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Is That a Politician in Your Pocket?: Washington on $2 Million a Day by Micah Sifry and Nancy Watzman "Every day corporations and other wealthy special interests pump another $2 million into the coffers of our elected officials in Washington and their party committees. For their money they get an estimated $160 billion a year in tax breaks, subsidies, and other sweet deals. That’s $160 billion lifted from taxpayers’ pockets–or about $1,500 per taxpayer per year! But that’s not the worst of it..." |
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Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government - And How We Take It Back by David Sirota "In Hostile Takeover, David Sirota, a major new voice in American politics, seeks to open the eyes of ordinary Americans to the fact that corporate interests have undermined democracy, aided and abetted by their lackeys in our allegedly representative government. It’s an essential guidebook for those of us tired of the government selling us out—and determined to take our country back." |
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Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff “Author George Lakoff explains how
conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines
in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold,
but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also provides examples
of how to reframe political debates.” |
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast “Award-winning investigative journalist
Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts... From East Timor
to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political
corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US
and abroad...” |
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Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and It’s Time to Take It Back by Jim Hightower “Author, populist, and radio commentator
Jim Hightower is nothing if not direct. In Thieves in High Places,
Hightower lambastes the current American power structure and exhorts
his readers to fight against it...” |
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Selling Out: How Big Corporate Money Buys Elections, Rams Through Legislation, and Betrays Our Democracy by Mark Green "With CEOs and corporations currently under fire for years of outrageous deception and fraud, the time is long overdue for an accounting of just how grievously special-interest money has infiltrated our political process. Now, longtime political watchdog (and recent political candidate) Mark Green offers just that..." |
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Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America by Arianna Huffington "Arianna Huffington, popular pundit, columnist, and author, is not known for her polite criticisms or her carefully worded complaints... she backs up her outrage with dollar figures, dates, names, and specific information." |
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Granny D: You’re Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell by Doris Haddock and Dennis Burke “In February 2000, ninety-year-old
Doris “Granny D” Haddock became a national heroine when
she completed her 3,200-mile, fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles
to Washington, D.C., to bring attention to the issue of campaign
finance reform...” |
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Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips "Kevin Phillips, the accomplished historian
and one-time Washington insider, in this extraordinary survey of
plutocracy, excess, and reform. "Laissez-faire is a pretense,"
he argues; as the wealth of the rich has grown, so has its control
over government, making politics a hostage of money."
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Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics by Steven Hill "Fixing Elections" shows why it's not just
the Electoral College that's outdated, but our entire 18th-century
Winner Take All political system, including the way we elect our
legislatures.... Steven Hill argues our geographic-based, Winner
Take All political system is at the root of many of our worst political
problems..." |