Howard Zinn
description: American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker
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A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn · 2 Jan 1977 · 913pp · 299,770 words
A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 1492—PRESENT HOWARD ZINN To Noah, Georgia, Serena, Naushon, Will—and their generation Contents Cover Title Page Chapter 1 – Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress Chapter 2 – Drawing the
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Chapter 24 – The Clinton Presidency Chapter 25 – The 2000 Election and the “War on Terrorism” Afterword Bibliography Index Acknowledgments About the Author Other Books by Howard Zinn Copyright About the Publisher Chapter 1 Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their
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Dime?” Lyric by Jay Gomey, Music by E. Y. Harburg. © 1932 Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright Renewed. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. About the Author HOWARD ZINN is a historian, playwright, and social activist. He lives with his wife, painter Roslyn Zinn, in Auburndale, Massachusetts. Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information
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on your favorite HarperCollins author. Other Books by Howard Zinn La Guardia in Congress 1959 The Southern Mystique 1964 SNCC: The New Abolitionists 1964 New Deal Thought (editor) 1965 Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal 1967
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2001 Terrorism and War 2002 Emma: A Play 2002 Copyright A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Copyright © 1980, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2003 by Howard Zinn. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable
McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
by Ronald Purser · 8 Jul 2019 · 242pp · 67,233 words
no special allegiance to any religious or spiritual tradition.4 Kabat-Zinn is married to the daughter of the late radical historian and social activist Howard Zinn. But although he joined anti-Vietnam War protests in the late 1960s, his attention soon turned inward. He discovered Zen Buddhism while still a student
Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges · 14 May 2010 · 422pp · 89,770 words
could go so far, lulled into a false sense of security precisely because the watchdog only barked when he began to threaten the privileged.25 Howard Zinn in the People’s History of the United States examined history through the eyes of Native Americans, immigrants, slaves, women, union leaders, persecuted socialists, anarchists
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agents wrote, Grell “had observed copies of the Daily Workers in Mrs. Scheiman’s apartment and noted that Mrs. Scheiman was a good friend of Howard Zinn.” The FBI, which describes Zinn as a former member of the Communist Party, something Zinn repeatedly denied, appears to have picked up its surveillance when
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten · 1 Jan 2001
sharing their abundance. The former thought only of subjugating and enslaving the innocents and confiscating their gold by force of arms. According to the historian Howard Zinn, Columbus arrived in a world that in places “was as densely populated as Europe itself, where the culture was complex, where human relations were more
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Lord Say and Sele,” 1636, http://www .skidmore.edu/~tkuroda/hi321/ LordSay&Sele.htm. 8. Lambert, Founding Fathers and Religion, 92. 9. As quoted by Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States 1492–Present (New York: HarperPerennial, 1995), 1, 3. 10. Numerous such accounts are cited by Zinn, People
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco · 7 Apr 2014 · 326pp · 88,905 words
Press “[T]he radical disjunction between how Hedges and Sacco approach their subjects is fascinating and instructive. Hedges is at ease with the grand, sweeping Howard Zinn–moments of matchbook history. . . . And if sweeping, historical connect-the-dots is your cup of tea, then you will find Hedges deeply moving. But if
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West or cheap labor in the squalid workhouses and mills. Blacks, first imported as slaves, later became part of a disenfranchised underclass. American history, as Howard Zinn illustrated in The People’s History of the United States, has been one long fight by the marginalized and disenfranchised for dignity and freedom. There
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Park in New York City on September 17, 2011. She had a tent, a rolling suitcase, forty dollars worth of food, the graphic version of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, and a sleeping bag. She had no return ticket, no idea what she was undertaking, and
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, Francine Prose, Russell Banks, Celia Chazelle, Esther Kaplan, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, John Ralston Saul, and Cornel West, who along with Noam and the late Howard Zinn is one of the few intellectuals in this country who matters. Dorothea von Moltke and Cliff Simms, friends in Princeton, fight to defend the printed
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-a03.shtml (accessed 28 Dec. 2011). 39. Rebecca Jarvis Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008), 85. 40. Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), 276–277. 41. John R. Commons et al., History of Labour in the
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: British Florida in the Eighteenth Century (Baltimore: Clearfield, 2007), 19, 275. 23. Ron Field, The Seminole Wars 1818–58 (New York: Osprey, 2009), 3. 24. Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), 146. 25. Tommy Rodriguez, Visions of the Everglades (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2011), 29
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
by Thomas E. Ricks · 3 Oct 2022 · 482pp · 150,822 words
that there were few genuinely safe places where one could relax—a situation that dramatically increases stress. Visiting their offices in Alabama and Mississippi, wrote Howard Zinn, a sympathetic historian, was like visiting combat outposts. 3. THE FREEDOM RIDES, 1961 A Raid Behind Enemy Lines In the war over civil rights, the
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of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (University of Georgia Press, 1987), 63. Visiting their offices in Alabama and Mississippi: Howard Zinn, SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Beacon Press, 1964), 12. 3. The Freedom Rides, 1961 “The Doolittle Raid”: Adrian Lewis to Thomas E. Ricks, email, June 20
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were influenced by Burner’s book. “the Negroes might be serious”: Quoted in Burner, And Gently He Shall Lead Them, 52. One night in 1963: Howard Zinn, SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Beacon Press, 1964), 89–90. “one of the great listeners of the world”: Joseph Sinsheimer, “The Freedom Vote of 1963: New
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World War II, 5th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2003), 306. Some of those anxious parents: “Jim Forman—November 12, 1965,” interview by Howard Zinn, Zinn Interview Transcripts, 1963–65, Howard Zinn Papers, Freedom Summer Digital Collection, Wisconsin Historical Society, content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll2/id/11919, 4. “That’s cold”: Quoted in Harvard
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Erenrich, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, 209. “I think you have to think of it”: “Jim Forman—November 12, 1965,” interview by Howard Zinn, Zinn Interview Transcripts, 1963–65, Howard Zinn Papers, Freedom Summer Digital Collection, Wisconsin Historical Society, content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll2/id/11919, 6. “Our objective was to let these
Occupy
by Noam Chomsky · 2 Jan 1994 · 75pp · 22,220 words
https://www.facebook.com/ZuccottiParkPres Twitter https://twitter.com/zuccottipress Editor’s Note Occupy After Thirty Years of Class War InterOccupy Occupying Foreign Policy Remembering Howard Zinn Occupy Protest Support About the Author About Zuccotti Park Press and the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series Dedicated to the 6,705 people who have been
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is for the pamphlets we create to act as seeds of the insurgent imagination, encouraging us to dream and act for a better world. As Howard Zinn wrote, “Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as
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, “A New Rick Perry Shows Up to GOP Debate,” The Texas Tribune, October 18, 2011. Occupy Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Occupy Boston, MA, Dewey Square, October 22, 2011 It’s a little hard to give a Howard Zinn memorial lecture at an Occupy meeting. There are mixed feelings, necessarily, that go along with it
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that he literally changed the consciousness and also the conscience of an entire generation. It’s no small achievement. And it continues and expands. A Howard Zinn memorial lecture could not have been better timed. It’s taking place in the midst of “countless small actions of unknown people” who are rising
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got some support in Spelman College in Atlanta, where a lot of the SNCC activists came from. There were two faculty members who supported them—Howard Zinn and Staughton Lynd—and both got expelled. But they did get some support. And the Freedom Riders’ bus trips started. There was a little participation
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these things offer plenty of opportunities for discussion, interchange, education, organizing and activism. The opportunities are all there. Remembering Howard Zinn It is not easy for me to write a few words about Howard Zinn, the great American activist and historian. He was a very close friend for forty-five years. The families were
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record, unique to my knowledge, a record of which the country should be proud. And one that should be a model for others, just as Howard Zinn’s life and work are an unforgettable model, sure to leave a permanent stamp on how history is understood and how a decent and honorable
Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy
by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle · 12 Mar 2019 · 349pp · 98,309 words
workers in manufacturing, transport, and agriculture were killed on the job. In one year, fifty thousand accidents took place in New York factories alone. Historian Howard Zinn notes that “hat and cap makers were getting respiratory diseases, quarrymen were inhaling deadly chemicals, lithographic printers were getting arsenic poisoning.” In 1914, according to
A People's History of Poverty in America
by Stephen Pimpare · 11 Nov 2008 · 468pp · 123,823 words
EPILOGUE Notes Index Copyright Page The New Press People’s History Series Howard Zinn, Series Editor A People’s History of the United States: The Wall Charts Howard Zinn and George Kirschner A People’s History of the United States: Abridged Teaching Edition Howard Zinn A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People
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already know. These books will shake up readers’ understanding of the past—just as common people throughout history have shaken up their always changeable worlds. Howard Zinn Boston, 2000 INTRODUCTION The Indignant Poor and the Constants of Relief I am reminded of the old lady who went from the interior to the
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, especially given that I have relied here mostly upon previously published letters, diaries, journals, and interviews. The narrative is also distorted, much like its inspiration, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, by the nature of the project itself.45 I set out consciously to offer a history
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, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (New York: Routledge, 2000). For a caution against “ethnography as voyeurism,” see Schram, Words of Welfare, chap. 3. 45 Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492–Present, twentieth-anniversary ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 2002 ); see also Schram, Words of Welfare. 46 See
Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian · 1 Nov 2012
8. Aristocrats and Democrats Notes Acknowledgments Index About the Authors 1 The New American Imperialism CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (APRIL 2, 2010) One of the themes that Howard Zinn tried to address during his long career was the lack of historical memory. The facts of history are scrupulously ignored and/or distorted. I was
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Harvard describing the rather extraordinary amount of resistance to neoliberal policies in India.51 There is a tremendous amount of push-back. I wrote to Howard Zinn about her talk. He wrote back to me, in one of the last e-mails I received from him, “Compared to India, the United States
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It’s not a revolution, but it’s the germ of another type of capitalism, capitalism in the sense that markets and profit are involved. Howard Zinn once commented, “There is a basic weakness in governments—however massive their armies, however wealthy their treasuries, however they control the information given to the
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A. Fraser, Resignation Letter to the Labor–Management Group (19 July 1978), reprinted in Voices of a People’s History of the United States, ed. Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, 2nd ed. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2010), pp. 529–33. 56. Noam Chomsky, “Closing Plenary: Rekindling the Radical Imagination,” Left Forum
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Times (London), 28 October 2011. 20. See also Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012). 21. Howard Zinn, “A Chorus Against War,” The Progressive 67, no. 3 (March 2003), pp. 19–21. 22. Howard Zinn, “Operation Enduring War,” The Progressive 66, no. 3 (March 2002), pp. 12–13. 23. David Hume, “Of
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by Andrew Bacevich, Blood and Oil by Michael T. Klare, A Question of Torture by Alfred McCoy, A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn, and Empire’s Workshop by Greg Grandin. For more information about the American Empire Project and for a list of forthcoming titles, please visit americanempireproject
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr · 19 Feb 2019
A People’s History of Computing in the United States
by Joy Lisi Rankin
Rethinking Camelot
by Noam Chomsky · 7 Apr 2015
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian · 4 Oct 2005 · 165pp · 47,405 words
The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
by Rod Hill and Anthony Myatt · 15 Mar 2010
Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
by Robert F. Barsky · 2 Feb 1997
The Hour of Fate
by Susan Berfield
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by Matthew Sweet · 13 Feb 2018 · 493pp · 136,235 words
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein · 12 Jun 2017 · 357pp · 94,852 words
Drinking in America: Our Secret History
by Susan Cheever · 12 Oct 2015 · 263pp · 81,542 words
Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton · 30 Apr 2014 · 426pp · 118,913 words
Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
by Jeff Faux · 16 May 2012 · 364pp · 99,613 words
Cuba: An American History
by Ada Ferrer · 6 Sep 2021 · 723pp · 211,892 words
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Sep 2019
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by Kate Raworth · 22 Mar 2017 · 403pp · 111,119 words
The Chomsky Reader
by Noam Chomsky · 11 Sep 1987
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian · 1 Oct 2007
Chomsky on Mis-Education
by Noam Chomsky · 24 Mar 2000
How the World Works
by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian · 13 Sep 2011 · 489pp · 111,305 words
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
