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Crashing the Gate:
Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of
People-Powered Politics
by Jerome Armstrong, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
From the Publisher: "Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington, DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America.
This book lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges." |
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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman
As religion triumphs over reason and democracy turns into plutocracy, the nation has entered a phase in its historical development from which there is no return. A particular strength of this book lies in the connections Berman makes between the large-scale processes of national collapse... and the obvious deterioration of our daily lives: the frenzied acceleration of work, the erosion of integrity and community, and the impoverishment of the mass media. |
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How Would a Patriot Act?
Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
by Glenn Greenwald
Book Description: "How Would a Patriot Act? is one man’s story of being galvanized into action to defend America’s founding principles, and a reasoned argument for what must be done. Greenwald’s penetrating words should inspire a nation to defend the Constitution from a president who secretly bestowed upon himself the powers of a monarch." |
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The End of Faith:
Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris
From Publishers Weekly: "Religious faith, according to Harris, requires its adherents to cling irrationally to mythic stories of ideal paradisiacal worlds (heaven and hell) that provide alternatives to their own everyday worlds. Moreover, innumerable acts of violence... can be attributed to a religious faith that clings uncritically to one set of dogmas or another." |
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Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris
Book Description: “People have written that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is that many who claim to be transformed by Christ’s love are deeply intolerant of criticism. It is clear that such hatred draws considerable support from the Bible. How do I know this? The most disturbed of my correspondents always cite chapter and verse.” |
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50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right
by EarthWorks Action Network
Book Description: "...offers inspirational yet practical advice for anyone wanting to reclaim democracy in America, outlining what steps can be taken to restore a balance of political power through everyday actions . . . and why they matter so much. From the simplest efforts (why bumper stickers count) to more committed ones (become a precinct captain) and everything in-between..." |
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Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World
by Robert Kagan
From Publisher's Weekly: "Even in the colonial era Americans restlessly pushed westward. Kagan shows how a policy of aggressive expansion was inextricably linked with liberal democracy. Political leaders developed expansionist policies because if they didn't respond to their clamoring constituents, the people might rebel or secede. Kagan reads the Civil War as America's "first experiment in ideological conquest". He then follows US expansion through the 19th century, as the U.S. increased its dominance. |
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The Left Hand of God:
Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
by Michael Lerner
From the Publisher: "Describes the ways that Democrats have ... alienated significant parts of their potential constituency. To succeed again, ... the Democratic Party must rethink its relationship to God, champion a progressive spiritual vision, reject the old bottom line ... and deal head-on with the ... spiritual crisis that many Americans experience every day." |
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The End of America:
Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf
" a
harbinger of an age that may finally see the patriarchal realm of political
discourse usurped. [A] political
argument for civil rights, not women’s rights. ... Readers will appreciate her
energy and urgency as she warns we are living through a dangerous "fascist shift”
brought about by the Bush administration. Her chapters outline the “Ten Steps to
Fascism” citing historical corollaries ... with headings like “Invoke an External and Internal Threat,” “Establish
Secret Prisons,” and “Target Key Individuals.” In other words, fascism can exist
without dictatorship. |
