber, 2004, Regime Change Begins at
Home, Freeing
Robert
Kennedy, Jr., 2004, Crimes against
Nature, How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country
and Hijacking Our Democracy
Sherrod Brown, 2004, Myths
of Free Trade. Why American Trade Policy Has Failed
Senator Byron Dorgan, 2006, Take
This Job and Ship It, How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling
Out
Government, Social Services and
Lifestyles
Influential
Environmental Books
Harvard Sitkoff (ed), 1985, Fifty
Years Later, The New Deal Evaluated
John E. Schwarz, America’s Hidden
Success, a Reassessment of Public Policy from Kennedy to Reagan
Daniel Altman, 2004,
Neoconomy, George Bush’s Revolutionary
Gamble with America’s Future
Dean Baker, 2006, The
Marian Wright Edelman, the Measure of
Our Success, A Letter to My Children and Yours
Al Gore, Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less, the Report of
the National Performance Review
Jacob S. Hacker, 2002, The
Divided Welfare State, The
Max J. Skidmore, 1999, Social Security and Its Enemies, The Case
for
Jill Quadgno, One Nation Uninsured,
Why the
Michael A. Hiltzik, 2005, The Plot Against Social Security, How the
Bush Plan is Endangering Our Financial Future
Juliet B. Schor, 1993, The Overworked American, The Unexpected
Decline of Leisure
Lisbeth B. Schorr with Daniel
Schorr, Within Our Reach, Breaking the
Cycle of Disadvantage
Juliet B. Schor, 1998. The Overspent American, Why We Want What We
Don’t Need
Elizabeth Warren and Amelia
Warren Tyagi, 2003, The Two-Income Trap,
Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
Juliet B. Schor, 2004, Born to Buy
John de Graaf, David Wann and
Thomas H. Naylor, 2005, Affluenza, The
All-Consuming Epidemic
Jason L. Riley, 2008, Let
Them In. The Case for Open Borders
Catherine
Crier, 2002, The Case Against Lawyers,
How the Lawyers, Politicians and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law into an
Instrument of Tyranny—and What We as Citizens Have to Do About It
Charles
J. Sykes, 1992, A Nation of Victims, The
Decay of the American Character
Increased Inequality and Private Risk
William
H. Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins, 2002, Wealth
and Commonwealth, Why
Chuck Collins, 2000, Economic
Apartheid in
Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001, Nickel and Dimed. On (Not) Getting By in
Barbara Ehrenreich, 2005, Bait and Switch, The (Futile) Pursuit of the
American Dream
David Shipler, 2004, The Working Poor. Invisible in
Mark Robert Rank, 2005, One
Nation, Underprivileged. Why Poverty Affects Us All
James Lardner and David A.
Smith (eds.), 2005, Inequality Matters,
The Growing Economic Divide in
Jacob S. Hacker, 2006, The Great Risk
Shift, The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement and
How you can Fight back
Thom Hartmann, 2006, Screwed, The Undeclared War Against the
Middle Class – and What We Can Do About It
Louis Uchitelle, 2006, The Disposable American, Layoffs and Their
Consequences
Steven Greenhouse,
2008, The Big Squeeze. Tough Times for
the American Worker.
Larry Bartels, 2008, Unequal
Democracy. The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age.
Peter Gosselin, 2008, High
Wire. The Precarious Financial Times of American Families.
Robert Haveman, Starting Even, an Equal Opportunity Program
to Combat the Nation’s New Poverty
Autobiographies and Biographies
Colin Powell, 1995, My
American Journey
Barack Obama, 1995, Dreams from My Father, A Story of Race and
Inheritance
Barack Obama, 2006, The Audacity of Hope, Thoughts on Reclaiming
the American Dream
Hillary Clinton, 1996, It
Takes a Village
Jesse Ventura, 1999, I
Ain’t Got Time to Bleed
Bill Moyers, 2004, Moyers on
Hillary Clinton, 2004, Living
History
Bill Clinton, 2004, My
Life
Terry McAulife, 2007, What
a Party! My Life among Democrats:
Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and other Wild Animals
Naftali Bendavid, 2007, The Thumpin’, How Rahm Emanuel and the
Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican revolution
Recent Political History
The Nineteen Thirties
– The New Deal
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1954, The Great Crash 1929
Arthur M.
"Schlesinger, Jr., 1957, The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-33, The Age of
Arthur M.
"Schlesinger, Jr., 1958, The Coming of the New Deal: 1933-35, The Age of
Arthur M.
