Winner of the American Book Prize and the Oliver C. CoxAnti-Racism Prize of The American Sociological Association
Americans have lost touch together with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. Afterwards surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded ...
The bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updated
Acclaimed as an instantaneous classic upon publication, Nickel and Dimed has sold extra than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Chosen for one book” initiatives across the country, it has fueled nationwide campaigns for a living ...
"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes," are highly paid professionals who cheat countries all-around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools contain fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They have fun a strategy as old as Empire but one this has taken ...
In this groundbreaking substitute history of the much dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks ...