Top Choice:

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Michael Harrington

• Socialism: Past and Future
  
• The Other America
  
• The Long-Distance Runner: An Autobiography
  
• The New American Poverty
  
• Toward a Democratic Left: A Radical Program for a New Majority
  

• Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
  
• The Snarling Citizen
  
• The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes From a Decade of Greed
  
• Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
  
• Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
  

• Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
• Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America
  
• Race Matters
  
• Keeping Faith
  
• Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
  
• Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America
  

Recent Left Books

Here are some books published in 2005 and 2006 that people on the left--socialists, liberals, greens, progressives--are reading and talking about. Some are written by DSA members, some by people close to DSA. Some aren't.    Regardless, they are thought-provoking.

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by Kevin Phillips

America: Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
by Gar Alperovitz

The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
by Michael Lerner

The Raw Deal: How Myths and Misinformation about the Deficit, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America
by Ellen Frank

Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy
by Howard Karger

If the Workers Took a Notion: The Right to Strike and American Political Development
by Josiah Bartlett Lambert

Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
by Stanley Aronowitz

Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U. S.
by Ronald Hayduk

New Culture of Capitalism
by Richard Sennett

With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right
by Esther Kaplan

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
by Ira Katznelson

Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age
by Russell Jacoby

Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below
by Vanessa Tait

Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements
by Dan Clawson

Immigrants, Unions, and the U. S. Labor Market
by Immanuel Ness

Unfair Advantage
by Lance Compa

Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U. S. /Mexico Border
by David Bacon

State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
by Nelson Lichtenstein

Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise
by Robert Fitch

A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism
by David Harvey

Spectrum: From Left to Right in the World of Ideas
by Perry Anderson

What Liberal Media?
by Eric Alterman

America's Mayor: The Hidden History of Rudy Giuliani's New York
by Robert Polner

Hostile Takeover: How Big Business Bought the Government --and How We Can Take it Back
by David Sirotta

Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy by Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson

The Global Class War
by Jeff Faux

Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation
by Robin Hahnel

Intellectuals and the Flag
by Todd Gitlin

After the New Economy: The Binge and the Hangover That Won't Go Away
by Doug Henwood

Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer

Arguing about War
by Michael Walzer

Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq
by Kathleen Cushman & Christian Parenti

Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
by Robert Dreyfuss

Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy
by Stephen Eric Bronner

The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
by Mike Rose

Class Matters
by The New York Times

Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
by Paul Buhle & Nicole Schulman, eds.

Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
by James Green

People's History of the Civil War: Struggles to Expand American Freedom
by David Williams

Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
by Eric Foner& Joshua Brown

A Godly Hero : The Life of William Jennings Bryan
by Michael Kazin

Port Huron Statement
by Tom Hayden

Planet of Slums
by Mike Davis

Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006
by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds.

Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans
by Stephen Franklin and William Serrin