"Schlesinger, Jr., 1960, The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-36, The Age of
Harvard Sitkoff (ed), 1985, Fifty Years Later, The New Deal Evaluated
The Nineteen Sixties
– The Golden Era
David Riesman, Nathan Glazer
and Reuel Denney, 1950, The Lonely Crowd,
A Study of the Changing American Character
William H. Whyte, Jr., 1956, The Organization Man
Vance Packard, 1957, The Hidden Persuaders
Betty Friedan, 1963, The Feminine Mystique
Alvin Toffler, 1970, Future Shock
Charles A. Reich, 1970, The Greening of
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958, The
Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1967, The New
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1973, Economics and the Public Purpose
The Nineteen Seventies – End of Growth
Edmund S. Phelps, 1962, The Goal of Economic Growth
E. F. Schumacher,
1973, Small Is Beautiful, Economics as if
People Mattered
Mancur Olson and Hans H. Landsberg (eds.), 1973, The No-Growth Society
Willis W. Harman, 1976, An Incomplete Guide to the Future
E. J. Mishan, 1977, The
Economic Growth Debate, An Assessment
Hazel Henderson, 1980, Creating
Alternative Futures, The End of Economics
Hazel Henderson, 1981,
The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics
Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol (eds.), 1981, The Crisis in Economic Theory
Robert Kuttner,
1984, The Economic Illusion, False
Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice
Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann
Swidler and Steven M. Tipton, 1985, Habits
of the Heart
Thomas Michael Power, 1988, The Economic Pursuit of Quality
Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr., 1989, For the Common Good, Redirecting the Economy
Toward Community, the Environment and a Sustainable Future
Frances Moore Lappe, 1989, Rediscovering America’s Values, A Provocative
1989, Redefining
Wealth and Progress, New Ways to Measure Economic, Social and Environmental
Change
Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann
Swidler and Steven M. Tipton, 1991, The
Good Society
George P. Brockway, 1991, The End of Economic Man, Principles of Any Future Economics
George P. Brockway, 1995, Economists Can Be Bad for Your Health
Frank Ackerman, David Kiron,
Conservative Ascendency
Derek Leebaert, 2002, The
Fifty-Year Wound, The True Price of
Milton and Rose Friedman, 1980, Free
to Choose, A Personal Statement
Lou Cannon, 2003, Governor
Reagan, His Rise to Power
Haynes Johnson, 1991, Sleepwalking
through
David
Paul Kuhn, 2007, The Neglected
Voter. White Men and the Democratic
Dilemma
Robert Kuttner, 1996, Everything for
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1992,
The Culture of Contentment
Thomas
Frank, What’s the Matter with
Domenick J. Maglio, 2005, Invasion Within, Overcoming the Elitists’ Attack on Moral Values and
the
Dean Baker, 2006, The
Brian Mann, 2006, Welcome to the Homeland, A journey to the
Rural Heart of America’s Conservative Revolution
Alan Wolfe, 1998, One
Nation, After All, What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About
Gertrude Himmelfarb, 1999, One Nation, Two Cultures, A Searching Examination of American Society
in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution
Newt Gingrich, 1995, To Renew
Bill Clinton, 2004, My
Life
Roger Morris, Partners in Power, The
Haynes Johnson and David S. Broder, 1996, The System, The
Joseph Stiglitz, 2003, The Roaring
Nineties
Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, the Hunting
of the President, the Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
Newt Gingrich, To Renew
Joe Scarborough, 2004,
D. J. Dionne Jr., 1996, They Only Look Dead, Why Progressives Will
Dominate the Next Political Era
Amy Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Off
Center, the Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy
James Bovard, 2003, Terrorism and Tyranny, Trampling Freedom,
Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
Daniel Altman, 2004,
Neoconomy, George Bush’s Revolutionary
Gamble with America’s Future
Tom Hamburger
and Peter Wallsten, 2006,
Philippe Sands, 2005, Lawless World, America and the Making and
Breaking of Global Rules from FDR’s Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush’s Illegal
War
Julian Eilperin, 2006, Fight Club Politics, How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of
Representatives
Conservative Deception
Eric Alterman, 2003, What Liberal Media? The Truth about Bias and
the News
Eric
Boehlert, 2006, Lapdogs, How the Press
Rolled Over for Bush
David Brock, 2004, The Republican Noise Machine, Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy
Senator
Robert C. Byrd, 2004, Losing
Graydon Carter, 2004, What
We’ve Lost, How the Bush Administration Has Curtailed Our Freedoms, Mortgaged
Our economy, Ravaged Our Environment and Damaged Our Standing in the World
Joe Conason, 2004, Big Lies, The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It
Distorts the Truth
John W. Dean, 2004, Worse
than Watergate, The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer, and
Bendan Nyhan, 2004, All the President’s
Spin, George W. Bush, The Media, and the Truth
Al Gore, 2007, The
Assault on Reason
Jack Huberman, 2007, The
GOP-Hater’s Handbook, 378 Reasons Never Again to Vote for the Party of Reagan,
Nixon and Bush Again
Michael Isikoff and David
Corn, 2006. Hubris, The Inside Story of
Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the
Mark
Crispin Miller, 2004, Cruel and Unusual,
Bush/Cheney’s
Frank Rich, 2006, The
Greatest Story Ever Sold, The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina
Mark Halperin and John F.
