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Afflicted Powers

by Iain A. Boal, T. J. Clark, et al.
Dissenting intellectuals analyze the collision of military neoliberalism with the politics of the spectacle.
3 posts
America

by V. G. Kiernan

A major historical account of the evolution of American imperialism.
Portents of the Real

by Susan Willis
The deeper meanings of popular cultural phenomena in post-9/11 America.
2 posts
Bushwomen

by Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders assesses the central role of women—and sexual politics—in the 2004 Republican victory.
1 post

Wobblies!

Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman

A vibrant history in graphic art of the Industrial Workers of the World.

11 posts
Total Insecurity

by Carol Brightman

Why the war against Iraq spells doom for American economic power, and could awaken dissent.

1 post
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood

by Paul Buhle
A lively, extensively illustrated history of the widespread influence of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.
1 post
Imperial Crusades

by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
Chronicles the lies from Washington and London, and the under-reported carnage of imperial wars.
4 posts

Culture in the Age of Three Worlds

by Michael Denning
Denning analyses the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture.
2 posts
Tyranny in America

by Neal Wood

Addresses the chief maladies afflicting the US and argues that change is necessary.

1 post
The Boom and the Bubble

by Robert Brenner

Brenner demonstrates that the new economy was always a fragile phenomenon.

22 posts
The Pig and the Skyscraper

by Marco d’Eramo

“Serious-minded and acutely insightful social analysis.”—Bookwatch

1 post

Irish on the Inside

by Tom Hayden
Tom Hayden explores the losses wrought by Irish American conformism.
A Way of Life That Does Not Exist

by Colin Samson
The tragedies of the Innu, and how some have resisted assimilation.
The Clash of Fundamentalisms

by Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.

27 posts
Cuba on My Mind

by Román de la Campa

“Empathic and critical, connected and removed, knowing and bewildered.”—Raritan Review

2 posts

The Attack Queers

by Richard Goldstein

Charts and critiques the rise of the gay right.
The Business of Books

by André Schiffrin

“A riveting chronicle of the rise and fall of the American reader.”—Village Voice

6 posts
Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis
Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River?
16 posts
Canaries on the Rim

by Chip Ward
A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.

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