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neverborn
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Tue Mar-23-04 01:50 AM
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So. I need good left-wing material. Even though I have tons of books yet in the queue to read -- I need suggestions :)
I have in line to read: Richard Clarke "House of Bush, House of Saud" Shrub - Molly Ivins The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq
I have read or am reading: The Price of Loyalty - Suskind All the Michael Moore Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Franken Big Lies - Conason Hegemony or Survival - Chomsky 9/11 - Chomsky Take Them At Their Words Bushwhacked - Ivins
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Tue Mar-23-04 02:02 AM
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1. Kevin Phillips' "American Dynasty" |
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Yes, that Kevin Phillips. The Emerging Republican Majority Kevin Phillips. Excellent read.
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Tue Mar-23-04 02:03 AM
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I recommend People's History of the US by Howard Zinn. The communist manifesto of course :D by Marx and Engels.
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Tue Mar-23-04 02:06 AM
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3. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes |
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Actually, I haven't read it yet, but I'm teaching a lesson on a few of his smaller poems tomorrow. The collected poems is on my reading list, too.
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Tue Mar-23-04 02:23 AM
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Tue Mar-23-04 02:39 PM
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I do want interesting books. Some of Chomsky's stuff gets really dry and hard to read after a while.
Just getting more ideas, thanks guys, will check all these out :D
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