Must Reads for This Campaign Season

Dr. Lovett makes no apology for being a liberal or having a liberal slant. On conservative days, Dr. Lovett would probably be classified as a Democrat; however, all of the books listed below will help students understand key issues facing Americans of all ages in 2004.

Eric Alterman and Mark Green. The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis) Leads America. Viking, 2004.

Douglas Brinkley. Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War. Morrow, 2004.

David Brock. Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. Three Rivers Press, 2002.

___. The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts America. 2004.

Dan Briody. The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money. 2004.

Amy Chua. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. Anchor, 2003.

Tom Clancy with General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz. Battle Ready. Putnam, 2004.

Richard A. Clark. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror. Free Press, 2004.

Steve Coll. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Peguin, 2004.

Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay. America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Affairs. Brookings, 2004.

John W. Dean. Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. Little, Brown, and Co., 2004.

E. J. Dionne, Jr. Standup Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge. Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Barbara Ehrenreich. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Holt, 2001.

Nial Ferguson. Colossus: The Price of America's Empire. Penguin, 2004.

Thomas Frank. What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heat of America. Metropolitan, 2004.

Arianna Huffington. Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America. Hyperion Books, 2004.

Michael Ignatieff. The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror. Princeton, 2004.

Chalmers Johnson. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and End of the Republic. Metropolitan, 2004.

Paul Klugman. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century. W. W. Norton, 2003.

James Mann. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. Viking, 2004.

William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric. America's Inadvertent Empire. Yale, 2004.

Kevin Phillips. American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. Viking, 2004.

Ron Suskind. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill. Simon and Schuster, 2003.

Jeffrey Toobin. Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election. New York: Random House, 2001.

Joseph Wilson. The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity. Carroll and Graf, 2004.

Bob Woodward. Bush at War. Simon and Schuster, 2003.

___. Plan of Attack. Simon and Schuster, 2004.

May 30, 2004