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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 21 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson
    The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government - by David K. Johnson

    £22.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780226825724 | ISBN 10: 0226825728

    A new edition of a classic work of history, revealing the anti-homosexual purges of midcentury Washington.  In The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson tells the frightening story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as danger ... more

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  • Cover image of book Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria
    Playing Indian - by Philip J. Deloria

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300264845 | ISBN 10: 0300264844

    “[A] brilliant book. . . . This book reminds us that at least one question about America has been settled. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that prevailed throughout most of our history, the Indians will remain.”—Peter Iverson, American Hist ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
    Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America - by Barbara Ehrenreich

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781783787548 | ISBN 10: 1783787546

    Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Distinguished journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to find out how anyone could survive on six to seven dollars an hour.  Ehrenreich left home, too ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
    A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy - by Jane McAlevey

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780062908605 | ISBN 10: 006290860x

    From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy.   For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline by Nick Estes
    Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline - by Nick Estes

    £16.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786636720 | ISBN 10: 1786636727

    How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life.”  In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Acce ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in Post-Truth America by Onnesha Roychoudhuri
    The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in Post-Truth America - by Onnesha Roychoudhuri

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781612196992 | ISBN 10: 1612196993

    Ever since the 2016 election, pundits have been saying our country has never been more divided — that if progressives want to reclaim power, we need to be “pragmatic,” reach across the aisle, and look past identity politics.  But what i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance by Bernie Sanders
    Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance - by Bernie Sanders

    £20.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785904677 | ISBN 10: 1785904671

    During his campaign for President in 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders stated over and over again that the future of America was dependent upon its willingness to start a political revolution. Real change never occurs from the top down – it always happe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement by Heather Gautney
    Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement - by Heather Gautney

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786634320 | ISBN 10: 1786634325

    A leading activist-scholar on what’s next in the Sanders revolution.   Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary. Since that upset, repeated p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Bad Governments Happen To Good People by Danny Katch
    Why Bad Governments Happen To Good People - by Danny Katch

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781608468584 | ISBN 10: 1608468585

    A sharp-witted indictment of our broken political system and a vision for a socialist alternative that is truly by and for the people.   The election of Donald Trump has sent the United States and the world into uncharted waters, with a bigote ... more

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  • Cover image of book Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History by Paul Le Blanc
    Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History - by Paul Le Blanc

    £19.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781608466825 | ISBN 10: 1608466825

    Essays highlighting socialist and left-wing traditions that helped shape US history in the direction of "liberty and justice for all".   From the Marxist-tinged anarchism of the Haymarket martyrs to the Occupy Wall Street movement, these essays gi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right
    Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America - by Nancy MacLean

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911344681 | ISBN 10: 1911344684

    An explosive exposé of the man who devoted his career to shackling democracy — and succeeded.   Libertarian billionaires are using their wealth and power to drastically curtail the US democratic process, disempowering ordinary citizens whil ... more

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  • Cover image of book What We Do Now: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump
    What We Do Now: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America - by Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians (Editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781612196596 | ISBN 10: 1612196594

    Short, powerful essays on what we can do now to cope with Trump’s election, and how, moving forward, we can protect our values, our politics, and our country.  Contributors:   Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the Nati ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days of Rage: America
    Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, & the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence - by Bryan Burrough

    £17.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780143107972 | ISBN 10: 0143107976

    From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s   The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. ... more

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  • Cover image of book America
    America's Addiction to Terrorism - by Henry A. Giroux

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781583675700 | ISBN 10: 1583675701

    Foreword by Michael D. Yates   In the United States today, the term terrorism conjures up images of dangerous, outside threats: religious extremists and suicide bombers in particular. Harder to see but all the more pervasive is the terrorism ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs the Masters of the Universe by Matt Kennard
    The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs the Masters of the Universe - by Matt Kennard

    £9.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780329888 | ISBN 10: 1780329881

    While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions.   From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara ... more

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  • Cover image of book Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders, with Huck Gutman
    Outsider in the White House - by Bernie Sanders, with Huck Gutman

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784784188 | ISBN 10: 1784784184

    The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate.  Bernie Sanderss campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Year 501: The Conquest Continues by Noam Chomsky
    Year 501: The Conquest Continues - by Noam Chomsky

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335476 | ISBN 10: 0745335470

    Exploring the great work of subjugation and conquest which began with Columbus, in Year 501 Chomsky surveys the history of American imperial power in the ensuing 500 years that followed. Touching on everything from the British in India to the Ameri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
    The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire - by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681367 | ISBN 10: 1781681368

    A groundbreaking account of America's role in global capitalism.   The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tomorrow Is Now by Eleanor Roosevelt
    Tomorrow Is Now - by Eleanor Roosevelt

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780143106999 | ISBN 10: 0143106996

    As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become.   In bold, blunt prose, one of the gr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore
    Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life - by Michael Moore

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141013015 | ISBN 10: 014101301x

    Here Comes Trouble is Michael Moore's anti-memoir. Breaking the autobiographical mould, he hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life. Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump, as one moment he's an 11-year old boy stu ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary by John Higgs
    I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary - by John Higgs

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781905548255 | ISBN 10: 1905548257

    Before he began working with LSD, Dr Timothy Leary was a brilliant and respected behavioural psychologist. Afterwards he was, in the words of President Nixon, 'the most dangerous man in America'. Leary has gone down in history as the man who per ... more

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