Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
By: Tony Perrottet
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the fi…
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1. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
By: Rich Cohen
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and LowWhe… read more
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2. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
By: Jon Lee Anderson
3.73
Format: None pages,
From the back of the book: "Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the defi… read more
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3. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
4. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more
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5. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more
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6. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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7. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
By: Friedrich Engels
4.24
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more
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"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
9. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 888 pages, Hardcover
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more
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"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
10. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
11. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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12. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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13. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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14. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
By: Ben Hubbard
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling roya… read more
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"Mohammed bin Salman declined to be interviewed for this book"-Ben Hubbard, MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
15. Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
By: Tony Perrottet
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the fi… read more
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16. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
17. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
By: William Neuman
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2022 and the National Endowment for Democracy Notable Books of … read more
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18. Xi Jinping - der mächtigste Mann der Welt
By: Stefan Aust
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
China zwischen globaler Wirtschaftsmacht und kommunistischer Diktatur – die erste umfassende Biogra… read more
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19. The Hong Kong Diaries
By: Chris Patten
4.12
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not … read more
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20. Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution
By: William Doyle
3.48
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A cogent, comprehensive, and sweeping account of Napoleon’s dismantling of the French Revolution, g… read more
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21. Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman
By: Will Grant
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of th… read more
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