A suggested list of bedside reading, current and/or classic --in progress:
Gene Baur,
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food.
2008 Touchstone Books ISBN 13:978-0-7432-9158-3
Max Brooks,
The Harlem Hellfighters, illustrated by Caanan White
2014 Broadway Books ISBN 978-0-307-46497-2
[a graphic novel also available as an ebook]
Fernand Braudel,
Civilization and Capitalism 15th -18th Century (3 volumes)
1992 University of California Press ISBN 10:0520081145
Lester R. Brown,
Plan B 3.0: Moblizing to Save Civilization.
2008 W. W. Norton & Company Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-33087-8
Francis Fukuyama.
The Origins of Political Order: from prehuman times to the French Revolution
2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0-374-22734-0
Eduardo Galeano,
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone.
2009 Nation Books
ISBN 978-1-56858-423-2 English translation by Mark Fried
Stephen Greenblatt,
The Swerve: How the world became modern
2011 Norton ISBN 978-0-393-06447
Jane Jacobs,
Dark Age Ahead.
2004 Vintage Books ISBN 1-4000-7670-6
Michael Klare,
Rising Powers Shrinking Planet: the new geopolitics of energy.
2008 Metropolitan Books ISBN: 978-0-8050-8064-3
Naomi Klein,
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
2007 Henry Holt and Company, New York ISBN 13: 978-0-8050-7983-8
Paul Krugman,
The Conscience of a Liberal.
2007 W. W. Norton ISBN-10: 0393060691
Charles Lewis,
935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity
2014 Perseus Books Group ISBN-13: 9781610391177
Sinclair Lewis,
It Can't Happen Here, Jonathan Cape (UK)
1935 and online at
Gutenberg, Australia
Eric Marcus,
Meat Market: animals, ethics & money
2005 Brio Press, Boston Massachusetts ISBN 0-9758679-0-3
Jane Mayer,
Dark Money,
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 2016 Doubleday ISBN: 978-0-385-53559-5
Ted Nace,
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy,
2003 Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1-57675-260-7.
Available for free download
George Orwell, anything and everything, especially his essays.
Down and Out in London and Paris and lots of the rest of his work
available on-line from Project Gutenberg. See also a chapter from
an appraisal of Orwell by John Atkins
George Packer,
The Unwinding: an inner history of the New America,
2013 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 978-0-374-10241
Thomas Piketty,
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2014 The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
ISBN 978-0-674-43000-6
Michael Pollan,
The Omnivore's Dilemma, a natural history of four meals
2006 Penguin Press ISBN 1-59420-082-3
David Sanger,
The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power.
2009 Crown Publishing Group ISBN-13: 9780307407924
Rebecca Solnit,
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
2004, 2006 Nation Books NYC ISBN 1-56025-828-4
Sarah Vowell,
The Wordy Shipmates
2008 Riverhead ISBN-13: 978-1594489990
Cornel West,
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
2004 Penguin Books ISBN 0 14 30.3583 5
Theodore H. White,
America in Search of Itself: the making of the president 1956-1980.
1982 Harper & Row ISBN: 0060390077
Muhammed Yunus,
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
2007 Public Affairs / Perseus Books ISBN 13:978-1-58648-493-4
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