LT picks: Blue Books

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This is a member-created list of "blue books"—books that Democrats like. They will be used in an upcoming feature. Please do not intentionally spike this list with "Politics for Idiots," or whatever.
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44 participating members
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
12,354 members
170 reviews
3.9
8 Members
waitingtoderail, pammab, eromsted, Jestak, lahochstetler, srbr1212, Myrabela, M_Clark
14
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman
1,026 members
21 reviews
4
8 Members
waitingtoderail, claytonhowl, quartzite, CherylsPearls, prosfilaes, aulsmith, LucindaLibri, Myrabela
15
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
5,038 members
136 reviews
½ 4.4
7 Members
lorax, pammab, quartzite, eromsted, lahochstetler, kara.shamy, LTietz
16
Earth in the Balance
by Al Gore
1,419 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
waitingtoderail, janoorani24, norabelle414, LucindaLibri, al.vick, Myrabela
17
The Republican War on Science
by Chris Mooney
625 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
timspalding, lorax, waitingtoderail, quartzite, eromsted, prosfilaes
22
Profiles in Courage
by John F. Kennedy
3,267 members
25 reviews
3.8
6 Members
waitingtoderail, CherylsPearls, srbr1212, suitable1, Bluewolf0411, al.vick,eromsted
23
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
by bell hooks
1,621 members
32 reviews
3.9
6 Members
eromsted, lahochstetler, aulsmith, LucindaLibri, Myrabela, kara.shamy
24
The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
4,431 members
47 reviews
3.8
6 Members
janoorani24, eromsted, CherylsPearls, lahochstetler, LucindaLibri, kara.shamy
25
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
by Al Franken
1,736 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
waitingtoderail, quartzite, prosfilaes, al.vick, Myrabela, kara.shamy
26
Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
by Molly Ivins
708 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
claytonhowl, quartzite, lahochstetler, prosfilaes, aulsmith, LucindaLibri
27
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
by Christopher Hayes
516 members
19 reviews
3.8
5 Members
waitingtoderail, Jestak, elenchus, pmtracy, al.vick
28
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America
by Molly Ivins
1,046 members
14 reviews
3.8
5 Members
quartzite, lahochstetler, prosfilaes, LucindaLibri, LTietz
29
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
by Simon Johnson
376 members
11 reviews
3.9
4 Members
quartzite, Jestak, prosfilaes, M_Clark
30
It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
891 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
5 Members
waitingtoderail, CherylsPearls, prosfilaes, al.vick, Myrabela
31
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
by Joe Biden
272 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
waitingtoderail, CherylsPearls, LucindaLibri, al.vick, Myrabela
32
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
5,223 members
126 reviews
4.2
5 Members
eromsted, Myrabela, kara.shamy, LTietz, M_Clark
33
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
1,702 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
quartzite, janoorani24, CherylsPearls, prosfilaes, al.vick
34
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin
453 members
8 reviews
3.8
4 Members
quartzite, eromsted, lahochstetler, prosfilaes
35
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
1,092 members
23 reviews
3.9
4 Members
Jestak, DebSkoff, Myrabela, kara.shamy
36
Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets
by Robert Kuttner
147 members
1 review
3.8
4 Members
quartzite, Jestak, aulsmith, Myrabela
37
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
52,296 members
970 reviews
4
4 Members
quartzite, janoorani24, CGlanovsky, cej1027,eromsted
38
Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America
by Eric Alterman
122 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
5 Members
claytonhowl, quartzite, CherylsPearls, prosfilaes, Myrabela
39
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
by Chris Hedges
1,102 members
12 reviews
3.9
5 Members
claytonhowl, CherylsPearls, prosfilaes, aulsmith, Myrabela
40
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
by George Lakoff
1,577 members
24 reviews
3.8
4 Members
lorax, waitingtoderail, pammab, prosfilaes
41
The Assault on Reason
by Al Gore
2,180 members
39 reviews
3.8
4 Members
waitingtoderail, quartzite, al.vick, Myrabela
43
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
43,117 members
690 reviews
4.1
4 Members
quartzite, fuzzy_patters, askum, M_Clark,eromsted
44
The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders
by Keith Olbermann
173 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
waitingtoderail, pammab, prosfilaes, al.vick
45
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire
4,083 members
43 reviews
4.1
4 Members
eromsted, metamariposa, aulsmith, LucindaLibri
47
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman
3,161 members
24 reviews
4.1
4 Members
waitingtoderail, quartzite, eromsted, aulsmith
50
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
by Gore Vidal
702 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
waitingtoderail, janoorani24, aulsmith
51
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
by Stephen Kinzer
770 members
14 reviews
4.1
4 Members
waitingtoderail, eromsted, Jestak, prosfilaes
