The political season is in full throttled shout now. So we figured this might be the time to pick up some books to put our American system into some context.
A few of the books we discussed in this episode.
All The King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
Advise and Consent, Allan Drury
Lincoln, Gore Vidal
Burr, by Gore Vidal
America, by John Stewart
All The Truth is Out, Matt Bai
The Making of The President, Theodore White
All The Presidents Men, Woodward and Bernstein
Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
The Paranoid Style in American History, by Richard Hofstader
1912:Wilson, Roosevelt Taft and Debs, by James Chase
Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The People’ Choice, by Jeff Greenfield
Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galeano
Noam Chomsky’s books
Confessions of an Economic Hit-man, by John Perkins
The Plot Against America, by Phillip Roth
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, by Michael Chabon
The Worm at the Core: On The Role of Death in Life, by SHELDON SOLOMON, JEFF GREENBERG and TOM PYSZCZYNSKI
American Theocracy, by Kevin Phillips
Escape From Freedom, by Erich Fromm
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, by Hunter S. Thompson
The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse