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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Michael Eric Dyson · 228 pages
Fifty years ago, when a white woman asked Malcolm X what she could do for the cause, he told her "Nothing." Now, Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong and responds that if society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths-- including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
Salvador
Joan Didion · 108 pages
"Previously published in ... The New York review of books in October 1982." Discusses the situation of anarchy and terrorism in El Salvador as of 1982.
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge · 272 pages
In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences. Galvanised, she decided to dig into the source of these feelings. Ex
New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
Bill Maher · 230 pages
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America
Robert Hughes · 210 pages
What Young India Wants
Chetan Bhagat · 208 pages
"In his latest book, What young India wants, Chetan Bhagat asks hard questions, demands answers and presents solutions for a better, more prosperous India. Aout the book Why do our students regularly commit suicide? Why is there so much corruption in India? Can't our political parties ever work together? Does our vote make any difference at all? We love our India, but shouldn t some things be diff
A Nation Worth Ranting About
Rick Mercer · 284 pages
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
Hunter S. Thompson · 259 pages
With "Hey Rube," Thompson has put together his most hilarious, thought-provoking, genuine, outlandish, and highly irreverent writings from his recent career as columnist on ESPN's popular Page 2. This look at Gonzo journalism in his most organic form includes some "extra" columns that have never before been published.
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
Chris Hedges · 368 pages
Drawing on two decades of experience as a war correspondent and based on his numerous columns for Truthdig, Chris Hedges presents The World As It Is, a panorama of the American empire at home and abroad, from the coarsening effect of America's War on Terror to the front lines in the Middle East and South Asia and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Underlying his reportage is a constant s
What We Do Now: Standing Up For Your Values in Trump's America
Dennis Johnson, Valerie Merians · 211 pages
This collection of essays by progressive leaders suggest actual strategies on how to move forward in resistance to a Trump administration.
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 155 pages
An Amazon Best Book of July 2015: Readers of his work in The Atlantic and elsewhere know Ta-Nehisi Coates for his thoughtful and influential writing on race in America. Written as a series of letters to his teenaged son, his new memoir, Between the World and Me, walks us through the course of his life, from the tough neighborhoods of Baltimore in his youth, to Howard University—which Coates dubs “
Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 288 pages
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe · 256 pages
"In Gaza in crisis, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, two of the conflict's most insightful crititical commentators, survey the fallout from Israel's conduct in Gaza and place it into the context of Israel's long-standing occupation in Palestine"--Page 4 of cover.
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Gore Vidal · 197 pages
In Dreaming War, Vidal continues a line of defense promoted by his New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America's current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war T
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. · 289 pages
"A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by
Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World
Bill O'Reilly · 144 pages
O'Reilly offers a classic collection of the most memorable writings from his previous books and columns, topped off with a new introduction, and looks back at how his opinions and ideas have been proven right or wrong by the passage of time.
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Lawrence Wright · 480 pages
"Eleven powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from a more peaceful time in 1990s Israel to the recent beheadings of reporters by ISIS.With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several
The Second Plane: September 11
Martin Amis · 219 pages
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis · 176 pages
>In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar **Angela Y. Davis** illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
Matt Taibbi · 288 pages
"Smells Like Dead Elephants brings together notorious journalistic agitator Matt Taibbi's most incisive and hilarious work from his column in Rolling Stone. Written during a period in our history with no shortage of outrage to compel Taibbi's pen, these pieces paint a shocking portrait of our government at work, or rarely working. But Taibbi doesn't just hit inside the Beltway, he gets into the ac
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Arundhati Roy · 324 pages