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[durutti]

I'll start...

Basics

The Marx-Engels Reader

Ideas for Action by Cynthia Kaufman

Marx for Beginners

Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution by Hal Draper

Economics

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Capital by Karl Marx

The ABCs of Political Economy by Robin Hahnel

Introducing Keynes

Economic Apartheid in America

A Field Guide to the U.S. Economy

Illusions of Prosperity

The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret

U.S. Foreign Policy

Imperial Alibis by Stephen Shalom

The New Military Humanism by Noam Chomsky

Year 501 by Noam Chomsky

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman

The Terrorism Industry by Edward S. Herman

Killing Hope by William Blum

Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer by Michael Ratner

Politics

The Art of War

The Prince

They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era by E.J. Dionne

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Arabs & Israel for Beginners by Ron David

Palestine by Joe Sacco

The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

The Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky

Perceptions of Palestine

Palestinian Identity by Rashid Khalidi

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman Finkelstein

More to come...

[Booberdawg]

1. All Politics

Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth Joe Conason

Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America Molly Ivins

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters Greg Palast

What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News Eric Alterman

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Al Franken

Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And Its Time to Take It Back Jim Hightower

The Clinton Wars
By: Sidney Blumenthal

We're Right, They're Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives James Carville

The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder
By: Mark Crispin Miller

Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up : 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room
By: James Carville , Paul Begala

Dude, Where's My Country?
By: Michael Moore

The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics
By: Ted Halstead, Michael Lind

Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
By: Michael Moore

The Greatest Sedition Is Silence: Four Years in America
By: William Rivers Pitt

The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception
By: David Corn

It's Still the Economy, Stupid : George W. Bush, The GOP's CEO
By: Paul Begala

The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
By: Paul Krugman

Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
By: Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose

Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative By: David Brock

The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton by Joe Conason, Gene Lyons

[SOteric]

Mine.

Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative

The Clinton Wars, Sidney Blumenthal

Living History, Hillary Rodham Clinton

We’re Right, They’re Wrong, James Carville

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, Al Franken

Fortunate Son, J. H. Hatfield

Shrub, Molly Ivins

Bushwhacked, Molly Ivins

The Great Unraveling, Paul Klugman

Stupid White Men, Michael Moore

Dude, Where’s My Country, Michael Moore

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters, Greg Palast

The Politics of Meaning, Michael Lerner

Who Will Tell the People, William Greider

The Past Has Another Pattern, George Ball

Big Lies, Joe Conason

The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Wellstone

Globalization and It’s Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz

The Radical Center, Ted Halstead, Michael Lind

The Soul of Capitalism, William Greider

The Hunting of the President by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons.




And, of course some things by that Will Pitt fella.

[Sagan]

2. History

The Thunder at Twilight -- Morton

Navy and Empire -- Stokesbury

Any other books by Stokesbury

Dreadnought -- Massie

Maus -- Spiegelman


I don't think I can type all the ones I would actually recommend. *laughs*

[dobak]

11. Massie just came out with a new one

Castles of Steel

looks good

[Terwilliger]

3. those the Chomsky books you read in high-school?

[durutti]

8. Yes.

And while I don't much care for his writing myself, I think they make good introductions for people who are otherwise unfamiliar with the leftist perspective on U.S. foreign policy.

Frankly, Chomsky's writing on the subject is so influential that it really can't be avoided. It would be like studying drama without Shakespeare.

The Shalom book is my favorite, though.

[1a2b3c]

4. Mines a bit different then yours.

Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell, Peter Bergman

Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness
by John McPherson

Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants by Steve Brill

Magic Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
by John W. Allen

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
by Gary A. Lincoff, Gary H. Lincoff

The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (Eastern)
by Elbert L. Little Jr.,

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region
by Elbert L., Jr. Little, Angelo Lomeo

The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians
by John L. Behler, F. Wayne King \

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders
by Lorus J. Milne, Susan Rayfield

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky (Audubon Society Field Guide Series)
by Mark R. Chartrand (very good. A must have in your Audubon collection)

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals
by John O. Whitaker Jr.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather
by David M. Ludlum

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fishes: North America
by Carter Rowell Gilbert, James D. Williams

AK47 : The Complete Kalashnikov Family Of Assault Rifles
by Duncan Long

Secrets Of Street Survival - Israeli Style : Staying Alive In A Civilian War Zone
by Eugene Sockut

Defensive Shooting for Real-Life Encounters: A Critical Look at Current Training Methods
by Ralph Mroz

[pasadenaboy]

5. In my opinion

Marx is absolutely dreadful to read. The ideas are important, but as a writer, he is horrible.

[durutti]

9. Yup.

That's why I threw in Marx for Beginners and Hal Draper.

[pasadenaboy]

6. the current books I am reading that I really like:

The Kingdom within: the inner meaing of Jesus' sayings by John Sanford

The complete English Poems: John Donne

[roughsatori]

7. Ray Monk: Ludwig Wittgenstein The Duty of Genius, and The Idiot

by Dostoevsky, Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.

[Iverson]

10. a slightly different take

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell

The Trial - Franz Kafka

Garcia's Thousandth Day - Alicia Steimberg

Action Will Be Taken - Heinrich Boll

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula LeGuin

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

[solinvictus]

12. Reading

Basics:
1) The Federalist Papers
2) "Democracy in America" by DeToqueville
3) Anything by Tom Paine
4) Thomas Jefferson's political writings
5) Marx & Engels, "The Communist Manifesto"
6) Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
7) Bakunin's works on Anarchism
8) John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
9) Lenin, "State and Revolution"
10) George Orwell, "Homage to Catalonia". This book points out how the Communists, not Franco, were instrumental in breaking the worker's revolution in Spain.

Practical Knowledge:
1) "Total Resistance" by Major H. von Dach. This book will show how small numbers can and do matter.
2) "Guerilla Warfare" by Che Guevara
3) "Boston's Gun Bible" by Boston T. Party. A great accumulation of practical shooting knowledge.