Recommended reading?

[kid_nz]

A group of friends and I run a website and we are trying to build a book resource for those of you who are interested in buying or reading books about Bush's failure in the White House. The website offers other means of electional persuasion(?:)), too. There are e-cards to send to friends and family who may still need convincing, and there's merchandise which will hopefully help advertise to get people taking action this coming election.

Please have a look and offer any suggestions for books, topics we may cover in the e-cards (there are several dealing with a range of issues), or anything else. It would be great to hear from the DUers out there and get them interested.

books:
http://www.vote-your-conscience.com/books.html

e-cards:
http://www.vote-your-conscience.com/cards.html

shop
http://www.vote-your-conscience.com/vycgear.html

Thanks for your help!:)

[larryepke]

1. "What Liberal Media"

by Eric Alterman

[kid_nz]

2. "What Liberal Media"

Excellent! Condsider it done.

Thanks!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. A Peoples History of the United States...Howard Zinn

[kofijoe]

4. The Oh'Really Factor

Not strictly speaking a Bush basher, but good reading for Faux News viewers...

[kid_nz]

5. more more!

Wow! This is great stuff!
Keep it coming...

[texastoast]

6. Thieves In High Places

Jim Hightower.

[kid_nz]

8. check out the books page...

we've got this one.
But keep 'em coming.

http://www.vote-your-conscience.com/books.html

[kaitykaity]

7. More? Okay.

I think you'll like these:

Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross
Up from Conservatism by Michael Lind
Secrets and Lies by Dilip Hiro
Rogue Nation by T.D. Allman


More at these two links:

http://onlinejournal.com/Book_Store/book_store.html
http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/

[kid_nz]

9. great resource...

...thanks for that! We'll get right on those links.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Best democracy money can buy, lies and the liying liars who tell them

bushwacked etc

[kid_nz]

11. yep

check the site...we have these ones, too! :)
www.vote-your-conscience.com/books.html

[CBHagman]

12. It goes back to before the administration, but ...

...do consider "Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush," by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose. It will give the reader some idea of the real record of Bush's first term and partial second term as governor of Texas. It's available in paperback.

I also didn't see Joe Conason's "Big Lies" on your list yet. That particular book points out the disconnect between what right-wing pundits and politicians say and what they do.

Finally, don't forget Mark Crispin Miller's analysis of Bush language, "The Bush Dyslexicon." That too is available in paperback.

[AlCzervik]

13. "Shrub" is my favorite Molly book.

[kid_nz]

15. good enough...

...reason for us to add it then!
;-)

[kid_nz]

14. wow

Great contributions. And thoughtful response. Much appreciated.
We want to put some quick comments about each book up there but are worried that the content will get too unwieldy...so for now, I guess that's what the Amazon link is good for.

Let me know if you think of any others.

[AlCzervik]

17. If you can fin it...Fortunae Son by the now deceased JH Hatfield

I got a copy 3 years ago, this is the book the Dim-son tried to have stopped.

[JohnLocke]

16. (cough)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=111x19362

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=111&topic_id=21576

[kid_nz]

18. AH. I see.

Well, that's what I get for not searching, eh? Thanks very much. Noticed that we have quite a few at first glance, but we'll take a longer look.

Still, it's good to get people in there to have a look at the site. Since it's not just books we have on offer. As much as possible, we're trying to be a persuasive resource. So...whatever falls in that category, we'd like to hear about it!

[SOteric]

19. Here's my current list, - I'll add a few from yours and

if there's anything interesting you see on mine please add it to your list.

• The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
  
• Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, Al Franken
  
• Economic Apartheid in America, Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel
  
• Ideas for Action, Cynthia Kaufman
  
• Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, David Brock
  
• The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, David Corn
  
• They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era, E.J. Dionne
  
• The Terrorism Industry, Edward S. Herman
  
• The Question of Palestine, Edward Said
  
• What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News, Eric Alterman
  
• The Past Has Another Pattern, George Ball
  
• The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons...," Greg Palast
  
• Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Hal Draper
  
• Living History, Hillary Rodham Clinton
  
• Fortunate Son, J. H. Hatfield
  
• Buck Up, Suck Up...and Come Back When you Foul Up...," James Carville
  
• We’re Right, They're Wrong, James Carville
  
• A Field Guide to the U.S. Economy, James Heintz
  
• Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And Its Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower
  
• Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth, Joe Conason
  
• The Hunting of the President, Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
  
• Palestine, Joe Sacco
  
• Illusions of Prosperity, Joel Blau
  
• Globalization and It’s Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz
  
• Capital, Karl Marx
  
• The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, Mark Crispin Miller
  
• The Politics of Meaning, Michael Lerner
  
• Dude, Where's My Country?" Michael Moore
  
• Stupid White Men, Michael Moore
  
• Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer, Michael Ratner
  
• The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret, Michael Zweig
  
• Bushwhacked, Molly Ivins
  
• Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
  
• The Prince, Niccolo Macchiavelli
  
• The Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky
  
• The New Military Humanism, Noam Chomsky
  
• The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
  
• Year 501, Noam Chomsky
  
• Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Norman Finkelstein
  
• The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, Paul Krugman
  
• The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Wellstone
  
• Introducing Keynes Peter Pugh, Chris Garratt
  
• Palestinian Identity, Rashid Khalidi
  
• The ABCs of Political Economy, Robin Hahnel
  
• Arabs & Israel for Beginners, Ron David
  
• Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
  
• The Clinton Wars, Sidney Blumenthal
  
• Imperial Alibis, Stephen Shalom
  
• The Art of War, Sun Tzu
  
• The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics, Ted Halstead and Michael Lind
  
• Killing Hope, William Blum
  
• The Soul of Capitalism, William Greider
  
• Who Will Tell the People, William Greider
  
• The Greatest Sedition Is Silence: Four Years in America, William Rivers Pitt

[kid_nz]

20. holy smokes

And, well...wow.
We'll give it a good read and get back to you! Thanks for that. Do you have a website we should link to?

[SOteric]

21. My only website currently is at:

http://edgewise.org/Edgewise

And relates more to banned poetry. But if you'd like to link to that, I'd be pleased.

[kid_nz]

22. Hmm...

"literary censorship"?
There may be a way to work that in. We'll have a look...
Thanks again!

[Eloriel]

23. Shadia Drury's book on Leo Strauss and the Straussians (neocons)

Don't know the name of it. She may in fact have several books, in which case the one I'm talking about is several years old (2 - 3, maybe more). There have been numerous important articles written about her work in exposing these fascists.

Chris Hedges books, esp. one with a title like "War Is Tie that Binds Us."

[kid_nz]

25. Shadia Drury's

"Leo Strauss and the American Right"

She's also written "Terror and Civilization : Christianity, Politics, and the Western Psyche". Both seem like good candidates.

Chris Hedges work certainly doesn't pull any punches. "What Every Person Should Know About War" and "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" are controversial, but compelling, by the looks of things.

Thanks for the tips!

[never cry wolf]

24. Hey, great site!

At least the cards are awesome! I now have to work up the courage to send one to my bestest buddy ever who was a bushbot the last time we talked politics, which is RARE.

[TOhioLiberal]

26. Here's one I highly recommend...

Its called 'Robbing Us Blind: the Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America' by Steve Brouwer. Here's the Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1567512380/qid=1084845222/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-7734101-9809625?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I just finished it and its a real eye opener.

[kid_nz]

28. it does look pretty juicy

You should write a review for Amazon!
The descriptions and reviews on the link page certainly make the book look promising.

Ah.. if I only had the money to buy all these books...
::sigh::

[TOhioLiberal]

31. Borrowed this copy from the library...

...I'm sure some FBI or CIA agent made note of it..:)

[kid_nz]

32. LOL-- Orange Alert!! n/t

[bigbillhaywood]

27. "Who Will Tell The People". William Greider. Not about Bush's

corruption specifically, but about Washington corruption generally (on both sides of the aisle)-- many things applicable to Bush administration.

[shimmergal]

29. How about a couple of famous novels for those who'll

see the parallels?

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell.

THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood.

[kid_nz]

30. brilliant

Don't know why we didn't think of it, frankly!
Possibly Fahrenheit 451 as well, now that you mention it...