What were the last three political /sociology books you have read ?

[Room101]

And what are you currently reading? I would love to know what the other Duers are reading; there are great articulate informed minds at work here. I consider my self a wet behind the ear political/sociology novice. Big turn around for a kid who was kicked out of high school, yes I still graduated.

Currently reading - Brave New world revisited (Aldous Huxley) and
Secret Democracy civil liberties vs. the national security state (Gary E. Mccuen.)

My last three
1. War is a force that gives us meaning BY: Chris Hedges
2. Blood for oil the Cheney/ Bush Junta BY: Gore Vidal
3. Manufacturing Consent BY: Noam Chomsky

[JanMichael]

1. "Nickel & Dimed", Zinn's "People's History"...

...and "Jennifer Government".

Prior to those three: G.B. Shaw's "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism & Capitalism" and "A Hand Maid's Tales".

[Dob Bole]

2. "Stupid White Men"

by Michael Moore, "An Hour Before Daylight" by Jimmy Carter, and FDR and his enemies, by some history guy.

[Iverson]

3. Here ye go.

1. The Medium is the Massage
by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore

2. Fascism. A Very Short Introduction
by Kevin Passmore

3. Silencing Political Dissent
by Nancy Chang, with a foreword by Howard Zinn

I read Jennifer Government recently, but I decided not to count fiction in the response, its social commentary notwithstanding.

currently reading: lots of student papers, so there's not much time for leisure books

on edit: included current reading

[maine_raptor]

4. My list

"Clinton Wars"

"Living History"

"It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis (1935 book on how fscism could come to America......a true classic)

Currently reading:

"The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate" by Robert Griffith in preperation for when "Teason" is consigned to the Barns and Noble bargin bin.

[Tansy_Gold]

5. Currently reading

C. Wright Mills "The Power Elite." (published in 1956 but still extraordinary)

Just finished --

Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
Mark Crispin Miller, "The Bush Dyslexicon" 2nd edition
Michael Agar, "The Professional Stranger"
Barry Glassner, "The Culture of Fear"
Robert J. Lifton, "The Genocidal Mentality"
Shanto Iyengar, "Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues"

[turdinthepunchbowl]

6. .

No Logo
Fences and Windows
Weird Like Us

[shirlden]

7. I read a lot........

Just finished:

The Cell, John Miller and Michael Stone: Inside the 9/11 plot
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast. What a great book!!
Stupid White Men, Moore
The Greatest Sedition is Silence, DU's own Will Pitt

Bought and ready to start:

Wealth and Democracy, Phillips
Living History, H.R.C.

With time out for Harry the fifth

[notadmblnd]

16. I do too

Rule By Secrecy- Jim Marrs
Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace- Gore vidal
Dreaming War- Gore Videl
Forbidden Truth- Jean charles Brisard & Guillaume Dasquie
Fortunate Son Un-authorized bio G.W. Bush- Hatfill
Profits Of War- Ari Ben-Menashe
Robert Maxwell Isreals Superspy- Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon


currently reading

Fateful Triangle- Edward Said
Original Sins- Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
1984- George Orwell
and just for fun

Harry Potter 5- J. K. Rowlings

[EAMcClure]

8. Literacy yay! Literacy yay!

The last three:

1. The Decline of The West: Volume 2. by Oswald Spengler
2. The Fateful Triangle, by Noam Chomsky
3. We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin

[chadm]

9. A People's History, Zinn

Rule by Secrecy - Jim Marrs

Crashing the Party - Nader

[sirshack]

10. mine...

Currently reading "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism", Joshua Duravchik (sp?)

Most recently read:

Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
An Introduction to Austrian Economics, Thomas Taylor
The First and Second Discourses, Rousseau (actually not finished yet)

[Interrobang]

11. The last three...

_Blue Gold_ by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark
_The Jungle_ by Upton Sinclair
_Secrets, Lies, and Democracy_ by Noam Chomsky.

The three before that were:

_Water_ by Marq de Villiers
_Shooting the Hippo_ (again) by Linda McQuaig
_Downsize This!_ by Michael Moore

[criticalmass]

12. Currently reading

Daniel Boorstin's The Discovers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, which is not really a political book, but it's a fascinating read that's giving me a much richer perspective on world history.

The last three books that gave me insight into the inner workings of American politics and politicians were:

Jimmy Breslin's How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (1975)
Kevin Phillips' Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics (1994)
David Stockman's The Triumph of Politics: Why The Reagan Revolution Failed (1986)

And I'm always reading my Bible: Test all things; hold fast what is good. -- I Thess 5:21

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Last Three Books

Living History by Hillary Clinton

Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser

Six Days of War-June 1967 and the Making Of The Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren

[ewagner]

14. Oh God..people who actually read!!!

How dangerous this place is......:evilgrin:

Last 3:

John Adams by McCollough
A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore.

[SickOfSpin]

15. "Stupid White Men"

"Best Democracy Money Can Buy",
and "Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill" by Robert Whitaker

[patdem]

17. 'Them' 'Stupid White Men' and Wealth and Democracy'

I cannot find the book 'Them'...about the bilderburgs..so the author's name escapes me..he is a good looking english sorta guy?

'Stupid White Men'...of course by Michael Moore

'Wealth and Democracy' by Kevin Phillips...a great book..history of the economy and the effects of overwhelming wealth on our country.

I have another I purchased a little while ago...that is lost in the rubble of my life? I do believe it was called something like 'Jihad vs McWorld'...I cannot find that book...and have not read it...:grr:

[Mikimouse]

18. Try the 'Post Emotional Balkan War'...

Mestrovic, Stjepan (circa 1999). This may provide some interesting insight into the transference of emotion from the 9/11/01 attacks to the 'war' in Iraq.

[newsguyatl]

19. last three

'stupid white men'

'blinded by the right'

'fortunate son' (MUST MUST MUST READ)

and currently on 'forbidden truth' and 'is our children learning'