Harris, 2006, The Way to Win, Taking the
White House in 2008
Glenn
Greenwald, 2008, Great American
Hypocrites, Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
Eric Alderman, 2008, Why We’re Liberals, A Political Handbook for
Post-Bush America
Conservative Incompetence – Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ and
Andrew Bagevich, 2005, The
New American Militarism. How Americans
Are Seduced into War.
George
Packer, 2005, Assassins’
Philippe
Sands, 2005, Lawless World, America and
the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR’s Atlantic Charter to George
W. Bush’s Illegal War
James
Fallows, 2006, Blind Into
Julia E. Sweig, 2006, Friendly
Fire, Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century
Mark Crispin Miller, 2004, Cruel and Unusual, Bush/Cheney’s
Thomas E. Rick, 2006, Fiasco, The
American Military Adventure in
James Risen,
2006, State of
Bob Woodward, 2006, State
of
Conservative Corruption
Kevin Phillips, 1994, Arrogant
Capital,
Marjorie
Kelly, 2001, The Divine Right of Capital
Mark Green,
2002, Selling Out, How Big Corporate
Money Buys Elections, Rams through Legislation, and Betrays Our Democracy
Thom Hartmann, 2002, Unequal
Protection, The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
Jim Hightower, 2003, Thieves in High
Places, They’ve Stolen Our Country and It’s Time to Take It Back
David Cay
Ted Nace,
2003, Gangs of
Charles Derber,
2004, Regime Change Begins at Home,
Freeing
Charles
Lewis, 2004, The Buying of the President
2004, Who’s Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challenger – and What
They Expect in Return
Roger Lowenstein, 2004, Origins of the Crash, The Great Bubble and its Undoing
Robert
Kennedy, Jr., 2004, Crimes Against
Nature, How George W. Bush & His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country
and Hijacking Our Democracy
Senator Byron
Dorgan, 2006, Take This Job and Ship It,
How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out
T. Christian Miller, 2006, Blood
Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in
Micah L. Sifry and Nancy Watzman, 2004, Is That Politician in Your Pocket?
David Sirota,
2006, Hostile Takeover, How Big Money and
Corruption Conquered Our Government – and How We Take It Back
Christian Conservatives
Glenn
Greenwald, 2007, A Tragic Legacy, How a
Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
Chris Hedges, 2006, American Fascists, The Christian Right and
the War on
Esther Kaplan, 2004, With God on Their Side, How Christian
Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush’s
White House
Mark Douglas McGarvie, 2004, One Nation Under
Ryan
Sager, 2006, The Elephant in the Room,
Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the
Mel White, 2006, Religion Gone Bad,
The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right
Traditional Conservatives Criticize New
Conservatives
Bruce Bartlett, 2006, Impostor,
How George W. Bush Bankrupted
Patrick Buchanan, 2004, Where the Right Went Wrong, How
Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush
Presidency
Joe Scarborough, 2004,
Stephen Slivinski, 2006, Buck Wild, How Republicans Brock the Bank and Became the Party of Big
Government
Andrew Sullivan, 2006, The
Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom and the Future of the Right
Michael D. Tanner, 2007, Leviathan on the Right, How Big-Government Brought Down the Republican
Revolution
Richard A. Viguerie, 2006, Conservatives Betrayed, How George Bush and Other Big Government
Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause
Others
Criticize New Conservatives
James Bovard, 2003, Terrorism
and Tyranny, Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil*
Graydon Carter, 2004, What
We’ve Lost, How the Bush Administration Has Curtailed Our Freedoms, Mortgaged
Our economy, Ravaged Our Environment and Damaged Our Standing in the World
Glenn Greenwald, 2006, How Would a Patriot Act?
Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, 2006, Off
Center, the Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy*
Lee Iacocco, 2007, Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon, 2008, Dissent, Voices of Conscience, Government
Insiders Speak Out Against the War in
After Bush
Julia
E. Sweig, 2006, Friendly Fire, Losing
Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century
Mark Crispin Miller, 2004, Cruel and Unusual, Bush/Cheney’s
Philippe
Sands, 2005, Lawless World, America and
the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR’s Atlantic Charter to George
W. Bush’s Illegal War
John E. Schwarz, 2005, Freedom
Reclaimed, Rediscovering the American Vision
2008 Elections and Barack Obama
Lisa Rogak (ed.), 2007, Barack Obama in his Own Words, the Candidate Speaks on Everything from
Abortion to the
Robert Kuttner,
2008, Obama’s Challenge, America’s
Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency
Barack Obama, 2008, Change We Can Believe in, Barack Obama’s
Plan to Renew
Mark Green and Michele Jolin (eds),
2009, Change for
Evan Thomas, 2009, A Long Time Coming. The Inspiring Combative
2008 Campaign and Historic Election of Barack Obama
Chuck Todd, 2009, How Barack Obama Won. A State Guide to the Historic 2008
Presidential Election
Turning Red States
Blue
Three
Crises
Oil
Richard Heinberg,
2003, The Party’s Over, Oil, War and the
Fate of Industrial Societies
James Howard Kunstler, 2005, The Long Emergency, Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other
Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty First Century
Paul Roberts, 2005, The
End of Oil, On the Edge of a Perilous
Albert T. Summers,
1988, The
Dean Baker, 2007, The
Joseph Stiglitz, 2003, The Roaring
Nineties
Robert Kuttner, 1987, The
Life of the Party, Democratic Prospects in 1988 and Beyond
Robert
Kuttner, 1996, Everything for
Thomas Hine, 2002, I
Want That. How We All Became Shoppers.
Roger Lowenstein, 2004, Origins of the Crash, The Great Bubble and its Undoing
John Kenneth Galbraith, 2004, The Economics of Innocent Fraud.
Truth for our Time
Ravi Batra, 2005, Greenspan’s
Fraud, How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy
Robert J. Shiller, 2003, The New Financial Order, Risk in the 21st Century
Robert J. Shiller, 2005, Irrational Exuberance
Robert J. Shiller, 2008, The Subprime Solution, How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened and
What to Do about It
Robert Kuttner, 2007, The
Squandering of
Naomi Klein, 2007, The Shock
Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
James Galbraith, 1998, Created
Unequal. The Crisis in American Pay
James Galbraith, 2008,
The
Kevin Phillips,
2008, Bad Money, Reckless Finance, Failed
Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
William A.
Fleckenstein, 2008, Greenspan’s Bubbles,
The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve
George Soros, 2008, The
New Paradigm for Financial Markets, The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
Charles R. Morris,
2008, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, Easy
Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
Richard Bitner, 2008, Confessions
of a Subprime Lender, An Insider’s Tale of Greed, Fraud and Ignorance.
Jeffrey Sachs, 2008,
Commonwealth. Economics for a Crowded Planet
Paul Muolo and
Mathew Padilla, 2008, Chain of Blame, How
Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis
William Cohan, 2009, House
of Cards, A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Michael Lewis (ed.), 2009, Panic
Gerald Houseman, 2009, Economics
in a Changed Universe: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization, and the Death of
'Free Enterprise'
Dean Baker, 2009, Plunder and
Blunder. The Rise and Fall of the Bubble
Economy
David Wessel, 2009, In
Fed We Trust. Ben Bernanke’s War on the
Great Panic
Joseph E. Stiglitz,
2010, Freefall. America, Free Markets,
and the Sinking of the World Economy
Richard A. Posner, 2010, The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
Nomi Prins, 2006, Other
People’s Money. The Corporate Mugging of
America.
Liaquat Ahamid, 2009, Lords
of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World.
Robert Pozen, 2010, Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S.
Financial System
Simon Johnson and
James Kwak, 2010, 13 Bankers. The Wall Street Takeover and the Next
Financial Meltdown
Michael Lewis, 2010, The
Big Short. Inside the Doomsday Machine
Roger Lowenstein, 2010, The End of Wall Street
Joe Stiglitz, Robert Kuttner, Paul Volcker,
James Galbraith and Dean Baker anticipated the collapse of our housing-credit
bubble and recommend strong regulation of Wall Street Speculators. Simon Johnson also recommends strong
regulation. Richard Posner, Robert
Pozen, Michael Lewis and Robert Lowenstein view Wall Street Speculation as
having some benefits such that it should only be lightly regulated to mitigate
its harmful effects.
Tom Athanasiou,
1996, Divided Planet, The Ecology of Rich
and Poor
Jeff Faux, 2006, The Global Class War, How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future
and What It Will Take to Win It Back*
Jeffry A.
Frieden, 2006, Global Capitalism, Its
Fall and Rise in the 20th Century
Thomas Friedman, 2002, Longitudes and Attitudes, The World in the Age of Terrorism
Thomas L. Friedman,
2005, The World is Flat, A Brief History
of the Twenty-first Century
William Greider,
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