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A "Something Wrong Here" Reading List

Each of these books is worth your attention. Knowledge will increase your power over the political world around you. Knowledge is power. Reading opens new worlds to our perceptions. Enjoy.

All of these books are available through your Free Public Library. You can read the eBooks on library apps or Kindle. Get a library card and use it to educate yourself. Ebooks are more convenient to get and return. If you love to read, eBooks are a dream come true. Be aware of your world. The books listed below are highly recommended.

 

Post 2010 Reading List Additions

Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, These are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs - and Wrecks - America, Simon and Schuster, 2023

Private equity continues to destroy healthy growth from the legitimate use of capital to benefit all stakeholders. The middle class continues to shrink as a proportion of the economy. Wealth goes to the top 0.001 of 1.0% as it has for many decades. Is there any hope for legitimate business growth? 

 Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter, The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, Harvard Business Review Press, 2020

The truth is the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and it is not designed to work for us --- ordinary people. We can be represented. Learn how. Make it happen. Final Five Primaries. RCV. Your Vote.

 Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, America: What Went Wrong?, The Crisis Deepens, (1st edition, Andrews and McMeel, 1992), Mission Point Press, 2020

The dismantling of the middle class by moving jobs out of the country, by increased tax burdens, and by corporate purchase of the political process. Tax policies push our nation toward a two-class society, rich and poor. A must read. A timely and urgent update.

 Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, Hachett Books, Boston, 2018, 1st edition 2018

Written by an unknown 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate. Discusses in detail the way to overcome the bad effects of automation and AI on the future of jobs in the U.S.A. UBI is a central need to bring prosperity to the neglected rural and main street American middle class in all fifty states. What he says makes sense in today's economy. He has my vote if he is on the Presidential ballot in 2020 or in the future.

 Paul Louis Street, They Rule: The 1% vs. Democracy, Routledge, 2016 (Taylor and Francis Group, Copyright 2014)

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was brutally thrown from the street, 2010s, Still alive and well in the hearts and minds of the 99.999%. Still looking for a way to organize, off the vulnerable street, where the powerful can shut them down. Note: The 99% needs an Internet mass movement, perhaps "The Proactive Voter Movement," IVA. Motto. Unite America.

 Ben H. Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly, 20th Edition, Beacon Press, Boston, May 15, 2004, 1st edition 1983 (Amazon)

Discusses in detail the control of the media by fewer and fewer owners. Censorship and information control by media owners is common. A source book relating to the decline of journalistic freedom and expression. Seven new chapters added to 1992 Fourth Edition.

 

1990-2010 Reading List

 Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Fourth Edition, Beacon Press, Boston, 1992, 1st edition 1983

Discusses in detail the control of the media by fewer and fewer owners. Censorship and information control by media owners is common. A source book relating to the decline of journalistic freedom and expression.

 Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, No Contest, Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America, Random House, New York, 1996

Confirms your belief that “something is deeply wrong” with our legal system, which has all but abandoned the ideal of providing every American access to justice. Corporate lawyers routinely nullify, misuse or break the law.

 Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, America: What Went Wrong?, Andrews and McMeel, 1992

The dismantling of the middle class by moving jobs out of the country, by increased tax burdens, and by corporate purchase of the political process. Tax policies push our nation toward a two-class society, rich and poor.

 Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?, A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994

More about the tax war you lost and the corporations won. Suggests ways to fix it, if we demand the necessary changes.  

 Michele Mitchell, A New Kind of Party Animal,  How the Young Are Tearing Up the American Political Landscape, Simon & Schuster, New York 1998

Generation X’ers are actively involved in volunteer work to help others and have no interest in political parties. They vote on issues and for candidates who believe in their issues.

 Bernie Sanders with Huck Gutman, Outsider in the House, Verso, London and New York, 1997

How one independent candidate from Vermont persisted and won elections to represent his people as mayor of Burlington and in the U.S. House of Representatives. There were two independents in the U.S. House at the time.

 Robert Roth, A Reason to Vote, Breaking the Two-Party Stranglehold, St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1999

How integrity in a new political party, working to solve problems based on natural law and what works, can give you a reason to vote. We can have government based on your interests, not special interests.

 Doris Haddock with Dennis Burke, Granny D, Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year, Villard, New York, 2001

How to have a purpose in your life, and friends. Give yourself away.

 Ralph Nader, Crashing the Party, Taking on The Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2002

How to tell the truth and still run for President. The 2000 Nader campaign

Michael Moore, Stupid White Men...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Harper Collins, New York, 2001 

A vitriolic, humorous look at the state of the nation and "scrub," Geoge Bush the president select. You will laugh so hard you will forget to cry. If we can stand to look at it, we can fix it.

 

Robert R. Reich, Aftershock, The Next Economy and America's Future, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2010

A look at income inequality as a cause of the 1930s Great Depression and the 2008 Great Recession. An argument for the strategies needed to gain full recovery for the entire economy, not just the upper 0.001 of 1.0% and Wall Street. The recovery of main street. Interesting perspectives.

 

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