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Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
What does a citizen need to read to be an informed voter in 2008, or just to be an informed citizen
Tags: america, current-events, history, non-fiction, and politics

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The Constitution of the United States of America
The Constitution of the United States of America
by Applewood Books 61 people voted »
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The Revolution: A Manifesto
The Revolution: A Manifesto
by Ron Paul 32 people voted »
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton 21 people voted »
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Holy Bible
Holy Bible
by Anonymous 10 people voted »
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The 5000 Year Leap: The 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World
The 5000 Year Leap: The 28 Great Ideas That Cha...
by W. Cleon Skousen 9 people voted »
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Collected Writings: Common Sense/The Crisis/Rights of Man/The Age of Reason/Pamphlets/Articles & Letters
Collected Writings: Common Sense/The Crisis/Rig...
by Thomas Paine 9 people voted »
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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservativ...
by Thomas Frank 7 people voted »
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an ...
by Glenn Beck 7 people voted »
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Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think
Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives...
by George Lakoff 6 people voted »
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Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
by John McCain 6 people voted »
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Basic Economics
Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell 6 people voted »
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The Declaration Of Independence
The Declaration Of Independence
by Sam Fink, Thomas Jefferson 6 people voted »
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand 5 people voted »
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Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts ...
by P.J. O'Rourke 4 people voted »
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My Thoughts Are Murder to the State
My Thoughts Are Murder to the State
by Henry David Thoreau 4 people voted »
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The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot
The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Yo...
by Naomi Wolf 4 people voted »
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The Assault on Reason
The Assault on Reason
by Al Gore 4 people voted »
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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
by Mark R. Levin 4 people voted »
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The FairTax Book
The FairTax Book
by Neal Boortz, John Linder 3 people voted »
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Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid
Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivi...
by Joe Klein 3 people voted »
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Globa...
by Noam Chomsky 3 people voted »
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What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues
What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't...
by Jessamyn Conrad 3 people voted »
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America Back on Track
America Back on Track
by Edward M. Kennedy 3 people voted »
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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the...
by Jonathan Alter 3 people voted »
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The Conscience of a Liberal
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman 2 people voted »
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Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency
Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis an...
by Robert Kuttner 2 people voted »
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded...
by Bill Bishop 2 people voted »
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A Foreign Policy of Freedom
A Foreign Policy of Freedom
by Ron Paul 2 people voted »
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Pr...
by Joel Bakan 2 people voted »
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The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country
The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debat...
by Howard Fineman 2 people voted »
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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products - Who's at Risk and What's at Stake for American Power
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Produc...
by Mark Schapiro 2 people voted »
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand 2 people voted »
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Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200 Years
Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution Afte...
by Ron Paul 2 people voted »
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Conservatives Are from Mars, Liberals Are from San Francisco: 101 Reasons I'm Happy I Left the Left
Conservatives Are from Mars, Liberals Are from ...
by Burt Prelutsky 2 people voted »
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule ...
by Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads author) 2 people voted »
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from Americ...
by Joe Bageant 2 people voted »
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The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back
The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan ...
by Jeff Faux 2 people voted »
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Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism
Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty ov...
by Sean Hannity 2 people voted »
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A White Man Speaks Out
A White Man Speaks Out
by Frazier Glenn Miller 1 person voted »
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Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About...
by Rick Shenkman 1 person voted »
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Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for Am...
by Robert B. Reich 1 person voted »
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The Ominous Parallels
The Ominous Parallels
by Leonard Peikoff 1 person voted »
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Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now
Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now
by Peggy Noonan 1 person voted »
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The Great Crash 1929
The Great Crash 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith 1 person voted »
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Those Self Evident Truths
Those Self Evident Truths
by Ted Magnuson 1 person voted »
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Wiener Dog Art
Wiener Dog Art
by Gary Larson 1 person voted »
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Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and th...
by Alex Abella (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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Choosing Honor
Choosing Honor
by Mary T. Ficalora (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?
All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?
by Joel Berg 1 person voted »
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Political Common Sense for America: The Creation of The Franklin Party
Political Common Sense for America: The Creatio...
by Brian J. Boeheim 1 person voted »
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My Awakening
My Awakening
by David Duke 1 person voted »
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Whatever Happened to Justice?
Whatever Happened to Justice?
by Richard J. Maybury 1 person voted »
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The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap
The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and C...
by Ralph Nader 1 person voted »
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The Nine Nations of North America
The Nine Nations of North America
by Joel Garreau 1 person voted »
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We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That...
by Jimmy Carter 1 person voted »
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Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender
Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Gov...
by Ralph Nader 1 person voted »
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Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
by Jimmy Carter 1 person voted »
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Power to the People
Power to the People
by Laura Ingraham 1 person voted »
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The Good Fight: Why Liberals---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again
The Good Fight: Why Liberals---and Only Liberal...
by Peter Beinart 1 person voted »
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America's Real War
America's Real War
by Daniel Lapin 1 person voted »
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Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change
Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change
by Mike Gravel 1 person voted »
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Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused?
Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused?
by Richard J. Maybury 1 person voted »
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The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industria...
by Ayn Rand 1 person voted »
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The Case for Mars
The Case for Mars
by Robert Zubrin 1 person voted »
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Man vs. the Welfare State
Man vs. the Welfare State
by Henry Hazlitt 1 person voted »
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Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in O...
by Carroll Quigley 1 person voted »
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks 1 person voted »
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The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
by Ayn Rand 1 person voted »
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Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America
Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroyi...
by Mark R. Levin 1 person voted »
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Amer...
by Jonah Goldberg 1 person voted »
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The Koran: With Parallel Arabic Text
The Koran: With Parallel Arabic Text
by Anonymous 1 person voted »
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The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
The United States of Europe: The New Superpower...
by T.R. Reid 1 person voted »
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The Terrible Truth About Liberals
The Terrible Truth About Liberals
by Neil Boortz 1 person voted »
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behi...
by Richard A. Muller 1 person voted »
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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business...
by Robert B. Reich 1 person voted »
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The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Com...
by Paul Wellstone 1 person voted »
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The Greening of America
The Greening of America
by Charles A. Reich 1 person voted »
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
by Robert Spencer 1 person voted »
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The Way Things Ought to Be
The Way Things Ought to Be
by Rush Limbaugh 1 person voted »
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De Re Publica
De Re Publica
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 1 person voted »
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What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and ...
by Scott McClellan 1 person voted »
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Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
Imperial America: Reflections on the United Sta...
by Gore Vidal 1 person voted »
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Living History
Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton 1 person voted »
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message 1: by Angel (new)

190365 This is an interesting list. I can think of some titles I would add, which I will come back later and put in. The idea behind the list, books to be an informed voter, is definitely great. Whatever your political party or affiliation (in the US), you need to read some of these.


message 2: by Michelle (new)

805037 This is an interesting list to be an informed citizen of this World.


message 3: by Cooki (new)

1921796 The New Yorker


message 4: by Killthepopular (last edited Aug 15, 2009 02:55PM) (new)

2252836 Wow, only 1 chomsky book and that's at 41. This is a remarkably tame set of books.

Glenn beck, the bible. Jesus christ.


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