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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
The Naked Communist
Why Socialism Works
Gulag: A History
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
What Is to Be Done?
The Law
Utopia
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
The Communist Manifesto
The Great Gatsby
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazJesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienDrown by Junot Díaz
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
132 books — 235 voters
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyKarkhana by Waswo X. WaswoThe Rape of Europa by Lynn H. NicholasCivil War St. Louis by Louis S. GerteisMetropolis and Hinterland by Neville Morley
Serious History Books
38 books — 9 voters

Night by Elie WieselThe Jews of Spain by Jane S. GerberAnne Frank Remembered by Miep GiesThe Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker by Scott M. NeumanAmerica's Jewish Women by Pamela S. Nadell
Jewish history
207 books — 50 voters

But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the sources I quote actually exist. I must confess, however, that the idea of putting footnotes in chapter 5, the autobiographical chapter, started out simply as a joke. Who but a biblical scholar would think of footnoting an autobiography? But the joke quickly got out of hand and become a significant part of that chapter. I plan someday to write a scholarly article consisting of a si ...more
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