Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

8 best books like Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power (Noam Chomsky): The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Permanent Record, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth, Wild: An Elemental Journey, America: The Farewell Tour, The Wire: Truth Be Told, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Unspeakable

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Author	Shoshana Zuboff
ISBN	1610395697

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.

In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...

Permanent Record

Author	Edward Snowden
ISBN	1250237238

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

Author

Rachel Maddow

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All
 
In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at...

Wild: An Elemental Journey

Author

Jay Griffiths

In Wild, Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey through wildernesses of earth, ice, water, and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and the wild, the book is by turns passionate, political, funny, and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest...

America: The Farewell Tour

Author

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism...

The Wire: Truth Be Told

Author	Rafael Alvarez
ISBN	0743497325

Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series "The Wire," hailed as "the best show on television, period" by the "San Francisco Chronicle." "The New York Times" calls it "a vital part of the television landscape...unvarnished realism." "Time" declares that "The Wire," "like its underfunded,...

Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

Author	Jacob S. Hacker
ISBN	1416593845

A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.

We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while...

Unspeakable

Author	Chris Hedges
ISBN	1510712739

Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.

Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb thrower, who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging...