DU Book Club

[AspenRose]

Please list your "recommended must-reads" (preferably non-fiction politically liberal books).

I want to draw up my Summer Reading List.

[cheezus]

1. Orwell's 1984

It's fiction (or is it? look out the window), and it's also quite possibly the best book I've ever read.

[AspenRose]

2. When is Zinni's book due out?

(This topic may be better placed at the lounge - if so, please move the thread, o illustrious moderator, thanks)

[mopinko]

3. any jim hightower

"theives in high places" is the lastest, i think. very entertaining.
"cat's cradle" by kurt vonnegut is an oldy but a goody.

[Wind Dancer]

4. Worse Than Watergate

John Dean

[madmax]

5. Here ya go

House of Bush, House of Saud - Craig Unger

Against All Enemies - Richard Clarke

Fraud - Paul Waldman

Politics of Truth - Joseph Wilson

Sleeping With The Devil - Robert Baer

The Bush - Hater's Handbook - Jack Huberman

[redqueen]

6. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich-And Cheat Everybody Else - David Cay Johnston

on edit: also The Buying of the President 2004

[goddess40]

21. A must for anyone staying in a hotel this summer,

anyone that still shops at Wal-mart, eats in a resturant, or uses a house cleaning service

[oldlady]

7. top five

Worse than Watergate - John Dean

Exception to the Rulers - Amy Goodman

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges

Bush Dynasty - Kevin Phillips

Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky

[oldlady]

8. oh, yeah...

and when that reading list leaves you too depressed to continue, I recommend "A Prayer for America" by Dennis Kucinich or "Hope Dies Last" by Studs Terkel ...*grin*

[redqueen]

9. I love all your suggestions!

:yourock:

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[murielm99]

10. Don't forget Krugman's book,

The Great Unravelling. It is about economics, but it is written in a style that anyone can understand.

I did like the O'Neill book, too. Remember, even though O'Neill later softened some of his criticisms, it is Susskind's book.

[MoonRiver]

11. Are we going to have a book club?

I mean one where we discuss books we've read? We could choose a book each month and then have a thread to talk, or even better, a chat room!! I love that.

I'm reading The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan. I recommend it highly.

[AspenRose]

12. I'll be out of town for the weekend but keep the titles coming

I'll check back later and print out the list.

Thanks y'all :yourock:

(and YES I think a book club thread is a good idea.)

[Andy_Stephenson]

13. Imperial America

Gore Vidal

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560255854/qid%3D1085199220/sr%3D2/104-8431531-7324718

[fishnfla]

14. I hear Robert Reich has a book coming out

"Reason: why liberals.... (something)"

I would recommend the book "The Devils Highway" by Luis Urrea. Great read

[bigbillhaywood]

15. Nonfiction: Who Will Tell The People? by William Greider (a

very good analysis of corporate control of government)

Political Fiction: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (novella based on Stalinist purges, written in the 1940s. quick read and a real page-turner, but not to be read if you dislike depressing fiction)

[nostamj]

16. many good suggestions

I would add:

Huffington's FOOLS AND FANATICS

Dean's WORSE THAN WATERGATE is the best recent book (imho)

don't forget Dowd's BUSHWORLD is due in August and, duh, Big Dog's MY LIFE is due 6/30.

and Brock's REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE is out now but I haven't gotten to it yet...

still have THE BOOK ON BUSH (Green/Alterman) to get through.

Alterman's WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA is great if you haven't read it yet.

and Mark Crispen Miller (THE BUSH DYSLEXICON) has something out or soon to be out...

a "DU Book Club" would work best in The Meeting Room....

[Senior citizen]

17. All Our Relations by Winona LaDuke

The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

Indispensable Enemies by Walter Karp

and for fiction

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (the series)

[NYC]

18. The Pentagon Papers.

See the similarities.

[wyldwolf]

19. The Hunting Of The President - Joe Conason, Gene Lyons

Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually leading to his impeachment trial. Award-winning journalists Joe Conason and Gene Lyons have crafted a tale as compulsively readable as a political thriller--paced, and at times worded, like a summer bestseller. Although they provide ample evidence of backstabbing, revenge, deceit, conniving, and "dirty tricks" in the struggle to oust Clinton, arguing that "the better the president and the country did, the more his adversaries appeared willing to endorse almost anything short of assassination to do him in," they also acknowledge that Clinton's reckless behavior, along with the "panicky, defensive, and occasionally less-than-perfectly-honest" responses of the White House press office, didn't hurt his opponents. Investigative journalism at its juiciest, The Hunting of the President is a surprising valediction to a far-from-angelic public leader who often outmaneuvered his enemies with otherworldly skill. --Regina Marler

[dudeness]

20. I can recommend a couple

Bush in Babylon....Tariq Ali..a complete political history of Iraq..putting in context the relationship between the Ba'ath, the communists and the former colonialist British and the current occupiers the US..excellent book..

Full Sprectrum Dominance..Rahul Mahajan...a book concerned mainly with the war on Iraq..pre invasion and post invasion..looks in detail into US NAT security strategy..well researched.

Killing Hope....William Blum...a truly detailed account of US military and CIA interventions since WWII..hence the length of this book...brilliantly researched and full of startling information..