We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Some Books to Liberate Your Mind

Most of the list is roughly in historical order, but more recent selections in the order that I read them. (NOTE: I buy used books from independent bookstores via Abebooks whenever possible.)

The Marx-Engels Reader edited by Robert C. Tucker
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
A Short History of the French Revolution by Albert Soboul (1965)
The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815 by Henry Heller (2006)
A People's History of the World by Chris Harman 
History of the Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers
Democratic Promise by Lawrence Goodwyn
The Lords of Creation by Frederick Lewis Allen
Britain and the Russian Civil War by Richard H. Ullman
The Armed Prophet, v.1 by Isaac Deutscher
Triumphant Plutocracy by Richard F. Pettigrew (1921)
The Brass Check by Upton Sinclair
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
War is a Racket by Major General Smedley Butler
The Plot to Seize the White House by Jules Archer
Even the Gods Can't Change History by George Seldes
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Tumbo
American Empire by Neil Smith
Our Vichy Gamble by William L. Langer 
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Anthony C. Sutton
Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood
As He Saw it by Elliott Roosevelt  
Trading with the Enemy by Charles Higham
The Sane Society by Erich Fromm
The Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley
The Origins of the Korean War v.1 by Bruce Cumings
This Must Be the Place by Dave Chaddock
NATO's Secret Armies by Daniele Ganser
Imperial Brain Trust by Shoup & Minter (a must read)
JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass
What Really Happened to the 1960s by Edward Morgan
An Act of State by William F. Pepper
Family of Secrets by Russ Baker
Friendly Fascism by Bertrand Gross
The Fish is Red by Hinckle & Turner
The Money and the Power by S. Denton & R. Morris
Double Cross by Sam and Chuck Giancana
Gangster Capitalism by Michael Woodiwiss
The Secret Team by Col. (Ret.) L. Fletcher Prouty
Conspiracies, Con. Theories, Secrets of 9/11 by Broeckers
Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt
Toward an American Revolution by Jerry Fresia
Escaping the Matrix by Richard Moore
The Lost Science of Money by Stephen Zarlenga
Merchants of Doubt by Oreskes and Conway
The Gods of Money by F. William Engdahl
9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation by David Ray Griffin and Elizabeth Woodworth
The 2001 Anthrax Deception by Graeme MacQueen
Bailout by Neil Barovsky
The Lugano Report by Susan George
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of American's Secret Government by David Talbot
Liberalism by Domenico Losurdo 
The Apprentice's Sorcerer by Ishay Landa
Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson
Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film by Jay Dyer
Israel: A Beachhead in the Middle East by Stephen Gowans
Science of Coercion by Christopher Simpson

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