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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.09 — 267,264 ratings — published 1980
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,160 ratings — published 2007
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 8 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,720 ratings — published 2001
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,713 ratings — published 1988
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,159 ratings — published 2004
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,671 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,248 ratings — published 2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,781 ratings — published 2014
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.78 — 155,138 ratings — published 1906
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,529 ratings — published 2020
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,277 ratings — published 2014
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.60 — 602 ratings — published 1998
Death of the Liberal Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,653 ratings — published 2010
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,108 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,781 ratings — published 2010
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,861 ratings — published 2000
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,855 ratings — published 2004
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,920,842 ratings — published 1960
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,504 ratings — published 2000
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,026 ratings — published 2015
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,373 ratings — published 2017
Socialismo liberale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.17 — 103 ratings — published 1930
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,261 ratings — published 2016
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,253 ratings — published 2018
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,683 ratings — published 2014
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.67 — 29,201 ratings — published 2011
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,359 ratings — published 2006
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,016,537 ratings — published 2017
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,128 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,837 ratings — published 1848
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,981 ratings — published 2010
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.39 — 332,217 ratings — published 2012
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,436 ratings — published 1968
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,834 ratings — published 2006
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,719 ratings — published 2010
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,196 ratings — published 2009
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.97 — 75,144 ratings — published 1995
New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,652 ratings — published 1971
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,029 ratings — published 1880
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,201 ratings — published 1982
Nothin' But Good Times Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.20 — 340 ratings — published 1993
The Conscience of a Liberal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,386 ratings — published 2007
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,330 ratings — published 1996
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,783 ratings — published 2003
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 170,045 ratings — published 2006
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,412 ratings — published 2003
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.94 — 231,410 ratings — published 1995
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as progressive)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,343 ratings — published 1981
Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as progressive)
avg rating 3.86 — 540 ratings — published 1997
“From the will of a freedom-fighter, Farzad Kamangar:
"Is it possible to be a teacher and not show the path to the sea to the little fish of the country?
Is it possible to carry the heavy burden of being a teacher and be responsible for spreading the seeds of knowledge and still be silent? Is it possible to see the lumps in the throats of the students and witness their thin and malnourished faces and keep quiet? …
I cannot imagine witnessing the pain and poverty of the people of this land and fail to give our hearts to the river and the sea, to the roar and the flood.”
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"Is it possible to be a teacher and not show the path to the sea to the little fish of the country?
Is it possible to carry the heavy burden of being a teacher and be responsible for spreading the seeds of knowledge and still be silent? Is it possible to see the lumps in the throats of the students and witness their thin and malnourished faces and keep quiet? …
I cannot imagine witnessing the pain and poverty of the people of this land and fail to give our hearts to the river and the sea, to the roar and the flood.”
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“....though he hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. He explained to them that history was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestors whispering inside.
"To understand history," Chacko said, "we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells."...
..."But we can't go in," Chacko explained, "because we've been locked out. And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by war. A war that we have won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
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"To understand history," Chacko said, "we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells."...
..."But we can't go in," Chacko explained, "because we've been locked out. And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by war. A war that we have won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
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