DWPAC Suggested Reading List

Arianna Huffingtion, Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America

Gloria Felt, The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back

Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Laura Flanders (editor), The W Effect: Bush’s War on Women

Cokie Roberts, Founding Mothers

Marie C. Wilson, Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World. Wilson is founder of The White House Project: Vote, Run, Lead!

George Lakoff, Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America

GENERAL LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES:

* Denotes a title which is new to the list (not necessarily recently published).

Bakan, Joel.The Corporation: The pathological pursuit of profit and power. Recommended by Tomi Allison.

Brazile, Donna. Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics. Brazile was a contender in the election for Chair of the Democratic Party in 2005. She was Campaign Manager for Al Gore’s 2000 Presidential election campaign, was Chief of Staff for District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, and was Deputy Campaign Manager for Jesse Jackson’s 1984 Presidential Campaign.

Brock, David.The Republican Noise Machine. Brock also authored Blinded by the Right - his mea culpa in the Anita Hill hearings.

Clift, Eleanor. Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment. This is a suggested companion to the viewing of the HBO video, Iron Jawed Angels.

Clift, Eleanor. Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling

Collins, Gail. America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines.

Edelman, Marian Wright. The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours. Recommended as an inspirational read.

Ellison, Sheila. If Women Ruled the World

Flanders, Laura. Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species. An investigation of the political (and personal) lives of key women in the Bush administration (e.g. Karen Hughes, Condolezza Rice) as well as Laura Bush.

Freedman, Estelle B. No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women. An accessible history of women in the United States. The text is not organized chronologically, but by topic area.

Fund, John. Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens our Democracy.

Hartman, Thom. Unequal Protection. The rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights. Recommended by Tomi Allison.

* Hooks, bell. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. A simply-written, quick read which offers great depth and insight into the (many) ways in which women are not equal in American Society.

Huffington, Arriana. Fanatics and Fools

Johnston, David Cay. Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich – and Cheat Everyone Else. Recommended by Tomi Allison.

Keillor, Garrison. Homegrown Democrat. Recommended as an uplifting read – an antidote for post-election (2004) depression.

Kennedy, Caroline. A Patriot’s Handbook

Lakoff, George. Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. This is a longer version of Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant (see April 2005 book club title, above)

* Larson, Lia (editor). Skirting Tradition: Women in Politics Speak to the Next Generation

Lunardini, Christine. What Every American Should Know About Women’s History

McChesney, Robert. The Problem of the Media. Recommended by Tomi Allison.

Monk, Linda R. The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution. This is a basic introduction to the Constitution.

Nance, Ted. Gangs of America. The rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy. Recommended by Tomi Allison.

Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Recommended by Tomi Allison.

Phillips, Kevin. Wealth and Democracy

The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History. In multiple editions, a great reference, from the past to the present, on issues important to women.

Reich, Robert B. Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America

*Rhode, Deborah L. (editor). The Difference “Difference” Makes: Women and Leadership (2003)

Ryan, Charlotte. Prime Time Activism: Media Strategies for Grassroots Organizing

Satterthwaite, Ann. Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences.

Steinem, Gloria. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. A compilation of Steinem’s key texts, spanning many decades, with updated notes (by the author) for most of the pieces.

Trippi, Joe. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Vrato, Elizabeth. The Counselors: Conversations with 18 Courageous Women Who Have Changed the World

Wallis, Jim. God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get it.

Whitney, Catherine, et. al. Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate. Note: there are now 14 women in the Senate.

Wolf, Naomi. Fire with Fire. Confronting a taboo subject: women’s fear of their own power. Wolf writes: “most women embrace equality but reject ‘feminism’”.

Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States. A core text on the real history of the United States, told from the perspective of the American people rather than through the eyes of generals and politicians – the elite, powerful (white male) minority which is the focus of most history textbooks.

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