Reading Lists
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SUBJECT AREA
Philosophy
- Charles Freeman - "The Closing of the Western Mind"
- Thomas M. Georges - "Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values"
- Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilization
- Herbert Marcuse - Reason and Revolution
- John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
- John Stuart Mill - The Subjection of Women
- John Locke - Two Treatises on Government
- Eric Foner - "The Story of American Freedom"
- Cass Sunstein - "The Second Bill of Rights"
- John Rawls - "Political Liberalism"
- John Rawls - "Justice as Fairness"
- John Rawls- "A Theory of Justice"
- Stephen Webb - "Where Is Everybody?"
US History
- Joesph Ellis - "Founding Brothers"
World History
- Thucydides - "The Peleponesian War"
- Jared Diamond - "Guns, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies"
Historical
- Hamilton and Madison, The Federalist Papers
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, by Susan Jacobi
- American Aurora: A Democratic Republican Returns, by Richard N. Rosenfeld
- What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States, by James F. Simon
- A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, by Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall
- The Best and the Brightest, by David Halberstam
- The Glory and the Dream, by William Manchester
- Truman, by David McCullough
- John Adams, by David McCullough
- Vietnam, A History, by Stanley Karnow
- A Bright Shining Lie, John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan
Humor
- Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them - Al Franken
- Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot - Al Franken
- Bushisms - Jacob Weisberg
- America (The Book) - Jon Stewart/Daily Show
- The Bush Dislexicon
Media
- The Media Monopoly - Ben H. Bagdikian [ISBN 0807061794]
- The Problem of the Media - Robert W. McChesney
- Our Unfree Press - Robert W. McChesney
US Culture
- Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck - Suburban Nation, The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
- Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed
- Barbara Ehrenreich - Bait and Switch
- Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation
- George Carlin Napalm and Silly Putty
General
- Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
- The Image by Daniel Boorstin
- The Culture of Fear
- Robert Caro, LBJ biography
- The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Jimmy Breslin
- The Price of Loyalty, Ron Suskind
- The Unconquerable World, by Jonathan Schell
- The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Po: Beyond Yes and No, by Edward De Bono
- The 2% Solution, by Matthew Miller
- From Beirut to Jerusalem,by Thomas Friedman
- One-Car Caravan by Walter Shapiro
- Power Politics by Arundhati Roy
- Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, George Lakoff [ISBN 0226467716]
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins
Environment
- Marc Reisner - "Cadillac Desert"
- Wendell Berry - "Home Economics"
- Henry David Thoreau - "Walden"
- Rachel Carson - "Silent Spring"
- Theo Colborn et al. - "Our Stolen Future"
- Bill McKibben - "The End of Nature"
- Roderick Nash - "Wilderness and the American Mind"
- E. O. Wilson - "The Diversity of Life"
Psychology
- Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice
- Thomas S. Szasz, MD - Ideology and Insanity
War and Peace
- Anthony Arnove - Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
Also, David Brinkley's biography of John Kerry, Tour of Duty.
Authors
- Howard Zinn
- Anthony Arnove
- David McCullough
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Fiction or Fictionalized
- The Store Bentley Little
- 1984 -- George Orwell
- All The King's Men -- Robert Penn Warren
- Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller
- Darkness at Noon -- Arthur Koestler
- Desert Solitaire
- The Dispossessed -- Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood (see also Oryx & Crake)
- The Ice Beneath You -- Christian Bauman
- Kiln People -- David Brin
- The Last Hurrah - Edwin O'Connor
- Primary Colors -- Joe Klein (as Anonymous)
- The Things They Carried -- Tim O'Brien
- Undaunted Courage
- Walden -- Henry David Thoreau
- Angels in America -- play by Tony Kushner
Authors: Fiction or Fictionalized
- Ken MacLeod
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- John Jakes' historical novels
- Gore Vidal's historical novels
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