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Reading List

By CB
Ever-growing list of publications that I plan to read:

  1. Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next
  2. Democracy under Threat: A Crisis of Legitimacy? (Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century)
  3. Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete
  4. McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
  5. Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation
  6. Richard White - Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, published as part of the Oxford History of the United States
  7. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
  8. Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
  9. The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II
  10. A Nation Unmade by War
  11. F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare
  12. Let Justice Roll Down
  13. The Hungry Brain
  14. Spice Spice Baby: 100 Recipes with Healing Spices for your Family Table
  15. The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society (Little, Brown: 2019)
  16. American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
  17. The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America
  18. The End of the Suburbs
  19. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
  20. Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
  21. Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream
  22. Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
  23. Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left
  24. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
  25. Understanding Marxism
  26. Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought
  27. The History of Area 51
  28. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
  29. America: The Farewell Tour
  30. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
  31. Wages of Rebellion
  32. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
  33. Permanent Record
  34. Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
  35. Death of the Liberal Class
  36. When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists
  37. What Every Person Should Know About War
  38. Democracy Incorporated
  39. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
  40. We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project)
  41. War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice)
  42. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  43. Trapped in America’s Safety Net: One Family’s Struggle
  44. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
  45. Thick - And Other Essays
  46. Class Theory and History - Capitalism and Communism in the USSR
  47. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
  48. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solution
  49. Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
  50. Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
  51. Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
  52. The End of Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
  53. Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
  54. Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
  55. The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
  56. Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge
  57. Supreme Inequality - Cohen
  58. Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance
  59. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
  60. Capital (Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy)
  61. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
  62. Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change
  63. Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money

Comments

  1. mjpeaceNovember 12, 2020 at 10:02 PM

    Dang that is a lot of books. Is this for the whole year?

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