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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 — 225 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
204 books — 47 voters

The Rape of Europa by Lynn H. NicholasCivil War St. Louis by Louis S. GerteisMetropolis and Hinterland by Neville MorleyNever Call Retreat by Bruce CattonCarthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
Serious History Books
36 books — 3 voters

Emma Theriault
She was heading to the Palais-Royal, armed with the piecemeal knowledge she had collected from travelers through Aveyon who told her Philippe, the duc d'Orléans, had opened the gardens to the public some years before. Belle had heard tell of the exchange of ideas that occurred there, and of the bookshops and cafés tucked into the covered arcades that surrounded the gardens. She had spent long nights imagining herself there, attending salons and taking part in lively debates with a more open-mind ...more
Emma Theriault, Rebel Rose

Ehsan Sehgal
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Ehsan Sehgal

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