52
A Theory of Justice
by John Rawls
3,073 members
24 reviews
3.9
4 Members
waitingtoderail, claytonhowl, Jestak, askum,eromsted
54
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
by Christian Parenti
176 members
1 review
½ 3.6
2 Members
eromsted, askum
55
The Other America: Poverty in the United States
by Michael Harrington
715 members
9 reviews
4.2
3 Members
claytonhowl, quartzite, eromsted
56
1984
by George Orwell
79,823 members
1,245 reviews
4.2
3 Members
quartzite, John_Vaughan, M_Clark,Myrabela
57
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
by Paul R. Krugman
1,028 members
12 reviews
3.8
3 Members
claytonhowl, quartzite, eromsted
58
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
by Steven Greenhouse
104 members
1 review
3.8
3 Members
quartzite, eromsted, Jestak
61
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
by Ronald Takaki
1,259 members
9 reviews
4
3 Members
eromsted, LucindaLibri, cej1027
63
Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
by Paul Krugman
302 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
quartzite, Jestak, aulsmith
64
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63
by Taylor Branch
2,158 members
21 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
eromsted, Jestak, M_Clark
65
A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut
4,784 members
80 reviews
3.9
2 Members
SqueakyChu, CGlanovsky
66
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
by Frances Fox Piven
371 members
1 review
4
3 Members
waitingtoderail, eromsted, aulsmith
67
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner
1,703 members
34 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
quartzite, janoorani24, Jestak
68
Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal Of American Democracy
by William Greider
361 members
1 review
3.9
2 Members
waitingtoderail, Jestak
69
The official Fahrenheit 9/11 reader
by Michael Moore
323 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
LucindaLibri, al.vick, Myrabela
70
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
by Richard Hofstadter
515 members
5 reviews
4.1
3 Members
quartzite, eromsted, M_Clark
71
Reveille for Radicals
by Saul Alinsky
355 members
1 review
3.9
3 Members
eromsted, aulsmith, Myrabela
72
Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back
by Amy Goodman
239 members
1 review
4.1
3 Members
waitingtoderail, eromsted, aulsmith
73
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by Bethany McLean
1,226 members
19 reviews
4
3 Members
quartzite, Jestak, M_Clark
75
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by Noam Chomsky
3,026 members
21 reviews
3.9
3 Members
waitingtoderail, eromsted, Myrabela
76
The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
by Stephen Holmes
76 members
2 reviews
3.9
3 Members
quartzite, Jestak, Myrabela
78
The Power Elite
by C. Wright Mills
864 members
9 reviews
4
2 Members
eromsted, elenchus
79
The New Industrial State
by John Kenneth Galbraith
764 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
elenchus, M_Clark
80
Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
by Molly Ivins
743 members
3 reviews
4
2 Members
claytonhowl, LTietz
81
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by Jon Stewart
7,310 members
61 reviews
4.1
3 Members
lorax, quartzite, CGlanovsky,eromsted
82
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
2,649 members
68 reviews
4.2
3 Members
eromsted, metamariposa, M_Clark,prosfilaes
83
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
by Patricia Hill Collins
237 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
eromsted, kara.shamy
84
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
by Jack N. Rakove
688 members
5 reviews
3.8
2 Members
eromsted, Jestak
85
Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy
by David Daley
138 members
5 reviews
4.1
Member
M_Clark
86
The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
by Michael Grunwald
129 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
pmtracy
87
Another Dead Republican
by Mark Richard Zubro
34 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Member
Neil_Plakcy
88
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
by Angela Y. Davis
196 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
eromsted, prosfilaes
90
My Life
by Bill Clinton
4,386 members
56 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
waitingtoderail, al.vick, Myrabela,eromsted
91
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf
792 members
24 reviews
3.9
2 Members
waitingtoderail, kara.shamy
92
I Am America (And So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert
5,786 members
133 reviews
3.8
2 Members
quartzite, CGlanovsky
93
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Blyth
355 members
22 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Jestak, M_Clark
95
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
by Greg Palast
1,124 members
5 reviews
3.9
2 Members
claytonhowl, quartzite
96
Losing America
by Robert C. Byrd
175 members
6 reviews
3.9
2 Members
quartzite, M_Clark
97
Crashing the party
by Ralph Nader
345 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
claytonhowl, Myrabela
98
Incoherent Empire
by Michael Mann
94 members
1 review
½ 3.6
2 Members
waitingtoderail, eromsted
99
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
by Howard Zinn
419 members
2 reviews
3.9
2 Members
waitingtoderail, eromsted
100
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
by Arundhati Roy
615 members
6 reviews
3.8
2 Members
eromsted, LucindaLibri