This book list is meant to be a starting point, not comprehensive. Like other information on this site, these books offer a good framework for understanding power in the United States.
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The "War on Terrorism"
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Perilous Power: The Middle East & U.S. Foreign Policy
Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar (Paradigm 2006)
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Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq
Riverbend (The Feminist Press at CUNY 2006)
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War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Norman Solomon (John Wiley & Sons 2005)
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War Talk
Arundhati Roy (South End 2003)
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Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond
Rahul Mahajan (Seven Stories 2003)
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Hegemony or Survival
Noam Chomsky (Metropolitan Books 2003)
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Media
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The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Robert W. McChesney (Monthly Review Press 2004)
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The New Media Monopoly
Ben Bagdikian (Beacon Press 2004)
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward Herman, Noam Chomsky (Pantheon 2002 updated)
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Understanding Power
Noam Chomsky (New Press 2002)
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Race
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White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
Time Wise (Soft Skull Press, 2005)
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The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
Robert Jensen (City Lights, 2005)
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Collected Essays
James Baldwin (Library of America, 1998)
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Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
David R. Roediger, ed. (Schocken, 1998)
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Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land
Randall Robinson (Dutton Books, 2004)
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A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki (Back Bay Books, 1994)
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Feminism
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The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
Marilyn Frye (Crossing Press, 1983)
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
bell hooks (South End Press, 1984 (2000 re-issue))
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde (Crossing Press, 1984)
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Heartbreak
Andrea Dworkin (Basic Books, 2002)
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Economics and Humanity
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Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph Stiglitz (W. W. Norton & Company 2003)
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
Naomi Klein (Picador USA 2002)
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The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America
James Heintz, Nancy Folbre and the Center for Popular Economics (New Press, 2000)
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Keeping Up With the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare
Vijay Prashad (South End, 2003)
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Panic Rules! Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy
Robin Hahnel (South End, 1999)
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Greg Palast (Plume, 2003)
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Palestine/Israel
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Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948
Tanya Reinhart (Seven Stories 2002)
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Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Norman Finkelstein (Verso 2003, updated)
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Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land
Amira Hass (MIT 2003)
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Palestine
Joe Sacco, introduction by Edward Said (Fantagraphics 2002)
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U.S. History
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn (Harper Collins 2003 updated)
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2
William Blum (Common Courage 2003)
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano (Monthly Review, 25th anniversary ed. 1998)
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Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience
Gabriel Kolko (New Press 1994)
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Activism
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Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity
Robert Jensen (City Lights, 2004)
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Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy
Rinku Sen and Kim Klein (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
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Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change
Cynthia Kaufman (South End, 2003)
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Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream
Robert Jensen (Peter Lang Publishing, 2001)
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Trajectory of Change
Michael Albert (South End Press, 2002)
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Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky (Vintage, 1989)
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