by Kristen R. Ghodsee · 16 May 2023 · 302pp · 112,390 words
Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers
by Stephen Graham · 8 Nov 2016 · 519pp · 136,708 words
If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore · 14 Sep 2020 · 467pp · 149,632 words
Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
by George Gilder · 30 Apr 1981 · 590pp · 153,208 words
Turning the Tide
by Noam Chomsky · 14 Sep 2015
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
by Richard D. Wolff · 1 Oct 2012 · 165pp · 48,594 words
Propaganda and the Public Mind
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian · 31 Mar 2015
The Cultural Logic of Computation
by David Golumbia · 31 Mar 2009 · 268pp · 109,447 words
Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
by Susan Linn · 12 Sep 2022 · 415pp · 102,982 words
The Capitalist Manifesto
by Johan Norberg · 14 Jun 2023 · 295pp · 87,204 words
Great American Railroad Journeys
by Michael Portillo · 26 Jan 2017
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
by Christian Rudder · 8 Sep 2014 · 366pp · 76,476 words
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions
by Jason Hickel · 3 May 2017 · 332pp · 106,197 words
Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America
by Garrett Neiman · 19 Jun 2023 · 386pp · 112,064 words
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Apr 2015 · 324pp · 93,606 words
Making the Future: The Unipolar Imperial Moment
by Noam Chomsky · 15 Mar 2010 · 258pp · 63,367 words
Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by Matt Taibbi · 7 Oct 2019 · 357pp · 99,456 words
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
by Yasha Levine · 6 Feb 2018 · 474pp · 130,575 words
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
by Ellen Ruppel Shell · 2 Jul 2009 · 387pp · 110,820 words
The Science of Language
by Noam Chomsky · 24 Feb 2012
Culture and Imperialism
by Edward W. Said · 29 May 1994 · 549pp · 170,495 words
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
by Chris Hedges · 12 Jul 2009 · 373pp · 80,248 words
The Cold War: Stories From the Big Freeze
by Bridget Kendall · 14 May 2017 · 559pp · 178,279 words
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Jan 1974 · 56pp · 17,340 words
Undoing Border Imperialism
by Harsha Walia · 12 Nov 2013 · 258pp · 69,706 words
The Rich and the Rest of Us
by Tavis Smiley · 15 Feb 2012 · 181pp · 50,196 words
But What if We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present as if It Were the Past
by Chuck Klosterman · 6 Jun 2016 · 281pp · 78,317 words
Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover
by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and William Greider · 9 Jan 2009 · 278pp · 82,069 words
Who Rules the World?
by Noam Chomsky
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
by Timothy Ferriss · 6 Dec 2016 · 669pp · 210,153 words
The Rough Guide to New York City
by Rough Guides · 21 May 2018
Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith · 10 Sep 2012 · 598pp · 172,137 words
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by Evan Friss · 5 Aug 2024 · 493pp · 120,793 words
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman · 6 Apr 2014 · 302pp · 74,878 words
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
by Benjamin R. Barber · 5 Nov 2013 · 501pp · 145,943 words
Year 501
by Noam Chomsky · 19 Jan 2016
USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2 Oct 2017 · 349pp · 114,914 words
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
by Rebecca Henderson · 27 Apr 2020 · 330pp · 99,044 words
Fresh Off the Boat
by Eddie Huang · 29 Jan 2013
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 1 Jan 2004 · 475pp · 149,310 words
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert Fisk · 2 Jan 2005 · 1,800pp · 596,972 words
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
by Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker · 14 Sep 2010 · 602pp · 120,848 words
Necessary Illusions
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Sep 1995
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
by Peter Marshall · 2 Jan 1992 · 1,327pp · 360,897 words
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
by Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig · 5 Jan 2016 · 377pp · 110,427 words
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff · 25 Sep 2017 · 158pp · 46,353 words
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
by Rebecca Boyle · 16 Jan 2024 · 354pp · 109,574 words
The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War
by Jeff Sharlet · 21 Mar 2023 · 308pp · 97,480 words
9-11
by Noam Chomsky · 29 Aug 2011
Hopes and Prospects
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Jan 2009
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
by Noam Chomsky and Laray Polk · 29 Apr 2013
Health and Safety: A Breakdown
by Emily Witt · 16 Sep 2024 · 242pp · 85,783 words
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
by Jamie Woodcock · 17 Jun 2019 · 236pp · 62,158 words
Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future
by Hal Niedzviecki · 15 Mar 2015 · 343pp · 102,846 words
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
by Arundhati Roy · 5 May 2014 · 91pp · 26,009 words
Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis
by Johan Norberg · 14 Sep 2009 · 246pp · 74,341 words
Understanding Power
by Noam Chomsky · 26 Jul 2010
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
by Premilla Nadasen · 10 Oct 2023 · 288pp · 82,972 words