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ForeverWinter (77 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 12:56 PM Original message |
What progressive book changes lives? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Oh please. Zinn's book is agitprop. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. It is history through the eyes of the common man |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:39 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. It is history thru the eyes of a dedicated revolutionary |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I will never forget the teacher ripping it off the wall and |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 03:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. That sucks.... |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 05:39 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I was branded a trouble maker in the first grade and |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 05:43 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Ugh....sounds like a real nightmare. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 09:22 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. The whole school knew about her. I was surprised |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
33. Okay, I kind of knew I wasn't going to get away with the use of the |
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Moochy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:56 PM Response to Reply #33 |
42. I second your nomination for "A People's History" n/t |
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Moochy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
41. Agitprop? |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. My first thought as well. I also recommend Palast's "Best Democracy Money |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
43. I'll third the recommendation of "A People's History" |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. I'm a big fan of John Dean's books. The most recent |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
34. I will nominate Dean's book, Conservatives Without Conscience, |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. Catch-22. |
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Mr Rabble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. Ive got a better idea. |
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RethugAssKicker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Don't forget Weapons of Mass Deception |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars thet Tell them |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 10:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
30. Absolutely 100% Agree That This Would Be A Great One For Her. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. "Lies my Teacher Told Me" James Loewen |
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dpbrown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
10. 1984 |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. "A Handmaiden's Tale." |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
12. All of the above and for the religious crowd... |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 10:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. I used "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism" for a paper last |
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DirtyJersey (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
16. some suggestions |
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welshTerrier2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
19. "Blinded by the Right" or "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them" nt |
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FtWayneBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
20. How about an easy read, |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
23. My Declaration of Independence |
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misternormal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
24. How about a copy of the Constitution of the United States?? n/t |
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PaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
26. Robert Reich's "Reason" |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:11 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. This was the first book I thought of, too. |
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Dinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
28. Conscience Of A Liberal By Paul Wellstone |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 03:10 PM Response to Reply #28 |
46. I was going to suggest the same thing |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
29. There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes... |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
31. Assassin's Gate or Fiasco on the Iraq war |
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aaronbees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
32. "Nickel and Dimed" |
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Protagoras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
36. Sorrows of Empire or Confessions of an Economic Hitman |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
37. War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Christopher Hedges |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
38. What about, just an essay? "Self Reliance" -- Emerson |
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libnnc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
39. "Blinded by the Right" by David Brock |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
40. JANUS, Arthur Koestler |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
44. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
45. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
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