Exposing the Man Behind the Curtain

Description
An eclectic mix of historical, economic, political, environmental, philosophical, etc. books that shed light on power structures, dominant political and economic creations, and, patterns of control.
1
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
17,250 members
175 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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2
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
by Mark Fisher
1,905 members
51 reviews
4
2 Members
maven79, Ellesee
3
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
by Glenn Greenwald
1,316 members
43 reviews
4
2 Members
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4
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
by Chris Hedges
1,275 members
14 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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5
Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian
by Noam Chomsky
247 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
maven79, Ellesee
6
Orientalism
by Edward W. Said
6,793 members
53 reviews
3.9
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7
It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
4,218 members
106 reviews
½ 3.7
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8
Burmese Days
by George Orwell
4,205 members
86 reviews
3.8
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9
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
3,831 members
185 reviews
3.9
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10
How Democracies Die
by Steven Levitsky
1,980 members
53 reviews
4.2
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11
The Anatomy of Fascism
by Robert O. Paxton
1,205 members
25 reviews
4.1
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12
Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous!
by Stéphane Hessel
1,102 members
49 reviews
½ 3.4
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13
The Power Elite
by C. Wright Mills
1,004 members
11 reviews
4
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14
Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges
634 members
13 reviews
4
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15
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America
by Daniel Boorstin
561 members
6 reviews
4.1
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16
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
by Ariel Dorfman
406 members
8 reviews
3.8
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17
The Doubt Factory
by Paolo Bacigalupi
359 members
21 reviews
½ 3.3
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18
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Engler
328 members
5 reviews
4
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20
Backing Hitler. Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
by Robert Gellately
284 members
7 reviews
4
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21
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
by Matt Taibbi
272 members
13 reviews
4.1
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22
The Extreme Centre: A Warning
by Tariq Ali
106 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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23
What we're fighting for now is each other
by Wen Stephenson
92 members
22 reviews
3.8
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24
Disassembly Required: a Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism
by Geoff Mann
83 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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The Dual State: A Contribution To the Theory of Dictatorship
by Ernst Fraenkel
56 members
2 reviews
5
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