We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
By: Ryan Grim
4.27
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her t…
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1. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… 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. Socialism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Michael Newman
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Today, most people think of socialism as an outdated ideology. In this Very Short Introduction, Mic… read more
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4. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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5. A Man Without a Country
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more
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6. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
By: Philip K. Dick
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book- SF: 100 Best Novels In the ove… read more
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7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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8. Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
By: Bernie Sanders
3.94
Format: None pages,
Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platfor… read more
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9. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
10. Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
By: Cassandra Peterson
4.36
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween,… read more
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"My favorite band's lyrics spoke to me more powerfully than any parent or teacher ever could. They helped me figure out who I was, what I was feeling, and possibly, where I was headed."-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
"Suddenly one day I sprouted boobs. Not *just* boobs. Enormous boobs. When puberty finally struck, I developed faster than a Polaroid. In my mind at least, I remember going to bed flat as a board one …"-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
"I was someone who had spent most of her life hanging around with gay men, and now here I was, ashamed of my feelings for a woman. I felt like such a hypocrite. I eventually gave up my ridiculous prec…"-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
11. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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12. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
By: Craig Whitlock
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how th… read more
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"To reinforce the message, Obama administration officials touted statistics that distorted what was really happening on the ground. The Bush administration had done the same, but Obama staffers in the…"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
"Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, …"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
13. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
14. A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
By: Hadas Thier
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the s… read more
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"Is this rotten system the best we can do?"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"Marxism is not a simple blueprint, with obvious rights and wrongs. Instead, it is a living, breathing theory, applied to social relations, which themselves are always in motion."-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"We live in a society in which decades of budget cuts have made a run on overwhelmed hospitals inevitable and which has set countries and states bidding against one another for ventilators on the “fre…"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"The first traces of modern humans date back to more than two hundred thousands years ago. But it was only in the last five thousand years (i.e. during less than three percent of human history) that t…"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
15. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
By: Sarah Jaffe
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a… read more
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"Freedom was there, the neoliberals argued, you just had to purchase it."-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
"Neoliberalism encourages us to think that everything we want and need must be found with a price tag attached."-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
"The majority of people who work in the arts will identify themselves as liberal to left wing, often radical left wing. This is going from the poorest artist to the highest paid curators in institutio…"-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
16. We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
By: Ryan Grim
4.27
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her t… read more
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17. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
By: Norman G. Finkelstein
4.66
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its… read more
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18. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
19. Dirtbag: Essays
By: Amber A'Lee Frost
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it. Amber A'Le… read more
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20. Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism
By: Meagan Day
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Bernie Sanders's 2016 candidacy expanded the scope of political possibility in the United States, p… read more
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21. Break 'em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
By: Zephyr Teachout
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then… read more
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