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Books criticizing poor thinking or practice in politics, esp. criticizing the Right (usually journalism more than science, may be rant)
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 6:05pm — Daniel.Curtis
- Screwed! How Foreign Countries are Ripping America Off and Plundering our Economy—and How our Leaders Help Them Do It: by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, 2012. Authors have additional “crusading” books. jcls Rant? I quit reading
- It’s Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American constitutional system collided with the New Politics of extremism by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein 2012
- The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right by Arthur Goldwag 2012
- Thomas Frank, Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right by Thomas Frank 2012– after making billionaires rich, GOP reinvented itself as populist defenders of the middle class. jcls. too ranty
- A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi 2011? – depression, mania, etc., among politicos like Lincoln, and others
- With Liberty & Justice for Some: How the Law is Use to Destroy Equality & Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald, 2011
- Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America by John Avlon (2010)
- The fifteen biggest lies about the economy, and why the right doesn’t want you to know about taxes, jobs, and corporate America by Joshua Holland 2010
- Thomas Frank, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule ,2008
- Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas? 2004 (also made into a film)
- Screwed: The Undeclared War against the middle class by Thom Hartmann
- How to win a fight with a conservative by Daniel Kurtzman
- Idiot America: how stupidity became a virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce (2010/2008?)
- Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joe Bageart, 2007 poor people in his hometown, why they voted Republican
- Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times by Amy Goodman and David Goodman (2008)
- The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption (2007) by John Perkins
- Jim Weaver, on origins of conservatives & liberals????
- I’d Rather Teach Peace, by Colman McCarthy
- When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten, 2001 =2nd edition
- No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein, 1999
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