In this diary uvalaw2005 asked for Ideas for a liberal reading list. He got a lot of responses. I summarize them below the fold, and you can add more in comments...
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UPDATE What I'll do is add all the suggestions I get in comments to the list, and do this again in the near future.
Eric Alterman: Why we're liberals
Natalie Angier: The canon
Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs McWorld
Dean Baker: The conservative nanny state
Douglas Blackmon: Slavery by another name
Taylor Branch: Trilogy on Martin Luther King
Smedley Butler: War is a racket
Cab Calloway: Minnie the moocher and me
Robert Caro: The power broker
Graydon Carter: What we've lost
James Carville: We're right, they're wrong
Sarah Chayes: The punishment of virtue
Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent and various other works
Richard Clarke: Against all enemies
Patrick Cockburn: The occupation
Steven Coll: Ghost wars
Pat Conroy: Beach music
Richard Dawkins: River out of eden
The blind watchmaker
The ancestor's tale
Daniel Dennett
Jared Diamond: Guns, germs and steel
Collapse
Umberto Eco: Travels in hyperreality
Riane Eisler: The chalice and the blade
Joseph Ellis: Founding fathers
Federalist papers
Thomas Frank: One market under God
What's the matter with Kansas?
Paul Fussell: The great war and modern memory
John Kenneth Galbraith: The affluent society
William Gibson: Pattern recognition
Spook country
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of rivals
Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
No ordinary time
Al Gore: Assault on reason
William Greider: Who will tell the people?
Secrets of the temple
One world ready or not
Glenn Greenwald: How would a patriot act?
Thom Hartman
Frank Herbert: Dune
Christopher Hitchens
Richard Hofstadter: The paranoid style in American politics
Anti intellectualism in American life
Irving Howe (ed): Essential works of socialism
Susan Jacoby: Freethinkers
Thomas Jefferson's works
Chalmers Johnson: The sorrows of empire
Crockett Johnson: Harold and the purple crayon
David Cay Johnstone: Perfectly legal
Michael Kazin (ed) In search of progressive America
John Maynard Keynes: How to pay for the war
Tracy Kidder: Mountains beyond mountains
ML King Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham jail
Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, vegetable, miracle
Naomi Klein: No logo
Shock doctrine
Paul Krugman: The great unravelling
Conscience of a liberal
Howard Kuntsler: The long emergency
George Lakoff: Whose freedom?
Moral politics
Madeline L'Engle A wrinkle in time
Larry Lessig
Julius Lester: To be a slave
Michael Lewis: Liars poker
Sinclair Lewis: It can't happen here
Bernie Mac: Maybe you never cry again
Brotherhood in rhythm
Thomas Malthus: The principles of population
David McCullough: Truman
Milton Meyer: They thought they were free
C. Wright Mills: The power elite
Chris Mooney: The Republican war on science
Greg Mortenson: Three cups of tea
Bob Moser: Blue dixie
Ogden Nash: The cruise of the aardvark
Barack Obama: The audacity of Hope
Thomas Paine's works
Rick Perlstein: Nixonland
Kevin Phillips: American Theocracy, and generally anything
Nina Planck: Real food
Michael Pollan: Omnivore's dilemma
Jedidiah Purdy: Being America
Karl Popper: The open society and its enemies
Ahmad Rashid: Descent into chaos
John Rawls: A theory of justice
David Remnick: Lenin's tomb
Jacob Riis: How the other half lives
Clinton Rossiter: Conservatism in America
Philip Roth: The plot against America
Bertrand Russell
John Rosten Saul: Voltaire's bastards
Eric Schlosser: Fast food nation
Bruce Schneier: Beyond fear
Dr. Seuss: Yertle the turtle
The lorax
The sneetches
Hooray for Diffendoofer day!
Joseph Stiglitz
Ron Suskind: The way of the world
Studs Terkel: American dreams
Working
Henry David Thoreau: On civil disobedience
Lynn Turgeon: Bastard Keynesianism
Gore Vidal
Kurt Vonnegut: Man without a country, and generally
Franz de Waal: Peacemaking among primates
Gary Wills: Nixon Agonistes
Lincoln at Gettysburg
Tim Wise: White Like Me
Tom Wolfe: Bonfire of the vanities
Gordon Wood: The radicalism of the American revolution
Lawrence Wright: The looming tower
Richard Wright: Native son
Black boy
Howard Zinn: People's History of the US