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Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis study looks at the role of the print and electronic media in defining "respectable" political discourse in the United States. From a critical perpective, Parenti looks at the economics and politics of "presenting" the news and argues that the media systematically distort the news. This manufactured reality deprives the public of necessary information for effective participation in government... -
![Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger]()
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSimple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans’ ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end... -
![One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History by Ted Cruz]()
One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History by Ted Cruz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings** WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER ** USA TODAY BESTSELLER ** PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **With a simple majority on the Supreme Court, the left would have the power to curtail or even abolish the freedoms that have made America a beacon to the world. We are one vote away from losing our most precious constitutional rights... -
![Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty]()
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality... -
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![Truth Be Told by Beverley McLachlin]()
Truth Be Told by Beverley McLachlin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFormer Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta foothills to her career on the Supreme Court, where she helped to shape the social and moral fabric of the country... -
![Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson]()
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvery major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative... -
![The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin]()
The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor a century, the Statists have steadfastly constructed a federal Leviathan, distorting and evading our constitutional system in pursuit of an all-powerful, ubiquitous central government. The result is an ongoing and growing assault on individual liberty, state sovereignty, and the social compact... -
![Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States by Party for Socialism and Liberation]()
Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States by Party for Socialism and Liberation
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA vision of the first decade of socialism in the United States. The diverse multinational working class has achieved political supremacy and is actively eliminating bigotry, racism, and national oppression as it expands economic, social, and political democracy... -
![The Communist Manifesto/The April Theses: A Revolutionary Edition by Karl Marx]()
The Communist Manifesto/The April Theses: A Revolutionary Edition by Karl Marx
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Communist Manifesto,is the most influential political call-to-arms ever written. In the century and a half since its publication the world has been shaken repeatedly by those who sought to make its declamations a reality.But the focus of this modern edition is not primarily the vivid history of Marx and Engels’ most important work... -
![Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: The Companion Book to the Award-Winning Film by Mark Achbar]()
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: The Companion Book to the Award-Winning Film by Mark Achbar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWinner of more than a dozen festival awards, the film has played to packed houses in more than two hundred cities worldwide... -
![النبى الأعزل - تروتسكى 1921 - 1929 by Isaac Deutscher, إسحق دويتشر]()
النبى الأعزل - تروتسكى 1921 - 1929 by Isaac Deutscher, إسحق دويتشر
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Prophet Unarmed, first published in 1959, is the second volume of Isaac Deutscher's extraordinary Trotsky trilogy, which the Guardian has said 'will rank among the great political biographies of our time... -
![Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane F. McAlevey]()
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane F. McAlevey
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis “breath-taking trip through the union-organizing scene of America in the 21st century” reveals the victories and unconventional strategies of a renowned—and notorious—militant union organizer (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed ) In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation’s largest labor federation,... -
![Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It by Ari Berman]()
Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It by Ari Berman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power ― and the movement to stop them.The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy a blatant disregard for the will of the majority... -
![A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier]()
A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEconomists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts... -
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![American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People by Jared Yates Sexton]()
American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People by Jared Yates Sexton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we've always told ourselves. Recent years have brought a reckoning in America... -
![Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman]()
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy." —Donald TrumpThe framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule... -
![The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy by Yanis Varoufakis, Leda Paulani]()
The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy by Yanis Varoufakis, Leda Paulani
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explores the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a ‘Global Minotaur’ was born... -
![Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey]()
Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy."My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms..." The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament... -
![Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan]()
Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work "Capital"... -
![America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar]()
America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world’s great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this “biography” of America’s framing document explains not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it... -
![Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx]()
Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWage Labour and Capital is an essay on economics by Karl Marx, written in 1847 and first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. It has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx's important treatise The Capital... -
![Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan]()
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFollowing his single term as President of the United States (1825-1829), John Quincy Adams, embittered by his loss to Andrew Jackson, boycotted his successor's inauguration, just as his father John Adams had done (the only two presidents ever to do so). Rather than retire, the sixty-two-year-old former president, U.S... -
![Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul, Bob Craig]()
Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul, Bob Craig
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliche... -
![Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power by Noam Chomsky]()
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power by Noam Chomsky
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life... -
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![The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson]()
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . -
![Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart]()
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLER“A vivid account of a remarkable life.” — The Washington PostIn this comprehensive, revelatory biography—fifteen years of interviews and research in the making—historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence... -
![Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich]()
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date--a passionate yet practical, sweeping yet minutely argued, myth-shattering breakdown of what's wrong with our political-economic system, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of finance and politics than Robert B... -
![The Transformation by Juliana Spahr]()
The Transformation by Juliana Spahr
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoetry. Juliana Spahr has lived in many places, including Chillicothe (Ohio), Buffalo (New York), Honolulu (Hawaii), and Brooklyn (New York). She has absorbed, participated in, and been transformed by the politics and ecologies of each. This book is about that process... -
![Won by Love by Norma McCorvey]()
Won by Love by Norma McCorvey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Roe v. Wade, perhaps the most controversial United States Supreme Court decision, Norma McCorvey fought for and won the right to secure an abortion. Though she never had an abortion, under the pseudonym "Jane Roe," Norma reluctantly became the poster child for the pro-choice movement... -
![Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kołakowski]()
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kołakowski
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly infuential study of Marxism...
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