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The New Prophets of Capital

by Nicole Aschoff

A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah

12 posts
To Sin Against Hope

by Alfredo Gutierrez

A dissection of the racism that has deformed a century of border policy.

13 posts
Irregular Army

by Matt Kennard
Reveals the US military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to extremists in its ranks.
13 posts
The Muslims Are Coming!

by Arun Kundnani
Powerful critique of UK and US surveillance and repression of Muslims and prosecution of homegrown terrorism
72 posts

Shattered Hopes

by Josh Ruebner

Hard-hitting critique of Obama administration’s failure to broker Israeli–Palestinian peace, by a leading DC-based advocate

14 posts
A Colossal Wreck

by Alexander Cockburn

A roller coaster ride through the ruins of modern America from the most influential journalist of his generation

9 posts
Narcoland

by Anabel Hernández
Explosive, best-selling account of Mexico’s drug cartels and the government-business nexus that enables them
18 posts
The Beast

by Óscar Martínez

“A revelatory work of love and hair-raising courage.” – New York Review of Books

25 posts

The American Crucible

by Robin Blackburn

How slavery shaped the market economy and abolitionists gave us our ideals

19 posts
Marxism in the United States

by Paul Buhle
“Challenges the entire edifice of modern US cultural and political history.”—Monthly Review
5 posts
Trampling Out the Vintage

by Frank Bardacke

A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers

18 posts
News For All the People

by Juan González and Joseph Torres

Bestselling narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story.

17 posts

Occupy!

Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, et al.
The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.
31 posts
The Contours of American History

by William Appleman Williams

Chosen by The Modern Library as one of the best one hundred nonfiction books of the twentieth century.

4 posts
The Obama Syndrome

by Tariq Ali

A prescient dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat, fully updated.

60 posts
An Unfinished Revolution

by Robin Blackburn, Abraham Lincoln, et al.
The impact of the American Civil War on Karl Marx, and Karl Marx on America.
10 posts

The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery

by Robin Blackburn

"One of the finest studies of slavery and abolition."—Eric Foner

13 posts
The Cultural Front

by Michael Denning
A panoramic history of the culture of Depression-era America and the Popular Front.
2 posts
Rebel Rank and File

Edited by Aaron Brenner, Robert Brenner, et al.
The hidden story of the 1970s insurgency from below, against employers and bureaucrats.
28 posts
America

by Jean Baudrillard
“A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left.”—New York Times
5 posts

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