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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

ByGary Webb

1998 • 7 Readers • 601 pages

#160 of 251 in Very Short Introductions

African History: A Very Short Introduction

ByRichard Rathbone,John Parker

2007 • 2 Readers • 185 pages • 3.5

Consequences of Capitalism

Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

ByNoam Chomsky,Marv Waterstone

2021 • 10 Readers • 388 pages • 5

ISIS: A History

ByFawaz A. Gerges

2016 • 2 Readers

Declarations of Independence

Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology

ByHoward Zinn

1990 • 4 Readers • 341 pages • 4

Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

ByAlex Wellerstein

2021 • 3 Readers

The Five Negro Presidents: According to What White People Said They Were

ByJ.A. Rogers

1965 • 1 Reader • 3

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

ByRoberto Sirvent,Danny Haiphong

2 Readers • 3

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

ByNancy MacLean

2017 • 14 Readers • 4

The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times

ByAdrienne Mayor

2000 • 361 pages

Comparative Studies in Religion and Society

A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America

ByMichael Barkun

2003 • 1 Reader

God and the State

ByMikhail Bakunin

1882 • 23 Readers • 90 pages • 4.1

Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy

ByHal Harvey,Robbie Orvis,+1 more

2 Readers • 4

Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom

ByStephen Gowans

2018 • 5 Readers

Books That Changed the World

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

ByChristopher Hitchens

2006

Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America

ByPeter Edelman

2017 • 2 Readers

The ABC of Anarchism

ByAlexander Berkman

1929 • 6 Readers • 4

The Fall of the Faculty

The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters

ByBenjamin Ginsberg

2011 • 1 Reader

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

ByGord Hill

2002 • 1 Reader • 72 pages

Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States

ByBradley W. Hart

2018 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 3

On Guerrilla Warfare

ByMao Zedong

1935 • 10 Readers • 130 pages

Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

ByPatricia S. Churchland

2019 • 2 Readers • 226 pages

The Dragon's Gift

The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa

ByDeborah Brautigam

2009 • 1 Reader

Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980

ByAaron J. Leonard,Conor A. Gallagher

2015 • 2 Readers • 356 pages

Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

BySheldon S. Wolin

2006 • 5 Readers

From the Barrel of a Gun

From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980

ByGerald Horne

2001 • 1 Reader

Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

Bydéqui kioni-sadiki(Editor),Matt Meyer(Editor)

1 Reader

The History Thieves

The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation

ByIan Cobain

2016 • 3 Readers

A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

ByJane McAlevey

2020 • 13 Readers • 256 pages • 3

American Empire Project

Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World

ByDavid Vine

2015 • 2 Readers • 418 pages

A Decolonial Feminism

ByFrançoise Vergès,Ashley J. Bohrer(Translator)

2019 • 7 Readers • 110 pages

Guerilla Warfare

ByErnesto Che Guevara

1961 • 1 Reader • 171 pages • 3

Three Days at the Brink

Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II

ByBret Baier, Catherine Whitney

1 Reader

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump

ByCorey Robin

2011 • 2 Readers • 3

Social Security Works!

Social Security Works!: Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All

ByNancy J. Altman

1 Reader • 3

Friendly Fascism

Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America

ByBertram M. Gross

1980 • 1 Reader

The Revolution Betrayed

ByLeon Trotsky,Max Eastman(Translator)

5 Readers

Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality

ByLily Geismer

1 Reader

Toward Soviet America

ByWilliam Z. Foster

1932 • 1 Reader

COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom

ByNelson Blackstock

1975 • 1 Reader

Doublespeak

ByWilliam D. Lutz

1990 • 290 pages

Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians

BySusan Sleeper-Smith(Editor),Juliana Barr(Editor)

2015 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974

ByAaron J. Leonard,Conor A. Gallagher

2018 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare

ByFrances Fox Piven,Richard A. Cloward

1971 • 1 Reader • 545 pages

Butterfly's Child

ByAngela Davis-Gardner

2011 • 1 Reader

The Moors in Spain: History of the Conquest, 800 year Rule & The Final Fall of Granada

ByStanley Lane-Poole

1887 • 1 Reader • 183 pages • 3

The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class

ByThom Hartmann

2021 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

Racism After Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism

ByVishwas Satgar(editor)

2019 • 1 Reader • 265 pages

Kings and Presidents: Inside the Special Relationship Between Saudi Arabia and America Since FDR

ByBruce Riedel

2017 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy

ByThom Hartmann

2022 • 192 pages

Mandela: An Audio History

ByDesmond Tutu(performer),Nelson Mandela(Performance)

2014 • 1 Reader • 2 pages

Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race

ByJ.A. Rogers

1952 • 1 Reader • 242 pages

Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration

ByGreg Berman,Julian Adler

2018 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

The Right to Read

ByRichard Stallman

1 Reader

The Lessons of October

ByLeon Trotsky

1924 • 1 Reader • 84 pages

In defense of Marxism

ByLeon Trotsky

1942 • 1 Reader • 221 pages

Dinosaurs And Indians

Dinosaurs And Indians: Paleontology Resource Dispossession From Sioux Lands

ByLawrence W. Bradley

2014 • 1 Reader

It's Not Over: Learning from the Socialist Experiment

ByPete Dolack

2015

#33 of 25 in Pelican Books

Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth

ByGuy Standing

2019 • 416 pages

Basic Income: A Guide for the Open-Minded

ByGuy Standing

2017 • 1 Reader • 392 pages

From Artefacts to Atoms: The BIPM and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards

ByTerry Quinn

2011 • 1 Reader • 464 pages

Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations

ByMichael J. Hogan(Editor),Thomas G. Paterson(Editor)

1991 • 1 Reader • 386 pages

American Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism

ByEllen Schrecker

2003

Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

ByVladimir Lenin,Slavoj Žižek

2017 • 1 Reader • 186 pages

The Evolution of Socialism in the United States

ByThe Speech Resource Company(Producer)

The Zulu War and Boer War

The Zulu War and Boer War: The History and Legacy of the Conflicts that Cemented British Control of South Africa

ByCharles River Editors

New Perspectives on the History of the South

The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861: With a New Preface

ByRobert E. May

1973 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

The Mayerling Murder

ByVictor Wolfson

1969 • 1 Reader • 198 pages

The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J.

BySabine Hyland

2003 • 1 Reader • 269 pages

The Kennedys and Cuba: The Declassified Documentary History

ByMark J. White(editor)

1999 • 1 Reader • 362 pages

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir

ByTelford Taylor

1992 • 1 Reader • 703 pages

The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru

BySabine Hyland

2016 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State

ByRobert C. Lieberman

1998 • 1 Reader • 324 pages

Marxism and Culture: The CPUSA and Aesthetics in the 1930s

ByLawrence H. Schwartz

1980 • 1 Reader • 164 pages

The barrel of a gun: Political power in Africa and the coup d'état

ByRuth First

1970 • 513 pages

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

ByTommy J. Curry

2017 • 1 Reader

#1 of 2 in Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys

ByJawanza Kunjufu

1985 • 200 pages

We Real Cool

ByBell Hooks

2004 • 9 Readers • 190 pages

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

ByMichelle Alexander

2010 • 443 Readers • 4.5

Against Empire

ByMichael Parenti

1995 • 16 Readers • 229 pages • 4

Blood and Oil

ByBradley Hope,Justin Scheck

2020 • 15 Readers • 368 pages • 4.5

Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old

BySteven Petrow

2021 • 4 Readers • 272 pages

Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

ByMajora Carter

1 Reader

Global Imagination of 1968: Revolution and Counterrevolution

ByGeorge Katsiaficas

1 Reader • 3

Taliban

ByAhmed Rashid

2000 • 6 Readers • 294 pages • 4

Inventing Human Rights: A History

ByLynn Hunt

2008 • 3 Readers • 273 pages

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

ByDavid Harvey

2014 • 15 Readers • 338 pages • 4.5

Reign of Terror

BySpencer Ackerman

2021 • 17 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

The Afghanistan Papers

ByCraig Whitlock,The Washington Post

2021 • 16 Readers • 368 pages • 4.5

Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future

Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

ByIan Morris

2010 • 25 Readers • 768 pages • 4.5

The Swiss Account

ByPaul Emil Erdman

1991 • 1 Reader • 390 pages

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

ByDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

2021 • 312 Readers • 4.2

The Rape of Nanking

ByIris Chang

1997 • 205 Readers • 290 pages • 4.2

The Nazis next door

ByEric Lichtblau

2014 • 5 Readers • 266 pages • 4

The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

ByLawrence James

1995 • 8 Readers • 704 pages

Stokely Speaks

ByStokely Carmichael,Kwame Ture

1971 • 5 Readers • 256 pages

The blood never dried

ByJohn Newsinger

2006 • 9 Readers • 286 pages

America's War for the Greater Middle East

ByAndrew J. Bacevich

2016 • 7 Readers • 498 pages • 2

Britain in the Middle East: 1619-1971

ByRobert T. Harrison

2015 • 299 pages

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

ByAngela Y. Davis

1971 • 10 Readers • 281 pages

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