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)
Books
Each of these books describe a different aspect of the problems. Keep in mind The parable of the blind men and the elephant.
Publishers
Context Books
Public Affairs
- The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot: Naomi Wolf
- The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein (video) See this too.
- The Dark Side: Jane Mayer.
- Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency: Charlie Savage
- The Bush Agenda, invading the world one economy at a time: Antonia Juhasz
- “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic": Chalmers Johnson
- Censoring Science: Inside the political attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming. Mark Bowen.
- Conscience of a Liberal: Paul Krugman
- It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush by Joe Conason
- 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 Republican War on Science. Chris Mooney
- Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000: Alan M. Dershowitz
- I Hate Republicans Reader: Clint Willis
- 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
- Empire: Negri and Hardt (download it for free.)
- Toward an American Revolution: Jerry Fresia (Free download)
- 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
Related Resources:
ALA: Banned Books Week
Reading list from the American Freedom Campaign
Paul
Krugman's reading list
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books From 1990-2000
Most Challenged Books of the 21st century (2000-2005)
Classics of Liberalism
