Selected Bibliography

The American Right

• Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
  Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen
• The Rise of Southern Republicans
  Earl Black and Merle Black
• Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
  Michael Brooks
• Strom Thurmond’s America
  Joseph Crespino
• One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
  Kevin Kruse
• Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked the Middle Class
  Ian Haney López
• From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism
  Joseph Lowndes
• Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
  Nancy MacLean
• Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
  Lisa McGirr
• What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times
  Matthew McManus
• Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
  Kathryn Olmstead
• To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
  Heather Richardson
• The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
  Corey Robin

Economics

• Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
  Mark Blyth
• 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Captialism
  Ha-Joon Chang
• Economics: The User’s Guide
  Ha-Joon Chang
• Capitalism and Its Economics: A Critical History
  Douglas Dowd
• Accumulation and Power: An Economic History of the United States
  Richard DuBoff
• Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn’t Work) in Words and Pictures
  Michael Goodwin
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
  David Graeber
• The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
  Robert Heilbroner
• White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You
  Simon Johnson and James Kwak
• The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy
  Marjorie Kelly
• No Contest: The Case Against Competition
  Alfie Kohn
• Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand
  Mike Konczal
• End This Depression Now!
  Paul Krugman
• Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
  Paul Krugman
• The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
  Paul Krugman
• Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
  Rob Larson
• The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
  Mariana Mazzucato
• Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
  Ted Nace
• Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Captialism
  Charles Perrow
• People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
  Leigh Phillips and Michael Rozworski
• Capital and Ideology
  Thomas Piketty
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century
  Thomas Piketty
• The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
  Karl Polanyi
• Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
  Caitlin Rosenthal
• Why We Can’t Afford the Rich
  Andrew Sayer
• A People’s Guide to Captialism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
  Hadas Thier
• How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
  Isabella Weber

Fascism

• The Authoritarians
  Robert Altemeyer
• Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
  Radley Balko
• Nazi Nexus: America’s Corporate Connections to Hitler’s Holocaust
  Edwin Black
• The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
  Benjamin Carter Hett
• The Anatomy of Fascism
  Robert Paxton
• How Fascism Works
  Jason Stanley

Globalization

• Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900
  Stephen Brown
• Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
  Ha-Joon Chang
• Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
  Noam Chomsky
• Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
  Mike Davis
• Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
  Ronald Findlay and Kevin O’Rourke
• How to Succeed at Globalization: A Primer for Roadside Vendors
  El Fisgón
• The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
  Jason Hickel
• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
  Adam Hochschild
• American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
  David Stannard
• Failed: What the “Experts” Got Wrong About the Global Economy
  Mark Weisbrot

Immigration

• The Right to Stay Home: How U.S. Policy Drives Mexican Migration
  David Bacon
• They Take Our Jobs! And 20 Other Myths About Immigration
  Aviva Chomsky
• Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal
  Aviva Chomsky
• The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?
  Doug Saunders

Policy Solutions

• Government Is Good: An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution
  Douglas Amy
• With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don’t Pay Enough
  Peter Barnes
• Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
  Rutger Bregman
• Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
  Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
• How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics
  Ryan Cooper
• It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics
  David Faris
• Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next
  Timothy Faust
• Social Democratic America
  Lane Kenworthy
• The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
  Anu Partanen
• The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
  Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
• After Capitalism
  David Schweickart
• Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
  Richard Wolff

Political Philosophy

• Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritence and Why We Should Take It Back
  Gar Alperowitz and Lew Daly
• Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)
  Elizabeth Anderson
• The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique
  Fred Block and Margaret Somers
• Government in the Future
  Noam Chomsky
• Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
  Noam Chomsky
• Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence
  G.A. Cohen
• Why Not Socialism?
  G.A. Cohen
• Democracy and Its Critics
  Robert Dahl
• Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought Since the French Revolution
  Joesph Femia
• The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement
  Barbara Fried
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  David Graeber
• From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century
  Alex Gourevitch
• Contemporary Policital Philosophy: An Introduction
  Will Kymlicka
• Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom
  Rob Larson
• At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism
  Errico Malatesta
• John Stuart Mill, Socialist
  Hellen McCabe
• The Racial Contract
  Charles Mills
• The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
  P.E. Moskowitz
• The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice
  Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel
• Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism: The Madisonian Framework and Its Legacy
  Jennifer Nedelsky
• Why You Should Be a Socialist
  Nathan J. Robinson
• Against Capitalism
  David Schweickart
• Development as Freedom
  Amartya Sen
• The Socalist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in An Era of Extreme Inequality
  Bhaskar Sunkara
• Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism
  Patricia Werhane

Propaganda

• Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
  Alex Carey
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
  Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky
• How Propaganda Works
  Jason Stanley

Racial Inequality

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  Michelle Alexander
• Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
  Ari Berman
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
  Matthew Desmond
• The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy
  Andrea Flynn, Susan Holmberg, Dorien Warren, and Felicia Wong
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
  Elizabeth Hinton
• The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
  Walter Johnson
• Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism
  Touré Reed
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  Richard Rothstein
• The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
  Thomas Sugrue
• From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation
  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Rising Inequality

• The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
  Dean Baker
• Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
  Dean Baker
• Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America
  Adam Cohen
• Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States
  Christopher Faricy
• The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston
  Christina Groeger
• Winner-Take-All-Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
  Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
• The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time
  Gordon Lafer
• The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
  Katharina Pistor
• Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
  Kim Phillips-Fein
• The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
  Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
• A Brief History of Equality
  Thomas Piketty
• Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty
  Mark Rank, Lawrence Eppard, and Heather E. Bullock
• The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future
  Joseph Stiglitz

U.S. Foreign Policy

• The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
  Vincent Bevins
• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
  William Blum
• The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
  William Cavanaugh
• Year 501: The Conquest Continues
  Noam Chomsky
• The Korean War: A History
  Bruce Cumings
• Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
  Robert Dreyfuss
• Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the New Imperialism
  Greg Grandin
• No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
  Glenn Greenwald
• A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
  Malalai Joya
• Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation
  Zachary Karabell
• Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire
  Deepa Kumar
• Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield
  Jeremy Scahill
• Thank God They’re on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965
  David Schmitz
• The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965-1989
  David Schmitz
• Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2019
  Lawrence Shoup
• The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars
  John Tirman

U.S. History

• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
  Edward Baptist
• Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
  Charles Dew
• American Taxation, American Slavery
  Robin Einhorn
• The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
  Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath
• Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
  Eric Foner
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
  Daniel Walker Howe
• The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
  Michael J. Klarman
• Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
  Pauline Maier
• The Two Faces of American Freedom
  Aziz Rana
• Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right
  Ray Raphael
• Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965
  Eric Schickler
• The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
  Charles Sellers
• The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
  Richard White
• The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
  Gordon S. Wood
• Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
  Gordon S. Wood
• The Radicalism of the American Revolution
  Gordon S. Wood

U.S. Labor History

• When Miners March
  William Blizzard
• Linked Labor Histories: New England, Columbia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
  Aviva Chomsky
• Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
  Jefferson Cowie
• Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60
  Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
• The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs
  Ray Ginger
• Political Repression in Modern America: From 1870 to 1976
  Robert Goldstein
• A History of America in Ten Strikes
  Erik Loomis
• Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
  Keri Leigh Merritt
• Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States
  Karen Orren
• From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States
  Robert Smith
• Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
  Steven Stoll
• Why Unions Matter
  Michael Yates