Using the first two pages of "How to Analyze Secondary Sources " (up to # 4 at most) evaluate one of the books from the list posted separately in this Blackboard Syllabus folder. Also be sure to place the book in the context of any material from our classes, including Powerpoints from later in the course material, if appropriate.
Choose one:
This Changes Everything: Climate Crisis and Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Saving Capitalism: by Robert Reich
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Immigration to the United States Since 1945 by Dinnerstein
Who Stole the American Dream? By Hedrick Smith This is the book I would suggest to understand your and your parents lives over the last 60 years.
The Truth about Drug Companies by Marcia Angell [Highly recommended by previous students - and me.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert [The great die off of species currently.]
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back [Hardcover] By Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the ecological Degradation of the Tropical World, Concise Revised Edition by Richard P. Tucker; Rowman and Littlefield, 2007
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake
The 1st Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by TS Style
Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America by Peter Schrag
Climate Change: Picturing the Science by Gavin Schmidt
The Rising Plague: The Deadly Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them by Brad Spellberg
America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation by Elaine Tyler May
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation by Michael KAzin
Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theatre and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America by Amanda Frisken
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings
Bad Pharma. By Ben Goldacre NOT AVAILABLE TILL JAN 2013
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back by Thom Hartmann
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
Memory, Trauma and History: Essays on Living with the Past by Michael S. Roth
When Abortion Was a Crime by Leslie Reagan
How to Rig an Election: Confessions by a Republican Operative by Allen Raymond
This Time It's Different: 8 Centuries of Financial Follies by Kennith Rogoff
Torture and Impunity: The US Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation by Alfred W. McCoy
Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 by Gail Bederman
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson
Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition, by Amrit Singh, senior legal officer for national security and counter-terrorism at the Open Society Justice Initiative.
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations, and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America by James Bradford
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson [From D-day to surrender; very brutal fighting]
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by Dave Von Drehle
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins , 2004
Superman: The Unauthorized Biography by Glenn Weldon
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Shumacher [A historical, eco- book. One of the first from the 1970's; still a classic.]
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach [ 1970's ecological utopia of the Pacific Northwest splitting from the U.S. A novel.]
Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph [On the major Black Power Figure of the 1960s]
Woman in Combat by Rosemarie Skaine
There is Power in the Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
The Wrong Enemy: America's Afghanistan: 2001-2014 by Carlotta Gaul
Lyndon B. Johnson by Robert Dallek
Lyndon Johnson: & The American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Burn Down the House by Nell Bernstein [On Juvenile Prisons. Shows massive racism inherent in the system.]
My Life After Hate by Arno Michaelis [by a former skin head racist]
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner