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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
The Naked Communist
Why Socialism Works
Gulag: A History
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
What Is to Be Done?
The Law
Utopia
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
The Communist Manifesto
The Great Gatsby
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazJesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienDrown by Junot Díaz
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
127 books — 226 voters
Night by Elie WieselThe Jews of Spain by Jane S. GerberAnne Frank Remembered by Miep GiesThe Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker by Scott M. NeumanAmerica's Jewish Women by Pamela S. Nadell
Jewish history
206 books — 49 voters

From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyThe Rape of Europa by Lynn H. NicholasCivil War St. Louis by Louis S. GerteisMetropolis and Hinterland by Neville MorleyConnecting the Dots by Lia Russ
Serious History Books
38 books — 10 voters

David E. Navarro
The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them. ...more
D.E. Navarro

Joe Pitkin
The language of starlings reminded her of nothing so much as the language of scholarly papers, the smooth and chilly syntax devoid of contour, the maddening reliance on 'the royal we' as the subject. Yet this was not the royal we, not in the sense that a pompous colleague or one of her lazy graduate students might use it: at least twenty birds had together formed the multilayered sound that came to her as English words. ...more
Joe Pitkin, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

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