 | Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective by Richard M. Fried
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $1.89 Great treatment. Gets the facts & meaning of McCarthyism just right.
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 | Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.29 I love her. I wish she was my auntie!
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 | The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (Galaxy Books) by Lawrence Goodwyn
Buy new: $12.87 / Used from: $2.91 The midwest hasn't always been conservative. Little known history.
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 | London Calling by The Clash
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.44 How ya gonna come?
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 | Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $0.01 This fictional treatment I liked. Tells the story of abolitionist John Brown.
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 | No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.00 Naomi can give a rational voice to things that matter
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 | The Baffler Magazine Spring 2001 #14: The God That Sucked
Buy used from: $0.91 Thomas Frank is one of the current voices that get it right.
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 | Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $0.27 More from Frank et. al. - Good companion to Naomi Klein's book above.
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 | Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement by Peter Rachleff
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $2.45 I had a friend in this strike. The book 'rings true' to stories I heard. Bridgestone, Staley, Cat ... rough times for midwestern unions.
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 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.73 Absolute walking pieces of garbage. Burn for an eternity, "Kenny Boy"!
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 | War Talk by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.40 I have a great deal of respect for her and her convictions.
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 | The Corporation
Buy used from: $19.00 A bit of preaching to the choir, but still worth a look/see
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 | Reforming the Chicago Teamsters: The Story of Local 705 by Robert Bruno
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $23.42 Unions CAN work and DO matter. I was TDU in the 80s. UAW, too!
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 | Confessions of a Union Buster by Marty Levitt
Buy used from: $22.50 If you don't believe unions matter, see how much management will do to bust them.
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 | Haymarket: A Novel by Martin Duberman
Buy used from: $2.25 If you prefer a fictional treatment - I really didn't
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