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Connecticut Authors

Connecticut Muse is a celebration of contemporary Connecticut authors featured in a quarterly newsletter. Each issue focuses on a different literary genre and includes book reviews, author interviews, a listing of upcoming author appearances and information on new releases.

Book Barn (East Lyme)

Bank Square Books (Mystic)

R T Julia (Madison)

Books

Each of these books describe a different aspect of the problems. Keep in mind The parable of the blind men and the elephant.

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Book Reviews

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Moby Lives
NY Review of Books
NY Times Books
Rain Taxi
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Public Affairs

Agenda For A New Economy, David Korten
Griftopia, Matt Taibbi
Rebooting the American Dream - 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country: Back to the Future: Thom Hartmann
The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Matt Miller
Family of Secrets, Russ Baker
The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot: Naomi Wolf
Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War: Joe Bageant (an excerpt)
The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein (video) See this too.
The Dark Side: Jane Mayer.
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency: Charlie Savage
What's the Matter with Kansas: Thomas Frank
The Wrecking Crew: Thomas Frank
The Bush Agenda, invading the world one economy at a time: Antonia Juhasz
“Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic": Chalmers Johnson
Ill Fares the Land: Tony Judt
Censoring Science: Inside the political attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming. Mark Bowen.
Common Wealth, Jeffrey Sachs
Conscience of a Liberal: Paul Krugman
It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush by Joe Conason
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg
The Sorrows of Empire Chalmers Johnson
Blowback: Chalmers Johnson.
Perfectly Legal: David Kay Johnson
100 Ways America is Screwing Up the World: John Tirman
Dark Ages America, the Final Phase of Empire by Morris Berman. Like any book at variance with the official story, this one has taken a lot of hits. You need to read it for yourself to see the depth of source material, the insight, and the poor outlook for the US empire.
The Secret History of the American Empire, John Perkins
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists expose the Myth of a Free Press. " appallingly convincing book, a book that suggests that the truth about our media-military-industrial complex might go beyond even our paranoid imaginings." Michelle Goldberg (click to see the entire review.)
Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: Gerry Spence
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track by Thomas E. Mann & Norman Orenstein.
The Exception to the Rulers: Amy Goodman with David Goodman
Our Endangered Values: Jimmy Carter
Battle for Social Security: Nancy Altman
State of War: James Risen
War Made Easy: Norman Solomon
Losing America: Senator Robert Byrd
Failed States, Noam Chomsky
Inverted Totalitarianism: A New Way of Understanding How the U.S. Is Controlled By Chalmers Johnson
Crimes against Nature: Robert F Kennedy
War and the American Presidency: Arthur Schlesinger
The Great Unraveling: Paul Krugman (unofficial website.)
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Charles R. Morris
The Great Risk Shift: Jacob Hacker
The Republican War on Science. Chris Mooney
Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000: Alan M. Dershowitz
Generation Debt: Anya Kamenetz
American Dynasty: Kevin Phillips
American Theocracy: Kevin Phillips
The Coming Plague. Laurie Garrett
The New Pearl Harbor. David Ray Griffin
Imposter. Bruce Bartlett
The Israel Lobby: Mearshiemer and Walt.
Price of Loyalty Ron Suskind with Paul O'neill
The End of Faith. Sam Harris
The Missing Class: Catherine S. Newman
Lying for Empire David Model, Professor of Political Science, Seneca College, Toronto
Manufacturing Consent. Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman
Truth, Torture, and the American Way: Jennifer Harbury
The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future: Juan Enriquez, Crown Publishers.
Making Globalization Work. Joseph E. Stiglitz. W.W. Norton 2006
The End of Poverty . Jaffrey Sachs the Penguin Press. New York. 2005
Plan B : Rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble. Lester R. Brown www. earth-policy.org
The Parliament of Man: the Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations: Paul Kennedy
Secret Power: Nicky Hager
What We Say Goes: Noam Chomsky with David Barsamian
While America Aged: Roger Lowenstein
Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House. Sasha Abramsky
Books by Charles Derber
When Giants Fall: Michael Pansner
The Limits of Power, the End of American Exceptionalism: Andrew J. Bacevich