Jim Hightower

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1. Molly Ivins

   Author of Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, Nothin' But Good Times Ahead

2. Jim Hightower

   Author of Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back, There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion, If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They'd Have Given Us Candidates

3. Al Franken

   Author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, The Truth (with jokes)

4. Noam Chomsky

   Author of The Chomsky Reader, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian

5. Sheldon Rampton

   Author of Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future, Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-Party State

6. Kevin Phillips

   Author of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath

7. Greg Palast

   Author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild

8. Eric Alterman

   Author of What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News, The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America, Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America

9. Amy Goodman

   Author of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times

10. James Carville

    Author of We're Right, They're Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives, Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back

11. David Brock

    Author of Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy

12. Arianna Huffington

    Author of Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America, How to Overthrow the Government

13. Joe Conason

    Author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth

14. John W. Dean

    Author of Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, Conservatives Without Conscience, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches

15. Michael Moore

    Author of Dude, Where's My Country?, Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American

16. Mark Crispin Miller

    Author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order

17. Thomas Frank

    Author of What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

18. Ron Suskind

    Author of The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

19. Vincent Bugliosi

    Author of The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President

20. David Corn

    Author of The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception