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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 02:50 PM Original message |
Recommend your favorite political books |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
1. Big Lies by Joe Conason |
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yorgatron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 02:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. What's the matter with Kansas |
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genius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. I thought that was a Republican book |
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Spiffarino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
32. I heard it was excellent |
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Zan_of_Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 12:40 AM Response to Reply #32 |
55. The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 02:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Oh yeah! Big Lies was good. |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. I second the nomination for Big Lies |
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1gobluedem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Me too! |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants by James Wolcott. |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. I've been recommending "Attack Poodles" to everyone in earshot... |
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billkurtmeyer (360 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. My two from this summer |
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klook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. Here are a few |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. You Must Read "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 1972" |
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bossfish (789 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
38. I was about to mention that one... |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. "Worse Than Watergate" and "Big Lies". n/t |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
9. Political in a broader sense. |
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Ms. Clio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
31. Guns, Germs, and Steel--a great book |
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bossfish (789 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:14 PM Response to Reply #31 |
40. Guns, Germs and Steel was the best book... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:38 PM Response to Reply #31 |
43. By far the most detailed. |
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Ms. Clio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:50 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. I actually have read parts of that for a class |
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Metatron (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
10. Hunter S. Thompson's |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
12. I'm finally reading Al Franken's Lying Liars right now |
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phylny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 09:17 PM Response to Reply #12 |
52. I, too, loved "Lies |
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el_gato (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
13. Right now I'm reading |
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Ms. Clio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:07 PM Response to Reply #13 |
33. Late Victorian Holocausts is another excellent book |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:12 PM Response to Reply #13 |
36. I finished H Dream a few weeks ago. |
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genius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
14. Must Reads: "Worse Than Watergate" and "Citizen You" |
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nyhuskyfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
16. Fraud (Paul Waldman) and Great Unraveling (Paul Krugman) |
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genius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
17. I trust everyone here has read "1984." |
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markses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
18. Excellent new book: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire |
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Ms. Clio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:09 PM Response to Reply #18 |
35. Another new(ish) book, just reviewed on H-Net is American Empire |
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dissention (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
19. Democracy For the Few |
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Beware the Beast Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
20. "Bushwacked!" by Molly Ivins and Lou DuBose |
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strategery blunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger |
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RichardRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
23. Ones I liked... |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
24. Homegrown Democrat-Garrison Keilor (sp?) |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
25. "The Republican Noise Machine" by David Brock. |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:14 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. seconded! an absolute must read |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
26. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, |
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chefgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
27. A Few |
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bain_sidhe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
28. Wealth and Democracy, Sore Winners & The Book On Bush |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:39 PM Response to Reply #28 |
44. I found "Sore Winners" to be somewhat disingenuous. |
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bain_sidhe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 09:09 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. Yeah, that's a point... |
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Ms. Clio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
29. One Market Under God, another great book by Thomas Frank |
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Spiffarino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
30. A few... |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
37. A few... |
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bossfish (789 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
41. Some more... |
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
42. "the clothes have no emperor" |
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Commendatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
45. What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman |
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stavka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
47. Scott Coll "Shadow Wars" |
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cosmicvortex20 (253 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
48. Atlas Shrugged... |
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
50. Up From Conservatism..Michael Lind...&.... |
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Jokinomx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
51. "Stupid White Men" .by Micheal Moore |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
53. some of you really would enjoy |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-02-04 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
54. Surprised no-one's mentioned these yet |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
56. For Goddess's sake, read John Rawls! |
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GimmeDANEger (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
57. where to start? |
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