WDSC Book List

(GOOD BOOKS FOR DEMOCRATS TO READ IN THEIR "SPARE" TIME!)

"Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America": You may have come to know Melissa V. Harris-Perry as the thoughtful, radiant guest moderator for Rachel Maddow – and now her own weekend show on MSNBC. But Harris-Perry, above all, has a distinguished reputation as a professor, currently at Tulane, where she is the director of the project on gender, race and politics in the South. This is her recent ground breaking book on the stereotypes that black women must confront in American society.

"Forks Over Knives" [DVD]: "Forks Over Knives" is a surprise best-selling documentary that makes a persuasive, research-oriented case for a plant-based diet. In short, if you thought veganism was exotic, you won't after viewing this film. This is an eye-opening and compelling documentary that might just change the way you eat. Even if you disagree with its conclusions, it is a film well worth watching.

"Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever”: Turn the "narrative" of Big Pharma on its head and you find bodies in the wake. That's part of the shocking, gripping nonfiction account that unfolds in "Blood Feud." Kathleen Sharp details how a whistleblower at Johnson & Johnson set off a chain of events that revealed alleged Medicare fraud, physician pay-offs, off-label drug use, suppressed research and deaths resulting from the use of a "blood-booster" that made billions of dollars, but caused increased mortality and cancer in an unknown number of patients.

"The United States of Fear": "How often does an empire end?" Tom Engelhardt asks in this fascinating chronicle of the decline of America as a unilateral superpower. As editor and chief commentator at TomDispatch, Engelhardt has performed an invaluable service in providing the long view of the decline of the American empire after its post-World War II dominance - and its short-lived status as lone superpower after the decline of the Soviet Union. "The United States of Fear" brilliantly analyzes how we, as a country, have paid an enormous price, sacrificing our civil liberties in order to maintain an unsustainable dominance in the world.

The New American Story

- Bill Bradley -

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Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

- Jimmy Carter -

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What's The Matter with Kansas?

- Thomas Frank -

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The Assault on Reason

- Al Gore -

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