Books Read

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Richard Caro

The Age of Jackson, by Arthur M Schlesinger Jr.

Democracy and Tradition, by Jeffrey Stout

Citizens of the Empire: Hope for Humanity in Hyperpatriotic Times, by Robert Jensen

Wealth and Democracy, by Kevin Phillips

Crisis of Islam, by Bernard Lewis

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria

My Life, by Bill Clinton

What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, by Thomas Frank

Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives, by George Lakoff

God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, by Jim Wallis

What Do We Do Now, edited by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians

Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power

The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth

Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow

The Selected Writings of John Locke, by Paul Sigmund

PERILOUS TIMES, Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, by Geoffrey R. Stone, Norton, 2004

A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation, by Peter Singer

The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy by by David Brock

Political Liberalism by John Rawls

Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future by James Carville and Paul Begala

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times by Jeffrey Hart

Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis by Robert George

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, by Sean Wilentz

The Assasin's Gate: America in Iraq by Robert Packer

Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid by Joe Klein

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

American Mythos: Why our Best Efforts to Be A Better Nation Fall Short by Robert Wuthnow

War on the Middle Class by Lou Dobbs

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

Women and Western Politcal Though by Susan Okin

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore

The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Polin

The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics by Matt Bai

Freedom's Power by Paul Starr

The Conscience of a Liberalby Paul Krugman

In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg

Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life by Robert B. Reich

True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo

Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts

The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria

Some of It Was Fun: Working With RFK and LBJ by Nicholas Katzenbach

Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry Bartels

The Nuclear Express. A political history of the bomb and its proliferation by Thomas C. Reed and Danny

The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America by Marie Gottschalk

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey 

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project) by Andrew Bacevich

Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins

Blessed are the Organized Grassroots Democracy in America by Jeffrey Stout

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