Standing by Words
10 best books like Standing by Words (Wendell Berry): Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, The Republican War on Science, Conservatives Without Conscience, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Politics, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics, Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It, The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy, American Progressivism: A Reader
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
| Author | Michael Eric Dyson |
| ISBN | 1250135990 |
Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.
As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man's voice soars above the...
The Republican War on Science
| Author | Chris C. Mooney |
| ISBN | 0465046762 |
Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any time since Richard Nixon fired his science advisors. In the White House and Congress today, findings are reported in a politicized...
Conservatives Without Conscience
| Author | John W. Dean |
| ISBN | 0670037745 |
Dean's last NY Times bestseller, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, offered the former White House insider's telling perspective on George W. Bush's presidency. Once again, he employs his knowledge & understanding of Washington politics & process to examine...
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Politics
| Author | Gabriel Sherman |
| ISBN | 0812992857 |
The Loudest Voice in the Room: Roger Ailes, Fox News and the Remaking of American Politics by Gabriel Sherman is not only a book about Ailes as an adult but about how his father raised him and his childhood to adulthood. His father was a douche bag also and taught Ailes to be the douche bag Ailes is today. Ailes...
The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them
| Author | Bill Press |
| ISBN | 0312641648 |
In Toxic Talk, Bill Press exposed the ways in which the extreme right-wing media has done an end run around the American voting populace by exerting a disproportionate control over open political debate. In The Obama Hate Machine, Press returns to show how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous...
| Author | Glenn Greenwald |
| ISBN | 0307408027 |
A takedown of the GOP's deceitful propaganda machine from the hugely popular blogger of Salon.com's Unclaimed Territory and the author of the New York Times bestsellers How Would a Patriot Act? and A Tragic Legacy.
Long since Americans were wooed by images of Ronald Reagan astride a horse, complete...
Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
| Author | Heidi Boghosian |
| ISBN | 0872865991 |
"With ex-CIA staffer Edward Snowden's leaks about National Security Agency surveillance in the headlines, Heidi Boghosian’s Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance feels especially timely. Boghosian reveals how the government acquires information...
Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It
| Author | Thom Hartmann |
| ISBN | 1576754634 |
Acclaimed radio host and renowned author, Thom Hartmann, does it again, providing a provocative look at one of America's most ignored social and political issues- the immanent demise of the middle class.
Hartmann offers an historical perspective to back up his positions, often referring...
The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
A deeply reported look inside the new conservative movement working to undermine American democracy.
Control of the country is up for grabs—and Republicans have been rigging the game in their favor. Twenty-two states have passed restrictions on voting. Ruthless gerrymandering has...
American Progressivism: A Reader
| Author | Ronald J. Pestritto |
| ISBN | 0739123041 |
American Progressivism is a one-volume edition of some of the most important essays, speeches, and book excerpts from the leading figures of national Progressivism. It is designed for classroom use, includes an accessible interpretive essay, and introduces each selection with a brief historical...
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
| Author | Joy-Ann Reid |
| ISBN | 0062880144 |
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Is Donald Trump running the “longest con” in U.S. history?
What will be left of America when he leaves office?
Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country’s founding principles. Now in office, he’s put...
The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
| Author | Joe Conason |
| ISBN | 0312273193 |
When Hillary Clinton spoke of "a vast right-wing conspiracy" determined to bring down the president, many people dismissed the idea. Yet if the first lady's accusation was exaggerated, the facts that have since emerged point toward a covert and often concerted effort by Bill Clinton's enemies--abetted...
The Best "Worst President": What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama
| Author | Mark Hannah |
| ISBN | 0062443054 |
Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and renowned New Yorker illustrator Bob Staake give Barack Obama the victory lap he deserves in this compendium that takes the president’s critics head-on and celebrates the president’s many underappreciated triumphs.
Barack...
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else
| Author | David Cay Johnston |
| ISBN | 1591840694 |
The best tax policies money can buy. 2003 book. Many of the worst don't-tax-the-rich laws were enacted under Clinton.
The notes are absurd. They're pointers to newspaper articles! Even if you could find one, it wouldn't have source notes. Johnston repeatedly tells us of malicious tax laws,...
Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party
| Author | David Corn |
| ISBN | 0062107992 |
The veteran political journalist and New York Times bestselling author goes behind the scenes at the White House to recount the dramatic tale of a pivotal period in the Obama presidency, from the game-changing 2010 midterm elections to the beginning of the critical 2012 campaign season—a tumultuous...
The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
| Author | David Brock |
| ISBN | 0307279588 |
Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party.
The Fox Effect follows...
Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency
| Author | Charlie Savage |
| ISBN | 1478960973 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state
Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless...
The Shadow Elite: The New Agents of Power and Influence Who Are Undermining Government, Free Enterprise, and Democracy
| Author | Janine R. Wedel |
| ISBN | 0465091067 |
It can feel like we're swimming in a sea of corruption. It's unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people seem to reappear time after time in different professional guises, pressing their own agendas in one venue after another. According to award-winning public...
