TMBS Book Recommendations

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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky 4.41 avg rating — 9,420 ratings
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Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right 4.09 avg rating — 1,866 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating — 26,727 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,044 ratings
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Against the Web
Against the Web 4.09 avg rating — 1,866 ratings
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Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene 4.42 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 4.21 avg rating — 37,055 ratings
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 5)
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 5) 3.95 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating — 30,601 ratings
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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin 3.94 avg rating — 2,722 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating — 51,932 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
Capital in the Twenty First Century 4.06 avg rating — 33,858 ratings
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution 4.39 avg rating — 7,201 ratings
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Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia 4.09 avg rating — 68,323 ratings
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory 4.03 avg rating — 32,017 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings
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A Colony in a Nation
A Colony in a Nation 4.18 avg rating — 6,436 ratings
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance 3.97 avg rating — 13,937 ratings
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Reform or Revolution
Reform or Revolution 4.21 avg rating — 4,608 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2
by: Karl Marx
4.10 avg rating — 2,142 ratings
21.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,183 ratings
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
A Brief History of Neoliberalism 4.13 avg rating — 7,146 ratings
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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea 4.09 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House 3.44 avg rating — 76,851 ratings
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Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism 4.13 avg rating — 20,006 ratings
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Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley 3.49 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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The Age of Capital, 1848–1875
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 4.26 avg rating — 4,468 ratings
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The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason 3.92 avg rating — 3,520 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
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Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People 4.18 avg rating — 5,231 ratings
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World 4.20 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future 4.11 avg rating — 3,310 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,692 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America 4.29 avg rating — 4,898 ratings
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Economics: The User's Guide
Economics: The User's Guide 4.16 avg rating — 8,276 ratings
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 4.31 avg rating — 26,227 ratings
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Socialism: Past and Future
Socialism: Past and Future 3.87 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,882 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,181 ratings
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World 4.61 avg rating — 14,801 ratings
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating — 9,789 ratings
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A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution 4.06 avg rating — 1,484 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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Harperism: How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada
Harperism: How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada 3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives 3.79 avg rating — 1,876 ratings
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The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality 3.62 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,722 ratings
49.
We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse
We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse 4.01 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Age of Anger: A History of the Present 3.64 avg rating — 2,776 ratings
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The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 4.22 avg rating — 8,102 ratings
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Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few 4.18 avg rating — 5,290 ratings
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The State Theory of Money
The State Theory of Money 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex 3.76 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism 3.77 avg rating — 3,622 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years 4.21 avg rating — 25,619 ratings
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In 4.22 avg rating — 7,750 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings
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Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment 4.31 avg rating — 5,054 ratings
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul 4.10 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need 4.10 avg rating — 10,392 ratings
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,562 ratings
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The Conquest of Bread
The Conquest of Bread 4.06 avg rating — 9,422 ratings
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Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy 3.99 avg rating — 6,030 ratings
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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism 3.96 avg rating — 12,348 ratings
66.
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism 4.20 avg rating — 5,607 ratings
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Assembly
Assembly 3.72 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair 3.83 avg rating — 3,412 ratings
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Canada: A New Tax Haven: How the Country That Shaped Caribbean Tax Havens Is Becoming One Itself
Canada: A New Tax Haven: How the Country That Shaped Caribbean Tax Havens Is Becoming One Itself 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
67.
Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? 4.05 avg rating — 807 ratings
67.
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure 3.90 avg rating — 2,756 ratings
67.
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time 4.20 avg rating — 5,132 ratings
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Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral
Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Strategy: A History
Strategy: A History 3.97 avg rating — 2,906 ratings
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The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants 4.24 avg rating — 161 ratings
67.
Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again
Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again 3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings
67.
A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream
A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream 3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility 4.05 avg rating — 246 ratings
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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality 4.03 avg rating — 914 ratings
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Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics
Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics 3.84 avg rating — 38 ratings
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them 4.23 avg rating — 12,620 ratings
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World 4.28 avg rating — 4,042 ratings
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One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism 4.10 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Taking Children: A History of American Terror
Taking Children: A History of American Terror 4.13 avg rating — 126 ratings
81.
The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great
The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great 4.06 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It 3.72 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
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Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition 4.10 avg rating — 5,898 ratings
87.
The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power 4.10 avg rating — 210,193 ratings
87.
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America 3.91 avg rating — 351 ratings
87.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 4.42 avg rating — 7,736 ratings
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist 4.17 avg rating — 15,074 ratings
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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West 4.05 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
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The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy
The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy 3.88 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics 4.23 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Selections from the Prison Notebooks 4.20 avg rating — 5,187 ratings
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The Freedom Charter
The Freedom Charter 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating — 37,302 ratings
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Give Them an Argument
Give Them an Argument 3.75 avg rating — 793 ratings
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The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism
The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism 3.82 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President 4.05 avg rating — 3,128 ratings
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