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Erasing History, How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future Jason Stanley
Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that (7/16/2024)
Book about book bans banned by Florida school board (6/11/2024)
The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts (10/9/2023) Brewster Kahle in the Guardian
Advocacy Groups Are Helping Drive a Rise in Book Bans (9/19/2022)
Attempts to Ban Books Are Accelerating and Becoming More Divisive (9/16/2022) NYT
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First they banned books in Florida. Then they fired teachers for posting photos and videos of the empty shelves.
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) February 17, 2023
Ron DeSantis really is terrible at this “free speech” thing.
Make sure this goes viral!pic.twitter.com/junwI7ec93
What’s the Best Book of the Past 125 Years? We Asked Readers to Decide. (12/28/2021) NYT
Conservatives Are Just Openly Endorsing Book Burning Now (11/11/2021)
What Books Should Biden Read? We Asked 22 Writers (NYT 12/22/2020)
100 Notable Books of 2020
6 Books to Understand the Precarious Political Moment (1/11/2021)
The ‘Trump Bump’ for Books (12/2020)
The World of Books Braces for a Newly Ominous Future (3/16/2020)
25 Best Books of 2018
Can We Create A National Digital Library ?
Fear and hatred of books is an authoritarian malady shared by Hitler (burned them), Pinochet (discarded them, burned them), Mao (burned them), etc., and now the GOP. https://t.co/eMV1of1nyJ
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) August 15, 2024
The State of America's Libraries 2014 (pdf)
Recommended Books
Each of these books describe a different aspect of the problems. Keep in mind The parable of the blind men and the elephant.
- Ministry of Truth by Steve Benen
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best books on the Asian 21st Century
Picked by Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani Author Of Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir - The Washington Book by Carlos Lozada
- The Conspiracy to End America, Five Ways My Old Party is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens
- Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
- American Psychosis, a Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn
- Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind, Robert Draper
- How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa
- The Cult of Trump, a Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan
- Midnight in Washington by Adam Shiff
- Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy by Rick Hasen
- A Field Guide to White Supremacy by Kathleen Belew
- EndGame by Eric Swalwell
- Unthinkable, Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin
- In Trump’s Shadow by David Drucker: surveys the Republican runners and riders for 2024 (Guardian)
- Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl (Guardian)
- There Is Nothing for You Here by Fiona Hill (11/17/2021) Guardian
- I Alone Can Fix It, Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year By Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
- Landslide, The Final Days of the Trump Presidency By Michael Wolff
- "Frankly, We Did Win This Election" by Michael C. Bender
- WHAT WERE WE THINKING, A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era By Carlos Lozada
- TRUMP ON TRIAL, The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath By Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
- The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics by Steve Benen
- How Fascism Works, The Politics of Us and Them: Jason Stanley
- How Democracy Ends: David Runciman
- Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
- The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger & How to Save It, Yascha Mounk
- The Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder
- Hiding in plain sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, Sarah Kendzior
- Hiding in plain sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, Sarah Kendzior
- The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West: Malcolm Nance.
- Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright
- Mueller Report: pdf download.
- The Counterrevolution, How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens: Bernard E. Harcourt
- Democracy in Chains, The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan For America: Nancy MacLean (2017)
- The Crisis Of The Middle-Class Constitution, Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic: Ganesh Sitaraman
- The Good Society, Lane Kenworthy (on-line)
- Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (pdf) Editors: Shannon Sullivan, Nancy Tuana
- RATF**KED, The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy: David Daley
- Mind____ Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America: Christopher Wylie
- Where We Go from Here, Bernie Sanders
- Everything Trump Touches Dies: Rick Wilson
- America, the Farewell Tour: Chris Hedges
- In the Shadows of the American Century, The Rise and Decline of US Global Power: Alfred W. McCoy
- Can It Happen Here ? Cass Sunstein collection of essays.
- Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism: Sheldon S. Wolin
- Our Damaged Democracy: Joseph Califano Jr.
- FIRE AND FURY, Inside the Trump White House: Michael Wolff
- The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis)
- America, the Farewell Tour: Chris Hedges
- Consilience: The Unity of All Knowledge, E O Wilson (free on-line.)
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: Yuval Noah Harari:
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari
- War on peace : the end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence. Ronan Farrow.
- How Democracies Die: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
- No Is Not Enough, Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need: Naomi Klein.
- On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
- Democracy Betrayed, The Rise of the Surveillance Security State, William W. Keller
- The Doomsday Machine, Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner: Daniel Ellsberg
- Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable, Jeffrey D. Sachs. Foreword by Bernie Sanders
- The United States of Fear: Tom Englehardt (see TomDispatch.Com)
- Blueprint, the Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas A. Christakis
- Arguing with Zombies review: Paul Krugman trumps the Republicans (5/3/2021)
- Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It: Lawrence Lessig links). Download this excellent book: .
- Failed States, Noam Chomsky
- Winner Take All Politics: Hacker and Pierson
- The Case For Impeachment: Allan J. Lichtman
- Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy: Jacob S., Hacker and Paul Pierson
- Wages of Rebellion, the Moral Imperative of Revolt: Chris Hedges
- Journalism After Snowden: essays about a free press in a surveillance state
- Breaking through power : it's easier than we think: Ralph Nader.
- The Anatomy of Inequality, Its Social and Economic Origins and Solutions: Per Molander
- Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America: Martin Gilens
- The
Deep State, the Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of A Shadow Government: Mike Lofgren
- Thermonuclear Monarchy, Choosing Between Democracy and Doom Elaine Scarry
- Presidential
Puppetry, Obama, Romney, and Their Masters: Andrew Kreig
- Twilight of the Elites, America After Meritocracy: Christopher Hayes
- Antifa, The Anti-Fascist Handbook: Mark Bray
- The Nordic Theory of Everything, In Search of a Better Life: Anu Partanen
- The
Exception to the Rulers: Amy Goodman with David Goodman
- America the Possible: James Gustave Speth
- The Great Convergence: Kishore Mahbubani
- Crisis in American Institutions: Jerome H. Skolnick and Elliot Currie
- Hostile Takeover, How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government - and How We Take It Back: David Sirota
- The Price of Civilization: Jeffrey D. Sachs
- The Inevitable, Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future: Kevin Kelly
- What Then Must We Do ? Gar Alperovitz
- Loving
This Planet: Helen Caldecott
- The
Betrayal of the American Dream: Donald L.
Barlett and James B. Steele
- Occupy
the Economy, Challenging Capitalism: Richard Wolff
- End
This Depression Now!; Paul Krugman (winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.)
- Predator
Nation: Charles Ferguson (the director of the film 'Inside
Job')
- Tyranny of Silence, How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate On the Future of Free Speech: Flemming Rose
- Agenda For A New Economy, David Korten (See his comments.)
- Griftopia, Matt Taibbi
- Pity the Billionaire: Thomas Frank
- The Case for Big Government: Jeff Madrick
- 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
- We’re Doomed. Now What? Essays on War and Climate Change: Roy Scranton
- The Great Derangement: Climate Change: Amitav Ghosh
- Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Roy Scranton
- 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: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration: James Risen
- War Made Easy: Norman Solomon
- Losing America: Senator Robert Byrd
- The People's Platform, Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age: Astra Taylor
- Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics: Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler
- 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
- Whiteout: Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: James W. Loewen (read it on-line)
- All Hell Breaking Loose: Michael T. Klare
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.
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Source Textbooks in Connecticut
Reading list from the American Freedom Campaign
Forbidden Bookshelf (Mark Crispin Miller)
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Recommended books from Greening Princeton
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