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new books and movies of interest to progressives:

Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency
Michael T. Klare
• pre-order Paperback, coming August 1st

The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Greenspan’s Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy
Ravi Batra

1776
David McCullough
• 10-CD Audiobook
• 8-Cassette Audiobook

The Corporation
Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
Kurt Eichenwald
“intimate blow-by-blow of Enron's implosion”

Hotel Rwanda
Terry George, Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
• 8-CD Audiobook

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Progressive Passion and Commentary

This Can’t Be Happening!: Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy Dave Lindorff	Why I Stopped Listening to Rush: Confessions of a Recovering Neocon David Alan Black 6/04	Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk Maureen Dowd NYTimes columnist • Now in Paperback! • 10-CD Audiobook	Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative Ed Schultz
Citizenship Papers Wendell Berry	The Bush Betrayal James Bovard	Attitude 2: The New Subversive Social Commentary Cartoonists Ted Rall (editor)	Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness — Modern History from the Sports Desk Hunter S. Thompson
An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire Arundhati Roy	Generalissimo el Busho: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years Ted Rall	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama	We the People: A Call to Take Back America Thom Hartmann, Paul Burke (editor), Gene Latimer (editor), Neil Cohn (illustrator) an entrancing work of art
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace Gore Vidal	My Life Bill Clinton • Large Print • 6-CD Audiobook (abridged) • 4-Cassette Audiobook (abridged)	What We've Lost: How the Bush Administration Has Curtailed Our Freedoms, Mortgaged Our Economy, Ravaged Our Environment, and Damaged Our Standing in the World Graydon Carter Editor in Chief, Vanity Fair	America the Book: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction *The writers of The Daily Show* and Jon Stewart**
Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Seizing Power in the Age of the Internet Joe Trippi	Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters from the War Zone Michael Moore	Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America Garrison Keillor • Large Print • CD Audiobook
Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency Robert C. Byrd 7/04	The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them Amy Goodman, David Goodman	Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme Calvin Trillin	Sex, Lies, and Politics: The Naked Truth Larry Flynt
Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent Anthony Dunbar, foreword by Jimmy Carter Essays by 12 leading Southern historians, activists, civil rights attorneys, law professors, and theologians	Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism Cornel West	Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky Noam Chomsky, edited by John Schoeffel, Peter Mitchell	Cause of Wars and Aggression Bo Filter Book 1 in a series of 6 on Causes and Cures of Wars and Aggression

Taking Action

Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World David Solnit (editor) tactics & examples for individuals from the global justice movement	Start Making Sense: Turning the Lessons of Election 2004 into Winning Progressive Politics Don Hazen (Editor), Lakshmi Chaudhry (Editor), Arianna Huffington, Amy Goodman, George Lakoff, more	Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives George Lakoff	You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America Howard Dean
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear Paul Rogat Loeb (Editor)	No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies Naomi Klein

Always Relevant

visionary fiction

1984 George Orwell • *CD Audiobook* • Cassette Audiobook Animal Farm and 1984 George Orwell, intro by Christopher Hitchens	Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley, intro by Christopher Hitchens	The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood • CD Audiobook	The Running Man Stephen King
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury, with a new intro by the author	It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis	Lord of the Flies William Golding • CD Audiobook • Cassette Audiobook	Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque, trans. by A. W. Wheen • Cassette Audiobook	Night Elie Wiesel, trans. by Stella Rodway • Cassette Audiobook	The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver • 13-CD Audiobook • 10-Cassette Audiobook	Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death Kurt Vonnegut • 5-CD Audiobook

history lessons

1776 David McCullough • 10-CD Audiobook • 8-Cassette Audiobook	They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 Milton Sanford Mayer 1st publ. 1966	A People’s History of the United States: 1492–Present Howard Zinn	Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Adam Hochschild
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America Fergus M. Bordewich • 5-CD Audiobook (abridged)	Sleepwalking through History: America in the Reagan Years Haynes Johnson	First Democracy Paul Woodruff the world of ancient Athens

notable communiqués

Guerrilla Warfare Ernesto Che Guevara, Marc Becker (intro)	Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass, Robert O’Meally (intro)	Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela
The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon	Steal This Book Abbie Hoffman	Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution Jerry Rubin	The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, with Alex Haley, M. S. Handler (intro)
Soul on Ice Eldridge Cleaver	Revolutionary Suicide Huey P. Newton	This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party David Hilliard, Leslie Cole	The Age of Reason Thomas Paine
The Rights of Man Thomas Paine	Common Sense Thomas Paine • 3-CD Audiobook

national baggage

A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present Ward Churchill	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown • Paperback	Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 Richard Slotkin	Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age Kevin Boyle • Now in Paperback!
All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror Stephen Kinzer • 9-CD Audiobook	Murder in Mississippi: United States V. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights Howard Ball	The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall	Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt Jack Olsen
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy Jim Marrs	Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK James Hepburn, William Turner (intro)	The Man Who Knew Too Much: Richard Case Nagell and the Assassination of JFK Dick Russell	Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & “Project Truth” Robert Parry
Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up Lawrence Walsh Independent counsel for Iran-Contra investigation

eggheads, effete intellectuals, and other great progressive thinkers

The Greatest Spiritual Secret of the Century Thom Hartmann	Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies Noam Chomsky	The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Fischer (editor)	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson
War is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America’s Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti-Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of It Smedley D. Butler	The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture Wendell Berry