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Sunday, November 24, 2013

How a Billionaire) Becomes a Law(maker) (+playlist)

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Bruce Springsteen High Hopes

Alanis Morissette - Havoc and Bright Lights

Full Throttle

This is another close friend from the writing world. Nicole is a wonderful writer dealing in the world of young adult fiction. She has a real flair for action and bringing that world to life. This site highly recommends this book.

Confessions of a Union Buster

The Untold History of the United States [Hardcover]

Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created ModernAmerica

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Be one of the first to own this movie.

Madmen Season Five

Truly one of the best shows on television

Out Across the Nowhere

A close personal friend of mine, a friend of the blog, who has contributed an article on nursing homes and had her fiction here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2011/08/hungry-original-fiction-that-first.html

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Amy Goodman The Silenced Majority

FDR PBS Presidents Series

The story behind the most important president of the twentieth century

The Lincolns: A house Divided

As important as anything done on Lincoln.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System

The Given Day

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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins

One of the heartbeats of the New Deal

Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps [Paperback]

The man who broke Bush's Florida fiasco in 2000. Anything Greg Palast writes I recommend

Stop The War On Workers

Just When I Make It To The Middle Class They Eliminate It

The War On The Middle Class: The One War We're Winning

Work Hard: Wall Street Needs Your Money

Corporate Plan For America

Abolish Corporate Personhood

Corporate Media: A Weapon of Mass Distraction. -Magnetic Bumper Sticker.

It's Not Pension Reform; It's Pension Default

Bumper Sticker: Fox News When Facts Don't Matter

The Labor Movement: The folks who brought you the weekend. Bumper Sticker.

The Rites Of Spring

This is a great book of the birth of the Twentieth Century that the blog gives two thumbs up.

The Crime Of Our Time

Orwell Rolls In His Grave

A great movie on the modern American media

Inside Job

My Only Sunshine

This is another Wildacre alum and a fine writer.

Intelligence

I've been in class with Susan a few times. She worked for the CIA. This is an intelligent and funny book.

The Iguana Tree

I've known Michele. She is a fine writer. This is an excerpt published here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/03/angel-story-of-workers-from-south-of.html

What's The Matter With Kansas?

"Like a French Revolution in reverse-one in which the sansculottes pour down the streets demanding more power for the aristocracy-the backlash pushes the spectrum of the acceptable to the right, to the right, farther to the right." http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/06/two-quotes-from-thomas-frank-on-this.html

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