Recommended Books

Essays/Journalism

All Art is Propaganda - George Orwell

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin

Science, Liberty and Peace - Aldous Huxley

The Partisan Review Anthology - ed. William Phillips and Philip Rahv

The New Republic Reader - ed. Dorothy Wickenden

The Nation: 1865-1990 - ed. Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

Athwart History - William F. Buckley

Right Reason - William F. Buckley

History

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era - James McPherson

No Name in the Street - James Baldwin

Homage to Catalonia- George Orwell

The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson

The Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer

Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man - Walter Stahr

American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism - Richard Seymour

Japan: The Story of a Nation - Edwin O. Reischauer

Hiroshima - John Hersey

Koba the Dread - Martin Amis

The Hudson: A History - Tom Lewis

Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith - Robert A. Slayton

To Seek a Newer World - Robert F. Kennedy

The Good War - Studs Terkel

Looking Forward - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Epic of New York City - Edward Robb Ellis

Foreign Policy

Dirty Wars - Jeremy Scahill

Blackwater - Jeremy Scahill 

War Talk - Arundhati Roy

The Bomb - Howard Zinn

Terror and Liberalism - Paul Berman

The World America Made - Robert Kagan

Drug Policy

Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition - Jeffrey Miron

The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control - David F. Musto

The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It - Judge James P. Gray

Law

With Liberty and Justice for Some - Glenn Greenwald

The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

The Emerging Police State - William Kunstler

How Would A Patriot Act? - Glenn Greenwald