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Against the Beast: An Anti-Imperialist Reader5 reviews

Nation Books, 2004

"Your brain is washed but your hands are still bloody."
My favorite March 2003 protest sign against Bush's war on Iraq was one that I saw at a huge demonstration in Wisconsin: 'America, your brain is washed but your hands are still bloody.' That sign would fit well in this brilliant, essential collection by John Nichols, one of America's most important political writers. At the dawn of the 21st century America has been tricked down a disastrous ... 		  
  







  
  
Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival12 reviews
Jen Marlowe

Nation Books, 2006

After 4 years of crisis in Darfur, this book is a must-read
"Darfur Diaries" not only provides a clear, accurate, and understandable roadmap to the conflict in Darfur, it introduces the reader to an engaging group of Darfurians. As individual characters, they are likeable, idiosyncratic, and even humorous, despite the tragic circumstances in which they are caught. Because the authors care about the Darfurians they meet as individuals, their portrayal ... 		  
  







  
  
There's No Jose Here: Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants6 reviews
Gabriel Thompson

Nation Books, 2006

The truth about Mexican immigration
The truth about Mexican immigration Gabriel Thompson hits the heart of immigration problem. People tend to oppose to migration blindly without analyzing the factors that propel all these poor people to work outside of their homeland, being humiliated, underpaid, and overworked for a few dollars. Also all these "Minuteman" and other racists would not do the work that a Mexican does; yet they ... 		  
  







  
  
A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance5 reviews
Mary Elizabeth King

Nation Books, 2007

Remembering history to re-live it?
Mary King has achieved an extraordinary feat. In A QUIET REVOLUTION she first demolishes the myth (especially popular among some academic experts on non-violent movements) that the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising (1987-1993), somehow wasn't "really" non-violent because of the iconic stone-throwing children. She demonstrates the strategic non-violence that in fact underpinned that ... 		  
  







  
  
Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing (Nation Books)4 reviews

Nation Books, 2003

Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing
I really appreciate the fact that this book was written from the american indian perspective. This perspective is highly undervalued in historically white supremacist america. I got to read from people from different tribal nationhoods and different ages and stages of life. Part 5 "Who We Are and Who We Are Not" was particularly amazing. I liked Paula Gunn Allen's (Laguna/Metis) piece, ... 		  
  







  
  
The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo Bay7 reviews
Clive Smith

Nation Books, 2007

one day (and more) in the life of binyam mohamed
If you haven't read Robert Conquest's seminal work The Great Terror about the purges, the show trials, law, and justice under Stalin, you might want to consider reading that first. Perhaps visit the Amazon site which has a quote from Harrison Salisbury saying the book is "an odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism". Then read Smith's eloquent book. Much is different, of course, but there is a ... 		  
  







  
  
The Iranian Labyrinth: Journeys Through Theocratic Iran and Its Furies4 reviews
Dilip Hiro

Nation Books, 2005

And no cheese at the end!
Politics in any nation can appear confused, especially to outsiders. In an nation where religion is an influence, the complications grow intense. When religion dominates and theocracy threatens in a secular world, the twists and turns can only be described as Byzantine. Dilip Hiro makes a valiant attempt to impart what he's learned of Iranian politics and society in this book. It wasn't an ... 		  
  







  
  
How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy4 reviews
Mark Engler

Nation Books, 2008

Essential Reading for Understanding the World
This book is both terrific and important -- crisply written, sophisticated but accessible, and extremely valuable for progressives in the United States who want to reanimate the global justice movement here. First and foremost, Engler persuasively argues that the Bush administration has pursued a policy of unilateralist, nationalistic, and militarized "imperial globalization" that differs from ... 		  
  







  
  
Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America9 reviews
Andrew Gumbel

Nation Books, 2005

A fascinating historical survey
Gumbel has run over the history of American electoral fraud, starting as early as 1788 and running through extensive discussions of the 2000 and 2004 elections. On the way we learn about a number of fascinating scandals of the past, now largely forgotten, along with some that haven't been, such as the famous Tammany Hall gang that dominated New York City for a decade. Gumbel shows that, ... 		  
  







  
  
The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate6 reviews
Dan Wakefield

Nation Books, 2007

Every American should read this book!
Dan Wakefield has written an important and eye-opening book about the Religious Right in America. Liberal and proud of it, Wakefield has been concerned with social justice since the fifties when, as a young reporter for The Nation, he published his ground-breaking study of Spanish Harlem, Island in the City. Some time in the eighties this hard-drinking non-believer experienced a ... 		  
  







  
  
A Devil's Dictionary of Business: Monkey Business; High Finance and Low; Money, the Making, Losing, and ...1 review
Nicholas Von Hoffman

Nation Books, 2005

Funny and Irreverant but With Germs of Truth
When you learn that a dictionary that defines Capitalism as 'The name of a religion based on the worship of money' you have a pretty good idea about what to expect. This is a highly irreverant look at the business world in the form of a dictionary. It's one of those dictionaries that you don't look up things so much as read from front back. Mr. Von Hoffman is a journalist who has worked for ... 		  
  







  
  
The Jonathan Schell Reader: On the United States at War, the Long Crisis of the American Republic, and the ...1 review
Jonathan Schell

Nation Books, 2004

The Jonathan Schell Reader
When wondering about 'detant' or 'salt' or 'MAD'(mutual assured destruction) you need to consider the facts. This book helps to understand the nuclear arms race and is useful when pondering todays militaries and arms. 		  
  







  
  
Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror (Nation Books)4 reviews

Nation Books, 2002

Everyone needs to read this book!
This is a really terrific book, confronting some of the most urgent questions in our world today. Is secular feminism a purely Western phenomenon? is religious fundamentalism always at odds with women's equality? should American power be used to free women in other countries, as Bush claimed he was freeing Afghani women from the Taliban? With fundamentalist Islam -- and repression of women -- on ... 		  
  







  
  
Dillinger in Hollywood: New and Selected Short Stories1 review
John Sayles

Nation Books, 2004

Unpretentious Stories by the Noted Screenwriter
John Sayles, better known as a screenwriter and filmmaker, has been quietly publishing short stories since the 1980's. In this collection, he has compiled ten stories written over the span of twenty-four years, the oldest of which lends its title to the book. Some of these stories focus on the lesser known side of the film industry, the world of bit actors and technical crews, while others ... 		  
  







  
  
The High Times Reader1 review

Nation Books, 2004

High Times had articles?!
As it turns out High Times is (or at least was) more than an assortment of budshots and hydro ads. This book is a FASCINATING collection of articles, essays, and interviews detailing the impact and spread of pscyotropic substances upon contemporary culture and it's figures. This book is a must for anyone wanting an intimate look at how mind altering substances made their way into popular ... 		  
  







  
  
Life Out of Context3 reviews
Walter Mosley

Nation Books, 2005

It's a Letter to U.S. Citizens We Need to Hear
Does it ramble in some places? Yes. Does it propose some things that kinda scare me? Yes. Does it come up with brilliant, new and wholly-thought-out ways to change the world? No. Now, let's ask ourselves what it was meant to do... It was meant to walk a reader through the mental steps it takes to lift themselves out of seeing their entire lives in the context of only their own navels. It's not ... 		  
  







  
  
Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics2 reviews
Phillip Campbell

Nation Books, 2005

Extremely well-written novel / memoir
Zioncheck for President is an eccentric memoir that takes a grassroots, leftist political campaign and turns it into a political romp anybody can enjoy (Mo Rocca's cover blurb isn't wrong!). Campbell manages a rare trick for a liberal writer -- he maintains a respect for his own politics and ideologies while not shoving them in the faces of his readers. His self-awareness and his dry sense of ... 		  
  







  
  
We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi3 reviews
Seth Cagin, Philip Dray

Nation Books, 2006

Thorough and riveting
Every so often we need to refresh our memory of the bad things that happened in our lifetime. That is why I read books about the Holocaust. It is also why I read this book, telling of what Mississippi was like for black people in the early 1960s. The murder of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney on June 21, 1964, is a defining event in the struggle to bring Mississippi to greater respect for the ... 		  
  







  
  
Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed2 reviews
Pete Shanks

Nation Books, 2005

Choosing where we should go
This is a great primer and source-book on just about everything connected with human genetic engineering -- cloning, stem cells, the fertility industry, gene therapy (and how it hasn't worked), and even the history of eugenics. There's really nothing like it. Every chapter has got suggestions for further reading, there's an appendix listing all the best websites and books ... and on top of it ... 		  
  







  
  
The Ten Minute Activist: Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet3 reviews
The Mission Collective

Nation Books, 2006

Ten Minute Activist Provides Easy Ideas and Motivation to Improve Planet and Personal Life
This book should go a long way towards getting young people interested in doing small things to help our planet. Historically the young have played a vital role in waking our society up to the changes we need to make, but this current young generation seems to be napping. This book is a fun way to wake them up. My only criticism is that the writers reveal possibly too much of a Mission ... 		  
  







  




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