MAKE AMERICA READ AGAIN!

Because most of us young people don’t vote unless we feel informed on the issues, we’ve compiled this suggested reading list for people to consult — with books about core values, communications, and controversial issues.  A familiarity with these books and texts will educate you, enlighten you, and encourage you to be more active in politics at all levels.

(Each book title is a link, getting you to the Amazon.com page for buying the book.)

A) Books to help us resistors understand our core selves:

• Why I Am A Democrat – Ted Sorenson
• The Courage of Our Convictions – Gary Hart
• The Conscience of a Liberal – Paul Wellstone
• Moral Politics – George Lakoff

B) Books about where we stand on the issues:

• Overview
  1. Democratic Party Platform
  2. Stronger Together – Hillary Clinton & Tim Kaine
  3. Our Revolution – Bernie Sanders
• Economics (the books of Robert Reich)
  1. The Future of Success
  2. Supercapitalism
  3. Aftershock
  4. Beyond Outrage
  5. Saving Capitalism
• Economic and Income Inequality (Joseph Stiglitz)
  1. The Great Divide
  2. The Price of Inequality
  3. Rewritng the Rules of the American Economy
• Taxes (Paul Krugman)
  1. Fuzzy Math
  2. The Great Unraveling
• Healthcare
  1. In Critical Condition – Edward Kennedy
  2. America Back On Track – Edward Kennedy
  3. Critical – Tom Daschle
  4. Getting it Done – Tom Daschle
• Guns
  1. Gun Fight – Adam Winkler
  2. The Second Amendment – Michael Waldman
  3. Enough – Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly
• Immigration
  1. A Nation of Immigrants – John F. Kennedy

C) Books to help us communicate our values:

• Further books by George Lakoff
  1. Don’t Think of an Elephant
  2. Whose Freedom?
  3. Thinking Points
  4. The Little Blue Book
• Cracking the Code – Thom Hartmann
• Words That Work – Frank Luntz

D) Books to help us organize for action and/or run for public office:

• The Candidate – Samuel Popkin
• No Excuses – Robert Shrum
• Take Back Your Government – Morgan Carroll
• Rules for Revolutionaries – Becky Bond & Zack Exley
• Give Me Liberty – Naomi Wolf

E) Further reading (Fiction):

• 1984 – George Orwell
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• All The King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
• When She Woke – Hillary Jordan

F) Further reading (Essays):

• Politics and the English Language – George Orwell
• Brave New World Revisited – Aldous Huxley
• The End of America – Naomi Wolf
• Ur-Fascism – Umberto Eco

G) Books from the Dark Side:

• Donald Trump
  1. The America We Deserve
  2. Time to Get Tough
  3. Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America