What are you reading?

[dedhed]

When recently asked why Conservatives so dominate the talk-radio industry while Liberals dominate the bookshelves, the wonderful James Carville said, "because Conservatives like to talk and Liberals like to think!"

What good liberal/political books are you reading right now. I'll start...

I'm about 80% through Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby. It's just chock full o' answers to give our Conservative friends who claim that this country was founded on "Judeo-Christian values."

:hi:

[Richardo]

1. Just finished Clarke's book last week...

...am now on "The Great Influenza".

On the political side, I've read these just since January:

Against All Enemies (Clarke)
Worse Than Watergate (Dean)
The Book on Bush (Alterman)
Price of Loyalty (Suskind)

[Dulcinea]

6. Another vote for "The Price of Loyalty."

I recommend that one highly & am slowly getting through "Against All Enemies."

[CBHagman]

2. David von Drehle's "Triangle"

It's about the 1911 fire in the Triangle Waist Company's Manhattan factory. If I tell you it's about that particular tragedy and the labor movement, perhaps you won't want to read it, but I suggest that you overcome your resistance, assuming you are interested in the issues. Von Drehle's prose is not only readable but manages to create a real sense of the people (mostly in the immigrant community) who made up the employees of that tragic factory.

One reviewer suggested that Von Drehle takes an unnecessarily rosy view of workplace safety reforms following the Triangle fire, but as a piece of history, it's quite a gripping book.

[Mistress Quickly]

3. DU

:evilgrin:

[2Sailsgirls]

4. Nicholas Nickleby

By Charles Dickens
Not exactly political.

[markus]

5. The Emerging Democratic Majority

Discusses in dry, academic terms (and with some DLC-esque biases) the demographic changes that bode ill for the GOP and well for us. An excellent (if dry) read.

I'm alternating political/fiction. After I finish my current DeLint, I'm thinking of picking up the books I believe is a called "The Bush Hater's Handbook" or something like that. Looked like an interesting resource book for the coming months.

[meegbear]

7. I'm reading this post

*giggle* *snort*

[H2O Man]

8. Worse than Watergate.

Though not a "liberal" book, it shows the way to convince people with republican tendencies that this administration is dangerous to all who love America, who value the US Constitution, and who have faith in the democratic process.

[BOSSHOG]

9. I'm getting Joe Wilson's "The Politics of Truth"

for my Birthday next month. It will be released this Friday. Recently finished "Big Lies" by Joe Conason and Sidney Blumenthal's "The Clinton Wars." Ain't it amazing what a little reading and education will do for one's view of the world?

Currently I'm reading Jack London's Seawolf. That's way too complicated for the conservative mind.

[LynzM]

10. Al Franken

Lies and the Lying Liars

Kerry's book is on my list, so is "The 16 Crucified Saviors" and "Soul of a Citizen". Usually alternated with various fiction/sci-fi :D I read a LOT, when I have time!

[terrya]

11. "Gay New York". I just can't read any more anti-Bush books.

I finished "American Dynasty" by Kevin Phillips, "Bushwomen" by Laura Flanders (a superb book about the women in the Bush Administration....Condi Rice, Karen Hughes, Elaine Chao, Ann Veneman and how they are used to disguise the horrible policies of the Bush White House. Excellent book). These books are good, but they're preaching to the choir here. Also, they're making me angrier and angrier about this fascist administration.

So, to calm myself down, I'm reading George Chauncey's excellent history of gay life in New York from 1890 - 1940. Very good and compreshensive.

[Mrs. Venation]

12. "Coming Apart, An Informal History Of America In The 1960s"

by William L. O'Neill. I read this book many years ago, and I'm reading it again. That decade changed the world; we should all carry its memory with us.