

Reading for the New Majority
Reading for the New Majority
As promised on last night’s show, The Democrats’ New Reading List, we’ve compiled our list of all the books, blogs and authors (marked by an asterisk) mentioned by our guests. The resulting list is long, but there’s always more — what are you reading? What syllabus would you prescribe to the new Democratic majority?
- A Reading List for a New Majority
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The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
Reflections on the Revolutions in France by Edmund Burke
Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
Pragmatism by William James*
Human Nature and Conduct by John Dewey*
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
Progress and Poverty by Henry George
Democracy: An American Novel by Henry Adams
The Floating Island by Garrett Epps
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Problem of the Media: US Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Robert McChesney
Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville
Culture Warrior by Bill O’Reilly*
America: The Last Best Hope by William Bennett*
The Truth: With Jokes by Al Franken*
Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone by Michael Moore*
The Vital Center by Arthur Schlesinger
Why Americans Hate Politics by E. J. Dionne
Putting People First by Bill Clinton
Why I am a Democrat by Theodore Sorensten
American Capitalism by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics by Richard Parker
Captialism and Freedom by Milton Friedman*
One Market Under God by Thomas Frank
The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy” by Howard Friel
Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War by John Prados
The National Security Archive via George Washington University, including the infamous photo of Donald Rumsfeld haking hands with Saddam Hussein
A History of Modern Palestine by Ilan Pappe
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman Finkelstein
Middle East Illusions by Noam Chomsky
Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sarah Roy
The Clash of Barbarisms by Gilbert Achcar
Perilous Power by Gilbert Achcar with Noam Chomsky
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon by Robert Fisk
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by
Measure of Our Days by Jerome Groopman
Ralph Bunche: An American Life by Brian Urquhart
The Selling of the President by Joe Mcginniss
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerit Yourcenar
My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Complete Sonnets, by William Shakespeare
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky