June 30, 2005
Summer reading list
In no particular order. Any thoughts/suggestions?
Marcus Borg, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
Burt Solomon, The Washington Century: Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation's Capital
- Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
- Benjamin Barber, Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy
- Cornel West, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
- John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America
- Roy Mattahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran
- John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus and/or Jean-Marie Paupert, The Politics of the Gospel
- Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Danny Hoch, Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Some People
- Gabriel García Márquez, A Hundred Years of Solitude (re-read)
- Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (re-read)
- Frank Herbert, Dune
- Maybe some Steinbeck or Hemingway?
Posted by Michael at June 30, 2005 05:06 AM
| TrackBack
Summer's almost over, but I'd add:
Ray Raphael, The First American Revolution
and
C.D. Lummis, Radical Democracy
and finally
Emspak, Labor's Untold Story (published by U.E.)
These three are must reads. I give them to friends all the time.